Posts from 2026-08.
24 August 2026
📨Cleared my inbox out.
🌳The sunlight through the trees was really nice this morning.
🧶Figured out where I was in the knitting project that I unintentionally put on hiatus a few months ago.
23 August 2026
🎲 Long day of board games.
🐕 I was given promo cards for Forest Shuffle: Dartmoor. (Hound of the Baskervilles!)
🍕Impromptu Sunday night pizza & wine since the week is all out of whack with holidays.
22 August 2026
📴 Did a pretty good job of switching off and relaxing on my holiday.
🌧️I was quite happy to have a cooler holiday and for it to be raining at home as well.
📳 The work I needed to do when I got back was minimal and easily sorted out.
14 August 2026
🍰 Gloucester motorway services have good buns, we bought some to take away and ate them at our next stop.
🌊 Got to our holiday cottage eventually.
🛜 Got the holiday cottage WiFi working eventually.
12 August 2026
📚 Partner tidied up bookshelves while I was out.
☕️Tried a new cafe I’ve been meaning to visit for ages and it was great.
🌒 Projected the partial eclipse onto the garden fence.
10 August 2026
🌧️ It was raining when I went outside to look for the cat in the night (the cat was already inside…).
📚 Actually took all the remaining books we cleared out to Oxfam (rather than leaving them in a pile for months).
Beetroot made a nice sandwich.
8 August 2026
🧹 Got the house hoovered up.
🍞 Baked biscuits & bread.
🎲 Impromptu invitation to an afternoon board game.
7 August 2026
🛌 A bit of extra sleep this morning.
🥗 Meals eaten outside.
🪴Enjoying the ritual of watering the plants and tidying up outside in the evening.
6 August 2026
📓 Delivery of a new notebook and pens.
🖊️ Enjoying using the above!
📚 Overheard the Oxfam bookshop volunteer saying they needed stock which gave me the impetus to sort some overloaded bookshelves out when I got home.
5 August 2026
🗃️ A quick board game tidy up turned into a full scale take everything off the shelves including lots of stationary, jigsaws, books etc that had got muddled in. Everything much better organised now and much less dust.
💭And some nice memories came back while I was sorting through the stuff.
🌧️ I didn’t think we’d had that much rain but evidently it has been enough to half fill the water butt.
4 August 2026
🚲My bike service was done super fast!
👕Going to put the washing on the line and finding it was already there.
🔌The super long extension cable that lets me keep working in the garden longer than the laptop battery does.
3 August 2026
🌸Petals blowing around me while I’m sitting in the garden.
🚲 Bike dropped off at the workshop for a much needed service.
🥵Managing to get stuff done despite the heat.
1 August 2026
🌧️ The outdoor sofa cushions were too wet to sit in this morning. Given how little rain we’ve had this was a good thing.
😠 My family who put up with me being a grumpy bugger all day for no good reason.
😊 I have cheered up a bit this evening.
