Happenings Again, this is double entry, so it covers two weeks I think. Most of it was just work though. Had my parents round for TV and video games. My dad was too tired to make progress on his game, so he watched me play Nier: Automata, a game he seemed very impressed by. We bought a cheap record player stand. I had tried to build one myself (more like a riser to sit the turntable on so the amp could go underneath), but, well, it turns out carpentry is hard. Even after making perfect cuts,…

The first week of October 2026 saw me making the long haul up the M1/A1 to Newcastle for my first visit in many a year. Lower league football on Saturday had tempted me in this direction, with plenty of time to explore Tyneside on Thursday and Friday. Not nearly long enough, I quickly found out.After a side-mission to Swalwell Lidl's on instructions to pick up a Bavarian beer box before they all sold out, I made it into the city centre and negotiated the narrow ramps of the Travelodge Central…

I’ve recently gotten into swapping art with people. This is through the Reddit Print Exchange, Postcards from Afar and Postcrossing. In the latter case, quite a few people have requested photos of trams. Well, we have a tram here, so I thought I’d go out, shoot a roll of film and see what I could come up with. The photo above isn’t a technical wonder but it’s the one I keep coming back to for some reason. I wish it had a foot or so more breathing room to the left, but that’s life. I was already…

A desire path is an unofficial route, or trail, worn into the ground by the repeated passage of people or animals. In the urban landscape, a desire path will be worn where a carefully planned, but perhaps convoluted, footpath takes the long way round, and people simply cut that aesthetic route short. Desire paths can occur even where no path exists at all and that is usually true with the paths wild animals create in their landscape. The obvious rhetorical question is why follow that winding…

Most people think trading means you need to be active. You sit in front of several screens, watch every price move, and buy and sell stocks all day. I do the opposite. Sure, I follow the market every day. I read earnings reports, look at charts, and track companies. But I don’t trade daily. My goal is to find one or two good opportunities a year. That’s all. That also means that I don’t find any opportunities most of that time. That’s fine because my long-term investments keep compounding in…

Yes, ''Horrors' is a bit strong, mildly enduring maybe? I didn’t find - or haven't, there's still a week or so, but it's already being concentrated to one or two shelves/tables, to make way for the Christmas merchandise - found much Halloween stuff this year, but there are a few bits to look at, and some bits from across the pond, to come. Not much in Hobbycraft beyond the usual craft stuff,

I played a lot of Mahjong this week - and not really on purpose... it just kinda happened lol. The week was actually weirdly productive and I locked the fuck in at work. I also picked up some AirPods Pro 4 kinda ... on a whim to help me lock in better in the office + for when I run. But like otherwise,,, it was kinda a lowkey week. We had some1 over, and we played sanma Mahjong w them - beginner game but still fun! On the weekend we did a big group dinner with a bunch of the homies and ALSO on…

We have been in a stretch of perfect autumnal weather: chilly nights, clear days, before the time change so we still have plenty of time to enjoy this perfect October time. As I drove down the Cumberland Highway on Saturday, I was struck by how many small towns had piled pumpkins around the "Welcome to ______ " signs. Pumpkins and hay bales and perhaps a scarecrow that wouldn't scare a soul.It's not the perfect leaf viewing season, however. Yesterday I stood on the back deck and stared up at…

The less said about the week leading up to the weekend, the better. Things did massively improve once Saturday was around. A lot of good company, food and drink, what more does one need? (Maybe a coffee. I just got up. And that’s why this one is very short.) Reply by email

Week notes, week 1342 / 2026-10-11 Immediately after complaining that my room and mental is a mess in the last week notes, per long-standing tradition of this blog, I proceeded to clean up the whole room and some of the house 😁 Mental is still a bit of a mess, though; feeling overwhelmed, which I'd say calls for a day off next week. Had a really nice video game session with a friend on the weekend; just sitting next to each other while I was escaping the Skyblock:Zero Abyss and he was building…

An unwelcome cold and wet week here in athens, schools and ferries were closed on wednesday for the storm. I spent that evening bailing out and mopping up a friends flooded basement, all the apartment block denizens pitched in and after a few hours we got it dry. The temperature dropping as low as 14ºC forced me on to vinted to buy a raincoat and jumper, actions that have spurred the weather to return to a v pleasant 21ºC and sunny for the foreseeable. Thus apart from the mopping I spent pretty…

17 years ago I led one of my first residential singing weekends. The theme was the Beach Boys. Beach Boys singing weekend, September 2009, Farncombe Estate The other weekend, I was in Derbyshire leading another of my (rare) Beach Boys weekends. It got me thinking about all the things that have happened since 2009. Three of the singers who came in 2009 also came to my recent weekend. Apart from the obvious — we all looked 17 years older! — what else has changed? Here are seven things that came…

After we finished Frozen, I encouraged R to have a little tactical nap on the sofa so we could stay up for Bonfire. Like all the local towns, Hastings DOES bonfire. It times it around the 1066 celebrations (Come for the Costumes; Stay for the [checks notes] Costumes!). It was our first at any of them. We saw the Rookies parade first, and joined the members in front of a small bonfire setup in the shadow of the big one. R loved that. We then ambled down to America Grounds (via Maker + Baker) to…

A nice day but wind a bit cool. Did the office and the outside T. Cut a good bit of wood for the incin. Cleaned both jets and teps T.* Brushed up round bins. (*Just guessing what this says. Could be TEP5 7 but that doesn’t make much sense either.)

Ridgeline subscribers — Oh, hello. I made a notebook: ⬤. You can buy it here. I didn’t mean to make a notebook but, you see, I had no choice. A couple of years ago the Japanese edition of Kissa by Kissa came out. While iterating over materials and size, a handful of blank so-called “dummy books” were made. They were sitting around my studio. Earlier this year I used one as a notebook. Goddamn, I thought, this is a nice notebook. Not perfect, but almost. When I used up the first dummy I grabbed…

9718/21637I love a good mystery as much as anyone and the crazy straws that some mystery hunters grab at. Occasionally the crazy straws prove to be correct, like when Richard III was found buried in a car park with an R painted above where he lay (though Turi King who was on that dig told me that that bit isn't true). Hey, it's great if someone finally solves something in that way and I remain excited by that whole tale.

Whew! Another club reading week has flashed past, and what fun it’s been! I’ve so enjoyed reading books from what turned out to be a stellar year, despite a couple of slight misses for me. It’s also been wonderful to hear about what everyone else has been reading, and thanks for all your support for the club and for sharing your reads. I’m still catching up with reading your posts and linking to them, so please do leave a comment on the 1949 page if I’ve missed you – a kind of ‘flu-like bug…

It’s not every day that you get to see model railways built my people you truly admire, so I was excited to see Gordon and Maggie Gravett’s wonderful Port de Crozon…I have admired their projects from afar for many years and was lucky enough to see the previous French layout at a show a few years ago… I may have seen Arun Key in the flesh too but certainly if I did it wasn’t up close… despite this until this weekend I had never met them both!Stood in front of Port de Crozon yesterday Gordon…

The other week I was trudging through laps around the court I live on, and a neighbor yelled across the court, first “HI” and I yelled “HI” right back and then he yelled, “THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF THE YEAR!” So I asked why it was the best day of the year, and trudged a little closer to hear him better even though he was still yelling, “BECAUSE IT’S THE DAY THE CHEMISTRY NOBEL IS ANNOUNCED.” I’ve known this neighbor since he first moved here, buying his first house, he and his wife having their…

October 19, 2026 So, in essence, this is the same post as I did on Friday. No clashing accent colors, but still starting with a scarf and wearing lots of brown. Many of the same garments and accessories. My goal here is to make it really clear that a handful of basic garments, and a handful of excellent accessories, can look distinctive, even if the clothes don’t change a lot. And I know it must feel like I show brown every other day, but this is the first winter in just about FOREVER that…

Here's a fun pair from the summer of '62! Starting with this view of a family enjoying lunch in Frontierland. I'm not really sure which restaurant they visited, but one of YOU will know. Some of the guests have a tired, "over it" look, but I suppose they've just been caught off guard. The boy is going to enjoy his gourmet hamburger - extra-dry, just the way he likes it.For a complete change, how about a house... OF THE FUTURE?!? Once you stepped inside, gravity vanished and guests floated…

Hands Across The Table (1935)

News from Bus Stop M (part 2) Disability campaigners are seeking to close Bus Stop M because it's too dangerous. And not just Bus Stop M but all floating bus stops, that's those with a cycle lane between the main pavement and the kerb. A leading charity has demanded that floating bus stops be scrapped in London – and that it is only a matter of time until someone is killed. The National Federation of the Blind of the UK have been campaigning against the schemes for years, claiming that they are…

Years ago I read The Revenge of Analog which was ahead of it's time. It showed the resurgence in analog consumption of content, from vinyl to books, Sax took readers through why these analog mediums connect with us in a way that digital never can. I had hoped that this book would be a good continuation of the previous book, but it's not really that despite the theme being similar. In this book Sax walks us through seven different things that were supposed to be disrupted by the all digital…

In my room the bed is upside down in the ceiling, that is how I prefer it. There are no windows in the stone wall of the fortress tower. It is warm in there, comfortable. The shelves along the wall reaches infinity, filled trinkets, machines, books and good-to-haves. Everything I want, need, and desire always where I look and when I need them. In here I can moce, desire as I want. In here, nobody is ever allowed.

i'll probably want to start some sort of project again with the start of the new year - not really sure yet what, or how intensive. but since i've been working quite hard this year on tarot, contentment, supportive habits, curbing online/impulsive/emotional shopping, limiting internet etc, i thought after the end of this current experiment i might want to try and completely let go of the reins until the end of the year. not completely undo my progress - i'm still going to hold on to those…

And that skill is BRUSH MAPPING... I'm extremely bad at it... In these last few pictures, you might see that I am currently trying to make one of those converted industrial spaces you see on the west side of LA, and it's not going well... Some shapes are just pretty unfriendly for patches I guess... I need to get stronger... I'm using Dark Radiant, the same tool that my husband uses on Blendo games. I am learning this partially for my own amusement but also partially to have basic ability to…

Towns hold what people were, and when a town lets things go, the signs are physical. Those I can photograph. When I do it well, the viewer may feel a blissful melancholy. I drive to Denton, Texas, often. I go to some area I’ve walked a hundred times and try to find something new. It’s a good game. In the end, I pick up fajitas at Ambro’s Taqueria and come home with one or two keepers. This rent house near Texas Woman’s University says a lot, and yet... that pink rake has probably been put away…

Hello, my friends! Welcome to a new blog post. Yes, as you can see, I’m still writing. Old habits die hard, but all kidding a side salad, I enjoy the challenge of attempting to write less (and shut the fuck up and be less of an online blowhard) with, well, a desire to share a life in menswear. After all, I still want to do my part in showing that one can indeed make “menswear content” that isn’t just reccos, PR, or some form of “founder marketing”. After all, I just tend to have a lot of…

Different trips, different stoves, and different tools for different jobs. An updated look at the backpacking stoves in our quiver. Read More ... Continue reading The Quiver: Our Backpacking Stoves in 2026 at PMags.com.