Seeing “Tom Baker” and “Death of the Doctor” trend together on Twitter was a scary moment, but thankfully that icon of my childhood still lives. Just an unpleasant co-incidence.
🎲 Me in #7TTRPGs
Ordered by “amount written for”, to the best of my memory:
- Hunter: the Reckoning
- Demon: the Fallen
- Werewolf: the Apocalypse
- Werewolf: the Forsaken
- Exalted
- Victorian Age: Vampire
- Dark Ages: Inquisitor
[h/t to @toddgrotenhuis, where I first saw this meme, even if I changed it a bit…]
Hitting the sack early (for me, at least) as I’ll need all the energy and motivation I can manage to get through the week ahead.
This is a lovely reflection on the joy of the old, the analogue and the enduring: Personal connections, a season for repairs, and my grandfather’s watch.
Finished reading: The Flow by Amy-Jane Beer 📚
Wonderful book. Review forthcoming.
Feeling deprived of my weekly dose of inspiration from the swimming pool whiteboard this morning.
Morning coffee from a flask in an enamel mug while my daughter swims.
That’s a commitment I’m not prepared to make, alas.
Hello, Saturday.
It’s nearly time for our ritual trip to Spithandle to hunt down a wild Christmas tree. Next weekend, perhaps
Working with people who show a real commitment to what they do is an absolute blessing.
Good morning from a crisp, Autumnal but delayed commute.
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.
I have earned this today.
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 📚
Words of wisdom from the swimming board. 🏊♂️
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… 📚