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Lately this is mostly a feed of no, I have had it with feeds, let’s make this site actually have the things I get up to, and find interesting, amusing or timewasting in other places.

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You can find me on goodreads, flickr, twitter, facebook, ravelry and pinterest among others, but I’m more at home here in my own space than in those other places.

Quick Clips

I love the idea of an “anti-library” of unread books being a good thing. It’s all about the framing. Also agree on the excessive browser tabs. 20201125

COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool 20201124

“Words of an Unprecedented Year” 20201123

A lovely story about a bit of well deserved but unexpected success. 20201123

I’m never quite sure why video games are so demonised (especially when compared with TV) either. 20201123

“No one understands how sand works.” 20201119

Excellent! It’s always seemed odd that this junction of footpaths relies on stepping stones. I didn’t even know it was supposed to be a bridge. 20201114

I’m finally ready to knit the final installment of this year’s mystery blanket. 20201113

Though trig points are pretty interesting too! 20201112

Trying to figure out what counts as a hill…. 20201112

Recently Read

Now You See Them (Stephens & Mephisto Mystery, #5) by Elly Griffiths.

Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld.

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo.

Riviera Gold (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #16) by Laurie R. King.

Ordinary People by Diana Evans.

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Nice out this afternoon! 🌞 🥶

Nice out this afternoon! 🌞 🥶

*paint* *the* *whole* *world* *with* *a* *RAINBOW*

*paint* *the* *whole* *world* *with* *a* *RAINBOW*! #rainbow 🌈

October’s knitting for my #debbieabrahamsmystery

October’s knitting for my #debbieabrahamsmysteryblanket is complete. “Just” one last set of squares, the sewing together & a looooong border to go! #knitting #mysteryblanket #rowanyarns

You’d think, given that you can usually see the

You’d think, given that you can usually see the TV mast at Emley Moor from eleventy squillion miles away, you’d be able to spot it from the side of the road next to it! I had to check with Google StreetView that I was in the right place! #fog

Castle Hill, with Emley Moor Transmitter on the ho

Castle Hill, with Emley Moor Transmitter on the horizon.

Autumn Afternoon

Autumn Afternoon

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Fab exhibition from #joanavasconcelos - I was espe

Fab exhibition from #joanavasconcelos - I was especially intrigued by the Portuguese crochet elements.

More of the #huddersfieldnarrowcanal - coming down

More of the #huddersfieldnarrowcanal - coming downhill from Marsden where the canal tunnels under the Pennines, I wonder what happened to the E on 41 & 42!

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