I cannot remember when I started following Bonnie Ohara's Instagram feed or what originally led me there, but I was thrilled for her when she announced that she had been asked to write a book. I was even more thrilled a little while ago to discover that the book -- Bread Baking for Beginners: The Essential Guide to Baking Kneaded Breads, No-Knead Breads, and Enriched Breads -- had become a runaway success.
These two posts by John Naughton really need to be taken together.
First, Sovereignty – Brexit style:
Sovereignty, n. The untrammelled right to do self-harm.
And then, six days later, Self-harm in a chart:
But John doesn't seem to draw the conclusion I do, which is that if the prediction of job losses comes about, a lot of people in the least affected areas might actually think justice had been done to the elitist wankers.
I've been living in cloud cuckoo land for way too long. I thought that my stream of microposts was somehow of no importance to spammers (or anyone else, for that matter) because there were generally very few comments when I looked. However, it seems that old posts were being targetted with a vengean...
I am updating this post to remove one reason for its existence: I no longer wish to use the plugin that powered that slide-show. So this post is becoming a photo post with individual images.
Recently I came across a website called The Eclectic Light Company, which is one of those places that you cannot believe you hadn’t visited before. I can’t remember who first linked to it, but it is catnip to me; geeky Mac stuff plus a wide appreciation of art and painting, it quickly won a place in my reader and I look forward to it daily.
Should I be beating myself up because we're more than halfway to the end of November? I don't think so. October was a good month, but not standout good. Maybe if it had been I would have written it up more rapidly. The high spot was definitely , and I did write that up reasonably quickly. No need to repeat here.
