Posts from 2026-09.
30 September 2026
😎The slant of afternoon sunlight in the sky after a rain shower.
🍫 The secondhand book I’m reading somehow smells chocolatey and nice. It’s of an age where you brace yourself for the smell of smoke so it’s quite a pleasant surprise!
🧀 Crispy bits of melted cheese.
27 September 2026
🪡 Made 5.5m of bias binding tape which is about four times the amount I need, but better than not enough and I can find other uses for it.
🎽The gadget thingy that folds the tape for you is a very neat design and very useful.
🌧️ I got soaked through riding my bike (mostly a bad thing) but being able to dry off when I got home, put my pyjamas on and declare myself done with the outside world for the day was good.
26 September 2026
🦆Watching the river birds take off and pretty much walk across the water.
🧼Cleaned the kitchen floor.
🏊🏻♀️ I was the only person in the pool for a bit. I did apologise to the lifeguard for making him work.
24 September 2026
🐰 Finding some Peter Rabbit stickers in Aldi.
🎲 Have finally got the offspring hooked on BoardGameArena.
🛝Made some progress towards doing a thing that needs doing. Feels like a mental obstacle course. Posting this mostly to encourage myself to climb the next bit tomorrow.
23 September 2026
🍁A mild and sunny but autumnal kind of an afternoon.
📖Sat reading in the Roman Gardens for a bit, and a Roman came by and started telling me all about latrines very loudly, which rather put me off my book. (It was a walking tour I just happened to get an earful of, but quite funny.)
🚽 Modern toilets are great!
17 September 2026
🚊Boarded the train with seconds to spare. (There’d be another in 15 mins but it’s nice to have a smooth journey.)
🚲Joined a couple of hundred other cyclists for a protest against the Merseyrail ebike ban. A good turnout.
🧺Coming home to a basket of freshly laundered clothes.
14 September 2026
🌊Spent a fab few days with the offspring returning them (more or less) to their uni life.
🏖️It’s still nice enough to work in the garden, I even had to retrieve the parasol from the shed.
🍓 I ate what was probably the last home grown strawberry of the summer and it was the most delicious.
6 September 2026
👩🏻💻Learning by reading other people’s code. (Emphasis on the ‘people’.)
💷 Got a cheap deal on some last minute outdoor theatre tickets yesterday and we had a nice evening out.
🍕I’d worried we’d miss out on interval pizzas because the last minuteness made it too late to pre-order but we were able to get them.
3 September 2026
😻We played back to back games of Calico to the sound of the cat snoring.
📖 Sat reading in the park for a while.
✂️ Got the fabric for a top cut out today.
2 September 2026
👩🏻💻Realised I could generalise the thing I was building to make it more useful.
✂️ Cut out a sewing pattern for a t-shirt.
🫖 Being brought a cup of tea.
1 September 2026
🚿 Cleaned both the shower heads out, and got them screwed back on ok as well. It was definitely procrasti-cleaning but it needed doing.
🌳 Sitting outside to work again after a few rainy days.
👩🏻🍳I did lots of baking yesterday so there was good low effort eating today.
