Notices by Laura Ritchie (lauraritchie@mastodon.social)

this evening's sunset was magic.

#sunset

My community orchestra is meeting tonight via Jitsi! Nervous and excited!!! I *know* I will need to adopt a completely different approach, and have been thinking on this for several days. - the silent rehearsal where only I speak/play. Going to be so tricky!!! 7pm BST (I'll keep you posted how it goes)

looking to buy a brownie tin made in the shape of the Hilbert Function (as tooted by @OpenCulture) I came across this mathematical article on the Optimisation of the Brownie Tin: https://sites.math.washington.edu/~morrow/mcm/mcm13/22553.pdf
#baking #math

Yesterday I thanked the guest house owner for the lovely breakfast and said I couldn’t eat all that food..... and today I woke to this- for just me!!! This could feed my family of 5 and then some!! #bulgaria #breakfast

Big fans of the Romanesco cauliflower- fractal vegetable! #vegetables

I did it. Last night I had my first performance of this Kodaly Sonata and it was good. It was an absolutely magical space, very unconventional. I began with no audience. The art gallery visitors heard me through the building and came. People came from the stairs above, came from adjoining rooms, sat & they all stayed for this 30 min modern sounding cello piece. Many were artists. One man said it made him think of carving stone. Other lady said what a wonderful moment in time. (yay) #smallstories

Yesterday between playing a charity gig, nursing an almost migraine, and practice, I calmed myself by picking the wineberries. (form of Japanese raspberry - so so sweet and slightly sticky to the touch, not sold in any store and supremely delicious) This is all in a 6ft square.

Pictures show: 1. denim up, so avoid the MANY thorns (tiny and quite invasive all along the stalk & leaves) 2. I crawl under that to get inside 3. here's how they grow 4. yum :)

#fruit #garden

My practice was interrupted by chasing a bird off our hazelnut tree so I could gather this rich harvest (one of 5 nuts on the tree - it was a baby when we planted it three years ago) #smallstories