I retain the determination to complete the November micro.blog challenge this year. Less than a week to go!

I get more wary of applying a software update the older I get. I miss the old devil-may-care attitude to tech - back when it didn’t matter.

One unintentionally positive outcome of the cost of living crisis is that we have less food routinely in the house, which means there’s less to graze on. That should help keep the ol’ waistline down.

“Ice has a memory, and the colour of this memory is blue.”

— Robert Macfarlane, Underland 📚

Sunset approaches.

Shoreham Fort, around 4.15pm.

Dramatic lighting over Shoreham Fort.

I have earned this today.

A bottle of red wine, about to have its cork removed.

I just misread “light rain forecast” as “light rain forever”, which pretty much sums up life in the UK.

Some interesting nature reads to kick off your week.

Charles Arthur in his newsletter this morning:

“Self-obsessed Twitter is the very, very worst Twitter: it’s like a bandpass filter that stops useful data getting through.”

🔥

How culture changes:

”Lechery was regarded as such a feminine vice that oversexed males, too, could be called Sirens, in no complimentary sense.”

From: Mermaids by Sophia Kingshill 📚