mtbc | Minor miscellany

While I'm in a constituency where my vote could help it to swing from the SNP to Labour, which I've now decided would be preferable, I think I like the Liberal Democrats enough more than I dislike the SNP to give them some support instead, even if they aren't a likely contender this time around. Not quite a last-minute decision. In general, my life's a bit more lurching-between-urgencies than I prefer.

I visited West London in assisting the aforementioned consular tedium and drove back up to Glasgow yesterday. While down there, I was interested to see a Porsche Carrera that was maybe forty years old, and a Citroën 2CV that was probably older still.

Thinking back to the Eurovision Song Contest, I think I found the Armenian and the Finnish entries quite fun and liked the Estonian and Lithuanian ones, maybe somewhat also the Ukrainian. Perhaps there's a little bit of geographical clustering there.

We might go camping again some weekend soon. This is a thing that R. has useful experience in so I am glad of their direction as I assist the setup and teardown and suchlike. We plan to repeat the more successful approach which involves the shores of a loch in our corner of the highlands. Options are more limited than one might imagine from Scotland's land reforms because they're generous to campers who hike somewhere but less so to those of us who carry a bit more comfort and turn up by car, a complication given that we'd also like to camp with a bit of rural privacy rather than in some organized common area with small adjacent plots. At least we've found somewhere where nobody minds if we pull off the road and camp on an empty bit of shore. I am quite cosy lying down in the inner-sanctum part of the tent but am overall a bit large and awkward for moving around more generally so my attempts at indoor movements are something to behold.

We failed to find a buyer for our flat. I've taken it off the market and will try relisting next month to get it back to the top of the search results. I am cautiously hopeful, it's not as if we require anything beyond its valuation.