Posts from 2023-11.

30 November 2023

#3GoodThings

❄️ The frost in the morning made everything look sparkly and gorgeous, plus I didn’t need to go out in it (though it was still icy underfoot at midday).

✂️ I bought two new pairs of kitchen scissors so we can stop bursting packets of things (couscous, coffee beans…) all over the kitchen as we rip them open.

🐱 The cat fell asleep on my desk chair so I had to stop work for the day, no other solution could possibly be found 🤷🏻‍♀️.

26 November 2023

#3GoodThings

🤬 Spent some time updating passwords, adding 2FA and passkeys. Boring but useful.

🥶 It was chilly but not windy and I enjoyed being out on my bike. (Realised my lips haven’t cracked up yet this year and need to find some lip balm before they do. Just noting it to remind me tomorrow…obviously this is the sensible place to leave myself notes!)

🧹 I have clean floors. I started cleaning the kitchen one and my partner took the hint and hoovered the rest of the house.

25 November 2023

#3GoodThings

🧜‍♀️A nice day out at by the sea (possibly just on the estuary actually but it felt like the seaside and that’s fine by me).

🚙 We took the teen’s car since it hadn’t moved for 2 months and all was well with it.

☕️ Cafe that squeezed us in for coffee between reservations. Nice staff make all the difference.

24 November 2023

#3GoodThings

☀️ Catching some of the increasingly rare daylight. For someone who has always been a night owl I’m surprisingly greedy for the sun.

🤳Long FaceTime call with the teen who I’m worrying about but always seems happy when we talk.

✅Eventually realising why one database table was fine while the other was completely screwy. Turns out strings and ints aren’t interchangeable, who knew? (Answer: Me, and very well 🤦🏻‍♀️, but now even better).

22 November 2023

#3GoodThings

💬My partner coming in and telling me that if I was going to go out I should do it sharpish in order to catch the wild orange sunset.

🌅 The sunset which lived up to its billing.

💦The magic of an lit up but almost empty riverfront in the evening. (Which is making me think of ‘the lights on the Embankment like jewels on chains’ even though it wasn’t that Embankment, but I like that too.)

20 November 2023

It’s day 5 of our internet outage at home but there’s always at least #3GoodThings

💰 Unless the internet gets fixed before midnight the service provider will be paying us compensation from tomorrow. I’d rather have the fix though!

📚The library always has a space for me to sit and good free wifi with a fixed IP address which makes work simpler.

🪡 I got my sewing machine up and running for the first time since we moved.

19 November 2023

I was out of sorts because it kept on raining when I wanted to go bike riding but there were #3GoodThings

🧵Had a long browse around a Hobbycraft store that seemed to be very short on sewing and knitting stuff, until I realised the store had an unexpected upstairs with everything I wanted to browse.

🚲 Had a shorter but dry bike ride this afternoon.

📚 We sorted out a couple of bags more of our excess books to send to charity shops.

18 November 2023

#3GoodThings

🎄 I’m determined not to be such a miserable “Christmas starts too early” bugger this year so we stopped in at the local Christmas light switch on.

🍷 And had two glasses of mulled wine from different bars, both nice.

📸 Flickr is still a thing, 20ish years on, and my partner was super excited to get one of his photos into Explore there today.

17 November 2023

#3GoodThings

🤞It’s looking like they got to the bottom of the problem with our boiler and fixed it. Fixed by a nice plumber who didn’t treat me like an idiot who couldn’t possibly understand anything or try to pass the buck, I appreciate both.

🚰 I won’t be taking having reliable heat and hot water for granted in the near future at least.

🍻 These two-thirds of a pint glasses are lovely.

16 November 2023

#3GoodThings that haven’t been broken for me today!

📱 A perfectly good internet connection on my phone.

🧶Having a ridiculously long Ethernet cable to hand saved me a lot of moving things about hassle when testing internet connection gubbins.

🚦 A nearby pedestrian crossing where the traffic lights change the moment you hit the button, so many lights seem to be needlessly slow to change but this one delights me every time.

12 November 2023

#3GoodThings

☔️ Rain would have cancelled my bike ride if I hadn’t already made other plans. I didn’t feel I was missing out, which was nice.

🧶 Figured out which squares of my knitted blanket I still need to knit and got on with knitting an easyish one.

🥱 Although it’s been a pretty lazy day I’m really tired and feel like I’ll sleep well.

11 November 2023

#3GoodThings

🌌 I couldn’t see the puddles I was about to fall into but, my, there are a lot of stars in the sky out here! (*)

🐈The cat’s first encounter with the boat is going well.

🔥 Happiness is a warm log fire on a narrowboat, with a cat by your side, and a nice guy to pour the wine for you.

(*) I didn’t actually fall into any puddles, at least not more than a couple of centimetres in shoes that can take that even though I forgot to bring my proper boots.

9 November 2023

#3GoodThings

🎭 Discovered a new theatre production I want to go and see, by a company whose work I really enjoyed last year.

💰 Worked out how much cheaper the bills are here than at our old house; it’s nice to have a pleasant surprise over bills.

📘The book my partner told me to read because it’s really good is being very intriguing. I’m off to bed to read some more.

8 November 2023

#3GoodThings

🗒️Rejigging my Obsidian notes setup to catch up with the way I work now, writing new macros to make frequent tasks easier.

📕 Finally finishing the book I’ve been reading, it was pretty engaging in the end but my reading mojo has gone astray and I’m hoping a new story helps me find it again.

🍌 Today I have mostly been powered by dried banana chips which are today’s winner of my best snack food ever award.

7 November 2023

🐘I joined Mastodon a year ago, and I’m very glad to have found/curated a different experience to the one I had on Twitter. My experience here is much calmer & more interactive.

3️⃣ And the #3GoodThings hashtag is responsible for a lot of that. I really enjoy reading about the things that different people find joy in; the sublime, the ridiculous, the unusual and how, somehow, the mundane often turns out to be the most interesting.

🥰 You! I’m glad you’re here too!

6 November 2023

#3GoodThings

🧦 Putting on a pair of socks that had been warming on the radiator.

☀️ Getting out for a quick walk in the morning to catch some of the increasingly rare daylight.

🍨 My partner’s suggestion that the ginger cake would be good warmed up with a scoop of ice cream was spot on.

5 November 2023

#3GoodThings

☁️ My streak of dry weather for Sunday morning bike rides continued. It rained at home while I was out but not where I was.

🚤 The boat is now moored close enough to home to bike to, so I did.

🙂For the first time since June, I think, I’m looking forward to a regular week of normal home and work and fun things with no extraneous commitments I need to cope with. I’m looking forward to having a boring week!

4 November 2023

Yesterday’s #3GoodThings

🌦️Little enough rain that it was avoidable today.

🍺Walking home and finding a pub that looked derelict has an “re-opening in December” banner up. I hope they manage it!

🤭A nice conversation with a stranger who was walking just behind me when I saw the pub banner and I said “oh have you seen this…” to my partner who I thought was the person just behind me. Well, stranger man was happy about the pub re-opening too and we all had a laugh.

2 November 2023

#3GoodThings

🚿 Today I got very wet indeed, I’m not sure it would have been possible to go outside at all without doing so, but there was a hot shower to be had when I got in.

🚲 It was still a good idea to go out on my bike even in the rain; a decent mental reset was had.

🦔 I’ve pleased I picked up the Planet Zoo video game in the sale. I’ve spent ages watching my aardvarks sleeping in their burrow - it was raining inside the computer as well.

1 November 2023

#3GoodThings

🛥️ The boat move went very smoothly! Lots of worrying beforehand but it all worked out.

😎 The person who helped us with the boat’s flat batteries last week saw the boat being lifted out of the marina this morning and sought out my phone number to give me some extra, very useful, advice. Really nice of him.

🌧️I’m the only member of my family who has stayed dry today.