Dè fon ghrèin?

Went to see my grandparents (90, 91) today and they'd had to throw out their gas oven, which they've had my entire life. I'm 40.

I'm a total novice when it comes to nature, but learning little by little. On the weekend I spotted King Alfred's cakes on a tree by a waterfall. They are a fungus with concentric rings inside. Supposedly they are useful for fires; they sort of retain heat like those old car cigarette lighters.

Làithean eireachdail a' fuireach an ubhal-ghort sa Chuimrigh. Chunna sinn caisteal beag, eas ann an coille, agus chleachd sinn rèile-smùide suas Bannau Brycheiniog.

Just home from seeing St Vincent. Astonishing. Unpredictable. Unique. What a show.

Cuideachd...chunna mi trìlleachan an-diugh! Bha mi air bhioran. Chan eil dealbh math gu leòr agam.

Bha sinn uile - mise, mo bhean, is ar nighean - sa Chòrn fad na seachdaine. Bha e dìreach laghach, gach àite. Ach bha sinn trang gach latha. Aig an taigh a-nis, claoidhte.

Chunna sinn uair a thide no dhà de chnagair feasgar an-diugh. Cho teth ris an ifrinn ana sheo.

Lord Voldemort's revitalised quidditch and for that reason I'm looking away from anything else

Not my normal thing, but reading Precipice by Robert Harris (Christmas gift). It's partially based on the lettera between Asquith and Venetia Stanley. And there were a lot of letters.

12 postal deliveries per day in London in 1914.

Twelve!

Oidhche na Nollaige. Bha i caran ceòthach an-diugh. Tha agam ri rudan a dhèanamh fhathast...

New Caledonia: where children are taught up to five languages, four indigenous, until university level education.

'S ainneamh a chitheadh tu crann na h-Alba a' sgèith an Sasainn

Apple News laundering right-wing tosh.

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