Electronic basking shark

Since I am currently banned from exercise, I gave my usual Friday gym trip a miss this morning and stayed longer than usual at the Edinburgh Coffee Morning. Jon accompanied me most of the way on my return walk home. We took a route through the St James Quarter. Here we saw this e-waste sculpture of Betty the basking shark 'Devouring technology' by Johnathan Elders. He built it to represent society's appetite for consuming new technology without consideration of the consequences of doing so.

I split the rest of the day between work and cooking. I finally managed to channel my thoughts into a decent narrative for my proposed piece for The Conversation. Another colleague transformed this into a set of bullet points that he believes will be of interest to the University's contact at the publication. I now have to review this output and pass everything on for the next stage in this process. 

I cooked a gnocchi bake and a rhubarb (from our garden), bramble (from the hedgerow last September), and apple (From Emma's garden) crumble for supper. Meanwhile Mr hazelh made a smoked salmon starter. Our evening guest was Harry. He was here for the meal, chat, and (semi-successful) Catan training.

In the gap between food prep and Harry's arrival, I popped out to sit with our neighbours at my first 'Friendly Friday' get-together of the year. 

Exercise today: small amount of walking (9,691 steps).