Picked up a charity shop bargain - I’ve already read Bourgeois Dignity on Kindle, but nice to get a hard copy to leaf through.

7km run in Hexham on a beautiful fresh morning 📸

Reading list: Tanner Greer on The Silicon Valley Canon 📚

Wee wander up at Harlaw and then lunch in the Balerno Inn. 📸

Started reading: Chip War by Chris Miller 📚

Finished Harlan Coben’s The Stranger. Enjoyable British mystery with lots of twists and turns. 📺

Zoo day 📸

Wee trip to the sea for Jack to run around: boats, little tractors, planes, kites and toast. Time of his life. 📸

First time out with Good Time Running Club along with NCT Dads, 13kn from Beach To Brewery, ending up at Cross Borders in Dalkeith.

Results are in: passed the OU module “The British Isles and the modern world” - now I need to decide if I have the time to do the final “year” of studying

Started reading: The Russo-Ukrainian War by Serhii Plokhy 📚

3km run before packing

Reading for the journey back to Edinburgh: Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart 📚

Tunisian meal out at Maison Bleue, then I got a bottle of beer for a wee wander. I’m German now.

Lunch at Bloom, Berlin

Dinner at Oliveto and then a leisurely stroll home along the canal in the evening sun 📸

Brunch at dots, then headed into the city for a wander. 📸

Morning 3km run along the canal at Neukölln.

Dinner at Cafe Pilz

We visited the Jewish Museum. A really worthwhile experience, very well presented. The building really shows the power of architecture to evoke feelings: the void in the tower, and instability in the Garden of Exile.

Brunch at Venue Breakfast, Berlin

Started reading: Status and Culture by W. David Marx 📚

Banh mi and a sunshine view of the castle

Getting the most out of our zoo pass with a wee fathers day trip. Highlight was some baby tamarins.

Currently reading: Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang 📚