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31 July 2003

what is the web’s favourite colour? i’m off to find something alarmingly purple to photograph and send in…

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(or when I last remembered to update it at least).

3 Good Things for 21 June 2026

🌺Coming across a bright and beautiful field of poppies by the cycle path.

☕️Remembered to use up one of my free reward point coffees before I paid for it.

🍞 Cleaned a small mountain of crumbs out of the toaster.

plus 586 (actually 1758) more in the

  • 👍good things archives.

Blog Posts

  • 🗓️2025 in Board Games (Jan 2026)
  • 🗓️2025 in Books (Jan 2026)
  • 🗓️Coffeeneuring 2025 (Nov 2025)
  • 🗓️Civolution & Sanctuary (Nov 2025)
  • 🗓️Emberleaf & Tea Garden (Oct 2025)

There have been 1170 posts find them in

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Books

Here are some books I read recently

  • 📚Love and Friendship by Alison Lurie (June 2026)
  • 📚Same As It Ever Was by Claire Lombardo (June 2026)
  • 📚Deadman's Pool by Kate Rhodes (June 2026)
  • 📚Ink Ribbon Red by Alex Pavesi (June 2026)
  • 📚The Astral Library by Kate Quinn (May 2026)
  • 📚Grey Stones by Joss Stirling (May 2026)
  • 📚Red House by Joss Stirling (May 2026)
  • 📚Kin by Tayari Jones (May 2026)

Plus all 1400 books can be found

  • ✍️listed by Author
  • 📆by the Year I read them

Other book pages are my 🔖Five Book Club and ❓Not Actually Series.

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