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I knew there would be a day when all the beer bottle tops I’ve collected over the years would come in handy. It’s poker night and we’ve got chips coming out of our ears
📺 Finished watching Kaleidoscope (2023)
I really enjoyed this series. I watched it in the order suggested by Netflix but I’m really interested to see how it plays out watching the episodes either chronologically or in a different non-chronological order.
Cooking tea tonight was a relay; I started and my wife finished. Somewhere along the way we got our wires crossed and ended up eating both tonight’s meal and tomorrow’s lunch as one dish 😆
It was super windy here last night (80+ km/hr). Saw this on my walk this morning. The sign reads “High Winds. Mixed medium. Artist: Mother Nature (Temporary Installation)”
Went to Whitby to play hockey. We lost. Beaten by a better team on the day. Fish and chips and a pint as a consolation prize
Finished reading: Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing 📚
As with every other book I’ve read by Olivia Laing I’ve come away with a list of artists and authors, and their work, to follow up on.
TIL about the role of a Chief Evangelist. Sounds a bit icky to me.
Finished reading: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern 📚
Woah 🤯 The perfect holiday read, I’ve devoured this over the past few days.
Question about importing feeds (eg Letterboxd) to microblog; will it pull in existing entries or just those published after the feed is added?
A walk at the coast was a great way to start the day (and year)
Finished reading in 2022: Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake 📚
Finishing up the Gormenghast trilogy. I was really surprised just how much I enjoyed it and how long the characters have stayed with me. Really want to re-watch the BBC TV adaptation.
Finished reading in 2022: The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz 📚
Finished reading in 2022: Roseanna (The Martin Beck series, Book 1) by Maj Sjöwall 📚
It’s difficult to tell whether the functional language of this was due to the author’s style or the translation to English. Either way, I found it’s starkness compelling and a good addition to the atmosphere of the story.
Finished reading in 2022: Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver 📚
I’ve read a couple of other books by Kingsolver which, while I enjoyed I found overly descriptive. This was both an easy and enjoyable read.
Making Yorkshire puddings tonight with a new recipe and a new tin. What could possibly go wrong 🤞
Finished reading: Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Level 6 by John le Carré 📚
This might have been my first le Carré but it won’t be my last.
Wondered why I was seeing a flurry of finished book posts. Thought it might be that reading is a microbloggers main activity during twixtmas, but now reassessing as I realise there’s books I need to log in order to add them to my 2022 reading list 😆
Finished reading: The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed 📚
Read this on my summer holiday. Thought it was excellent, more so because I knew nothing about it before reading so had a surprise towards the end.
Currently reading: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern 📚
I’m always mildly disappointed when the covers available in Epilogue don’t match the edition that I’m reading 😢
📺 Just finished watching 1899. It started out as compelling viewing but just after halfway it started to get more and more ridiculous. Kinda frustrating really