w/e 2026-11-01

I feel like I got stuff done this week, and certainly did spend time on tasks from the list, and ticked them off, and yet my To Do list is now much longer than it was a week ago. I’d say it’s a good thing that I don’t have a job or children, but many of these tasks are probably things I wouldn’t bother doing, or would spend a lot less time on, if I had other commitments. For example, I spent several hours searching through several sites in search of door handles for our forthcoming new doors. One variety we were interested in was difficult because there were so many very slight variations of it. Another (the handles we had in our old flat) were impossible to find, if they still exist. Eventually we narrowed it down to a couple, ordered them, and picked one to order more of. I imagine I would have devoted less time to scouring the internet if I didn’t have so much “free” time. This is just what I’m choosing to do with it. § Less than 48 hours after I wrote last week… The abundance of…