Category: Life
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Five on Friday
I hadn’t got to inbox zero since before Christmas so Tuesday night after dinner I sat down with my computer and did a big clearout. I had 185 emails in my promotions folder and the vast majority of those emails were from a handful of senders so I got busy unsubscribing. Hopefully it sticks and…
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List #48: 100 Things That Made my Year – 2025
Happy New Year to you all! This is my usual end-of-year review format that I stole from Austin Kleon. You can see 2024’s post here, 2023’s post here and 2022’s post here. What are some things that made your 2025?
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Pre-Christmas Bits and Bobs
I’ve been a bit scarce around here and this will be my last post before Christmas. Since I plan to rest, spend time with my extended family, read books, go to the beach (hopefully), have at least one internet free day and possibly more, between Christmas and New Year, I will skip my usual Good…
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Bits and Bobs
I intended to take a break after NaBloPoMo, but not a whole week, so this is a bit of a catch up post. First up, some photos from Pop and Pour: To clarify regarding the wedding crashing—we did not eat or drink anything, just hit the dance floor which we had to walk right past…
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List #46:Good Things Friday November 2025
For the second month in a row, when this post is published I’ll be heading away for a long weekend. This time I’m off to Pop and Pour, an annual food and wine festival. We have been going for the last few years with our friends from running. There will be a lot of eating,…
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A Non-post Post
I have some half-written posts waiting in the wings, but I want to start December with a clean and organised house, and today may be my best opportunity to make that happen since we are going away for the weekend. Since it’s NaBloPoMo I couldn’t miss posting today so I’ll leave you with this photo…
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A Half-Day in the City
Thursday morning I was at a stand still with the work project I’d been doing this week as I had to wait for out IT guy to give me some extra permissions. I decided to grab the opportunity while I waited, to go into the city and get some shoes for E’s wedding. While I…
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A Quote About Writing
I’ve been reading a book—The Quiet Path—that I bought at a little church in Wales. It is full of one page reflections and I’ve been reading one page a day. Yesterday there was a paragraph that exactly describes my experience with writing. [Writing’s] not just about collecting thoughts you have already, then getting them down…
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101 Things in 1001 Days: 800-day Checkin
I started my 101 Things list on September 11th 2023. I’m checking my progress every 100 days. At the end of the first 700 days, I calculated that I was 42.4% complete. I calculate that I completed 4.8% of my list which means I’ve completed 47.2% of my list. What is one thing on here that you’d like to…