hiccups
scientists have some more ideas on why we get hiccups. but it doesn’t really look like they are any closer to answering the question. or to figuring out how to stop the damn things.
3 Good Things for 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.
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Blog Posts
- 🗓️Instagram Import (Jul 2026)
- 🗓️2025 in Board Games (Jan 2026)
- 🗓️2025 in Books (Jan 2026)
- 🗓️Coffeeneuring 2025 (Nov 2025)
- 🗓️Civolution & Sanctuary (Nov 2025)
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Books
Here are some books I read recently
- 📚Love and Other Crimes by Sara Paretsky (Aug 2026)
- 📚The Millstone by Margaret Drabble (Aug 2026)
- 📚Inside the Box by David Epstein (Aug 2026)
- 📚Howards End by E M Forster (Aug 2026)
- 📚Love Lane by Patrick Gale (Jul 2026)
- 📚Beloved by Toni Morrison (Jul 2026)
- 📚The Trouble With Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon (Jul 2026)
- 📚What We Cannot Know by Marcus du Sautoy (Jul 2026)
Plus all 1412 books can be found
Other book pages are my 🔖Five Book Club and ❓Not Actually Series.
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I'm creating photo posts on the site (mostly by importing them back from Instagram).
Canalside Trail (Aug 2026)Plus all 654 photoposts can be found
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