Jan the Seventh
I find that my depression makes it hard to get out of bed and it certainly does not help with my health.
Jan the Sixth
I am find sleep difficult at the mo. Will have do something about that.
Prisma Banner Pictures.
When I updated my website to WordPress 4.7 and went to the new Twenty Seventeen Theme by Automatic. As it is picture heavy theme I thought I would use a picture of I took of Brindley Place in Birmingham.
Then I leaned that I add multiple photos to the header section and have it load a random one each time someone visited the site. Now I added a lovely fisheye picture of me and my wife1.
Then I found the awesome Prisma App which uses AI apparently to turn pictures in to fancy painted version of famous styles.
What I am going to do is take more picture through the year and add them as headers which will cool. Or else.
Side from that the update to 4.7 has brought some instabilities on Safari. I have to upload to my pictures from the mobile Safari on my iPhone as multi file loader will not work on Safari on my Mac. And loading file one at time is a pain.
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Feb the Fifth
January 5th
I really like Pho’s spring rolls.
The restaurant is called Pho but the Vietnamese street food Pho is pronounce Fu. Confusing no?
York’s Artisanal Bakery
So I wanted to go to 200 degrees Coffee Shop on Colmore Row. But when i got there is was rammed and had not a single seat free.
I swung round to 3 Threes Coffee shop on Martineu Place. And it was dead. But what really put me off was the place smelled of food but not coffee which i found unnerving. I have become to realise that i have become quite snobby about coffee. Oh well I just hope my bank balance can forgive me.
I thought I’d try the Updated Yorks Bakery near New Street Station. They had expanded in to the into the building next door.
It was also busy.
I made first impression by trying to use the old entrance the Coffee Shop which is no longer used1. Gathering up the tattered remains of my pride I continue my search down the only wall along which I had not travelled. And I found small enterance that seemed a bit to small be a main entrance but no it was the right one. The next thing i found was that 6/8 Kafe was not longer the only Coffee Shop with a Basement in Birmingham. York’s Coffee Shop had imaginatively called ‘York’s Basement’. The decor was rustic wood and artisanal signs. As expected from the business is Yorks Artisan Bakeries LTD
I ordered a flat white2 and a lovely cake called a ‘Smores Tart’. The Flat white was very nice. Possibly not the best flat I’ve had but leagues ahead of the last coffee I had in there when it was smaller3.
But what was more impressive then the coffee and cake4 was the staff. They remembered what drink I was having and offered to make me a new with out prompting. Which blew me a way.
All in all I shall be return to York.
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Outside facing near Grand Central. Next the current last tram stop.
They even have their own roaster.
Cool Artinsal Lights. IE bare light bulbs.
Front cake and coffee kiosk.
Fancy selections of cakes.
Seating Downstairs.
The downstairs basement. As opposed to the upstairs basement.
Smores cake and Flat White.
My First Answer.
Well here is my first answer of the year. Only three hundred and sixty four to go.
I think I will post them on each day. It might be interesting and it will mean I have to post more often which is not a bad thing.
For the record I managed 300 on the first day which is not to shabby.
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New Years Resolutions
For Christmas I got two books for Christmas from my lovely wife.
One was my diary for 2017. Which this year I have decided go with a Purple Moleskine Daily planner. I want to create a shelf full with different colours for each year. Other planners/notebooks are available though.
The only down side is they only supply three stickers with the diary and you can not buy them separately. It is the only annoying point with them. I do have a number of stickers now though from various types of diaries I have had.
The other book my wife got me is a little different. It a 5 year journal that asks you question for each day and give five different slots on each page for each year. I thought it would make an interesting long term project to do. Especially as I will be reaching my fortieth birthday in the last year of it.
Inside Cover is really pretty.
Resolution for the new year.
Philosophical question.
It is made by Potter Style apart making me thinking of sartorial sister site to Pottermore1. They are a imprint of Crown Publishing Group. Which it self is a subsidiary of Penguin Random House. And Describe as producer of ‘High End Gift Books’. I cannot complain as the quality of the paper is excellent.
Whilst trying to write this post I ran into two difficulties. First was my wife was not well and borrowed my mac to play Subnautica in bed. And second was of a more technical reason.
The weird thing is.
Coming up to three months on being married. And the thing only just getting used to is wearing a wedding ring.
I don’t normally wear jewellery and having this thing on my finger felt really weird to begin with but I am just starting to get used it.
On an early day I left my ring in my jeans and Steff washed them. It looks ages to find it but it had survived unscathed.
Steff was the one who has come the closet to losing her ring. She wore it in bed and took it of whilst she was sleeping. For about four days we constantly searching for the ring as we were worried that one of the cats had eaten it.
The rings are Damascus Steel and White Gold from SICraftDesigns on etsy. I’ve always like damacus steel and found the only one place on etsy in uk and is based in Scotland. I was going to go with a damascus steel and gold band but just as we order they added a new design to the site. My wife really liked it and want one to so we would have matching rings.
Sam the owner was super helpful as we had left it rather late in ordering the rings. He got it to us with days to spare and my wife loved how they had turned.
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