Diary
Links to all of the diary entries on my journey to become a sofer and beyond. More being added all the time. Also taking the opportunity to refresh them, add new images and review what I said all those years ago.
Diary 1. How it all began and some odd homework.
Diary 2. Getting to know the materials and a demented squirrel.
Diary 3. Amalek - well and truly blotted out!
Diary 3a. A better m'zuzah.
Diary 4. Mikveh magic and the perennial problem of contact lenses.
Diary 5. Dozens of rules and that’s just one letter!
Diary 6. The ganze m'gillah for real.
Diary 7. A few decorative flourishes.
Diary 8. Black bin liners and piles of parchment.
Diary 9. Pitfalls and problems, but practice makes perfect.
Diary 10. Finally finishing the m'gillah, a celebration in Harlow.
Diary 11. Mitsvot - gotta do 'em all - number 613! A textbook example.
Diary 12. But I didn't even get woodwork 'O' level!
Diary 13. I’m in a GCSE textbook - scary eh?
Diary 14. The second m'gillah starts here...
Diary 15. M'gillah oddities and the boat-pole of Libruth...
Diary 16. Wrapping up the m'gillah.
Diary 17. ‘Someones got to do it’ - writing Gittin.
Diary 18. Barbers and scribes.
Diary 19. Spot the difference.
Diary 20. A scribble of scribes.
Diary 21. M'gillat Hashoah - a tail/tale...
Diary 22. M'gillat Hashoah 2 - large and small and barely there at all...
Diary 23. M'gillat Hashoah 3 - more blotting out!
Diary 24. M'gillat Hashoah 4 - shedding a tear...
Diary 25. M'gillat Hashoah
5 - a broken rainbow...
Diary 26. It's like a cello (but not)
Diary 27. 2 pipers piping... 1 scribe a scribing...Diary 28. Feesh and Cheeeps...
Diary 29. A multimedia experience...
Diary 30. To fill in T'fillin 1 ...
Diary 31. To fill in T'fillin 2 ...
Diary 32. To fill in T'fillin 3 ...
Diary 33. Art in Action and tents with moats...
Diary 34. Digital print is fab...
Diary 35. My blog and the Dalai Lama ...
Diary 36. Digital photography rocks!
Diary 37. Fixing asey chayyim
Diary 38. I love bookshops.
Diary 39. No sticky back plastic in sofrut.
Diaries 40 and 41. Havchanot tikoktastic! (updated)
Diary 42. Space - the final frontier.
Diary 43. Check it out I’m a magihah!
Diary 44. Giddin or not giddin - that is the question?
Diary 45. Nuns and a m'gillah.
Diary 46. - Scrolls to Newcastle.
Diary 47. The Italian Job.
Diary 48. Putting my 'Heart and Soul' into it.
Diary 49. On Nehemia's Wall.
Diary 50. A sixty second shmooze.
Diary 51. A scroll in the Rare Books Reading Room at CUL.
Diary 52
- Being the ancient scribe from the Lost Cities of the Bible.
