Posts from 2024-05.
29 May 2024
💦The water engineer agreed with me that we already have a functioning water meter. Hopefully we can just get billed for what we use now!
⚡️An apology for “the distress you have faced” from the electric co is hilariously over the top. I think they sent the reply meant for “your power has been out for weeks” rather than “we’ve screwed up your metering”.
📦 A lost online order turned out not to have been shipped and is now on its way.
26 May 2024
🛌 I feel caught up on sleep for a change. (If only every day involved a long bike ride & then gin maybe I’d always sleep well 😂). (hashtag retirement goals, maybe)
🎲 Fun games at the community gaming group.
😎I love how meeting people while playing board games ekes my social energy out so it lasts a lot longer than otherwise.
25 May 2024
🚤 Biked out and checked on the boat. All is shipshape, just covered in cobwebs. Hoping to get it moving again soon.
🥤 I bought some reusable silicone straws and am very happy with the purchase. My homemade frappuccinos are now perfect.
🫑 Our excessive amount of padron peppers went very nicely with goat’s cheese on pizza.
24 May 2024
🍓 It’s not strawberries and cream weather but I’m not letting that stop me 😋
📕 An hour curled up in the library with my book.
🕯️A table to myself in a candlelit cellar and a good pint of beer. Other half turned up later and also liked his pint.
23 May 2024
And now for today’s #3GoodThings
🛞 I’ve fixed the puncture on my partner’s bike.
🫚I’ve installed a new inside-the-cupboard-door spice rack. It’s rattley and could do with slightly better installation to be honest but it’s doing its job.
♻️Two recent trips to the recycling centre have had 15-20 minute queues to get in. Today I drove right in, one other car there which was just leaving. All future trips will be on Thursday evening!
22 May 2024
It’s been one of those busy weeks where I don’t feel like I’m actually getting anywhere so let’s have a catch up #3GoodThings
🤝Found a solution to a family situation that was concerning me that keeps everyone happy.
🗳️ Remembered to change our addresses on the electoral roll (general election announcement was a good reminder!)
👩🏻💻 Figured out how a tricky bit of code could be extended to do what I want without the horrid workaround I did last time.
20 May 2024
🗃️My brain did not want to do interesting work so I gave it boring work and now boring work is all caught up for a while.
📞Also did one of those admin tasks you can annoyingly only do by phone.
🥔 There were homemade hash browns.
19 May 2024
🍂 Unblocked a drain that was full of leaves.
🚲 A very pleasant bike ride, I’d worried it was going to be too hot.
🥤Tried making homemade frappuccinos and they came out really well.
18 May 2024
❤️A forum post I made a few days ago got some lovely follow up comments.
🔎Located a scan of some paperwork from 2003 containing the id that meant I could log into one of my bank accounts again.
🪑People who vacated their bench just as we walked into the beer garden so we could sit down with our drinks.
16 May 2024
📩It was really nice to get some feedback about a 21(!) year old blog post.
👍My business partner has been doing some excellent forum discussion moderation recently.
🌧️It eventually stopped raining and I got an evening walk in without getting wet through.
15 May 2024
👩🏻💻 Work project is getting there, it feels like I’m moving very slowly but I am making progress.
🎶 Trying to get back into learning the piano. Being terrible at something is actually quite nice because you can easily see how practice leads to improvement.
🧐Realising that these observations are kind of related. It’s harder to see the movement in stuff I’m already pretty good at, which seems obvious but also seems backwards.
14 May 2024
🪛Assembled the shed shelves. I think this is about the most organised I’ve ever been!
🫧Having a dishwasher again is great. I thought I was reasonably happy without one, I don’t really mind washing up, but the break between loading dirty plates and unloading clean ones actually makes all the difference.
🦊 A fox ran across the road in front of me as I cycled home.
13 May 2024
🌳Took Great Birnam Wood to High Dunsinane Hill. (Ok, I carted bits of an overgrown bush to the tip but I amused myself whilst lugging it about.)
🇸🇪 Survived Ikea: Part Two. Shelves for the shed & wondering why we don’t just build a whole house out of Kallax?
🍰 I snagged the last piece of Daim bar cake in the cafe.
12 May 2024
🎲Went along to a new board game group, great venue - big tables, natural light, air con - some people I already knew, more new people. Nice to play in the afternoon for a change.
⛈️Getting home just before the thunder started so I was safe and dry inside.
⚡️ Lightning map websites where you can see where it hit and watch the thunder roll in until you hear it are pretty amazing.
11 May 2024
🧊It’s hot & the swimming pool felt ice cold for the first minute which was gorgeous (I don’t really think it was any colder than usual).
🎹We moved the piano without too many Laurel & Hardy moments (it’s digital & just about fits in the car without disassembling, still feels like an achievement).
🧼The pastels/pigment that my partner got all over the carpet will come out eventually! (Plus we own the house so I’m not worrying about the deposit!)
10 May 2024
🤺We have a new garden fence & though it’s technically ours, our new neighbours paid for it as they desperately wanted it replacing.
🌅 Sitting in the garden at sunset with a glass of wine.
☕️ The city was jam packed but we found a new coffee shop , & then later, a new bar in suburbia.
9 May 2024
🌱All the herb seeds I sowed last week have now sprouted.
🤮I got a puncture in my bike tyre but was saved by the slime that sealed it up nicely so I could continue on my way.
✍️I bought some new pens and enjoyed trying them all out.
2 May 2024
🪪At the third attempt I got my partner and his photo id to the polling station (me & mine would have got there first time).
🔌I found the toothbrush plug adaptor hours after I went and bought a new one, in fact it was a two pack so now I have one to use and two to lose.
🪵Twiglets were on offer at the supermarket and it’s not even Christmas!
1 May 2024
👩🏻💻Worked out how a code thing worked that was making zero sense to me.
🇸🇪Survived a trip to Ikea; got most of what we went for and, of course, a few useful bits we didn’t know we needed until we saw them.
🪑I’ve already done 2/3 of my adult Lego sets, which I can’t really call adult Lego any more since that’s (happily!) become a real thing. This was just flat pack furniture assembly but it’s still satisfying.