I declared September as bullet journal month. How did I do? I would probably give myself a C minus. what would good have looked like? In retrospect I should’ve defined what good might have looked like with a month of bullet journalling. I suppose I was after some sort of epiphany, feeling more chilled, time for...

Having flirted (if that is the right term) with bullet journalling before I’m going to give it another go. September seemed to be a good month to try it, everyone is getting back into a routine after the summer break and I’m trying to reduce the amount of time I spend staring at a screen. My previous attempts at...

I have learnt this week that I am very bad at coping with a heatwave.

Just been looking at the photos on my phone. Various serial numbers, instructions, pics of car parts and weird dark pictures trying to see down the back of cabinets. Also pics of family and holidays

If I go running a couple of times a week am I a runner? I’ve started running again. It fell away to zero when we moved into our new house. I would run 5km once a week for a bit, then it would fade for a while then I’d come back to it. This has been the longest break for quite a while and I’m declaring myself as...

This is becoming a bit of a theme, lose something, order a replacement, and then the lost item reappears. Earlier in the year it was an AirPod, now it is a water bottle. Couldn’t for the life of me locate my favourite water bottle, it is the one I tend to grab about 90% of the time, the other 10% is a cycling bottle...

In late 2025 I put together a list of things I would dump in 2026. Three months of the year are done, so how have I been getting on? A mixed bag: ‘social’ media – down to one social media platform, using mastodon via federate.social. I like the feel of it, and enjoy the eclectic mix of people on there. X is now...

Some of you may have noticed that I change blog platforms regularly, I love all the new ideas and how different blog providers have slightly different approaches. It allows us bloggers to find the tool that suits. Or that should be the idea, some of us move platforms regularly, often returning to one we have used...

In the UK we are used to the rain, we get a lot of it. We put up with it because it makes us such a green country, makes stuff grow and we like to potter about with our trousers rolled up in a cool river on a hot sunny day. But even us hardy brits have had enough now, it seems to have been raining continuously since...

As disappointingly forecast in my previous post, the missing AirPod has reappeared. It reappeared from the back of my bedside table on the 15th Jan, nine days after my £76 replacement had arrived, very efficiently, from Apple. I now have a spare left hand AirPod, I am not sure what to do with it – creative ideas...