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July 27, 2020
It’s Got To Be Prefect TWTW # 87
On Wednesday morning I wrote in my diary that work was a bit sparse. That afternoon I was asked to do something at short notice. A few hours work, but a few hours of paid work. Funny how things work out.
Other than that little work blip my week has been split between sorting out things at my Mum’s house, doing chores at my own house and a little bit of creative time, dog walks and the allotment. That said I’m not sure where the week went Monday morning quickly became Sunday evening.
I found my ...
July 20, 2020
Annual Trip, New Procedure TWTW # 86
Well hello again, welcome!
It’s been a busy week for me, there seems to have been lots happening, some of it important and some less so but it has filled the time.
We had a trip to the vets for annual check-ups and vaccinations. You no longer go into the practice, but let them know that you’ve arrived via the reception window and then when it’s your turn the vet comes out to the car park to see you. If needed they then take your pet inside for whatever treatment is required. This of course pre-s...
July 13, 2020
Zoomed Out with Blank Exposures TWTW # 85
Hello! Another week has passed and here I am again, writing about what I’ve been up to in the past week.
I had both the roll of film I sent off for developing and some new rolls of film arrive on the same day this week. There should be plenty of more photos to come as I expose each of these rolls. I’m going to use another different camera on the next roll.
The roll that was developed was a little bit disappointing however. Not because some of the pictures weren’t good, but because I only ended ...
July 12, 2020
Book Review: Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
My Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars
This is a beautiful book, a joyous book but also a sad and thought provoking book. It is also possibly the best book that I will read this year, and I look forward to owning my own copy when it is published later this year.
This is a collection of stories from childhood through to adulthood and every place in between, stories from the UK and around the world. Each one is wonderful and unique in it’s own right and yet as a collection I don’t think I’ve ever come across...
July 7, 2020
Book Review: The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes
The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Line That Divide Us by Nick Hayes
My Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
We’ve probably all done it, whether our transgression has been inadvertent or deliberate but we’ve all been somewhere we shouldn’t have actually been I’d wager.
In the Book of Trespass, Nick Hayes sets out to document some of his adventures trespassing and the laws that surround this “crime”, whether it be from The Vagrancy Act, The Enclosures Act or the building of Walls such as the Great Wall of Ch...
July 6, 2020
It’ll Come In Handy One Day TWTW # 84
Well it’s been one of those weeks this week, where I’ve been pretty occupied, but in some ways don’t feel like I’ve gotten very far – see below.
The weather has also played a big part in that with the week bookended by spells of rain, that has meant I haven’t had to go out and water the allotment. My ankle is grateful for this as it’s still a bit sore and I’ve been trying not to spend too much time walking about on it.
I’ve been sorting through a lot of things at my Mum’s house this week. I’m ...
July 1, 2020
Book Review: Walks With Sam by David W. Berner
My Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars.
Sam is a dog. A black golden doodle and on his walks with his owner David the two of them discover not just their local neighbourhood but also their feelings about it and some of the things that are going on in it.
This is no epic travel piece, it is a more sedate, local amble or series of ambles around Sam and David’s local “patch” which they discover they don’t know as well as they thought but by the end of the book know it and themselves much better.
This is a wel...
June 29, 2020
Bit Twisted TWTW # 83
Hello again! This week started with a lot of promise of getting stuff done, and then on Wednesday morning I twisted my ankle and getting stuff done was restricted to what I could do sitting on my bum with my foot up. I don’t think I’ve done any serious damage, a bit of swelling is all I really have to show for it and painkillers keep most of the discomfort at bay. It has meant though that dog walks have been shorter or limited to the garden and I wasn’t able to drive for a few days.
It also mean...
June 21, 2020
Emotionally Draining TWTW # 82
Hello! If you’re one of the new subscribers who have joined this week, welcome. This is my weekly post (The Week That Was), which is a review of what I’ve been up to in the previous week, or at least as much of it as I can remember.
This last week ranks as probably one of the most emotionally draining weeks of my life. I write the intro to these posts last and this weeks is a little bit shorter than normal because of what’s been going on – details below.
On Tuesday of this week my Mum went into...
June 14, 2020
Making It Up As They Go Along TWTW # 81
It’s been a busy week. I’ve mostly been working on personal projects and doing family things.
It seems to be as though social distancing has gone by the wayside however as the lockdown has been relaxed people seem to be making their own rules rather than following the government’s advice. Possibly they are acting on their instincts like Dominic Cummings did all those weeks ago. I don’t know, but it certainly feels like the government has lost control of the response to this crisis and is making...
