February 2024 – the dim pause

Posted on February 29, 2024

Location check in 🗺 — Hay Distillery, sampling gins

Posted on February 29, 2024

Staying at The Old Black Lion, Hay-on-Wye. They do excellent Wye Valley Smokery kippers for breakfast.

An old white-painted building with signage for The Old Black Lion inn, featuring lanterns, stone accents, and a person standing at the entrance. A sign indicates the inn offers food, drinks, and accommodations.

A dimly lit room featuring a traditional wooden loft with a ladder, a bed on the lower level, antique furniture including a dresser with a mirror, and a wicker trunk at the foot of the bed. Light filters in through a window

A breakfast table with two kipper fillets garnished with herbs on a plate, accompanied by a French press with coffee, orange juice, and another plate with fried eggs, spinach, and beans in the background.

Posted on February 28, 2024

Starter

A table with gourmet dishes and wine glasses; in the foreground, a plate with breaded appetizers garnished with green leaves, sprinkled with paprika; in the background, two glasses of red wine, another dish with colorful food

Main course

A nearly empty speckled dinner plate with remnants of food and a pair of crossed utensils on it, resting on a wooden table, surrounded by a half-empty wine glass, water glasses, and a wine bottle

Dessert

A cheese platter with various cheese types, grapes, crackers, honey, and pickled items, accompanied by glasses of port and dessert wine. A person is dining in the background.

(I got distracted midway 😊)

Posted on February 28, 2024

Captain on deck 🫡

A life-size cardboard cutout of a Star Trek character stands at the entrance of a bookstore with rows of bookshelves filled with various books.

A cardboard cutout of a character in a red and black Starfleet uniform from Star Trek inside a bookstore with a woman carrying books walking in the background.

(A little upset that AI alt text generator didn’t recognise Kirk or Picard 😆🖖)

Posted on February 28, 2024

Retro 🖖

A wooden bookshelf filled with various VHS tapes, mostly from the Star Trek series, and a row of orange-spined books. The top shelf includes a box set for The Saint TV series.

Posted on February 28, 2024

Someone spent too much time sorting books by spine colour 😡📚

A narrow bookshop aisle with tall wooden shelves filled with various books on either side. A person is browsing books in the background, under fluorescent lighting.

Person browsing books in a cozy bookstore with shelves organized by color.

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