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    Learnt some knots while listening to the first half of the football

    Square leash knot joining two perpendicular garden poles.Shear lashing knot joining to parallel garden poles.

    Last day of the Premier League season. Last day of FPL. Actually looking forward to a break from it all and switching my attention to cricket for the summer ⚽️🏏

    Football shirts laid out in formation of a football team in 3-4-3 formation. This is the lineup of my Fantasy Premier League team today. Starting XI: De Gea, Trippier, Gabriel, Alexander-Arnold, Fernandes, Mahrez, Gakpo, Eze, Kane (captain), Wilson, Watkins. Substitutes: Iversen, Mitoma, Andersen, Dunk.

    Work in progress

    External breeze block wall with flaking paint and bare patches in the centre. Painting in progress from left to right with clear line marking done and not done. Open paint can in view on a low brick wall.

    My lunchtime treat after running a workshop all morning is another episode of Voyager

    I used to import my letterboxd reviews to micro.blog. I switched it off recently but want to revert back now. My question… will it duplicate old posts when I do that?

    Oh I do like to be beside the seaside…

    Looking out to sea over sand and rock pools. Dark blue sea blends into a bright blue sky on a sunny day.White lighthouse tower with weather vane on it’s roof against a bright blue sky.

    Favourite tree looking glorious in the morning sun

    Camera looking upwards into canopy of multicoloured leaves overhead. Blue sky just visible through the gaps

    Birdwatch: Saw my first swift of the year in the park this morning. Yet to see the house martins return to the terrace though

    Finished reading: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 📚

    Should have trusted my judgment and skipped this one. Me and Ishiguro don’t get on. The start was promising but after half way I was just waiting for it to be over.

    Finished reading: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 📚

    Subtle yet powerful, a gem of a book 💎

    Managed to score some tickets to next year’s World Championship snooker. Already looking forward to it 🤩

    Finished reading: Ghost Town by Patrick McGrath 📚

    Not really much to say about this collection. The stories clipped along but didn’t really move me in any direction.

    Excited for the big showdown in the women’s Six Nations today. Think it could be close 😬

    Finished reading: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr 📚

    I really enjoyed this. The evidence is how fast I read it - just a couple of weeks is record breaking for me for a book over 500 pages

    We received two huge Easter eggs in the post with no note to say who they are from. I’ve got it into my head that I can’t eat mine until I know who it is from. Now I’m in a battle with myself. Who will win… my stubbornness or my inner chocoholic?

    Taking some time off over the past week has given me some space to think about what each of my blogs is for. Not being clear on this is one of the many reasons I've not been publishing much lately. Think I've got it sorted now and I'm looking forward to getting into a bit of spring cleaning

    We took advantage of a break in the clouds this morning and beat the rain. I think Aggie enjoyed her first visit to Rising Sun Country Park too

    Small white dog looks out across a large pond towards woodland beyond

    Finished reading: The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper 📚

    Took me a little while to get into this. Lining it up for a re-read later in the year, feel the arrival of Spring didn’t fully allow me to get immersed in the atmosphere of midwinter.

    Day 22: insect #mbmar

    Red admiral butterfly sitting on long grass
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