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Ah. The capo! I get it now! Learning Kenny Roger's the Gambler and it's awesome and I'm terrible but who cares?!

Saturday mornings: weekly food shop delivery & put away, laundry, Nintendo with Z.

It's been what feels like a HUGE week but it was actually quite a normal week, we just ran out of sleep by Thursday morning 😯

Absolutely NOT.

Adored that show!

I think C is the next lesson! I'm just putting it off because my changes are still so clumsy.

Mostly I'm torturing my neighbours with a really slow version of Hanson's mmm bop, O Sole Mio and Mr Presley's Hound Dog.

Be grateful you don't live near me!

Been learning to play guitar for nearly 4 months. My fingers are healed and I can play for nearly an hour before my hand cramps. Progress is really slow mostly because Dm is an absolute git but, it's not a race. I haven't really moved beyond A, Am, D, DM, E and Em but that's OK. I'll get there.

The documentary on Netflix is worth a watch.

Spike is exploring their new pot!

Like a book group but on work time. What a brilliant idea!

My bluesky is an absolute leftist woke echo chamber. Well done, everyone. Keep it up. ❤️

That's how they used to bury vampires to keep them busy and from rising from the dead...

Today's cherry tomato harvest. Still plenty on the plants for tomorrow. So delicious.

Looking forward to the Ashes this winter. Planning to go nocturnal & watch every ball while snuggled up on the sofa with copious hot chocolate, thick socks & blankets. Absolute scenes! Can't wait!

One of those quietly effective workouts where everything goes to plan, you follow what your coach wants you to do and there are no fireworks, personal bests or showing off.

That'll do.

1. Discovers old Pott'd kit during a crafting clear out.
2. Use it or chuck it?
3. Makes crappy pinch pots.
4. Buys more clay.
5. Makes better slab pots.
6. I am the Queen of New Hobbies!

The hat!

Plus, someone will sit on it!

Something in the air this year. I've got two! My look is pure Mad Old Lady.

First day in my new job today. This science stuff is harder than it looks!

OMG!

I did not know that about you!

Well, there's all that and years of societal conditioning to be thin, attractive, young, unassuming, polite, lower paid, quiet, baby producing, elder caring and self sacrificing drones so that men can have pretty good lives. As long as we work hard enough.

You get to 50 and you think WTAF?

5 years ago today we lost our Mum to complications of CoPD. We were in lockdown. She had a non COVID chest infection that her body couldn't fight, ending in a heart attack on the ward, after which she never woke up.

I miss her more with every passing year. I didn't know that was possible.

Welcome!

This is Orba, a Calathea Orbifolia who resides on my window sill because she didn't like being on the shelf next to Tim 3rd. When it gets hot I think I'll need to move her back to the shelf though. There's being in the spotlight and being in too much sunlight!

Nothing quite so exciting! Household chores here with Z. Work this afternoon for me. Laser Quest for him.

I finished Severance yesterday. I am so cross with Mark S!

Thanks! I'm just grinding through it. I think I'll stop once I've got the MSc under my belt.