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Blackberries covered in cobwebs and frost
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“Have a good day”! Frosty but pretty indeed.
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Printworks ceiling giving strong Windows Screensaver vibes
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My two favourite pics from a trip to Battersea Power Station the weekend it opened to the public as a shopping mall. It’s a gorgeous space to behold, although it has an unusual dearth of staircases for a mall.
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One lesson I’ve learned from my husband: use more butter.
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A Picassoesque selection of treats at Fortnum & Mason’s afternoon tea. Looked fantastic, but most of these were not delicious! The rose eclair tasted of artificial rose; the white O was an unnuanced mouthful of white chocolate. The tart behind was yummy, but I can’t even remember the flavour; it didn’t have much.
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Since the decline of bird site, I’ve been re-evaluating my media diet. I consume a lot of content out of habit; well, we all do — consumption is habit-forming!
For me, chief among the habits encouraged by social media is media consumption itself (i.e., the opposite of media creation), since when I turn on the fire hose and witness the grand melee of hot takes and take downs, I find I am entertained but also discouraged from participating.
So I’m reactivating my Tumblr. Posting here was always fun and never felt like time ill-spent.
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Back in Japan, briefly. Glimpsed the Skytree Tower through the haze on the bus. The highly zoomed-in digital photo, manually filtered by the misty bus window, gave a nice flattening effect to the buildings around the Skytree.
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Belated post of a wonderful birthday gift I received earlier this year: a cornucopia of Japanese snacks!
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Snickers Crisp is a definite winner among Snickers variants, with crisped rice replacing about half the peanuts. I don’t know why it’s been packaged as 3 mini bars though… It might be shrinkflation, but does this really apply if it’s a variant product? A likelier explanation is that, since the caramel-bound crisped rice results in a much stickier and chewier Snickers than usual, they agreed that bite-sized pieces were preferable to a long bar that would always have tendrils of taffy tracing a ghostly trail from the bar to the biting mouth.