After almost two years of mainly playing the gurdy and recorder, I can feel the accordion calling me again. It’s saying “Remember all that stuff you miss, like chords, polyphony and 4 octaves range? I can do that! Pick me! Pick meeeeee!”

Checked into Grillmarkaðurinn

And that’s what happens when I try writing HTML on an iPhone.

Taking a night off reading exciting book about trees to watch Labyrinth so maybe I’ll understand all the stuff @aaronpk and @caseorganic are posting.

Partial list of tunes learnt over this summer’s festival trip:

• L’Inconnu de Limoise
• William Taylor’s Tabletop Hornpipe
• De Montford
• Superfly
• I’m Not Fed Up With The Pacific Ocean
• Mazurka de Gilles Chabenat

Several more unlisted due to not being on the web (or I can’t spell them properly).

shaunsgameacademy.co.uk looks like an excellent initiative from Aardman, providing resources and education for making Shaun-themed games in Scratch.

First attempt at #skyr making resulted in some rather nice cheese curds and a tonne of whey, but nothing resembling skyr. Followed julesfood.blogspot.com/2011/04/skyrhomemade-icelandic-yogurt.html going to try simnet.is/gullis/jo/Miscellaneous.htm next as it’s quite a bit more detailed.

Yesterday I dug out this rather odd #gurdy track from January:

It was recorded after a visit to Hayling Island, wherein we found an assortment of sea creatures, all of whom, according to tradition, were called Gordon. One was alive, and thus the tune was named.

Succesfully acquired cheese/skyr making equipment, finally! Cheesecloth from Kokka and rennet from the good people at Burið.

Remembering @chloeweil with a sunday pizza night chloeweil.com/blog/mama-chloes-pizza chloeweil.com/blog/mama-chloes-authentic-pizza-suprema

Read helpguide.org/mental/suicide_prevention.htm and be there for people you care about.

It’s a strange feeling to open Logic and find a recording you don’t remember making of a rather beautiful mazurka…

yiddishsong.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/di-gantse-velt-iz-hevl-havolim-performed-by-lillian-manuel has some interesting background about the song “Hevl iz Havolim”, and one of the comments has what appears to be a quite extensive translation, but of a different version — it doesn’t translate the two longer verses in the middle of the version the Klezmatics sing.

That version is covered by this klesmer-musik.de/hevl_iz_havolim.htm German version, which seems to line up better with the sung lyrics, but Google-translated the middle verses are still rather vague. I suspect they’re using idioms and imagery which does not easily translate word-for-word.

First attempt at Buchteln with vanilla sauce, an Austrian recipe picked up during recent travels:

Back in Reykjavík again after three weeks #travel around Europe:

Reykjavík ✈ London ✈ Hamburg 🚆 Hösseringen ♫ Klangrauschtreffen 🚚 Hamburg 🚆 Berlin 🚆 Vienna 🚆 Rome 🚆 Milan 🚆 Paris 🚆 Chateauroux ♫ Le Son Continu (Chateau d’Ars) 🚚 Paris ✈ Reykjavík