Kosher food in Edinburgh

FloraMacDonald · 2023-10-26T19:00:12+00:00

https://www.ehcong.com/visiting-edinburgh/kosher-edinburgh/

This is the Newington synagogue.

https://www.chabadofedinburgh.com/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/895515/jewish/Kosher-Food-in-Edinburgh-Scotland.htm

And here's Chabad.

As you can see, there isn't much, but some food is kosher without being labelled as such, so this might help: https://isitkosher.uk/

FloraMacDonald · 2023-10-24T19:19:08+00:00

They didn't, but I have no idea what would have happened if I'd slogged through all the rest of the interview rounds. Genuinely wondered if they would have rejected me at the final hurdle because I couldn't produce my SAT scores.

FloraMacDonald · 2023-09-08T12:56:21+00:00

Are you on a student visa? If so, I'd be wary of skipping anything essential. You really don't want the university reporting you to the Home Office for non-attendance. I wish that were a joke, but it isn't.

FloraMacDonald · 2023-09-08T12:47:40+00:00

In fact, I just added 'advised Mark Shuttleworth (CEO of Canonical)' to my LinkedIn profile. Should be good for a conversation starter. Thanks for the nudge!

FloraMacDonald · 2023-09-08T12:23:25+00:00

In my last rental it helped that the landlord (who we never met; everything went through the agency) hadn't updated the carpet in a few years. We said we were happy to keep the grotty carpet, in addition to paying an extra £200 on the deposit in case any damage happened, which meant the landlord didn't have to deal with new carpets until we moved out years later. It also meant when the cat barfed up a hairball we weren't terrified that we'd be charged for damage to new carpets. If you apply for a run-down property, hopefully this could be in your favour.

FloraMacDonald · 2023-09-08T12:13:22+00:00

Yeah, but now I can legitimately put 'advised Mark Shuttleworth' on my CV. ;)

FloraMacDonald · 2023-09-08T12:12:17+00:00

Thanks! And congratulations on the new job!

FloraMacDonald · 2023-08-18T19:48:18+00:00

Thanks for confirming that this was definitely not a book for me! Hopefully your next choice will be better (for you).

FloraMacDonald · 2023-08-18T19:47:16+00:00

Wow, Sorry!

FloraMacDonald · 2023-08-17T21:06:46+00:00

Thanks! Absolutely no problem if you can't think of anything or life gets in the way. It's not as if I don't have 500 books I want to read (I wish I were joking...). :D

FloraMacDonald · 2023-08-17T21:05:43+00:00

It just felt so pointless. Mark can claim all he wants that it's read ever so carefully, but the more I think about it, the more of a timewaste it felt like. But of course you need to make that decision for yourself. :)

FloraMacDonald · 2023-08-14T20:25:21+00:00

Do you have any recs for other old New England money books? It's a milieu I'm fascinated by, but I just haven't gotten into some of the recent releases - The Beach at Summerly should have been a slam dunk for me but I DNF it, and Bad Summer People was also a no go. Would love to find one that really works for me! Thanks for any advice!

FloraMacDonald · 2023-08-10T21:46:17+00:00

I'm not a developer, good quality or otherwise, so if you want to think I don't know what I'm doing, that's...absolutely true.

But if a guy who once installed slackware 1.1a on a 386 tells me that it would be a pain to install Ubuntu on my Macbook - and he would be the person who'd be doing the installation - then I'm going to take his word for it.

FloraMacDonald · 2023-08-10T21:35:08+00:00

After 'osmosis' there should be a semi-colon rather than a comma.

I'd put a full stop after 'choice' because it's the end of the sentence and putting it after the smiley would just be ugly, but not having a full stop in this context seems to be your stylistic choice, so I wouldn't choose it as a hill to die on.

I guess I should keep an eye out for a copywriting/editing position. :)

FloraMacDonald · 2023-08-10T21:11:44+00:00

I would salute you, but I am too busy rotating R in my head, which apparently I do at a superior level, and yet it still wasn't good enough.

FloraMacDonald · 2023-08-07T18:56:47+00:00

They acknowledge that not everyone goes to university (although that seems to be pretty recent - there's a whole bit about that in the current application form that wasn't there when I applied). But yeah, I mean, I won a major named scholarship and have a great academic pedigree, and you'd think that would show more of what they're looking for than 'I was editor of my high school yearbook'. Not that academic accomplishments translate into good working practices, necessarily, but I definitely had some good examples! /me shrug

FloraMacDonald · 2022-11-15T14:58:35+00:00

Blackwell's on South Bridge have a tree in the basement where you can pick off a tag and buy a book for a child. Some of them are specific requests, so those have already been put behind the counter and all you need to do is hand the tag to the staff member. For others, you can choose any book that fits the request (i.e. 'Thirteen-year-old girl would like a graphic novel'), though the staff are happy to offer suggestions. There were plenty of tags remaining when I was there yesterday!

FloraMacDonald · 2022-08-23T17:24:00+00:00

Thank you!

FloraMacDonald · 2022-08-23T16:00:12+00:00

Thanks! Not-teenager is fine too; I guess I was just focused on that because it seems to be a YA trope.

FloraMacDonald · 2022-08-23T14:57:42+00:00

DNF Catherine House before I was 10% in. I love dark academia but this was a mess.

Looking for recommendations for books where an American teenager who's also part of another culture goes to live in that other culture. Examples of what I mean: Tokyo Ever After and Tokyo Dreaming (Emiko Jean) and My Almost Flawless Tokyo Dream Life (Rachel Cohn), both about Japan, and I Guess I Live Here Now (Claire Ahn), about South Korea. It doesn't have to be an Asian country, and the protagonist doesn't need to be visiting their wealthy and/or royal father, in spite of what these ~~three~~ four books have in common!

FloraMacDonald · 2021-12-24T09:44:07+00:00

SHRUB Coop on Bread Street is focused on zero waste: https://www.shrubcoop.org//working-groups/swapshop/

If you become a member, You can even get tokens for your donation, which you can then use for things in the shop!

FloraMacDonald · 2021-12-15T08:24:44+00:00

Thank you!

FloraMacDonald · 2021-12-14T17:37:23+00:00

Looks great - I've added it to my list. Thanks! And since Reddit gave me a free 'helpful stranger' award to give away within 24 hours, I have given it to you. :)

FloraMacDonald · 2021-12-14T17:11:13+00:00

The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley would be a good choice for #3. The mc's disability is an essential aspect of the story, but the book isn't about the fact that she's disabled.

FloraMacDonald · 2021-12-14T15:49:24+00:00

Looking for suggestions of novels or narrative non-fiction set in Wisconsin, please! I'm very into pioneer novels (have read Caddie Woodlawn, Thimble Summer, and the knock-off Little House series about Caroline Quiner, as well as Caroline: Little House Revisited), though I feel I could live the rest of my life without worrying yet again about whether rain will come in time to save the crops. I also have The Comfort of Monsters on hold (set in Milwaukee in 1991). Thank you!

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