The Girdle of Melian

ecember, into January! Yes, these photos are from the end of October but I wanted to keep sharing! Wishing everyone happy holidays and a Happy New Year! This post will be up until the first Insecure Writer's Support Group Day post of January 2026. Wow. Time flies. Soon this blog will be two decades old! Lighthouse books! Old Edinburgh buildings... At the National Museum! Lewis chesspieces (last visited at the British Museum in 2022  and right here, in 2019 !) Cooking pot! Candleholders! Playing cards (below) Steam locomotive! Pie at Deacon Brodie's Tavern Cranachan! Hume Adam Smith (below) A Wullie for Old Tom Tote bag from Lighthouse I've sort of been collecting the You Are Here mugs. But I didn't buy this one--they keep going up in price! Interesting clouds over the Jura mountains... The Alps! This is a photo from a newsletter from Astrobotic; an update on the Griffin-1 mission. I really need to write a post detailing what's going on with the Writers on t...

ovember! The current running joke, because I'm still writing about October ... I finally got a photo next to a sign from my alma mater! University of Edinburgh, class of 2020 (Master's degree) The former Hispaniola, where Robert Louis Stevenson used to hang out A soup tureen! Arthur's Seat The Roxy Central, former home of Lady Glenorchy's Parish Church  Early afternoon walk between Braid Hill and Blackford Hill (Edinburgh, one of the seven-hill cities of the world (Istanbul is another)!) A Swiss connection I hadn't known before! Still trying to identify hawthorns ... Leaf and Bean cafe in Morningside! Having some fun with Our Flag Means Death characters (the artist is SamiKelsh !) Where do you like to take walks?