9sep27

The first early-autumn morning when you realise you won’t actually be warm again for nine months. Russian naval boat-neck longsleeve under a Nepalese cotton popover. Wearing two pendants that came with CDs from Black Mara Records. Meat delivery from Fruit Pig: Collar bacon is an old kind of bacon cut – also, as you can see, sometimes known as ribeye bacon. Fruit Pig are one of the few black pudding producers at scale who use fresh blood – most black pudding these days is made with dried blood imported from Europe. I’m currently defrosting a couple of venison steaks, and herself is on a high-protein wild-meat diet, so dinner tonight will clearly just be meat. The watch is the original Trifoglio Veloce, which they don’t have in this colourway any more, you have to opt for the Veloce II to get it in black and red. OPERATIONS: peering at the new process for arranging comp copies of my books from Image. I fear this will be a spreadsheet. Since my Brain Thing – more than ten years ago, now!…