It’s nearly time for our ritual trip to Spithandle to hunt down a wild Christmas tree. Next weekend, perhaps
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 📚
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 📚
Repeat a difficult thing often enough and it becomes a habit and then a pleasure. And so it is with my early morning Sunday trips to the pool. An hour by the poolside with a book and a coffee. 👌🏻
I’ve just realised how appropriate it was that I was reading Mermaids by Sophia Kingshill in Starbucks last week. It’s been a long time since I consciously thought about their logo… 📚
After revelling in non-fiction for the last few years, I have really rediscovered the novel this year, and am enjoying losing myself in other lives.