About

I am Wren. I bake bread in a small kitchen and look at the sky from a garden with one badly placed street lamp. This is where I keep notes about both, mostly so that I can look up what I did last time instead of repeating the same mistake twice.

The two subjects sit together here because they sit together in my week. A dough that needs twelve hours and a sky that only clears after midnight ask for the same thing: start something, leave it alone, come back. I have never managed to be patient on purpose, but I have managed to arrange my hobbies so that patience is the only option.

What you will find

• Recipes written in baker's percentages, with the failures left in.
• Observing logs from a 70 mm refractor and a pair of 10×50 binoculars.
• Occasional pencil sketches, which are worse than photographs and more useful.
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Equipment, such as it is

• 70 mm f/10 refractor on an alt-azimuth mount, with two eyepieces I actually use.
• 10×50 binoculars, which get more hours than the telescope.
• A kitchen scale accurate to one gram, a cast-iron pot, two loaf tins.
• A rubber band on a jar.

Where this used to live

For several years these notes sat on a free blogging platform under someone else's name in the address bar. In November 2026 I moved them here; the older posts kept their original dates, a few lost their photographs on the way, and the story of the move is in Moving house.

Everything here is written from a domestic kitchen and a suburban garden. If you have a correction, particularly about the astronomy, I would like to hear it.