Friday film night plan You know that thing where you’re told you can’t have something and then that thing becomes the thing you most want even if that thing is something you have never had before? For me now, that thing is hot dogs as part of my cinema-going nostalgia. I have never had hot […]
Before I am, apparently, an autumn-colours person, a warm yellow-based palette with a degree of black and including orange. Surely, on that basis alone, orange paint is the way forward. One side of our living room is a bright, distinctive green, the rest of the walls and ceilings are white with brown splodges. The splodges
For the past month, having previously only ever had video chats with my partner, I have been video chatting with friends on an almost daily basis. Most of us hadn’t even had a phone conversation in at least ten years, yet somehow we’ve bypassed phones and gone straight to video. I have seen more ceilings,
“Why don’t you just switch off your television set and go out and do something less boring instead?” If your childhood television viewing wasn’t between 1973 and 1995, you are unlikely to be singing along to that. “Why Don’t You …?” was a children’s television series presented by children based in different parts of the
For the past week, for the first extended period of time since January 2016, I have not been counting my daily steps. I feel a mix of guilt, loss and relief. This was not a plan, however; I lost my Fitbit. In those four years and three months, Fitbit tells me I’ve done 23.6 million
Before It’s 9.56 am and I’ve just had a flick through The Art Journal Workshop by Traci Bunkers. I bought this book many years ago because the artwork looked interesting and kind of scrapbook-y. I didn’t fully appreciate that “visual journalling” is a thing, so I may have to spend some time working out whether
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