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I blog way less on the weekends, and I blog way less on holiday. Actually, I blog way less when I'm not at work! This is because when I'm at work, I'm sat in...
Film reviews, code chat and mental health blogging
A few weeks ago, I went on a breathing space retreat glamping getaway in Somerset. My constraints were that I needed somewhere I could get to via public tran...
Text posts and memes from around the internet I can point to and be like, that's me. Screenshot_20250403-235958~2 Screenshot_20250322-084801~2 ...
Film reviews, code chat and mental health blogging
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kik_flyinf Cycling back in a sudden strong wind, it felt very much like the film with it's mercurial weather and flying, cycling sequences. I hadn't se...
Last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago 📽️ <b>Films on my radar:</b> Nirvana The Band The Show The Movie, The Invite, The Odyssey, preparing for Cinema Re...
This page links to my other pages, mainly lists of things on the web I like, or blog admin. Postroll A good old fashioned blog post roll Changelog Th...
Last updated {{ postlastmodified }} ago. Posts ordered by most recently added, to oldest added. so what's all this then? - becca goes outside via what else ...
A lot of my friends are breaking up lately. I don't think I realised how much of a romantic I was until my second breakup, in my late twenties. I always s...
==🌒 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 8/? posts in August.== Yesterday there was a partial solar eclipse in the UK! I went up to the Bristol Downs, a ...
There's a lot of road works around here currently (there's always a lot of road works) and I've noticed the stands have turned lilac and the sandbags pink......
==🍦 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 12/? posts.== In my quest to try all soft serves from a local bakery, today I got their August Raspberry and Lem...
10 minutes lying in bed before I got up this morning...
Everything feels wrong. When I talk to my therapist about this, she explains it as my feelings - anxiety, sadness, uncontrollable sobbing - stem from the fea...
I haven't blogged for awhile - I have several posts in drafts that I just can't finish. It's a combination of being busy and being really lazy when I'm no...
I watched we're all going to the world's fair on Thursday - it's so weird to see an actual tumblr film in the cinema. If that sounds derogatory, it's not - i...
From the window of the kitchen in my work office, you can see the top of a multi-storey car park. There's a building on the top, where there used to be a bit...
10 minutes sitting up in bed, still distracted....
17/01/2026 When back to a monospaced font throughout the blog. 19/06/2025 Updated the theme based on a retro yogurt pot I saw on instagram :) I think it's...
Not trying harder at work. My brain feels like cotton wool. Not sure if if it's physical (not getting enough sleep) or mental (have this restless feeling lik...
Distill my cultivation page into goals Fix my Pasha tote bag Make a game (bitsy or downpour) Be comfortable with myself Make a zine Make a noteboo...
I've been trying to get outside a lot while I'm still off work for the holidays. It's been cold here (-3 to 1 degree C) but bright and sunny which has been r...
This page is for documenting all the email newsletters I'm currently subscribed to - my favourites are marked with stars :) Webring Not a newsletter, a ...
When people talk about going offline, there's a surprising lack of chat about watches. This is what always stops me leaving my phone in the house - if I'm he...
==⌚ I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 1/hopefully 31 posts in August.== Update: I eventually bought a watch! I didn't end up buying any of the watches...
==📜 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 10/?. I started writing this post in January 2026.== I've been to a couple of courses at the Buddhist centre thi...
Turns out the infected wisdom tooth I mentioned previously is actually just an infected mouth abscess. This is also painful, but it does mean I don't have to...
I realised I've skipped weeknotes 18 - what a mess. Do I go back and re-number? I'm looking forward to It's Twin Peaks day on the 24th of February - I've b...
==⚱️ I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 3/hopefully 31 posts in August, and a post I started writing on the 19th of July.== I was on holiday in July an...
This week's been pretty rough. I'm looking forward to Hard truths is out this week, the new Mike Leigh film. Hosting sickos film night on Friday 😈 we'll b...
This is my attempt to keep a meditation practice for a month. I'm using the Insight Timer app on android to help with this. For some background on why ...
==🚲 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 9/?? posts in August.== Today while walking through the centre on Bristol I happened upon the start of world nak...
Recently I went on a trip to North Wales, Eyri to be exact (the Welsh name for Snowdonia - Snowdon, the mountain the area is named after and the tallest moun...
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==📸 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 6/? posts in August.== A lot of these were of my friends or me at the beach, so I can only share the ones withou...
==📔 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 5/hopefully 31 posts in August, and a post I started writing on the 19th of July.== A page I've added to my blog...
It remains sweltering here in the UK. I've been on holiday in the South of France, which seemed a little redundant because it's been the same temperature her...
I'm still working on a blaugust reflections post - but I think one of the things I've learned from blaugust is it's a lot easier to do short posts about my c...
==🖼️ I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 4/hopefully 31 posts in August, about a visit to an art exhibit I started in June 2026.== Back in June I got th...
I must have listened to this björk song (big time sensuality) a million times - she was a favourite of my dad's when I was younger, and I continued listening...
From Veronique's list of recommendations at the bottom of her post here, I signed up to meadows' rss feed reader, mire (Veronique always adds great links to ...
I want to start doing week notes on Sunday. I'm actually doing this Saturday night - too eager once I get an idea as usual. (And now I'm finishing this off S...
This is a late weeknotes addition for last week - I stopped doing these for awhile, but had a desire to start them up again. I'm looking forward to I'm go...
10 mins, at night...
The ShortBox comic fair is currently running. I'm a big fan of ShortBox, and used to buy their boxes when they published physical comics. The switch to digit...
Weeknotes 06/04/2026 - 13/04/2026 It's tricky retroactively writing weeknotes. Good thing I keep a diary. I'm stubbornly persevering with this because, at...
I wanted to write about my whole weekend, but I ended up rambling - there'll have to be a part 2. Oh, to be a succinct writer. On the way home one night th...
If you ever say, for example, write javascript print("My debug message here") instead of javascript console.log("My debug message here") In yo...
I really liked this film and it made me want to watch the first one again! <mark>‼️This post contains lots of spoilers - be warned if you haven't seen the fi...
CMAT is a songwriting genius. I already knew this but listening to Take a sexy picture of me on the dancefloor really made it real. Maybe the kids are alrig...
Weeknotes 13/04/2026 - 19/04/2026 Finally caught up with these, I'm determined to have 52 by the end of the year. This one is very film focussed. Things...
==🌀 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 2/hopefully 31 posts in August.== I was thinking about labyrinths recently and got a wave of nostalgia for the e...
I've been trying to think about a better guestbook solution - because I wish I could reply to messages! Unfortunately, I can only think about coding stuff my...
Sometimes things just feel bad. I feel like one aspect of stress poisons my entire life. I nearly bought a house last week, the timeline looked like this...
I started this when I was awake at night, although I'm though I'm finishing it in the day. Things always seem much better in the morning (which can make wait...
"In his memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he explains how he wanted to learn and think in a manner that recalls a telescope, which slides into itself to become...
I've recently started a four day work week and I used today to attend a forest therapy workshop in the woods. It combines elements of forest bathing with gui...
Now that blaugust is over I wanted to revisit my goals going into it - see my previous post about this 10 days in. It's still scary to put yourself out ther...
==Update: the wedding was great, think it's fair to say I've failed at Blaugust though - I just didn't have time. I'm going to continue to try and post more ...
I enjoyed dr molly tov's post no, really, it's an addiction and it gave me some hope, too. It reminds me of the time my boyfriend caught me reflexively "t...
"[Highsmith's] characters are irrational," wrote Graham Greene, "and they leap to life in their very lack of reason; suddenly we realize how unbelievably rat...
==📜 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 6/hopefully 31 posts in August.== I recently subscribed to Garden variety, a group project by 4 illustrators and...
little things ☐ Watch Eric Rohmer's four seasons trilogy in each of the four seasons    ☑ A Tale of Winter    ☑ A Tale o...
(Note: this is a post I started writing on 18/10/2024, after reading this article. I'm currently trying to publish all my older drafts.) But after reviewing...
I meantioned Human Traffic in my weeknotes as part of my film round-up. humantraff-lead I forgot to mention one of the other reasons I like the film is...
I ruined some film yesterday and I got so angry with myself! There are a lot of reasons I could write for why I messed it up, a lot of analysis of my beh...
==📚 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 11/? posts.== I couldn't keep up with my weeknotes this year but I enjoyed writing them :( especially the media ...
I love taking candid pictures and I love street photography, but I've always wrestled with the problem of invading people's privacy - so often I take picture...
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I recently got a radio alarm clock so I don't look at my phone first thing in the morning. (although this morning I got the presenter of BBC news repeated...
10 minutes sat in bed this morning. Tried to listen to the birds. Still can't seem to escape the sense of urgency in the thoughts about what I have to do in ...
PXL20251202115406250 I wanted to do a November summary post but it's half way into December already... The picture above is how I do my monthly calendar i...
(No, this isn't a therapy vent - it's actually a film review). I watched Sick of Myself this week (now available to stream for free on C4%20Social%20satir...
Trying to get this in on time this week. I feel like no one reads these, which kind of bothers me but 🤷♀️ I've seen a lot of posts on bear blog recently for...
Blaugust isn't coming naturally so far - I've been journaling about things but neglecting to blog. I worked from home today and had time after work to wri...
I nearly forgot to post today 😱 here, have a draft. I looked at fixing my vinyl player the other day - it wouldn't turn on, so I swapped the power cable o...
Omori-feat-image I've nearly completed Omori. I've enjoyed the nostalgic style of the game and the horror elements a lot, and the gameplay is pretty fun...
Got everything I wanted to do last week done, it was a nice feeling. I had a haircut, went to a pub quiz, painted a card for my mum (tulips) and sent it, ret...
I've been getting into hobby coding more recently, mainly fiddling with python, html templates and css to generate static websites, which is quite different ...
PXL20250809152402342 I liked this scene because of the blue sky seen through the window above the orange door - but it's a small part of the picture, real...
PXL20250319171434229 Siblings in the cat jail PXL20250319170454543 Lots to think about ...
Another week - I'm starting this on Friday to post on Sunday :) I'm looking forward to I've planned a Valentine's not on Valentine's day evening where we'r...
Quotations We all have our memories - we hoard them up and shape them to our requirements. <cite>The Accidental Woman - Jonathan Coe</cite> The idea of "so...
😈 I've failed to write this on time again. I also need to write up the horror films I've been watching for the newsletter I write with my friend this week. ...
Here's a post which is a stand in post for things I would love to write about and code but haven't found the time: Pages stuff Revamp my Now page and shar...
The pentel brush pen is so nice. I borrowed it from a friend to use for card lettering during a craft night, and went out and bought one that week. The cashi...
I forgot to do weeknotes 7 this Sunday because I was busy, so I'm doing it today - do I even need this blog anymore? Is anyone even here? Being busy is the ...
Spring is here and everything feels better 🌱☀️ Sorry this is late again! I'm looking forward to My mini SSD should arrive tomorrow so I can start setting u...
I mentioned a cultivation page ages ago and I thought it was too pretentious. But I have this urge to keep track of things I'd like to do one day and loose, ...
Went home last weekend and visited my parents and my grampa. We sorted through some of my gran's jewellery - she passed away two months ago. PXL2025060713...
Weeknotes 26/04/2026 - 03/04/2026 Note from 18/05/2026: I'm behind again - a couple of holidays and a bit of a slump too. A scan of a film photograph o...
It's been a long time since I've done one of these - I was surprised to find I've done two, so I've added a tag for them. Things have been very strange an...
I've been stressed at work which means outside of things I have to do I've been sitting on the sofa doomscrolling and watching mystery crime shows... I've do...
I remain very tired - what's new? I've started looking up youtube videos like ellbat's I tested a scientifically perfect 28 day routine for women because I d...
1000019399 Enjoy this cute photo of a lizard that joined us for dinner 🦎 If I'm honest, I've really been struggling on this holiday so far. I'm not su...
Weeknotes 09/02/2026 - 15/02/2026 & 16/02/2026 - 22/02/2026 Two weeknotes in one... Things I've done ✎ᝰ.📓🗒 ˎˊ˗ I did zero exercise for a whole week, w...
My friend who writes and performs music performed for a events group called green stage last week, who put on gigs in plant shops 🌱🍃🌿 It's a very cute idea a...
On our final day in Madeira, we did a levada walk. A levada) is a type of irrigation channel specific to Madeira - they are all over the hills here. I wa...
It's very windy and rainy here today. I cycled to the climbing centre - which felt so hard, in the headwind - climbed for a few hours with my friends, then c...
I was talking to myself stopped at the lights yesterday with earbuds in. I glanced to the left to see a another cyclist, just behind me, no earbuds. "I...
Unfortunately, my holiday last week hasn't made me feel any more motivated to be in work. I was hoping cutting my days down to 4 days a week would also h...
A couple of months ago I got an old mini pc from work. Because of where I work, the hard drives are destroyed before any old tech is given to employees. So I...
I feel rough, so I want to skip climbing this evening -> but the exercise will make me feel better -> but cycling there exhausts me -> and being bad at climb...
I've been reading a book called Poem for the day (one) compiled by Nicholas Albery I think I found on someone's front garden wall last year. It's been a nice...
At the pub on Saturday with some friends of my boyfriend for a birthday. One of them started talking about a bike race he was going to on the weekend, and my...
After talking to some acquaintances about juggling, I tried it for myself at a friends party - it went alright but I'm not sure I have the patience (in the p...
I wrote a whole post about my morning routine yesterday and didn't publish it because I was boring myself. Today I'm off work and wondering what I'm doing...
Yesterday our train back from Newcastle was cancelled, and we ended up flying, which was a bit of swizz. There was a stressful period where we had to try and...
I didn't do anything special for solstice this year. It's fairly hot in south west England - 24° C - and it'll only get hotter this week with highs of 34°. ...
I don't know how many Brits are on here (and I don't know how well this sitcom is known amongst Brits even) but I've been watching Ideal on BBC iplayer recen...
From a cryptic crossword the other day I was introduced to the medlar fruit. (The clue was 22d Caught one poking nose in fruit which is annoying as it's a...
I've been on a couple of holidays recently - I've been working on blog posts about them (with the film photos I got developed!) but it's taking awhile to inc...
I don't really know why I blog. I've read a couple of others posts about it: you can find a lot on bear blog, but most of them don't really fit for me. I kee...
Happy new year! 🥳 Since mire went down I've lost access to my rss feeds. No shade to the creator, who I think is very generous to have created and hosted ...
How good is this! https://geokash.com/ Definitely want to borrow the idea of the little sicker of myself for my own site. I also liked the nature keyboard...
I've signed up to a 6-week watercolour course starting next week and also a one-day drawing urban architecture course in December... I'm doubtful about my wa...
I feel like this makes me petty and childish and immature. What do you mean you can't sit still for ten minutes? It feels like torture. This is precisely...
Note: I updated the title of this on 24/04/2025 to make the title clearer I tried to write a longer post about this, but the upshot is I'm ashamed by the ...
I found this eye font concept sorting through my work notes - I remember it being fun to draw. PXL20250528080430562 ...
Still bad at getting these done on the weekend... As usual it's been a busy week and I'm getting this done at work 🙃 I've been good at paper journaling thoug...
I tried to prepare some blog posts because I'm going on holiday with my brother this week, and I don't want to spend a lot of time on my phone. I haven'...
Everything I did last week: Watched "Escape from New York", came 3rd in the quiz, went to pilates, saw Dahomey and climbed badly, went to see Messiah of Evil...
Went to see Babygirl with a friend last night - we had a lot of fun, but I thought the film was an incoherent mess (we talked about it a lot after leaving th...
Weeknotes 09/03/2026 - 15/03/2026 PXL20260313180505033 Last weeknotes I started writing an intro about low traffic blogs, which I deleted (the trend of...
I haven't been blogging lately but I've got a lot things I wanted to blog about, even thought I can't write a full post. I've been thinking about going to...
My local cinema is doing a Wiseman of the Month season over the next year, showing the documentary films of Frederick Wiseman. He's an American director, who...
I'd already decided I was going to try posting every day since resurrecting this bear blog - that it's coincided with blaugust is a happy coincidence. I ...
I went on a film photo walk this weekend - where we got to develop our own film, which was exciting! Ironically I haven't gotten the film scanned yet, so her...
I had some photos developed and wanted to share them here. I had trouble finishing the film; I think because I was feeling low and a bit socially anxious tow...
Le Cinéma Club is a website that shows one film a week, for free, usually short. At the moment they're running Le petit Cinéma Club, showing some really fun ...
Weeknotes 20/04/2026 - 26/04/2026 Catching up on weeknotes I accidentally published #18 before this one - oops! Things I've done ✎ᝰ.📓🗒 ˎˊ˗ Dinner with m...
I've been a Meredith Gran fan since reading her great webcomic in the 2000s 🐙 🥧 (a great webcomic) and I finally got around to starting her game, Perfect Tid...
Unlucky for some! 🍀 I had a bit of a social anxiety wobble, mood-wise which I think is to do with my period. I've been re-thinking my anti-depressants - I'v...
Weeknotes 02/02/2026 - 08/02/2026 Ok, my new philosophy for weeknotes: Even if it's late, try and get a week notes out every week, and aim for 52 over the...
Take a watercolour class a year ago Think about drawing a lot Doodle in meetings. Daydream about drawing in work. When you get home, sit on the sofa and ...
My brain is just completely not working today. There's no coffee in the office because the delivery didn't show up. I woke up with a migraine and got i...
I started writing this Sunday's weeknotes in my parent's kitchen, as I was back home in Wales this week 🌧️ PXL20240907170845385_crop mp_crop-1 cymru a...
Let's try week notes again this year. Edit: A deep dissatisfaction with my blog has prevent me posting this... I've been inspired again by weeknotes by an...
I went to Copenhagen for a couple of days this week. We'd booked the holiday on a whim a few months earlier. I was so stressed and miserable leading up to th...
PXL20251207124021174 Someone has covered this lamppost on my way to work with stickers, and the effect is really fun. I usually cycle, but I've been recov...
Or more like "Thinking about creating a newsletter". My friend messaged me the other day: "do you have time in the next few days/weekend to have proper ch...
Screenshot_20260113-211811~2 <span class="caption">The City at Night, Molly Fairhurst</span> I had two errands to run today, on opposite ends of the city...
Weeknotes 16/03/2026 - 22/03/2026 ==Forgive this late weeknotes entry, I have a lot to catch up on== Spring is here and everyone's gardens seem to be f...
Weeknotes 09/03/2026 - 15/03/2026 Feel like I've given up regular blogging to try and cram everything in my weeknotes. Here goes! Things I've done ✎ᝰ.📓🗒 ...
Weeknotes 02/03/2026 - 08/03/2026 Spring is starting to come, my mood has improved. I wrote one link round up post last week. PXL20260301103235358 T...
Screenshot 2026-04-13 183331 I played this very cute game, co-open. You play as a child entrusted to go shopping for the first time, with your grandmother...
Another Le Cinema Club post - last week I watched Femmes d’Aubervilliers. In 1977, the year the UN proclaimed the “International Year of the Woman,” this y...
I'm trying out a different format for these week notes - less emojis, no categories. I've been posting a lot less recently, mainly because my mental health h...
==I drafted this post on 2024-09-02 - I'm currently aiming to post drafts I started writing and never finished. This one was written nearly a year ago...== ...
(Note: this is part of a series of posts where I publish old drafts. This post was started on 21/2/2024 - exactly a year ago! Coincidentally, it fits into th...
I've finished my diary and started another. Buying these pretty little notebooks is one of the highlights of diary writing for me. PXL20251110104358840 <...
This is the first day off since I started my four day work week, and I've decided to do a day log for today's post. WhatsApp Image 2024-08-21 at 15 I w...
PXL20251114130007455 <span class="caption">Leaves on the road looking like stars</span> I haven't been posting much but I have been keeping up with my rs...
I published and un-published a post about a crying melt-down I had and my relationship because it felt too personal. I deeply relate to everyone else posting...
Still thinking about this weeknotes format - would be better if I actaully resized and cropped my pictures and put them at the top wouldn't it? I'm looking ...
I've been having trouble managing my feelings again. The other day in work I felt so bad I left and went out to sit on the grass and look at the trees - the ...
All you have in life is time, <cite>Chantal Akerman</cite> ... "With my films you're aware of every second passing through your body." My local cinema ...
I rewatched The Long Goodbye recently - it's in my letterboxed top 4 - and I still love it. the-long-goodbye75842681s_c1 Altman's style with his busy...
Another late weeknotes... Things I've done ✎ᝰ.📓🗒 ˎˊ˗ Attended a lunchtime meditation class at my local meditation centre (it's a Buddhist centre - despit...
I haven't written here for awhile. What did I do? Mainly work this week - it was my first week back at work since the holidays. I'm more demotivated t...
My last post wasn't quite true - I had also used inoreader for following rss feeds, so I had some to catch up on. I don't like it as much and I hadn't added ...
A local swimming pool has an art installation in place to raise money, so I cycled down to meet a friend to swim. The installation is a scale replica of the ...
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Weeknotes 22/02/2026 - 29/02/2026 It's a short one this week - my mood remains bad. I've updated my now page and posted some photos, but that's about it. ...
Things I've done ✎ᝰ.📓🗒 ˎˊ˗ Attended another meditation class, which I have a post in drafts about. Met my friend's new baby :) Pilates and one bould...
Another weeknotes - I need a better titling scheme. I'm going to mess with the format a little too, adding and removing sections based on what's happened thi...
I take magnesium (for migraines, probably not at a high enough dose), vitamin B12 (because my friend told me it helped with her period symptoms) and zinc (fo...
==I started writing this about a month ago... it hasn't dated much, but I think I just wasn't sure how to finish it.== We play music league in work, and t...
I went to my local cinema today to watch a film and got distracted half way through because... there was a mouse crawling down the curtain! It ran down very ...
Yesterday it was Russian drones over Poland and what that means for Europe, today a right-wing influencer shot dead in America. I recently read "A Woman ...
Another week, another late weeknotes. Sometimes I feel I should split these up - my friend's wedding deserves it's own post, as do some of the films I watche...
It's a fairytale town, isn't it? How's a fairytale town not somebody's fucking thing? How can all those canals and bridges and cobbled streets and those chur...
PXL20250505111035254 <span class="caption">Love this illustration, old books are great<span> PXL20250505111026860 <Span class PXL20250503164449528 ...
I've been heaving a rough mental health time the past few weeks - insecure, uptight, tears. It feels unfair that feels harder for me to manage my mental heal...
I fixed the brake pads on my bike myself the other day, and also managed to repair my favourite hair clip (by taking the spring out of a cat hair clip I'd be...
I haven't updated for awhile, because I was just posting the same thing, but I'm on day 50 now :)...
I don't think I can do a weeknotes today as I'm on my way back home from a club night out and it has wrecked me. We stayed out until the lights came up. The ...
At my parent's kitchen table. I was upset and it didn't really land, so I meditated again when I got home before bed....
It's been a very strange week, with my gran's funeral. Does going home and staying with your family make anyone else feel like a different person? I'm looki...
10 minutes, in the morning...
10 mins sitting by the window in my childhood bedroom. I need some guidance on how to clear my mind, but I haven't had time....
Tried twice today - once in the morning (while I was cooking pasta for my work lunch - silly) and once on the train on the way to my parents (also silly). ...
About a month ago I decided to really try a consistent meditation habit. It felt a bit like giving up smoking - I knew it would be good for me but I couldn't...
I woke up with a migraine today and meditated late morning listening to my neighbour move furniture around upstairs. 10 minutes, just using the timer. ...
10 mins, am. Finding it hard to keep my mind off plans today. I can label and try and let go of thoughts all I want (I used to visualise them 'flying' off to...
I did the "Calm your busy mind" guided meditation again. Useful, I think. I've been stressed about work lately, and trying to buy a house. The vivid dream...
I'm so tired today... I'm old and I haven't really recovered from the midnight movie on Friday 😴 I'm looking forward to Going for a (very belated) birthday...
"I don't think there was any point I took my shoes off in that house except when I was in bed." "What about when you threw up in the shower?" "No, ...
We talked about work and finding another job, but the main thing I took from this session was some insight on how I make myself do things. I find it much eas...
Weeknotes 23/03/2026 - 05/04/2026 Bank holiday edition, very late, forgive me 🫠 Things I've done ✎ᝰ.📓🗒 ˎˊ˗ Went out clubbing for bank holiday weekend W...
I've been thinking a lot about progress tracking recently. When the blaugust posts started cropping up again, I thought about a different challenge - you pic...
I can't bring myself to care about the US elections. I'm British so I can do even less about it than American voters. But I slept terribly anyway, maybe ...
On the 10th day of blaugust (my true love gave to me etc) I wanted to reflect on my thoughts going into it, in my second post. 😅 Re: "It's exciting to p...
I returned from Madeira today, and just arrived back home - I'm spent. My brother got off the plane and said I need a pie so we had lunch at Pieminister (...
This is the second review I've done of comics I bought in the shortbox comics fair - see my shortbox tag for the previous one. By the way, if anyone has a...
I went on holiday to Copenhagen again, and now I'm back I'm happy to catch up on everyone's blog posts. Sylvia created a things that are true page based o...
When I started my personal site, I had an idea of a cultivation page. This would track things I'd like to work on in my life, information about them, and I c...
After writing last week about how I needed a format for these, I went back to a previous article I read about weeknotes I liked - Using personal weeknotes as...
UPDATE: I liked paddle boarding, it went well and it was only a little rainy (to be expected in the British summer). It turned out to be just the two of u...
I've really fallen off blogging this year. I didn't get much interaction on this blog anyway, but bear is a small platform and I'd like to think some people ...
We did a hike today, from one mountain in Madeira to another and back. The views were incredible. 1000019674 I'm glad we got there early and feel like ...
I previously wrote about my friend asking me to create a newsletter with her here(creating-a-newsletter) We created our first output this month and I have...
Last weekend I went to a party and I feel like I'm still recovering from it. It was a party hosted by friends of my boyfriend, and I didn't know many people ...
I've just got home from a wedding, and I'm writing this blog post - because I said I would post everyday. I'm not very enthusiastic - it was a good wedding, ...
I watched Crossings because it happened to be the mubi go film of the week two weeks in a row (because no where near me is showing I Watched the TV Glow yet)...
I feel like the post I wrote the other day is so trite! I'm learning that writing blog posts for an audience (even if it's an invisible, silent one) is diffe...
pareidolia Pareidolia (/ˌpærɪˈdoʊliə, ˌpɛər-/;[1] also US: /ˌpɛəraɪ-/)[2] is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebu...
Things I've read recently: 📰 A little local news first - I've posted about far right rioting in the UK this week and I've been keeping an eye on The Brist...
I'm struggling to blog on this holiday. I think this is A) my plan to do short posts with pictures isn't really doing justice to my feelings, which I do...
I read this poem - Supple cord by Naomi Shihab Nye - and it immediately made me think about my brother again. How you can have such a connection to someon...
Happygolucky Watching this film, I kept thinking about how my friend had put it on a list of films celebrating the everyday, and how she talked about it...
Watching films is one of my main hobbies. I love being transported by beautiful or interesting imagery or falling in love with a character. I like a good ...
This Sunday's weeknotes bought to you by a very lazy Sunday. What I did this week 🧗♀️ I went climbing this week - I'm really glad I went as I hadn't bee...
Decided to just do a photo log today. I feel very physically tired and stiff. It's a bank holiday here in England, I have the day off so I'm trying to wake m...
I enjoyed writing a day log of my first day off and I think it's good to reflect on what I'm using these days for, so I'm going to do another one :) I wok...
I don't know what to blog about today - Wednesday's blaugust post was late because I spent the whole day hanging out with people - I don't regret that. I int...
I went on a long cycle ride today for a friend's birthday - 1 and a half there, the same back, 28 miles. It was great and really sociable, but I got home wit...
This Sunday's weeknotes bought to you by a migraine. I'd like to have done a plans post for September or a Blaugust reflections post for the first day of the...
Project Use up all the honey in the house by baking 🍯🐝 Make a collage with my old Rome photos Finally use those dried flowers Blog posts I'd like t...
I have so many unfinished posts at the moment, drafts which I become less happy with the longer they remain unposted and the more I edit them. I'm unhappy wi...
<!--img align="right" src="" alt="" border="0" width="200" height="210"--> I'm off sick today with a sore throat and I'm determined to post something to get...
This week I'm sick with a cold. I've just come back from Wales, where I've been visiting friends for an evening of cocktails, erotic thrillers and book club ...
02 (441) I went to a witchcraft film double bill this week, one of which was Häxan (1922) which I found fascinating. It's a "documentary" from 1921, which...
I've been too busy to blog or write this week, and all my spare time has gone to trying to write my part of my and my friend's newsletter. But I've spent ...
These are getting later and later - I've been too busy these weekends. I feel tired and wiped out. Not sure if I'm ill or if it's just getting to winter and ...
Here's another comic review from the Shortbox comics fair, which runs until the end of October. I picked this one up partly due to the art style, and partl...
This is a series of posts where I'm reviewing comics I've bought from the ShortBox comics fair! I bought this comic because I like watching speed runs and ...
Really loved the art in this article about Ghanaian artist Michael Blebo (I love colourful, abstract art). My favourite part of the article however is whe...
That this post seems to get a lot of links from google for some reason: analytics Intriguing. And a bit embarrassing, because the random generator I cr...
I wanted to write a list of posts and projects I want to get around to: Finish my secret santa app (unlikely I'll get this done in time for Christmas now...
I failed at my desire last week to write this in time for Sunday - but I ended up being out most of the day on Sunday so that's not a bad reason. What did...
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(This is a post I wrote on 19th Nov and never published) It started snowing today as I cycled into work, little flurries. I was late as I'd been up late w...
I went on a weekend away to the isle of wight and then I was ill for a whole week. I had a fever, which led to several days of migraine headache and thro...
Neither of my plans this weekend worked out (because both people I was going to meet up with are sick) so I went for a walk instead. I've figured out so far ...
I need to come up with a consistent format for these. What is this mess. 🏞️🦉🚬☕︎ RIP David Lynch David Lynch died, which really feels like it shouldn't ...
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I went home today and took some pictures of the sea. PXL20250226161925928 I was visiting family and looking through a lot of old family photos with my ...
Monday weeknotes again - I also completely forgot about Blaugust this year but I'm keen to do it - when I did it last week (see my tag) it was very satisfyin...
I have a lot of posts in drafts and a weeknotes I'm trying to finish. Sometimes you just have to write something else. PXL20260131100214932 <span class="...
==20/02/2026 I've updated this post with other people's pancake day posts, below!== More pancake day posts! Happy pancake day - Nick Hayes Panshroveca...