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They just keep coming, all these months. Unrelenting, if you ask me. I don't want to spend a lot of time being sad in people's inboxes, but if you're curious you can see everything I've been up to this month. It's been quite busy actually. There was a big storm, and Tabitha got soaked by the waves. Befries is back so we went and had fries, and pizza, in one day. The dog's behaviour has been getting a lot better lately, which is welcome. He's still so annoying in some ways, but he can be so cute…

Not sick of looking at water and rocks yet, if you're keeping count.97 words · 1 more image

It's amazing what you can find on the ceiling of a sports hall.24 words · 1 image

Love a nice diagonal line.5 words · 1 image

Took Sven to the airport early this morning, and on my way back the light over the hills was pretty lovely so I stopped the car to take a picture.189 words · 1 image

We went up to a car boot sale this morning. The light was absolutely perfect for me to spend an hour trying to rip Martin Parr off.103 words · 14 more images

We took a boat trip around Rampion wind farm today. I have wanted to do that for years.108 words · 11 more images

Sven and I went to RSPB Pulborough Brooks to go and look at some birds. There was a lot of birds, but I have come to expect that from RSPB reserves.251 words · 12 more images

Sven's over for a few days visiting, taking pictures, watching movies. We love it when Sven visits.292 words · 15 more images

Absolutely shocking day today, but Julia brought these Victor NCS Max to the session this evening. I have wanted to play with them for ages but they're so difficult to get hold of.102 words · 1 image

I forgot to bring a camera with me every time I left the boundary of our house today: school run, dog walk, supermarket, school run. I'm sure I missed some essential scenes.50 words · 1 image

All the songbirds were very skittish this morning but our local magpie was out for a stroll and a sniff of the flowers.23 words · 1 image

You know that meme where someone's like "come on! come quickly! look at the cat" and the cat is just sitting there normally? That's us with Friday.92 words · 1 image

Went out for a long walk with the dog and got basically nothing. Some days I guess it's going to be like that!56 words · 1 image

Because it's 2026, I was sitting in the kitchen, instructing Claude on a couple of tasks. Tabitha came and sat next to me for a bit, then after a while asked "is this your job?".143 words · 1 image

Tabitha had a badminton session at the uni this evening. We brought the dog and went for a walk. It was very pleasant.73 words · 5 more images

Hyde posted about this a while ago and I wanted to give it time to percolate.792 words

...the blossom petals are falling to the ground. We could talk about poetic things, or we could talk about how I'm going to be cleaning them off the car for the next month.741 words · 1 image

The dog loves a bit of sun. Sudo used to do this, too; lie in the sun then get up and move as the sun moves. Pretty amusing.28 words · 1 image

People's trees are kicking off and I am here for it.49 words · 4 more images

The dog has taken to coming and sitting between my feet when I stand still. It's very cute, and only occasionally irritating.33 words · 1 image

The pain in my lower back is way worse this morning so I'm reluctantly taking it easy today.51 words · 1 image

Learned about Detroit Club during the week, and have had a hankerin' for Detroit-style ever since. Then we learned that Befries is back.155 words · 2 more images

I am easy to buy for. Model racecar. Any sport, any size, any era. Apparently made from Kit-Kat is also fine.77 words · 1 image

For a week off, it's been rather hectic, so I went for a dogless walk on the marina-wall this morning. The sea was so calm.78 words · 5 more images

Lots of badminton this afternoon so went for a nice long walk with the dog.56 words · 11 more images

Coaching a kids' camp this afternoon. Four hours. Quite tiring. Doing it again tomorrow.41 words · 1 image

The cat loves a laser pointer and she can jump pretty high.30 words · 1 image

Charlotte went out with her dad and some family; Tabitha and I took the dog for a walk.49 words · 1 image

I wrote a thing and I was going to post it here, but it started to feel self-centred, and like it might come off like I was trying to elicit sympathy. Saying nothing feels wrong, but saying something doesn't feel right either.So I will just say that my mother-in-law died on Friday night, following a nearly two year battle with lung cancer, having never smoked. Life can be so unnecessarily cruel.