#3GoodThings 🍬 Put my rain jacket on for the first time in months and found a packet of chocolate eclairs in the pocket (the toffee sort, not the fresh cream sort!) 🚲 Got to the cat food shop and back before the rain started. 🐾 Released my first animals into a wildlife reserve in Planet Zoo 2 […]

I was expecting to miss out on a #coffeeneuring ride this weekend as my bike was at the shop. But then it was ready to pick up on Saturday so I took a wild and windy spin by the sea and then had a recovery hot chocolate before getting the train home. So I got a […] [Original post on social.lol]

#3GoodThings 🔌The problem with my bike was diagnosed to be the charger and now I have a new one. 🚲The kids who shouted out "Wheelie?" as I rode past them. That's beyond my capabilities but I was glad not to be dismissed out of hand. 🌬️I picked the right direction to ride in, when I tried to […]

#3GoodThings 🧑🏻‍🔧The bike shop mechanic was very friendly. 🔌 And he thought the problem with my bike was most likely cable or charger related (cheap-ish) rather than battery related (expensive). 🛍️Impromptu shopping trip where we both got what we wanted (and cheap).

#3GoodThings 👁️ Got my eyes tested and all was well and my prescription hasn't changed much. 📕 Went to the coffee shop and ignored the world and read for a bit. 🌀Walked up the winding spiral paths through the park rather than the steps straight up the middle, it was oddly soothing.

September #reading was a bit of a comedown after a great summer of #books but I still got four finished which is fine by me. I'm happy not to have ground to a halt. I only got two books finished last September so I guess this is double that even if it's dropping a […] [Original post on social.lol]

I'd been looking out for a book by the "queen of spy writers" for a while and picked up _The Venetian Affair_ by Helen MacInnes in a second hand bookshop. It had the worst cover art. It also has a list of characters so long that I really struggled to keep them […] [Original post on social.lol]

#3GoodThings 🫖 Finding an emergency tea bag supply in the back of the cupboard just when I thought the day was going to be an irretrievable loss. 🥛 I remembered to buy milk on the way home so there can be more tea. 🌅 Watching the super pink sunset reflected in every window down the street.

#3GoodThings 🌞 It's been a perfect sunny day. 👑The sheriff came with us on our Critical Mass bike ride. (Here that's a ceremonial mayor-ish kind of role, not the police.) 📖 I spent ages reading outside by the cathedral, then finished my book in the library.

I finally got around to #sewing up some of the fabric I bought at the Festival of Quilts at the end of July and I'm super pleased with how this t-shirt came out. I was trying to emulate a shop bought t-shirt that I really like and this turned out better than I […] [Original post on social.lol]

September has been the second biggest month of the year for #BoardGames for me. I think the offspring suddenly wanting to play games in the few days before heading back to uni made the difference. Our double Calico morning seems a long time ago now. Quick notes […] [Original post on social.lol]

#3GoodThings 😎The slant of afternoon sunlight in the sky after a rain shower. 🍫 The secondhand book I'm reading somehow smells chocolatey and nice. It's of an age where you brace yourself for the smell of smoke so it's quite a pleasant surprise! 🧀 Crispy bits of melted cheese.

#3GoodThings 🪡 Made 5.5m of bias binding tape which is about four times the amount I need, but better than not enough and I can find other uses for it. 🎽The gadget thingy that folds the tape for you is a very neat design and very useful. 🌧️ I got soaked through riding my bike (mostly a bad […]

We stayed out later than we intended to having fun, 🍺 🍷 🍕 🍛 in the city. My partner realised his front bike light wasn’t charged so we decided to ride home together carefully along the pavements. Obviously we’re courteous and stop and give way to pedestrians when they appear. The biggest problem […]

#3GoodThings 🦆Watching the river birds take off and pretty much walk across the water. 🧼Cleaned the kitchen floor. 🏊🏻‍♀️ I was the only person in the pool for a bit. I did apologise to the lifeguard for making him work.

This is the weirdest phishing attempt I've ever seen: Visited a website on my mac and a captcha style popover appeared asking me to press "command-space" to open Spotlight, type in "Terminal" then press "command-v" before pressing the "verified" button. So I get […] [Original post on social.lol]

#3GoodThings 🐰 Finding some Peter Rabbit stickers in Aldi. 🎲 Have finally got the offspring hooked on BoardGameArena. 🛝Made some progress towards doing a thing that needs doing. Feels like a mental obstacle course. Posting this mostly to encourage myself to climb the next bit tomorrow.

#3GoodThings 🍁A mild and sunny but autumnal kind of an afternoon. 📖Sat reading in the Roman Gardens for a bit, and a Roman came by and started telling me all about latrines very loudly, which rather put me off my book. (It was a walking tour I just happened to get an earful of, but quite funny […]

I hadn't heard of _The Safekeep_ by Yael van der Wouden until my partner recommended it to me as he finished reading it. I guess I haven't been paying attention since it won the Women's Prize last year and was also Booker shortlisted. But I prefer a personal […] [Original post on social.lol]

#3GoodThings 🚊Boarded the train with seconds to spare. (There'd be another in 15 mins but it's nice to have a smooth journey.) 🚲Joined a couple of hundred other cyclists for a protest against the Merseyrail ebike ban. A good turnout. 🧺Coming home to a basket of freshly laundered clothes.

I was expecting _The Lifeline_ by Libby Page to be a pretty lightweight feel good read; and it was but it was also unexpectedly good at dealing with how tedious new motherhood can be and the darker side of mental health problems. The characters came alive when […] [Original post on social.lol]

#3GoodThings @3goodthings 🌊Spent a fab few days with the offspring returning them (more or less) to their uni life. 🏖️It's still nice enough to work in the garden, I even had to retrieve the parasol from the shed. 🍓 I ate what was probably the last home grown strawberry of the summer and it […]

I picked up _Saoirse_ by Charleen Hurtubise after reading @alicemcalicepants's review of it, and it was great! It was a really captivating and human story about a teenager fleeing to Ireland on a stolen passport and then building up a life that threatens to come […] [Original post on social.lol]

#3GoodThings 👩🏻‍💻Learning by reading other people's code. (Emphasis on the 'people'.) 💷 Got a cheap deal on some last minute outdoor theatre tickets yesterday and we had a nice evening out. 🍕I'd worried we'd miss out on interval pizzas because the last minuteness made it too late to pre-order […]

I'm really pleased that I read a ton in August! Going away on a proper holiday for the first time in a while very much assisted me with getting seven books finished during the month. Last year I only got one finished in August and I feel much more like myself when […] [Original post on social.lol]

I picked up _The Lie of the Land_ by Amanda Craig mostly because it had a puff from Alison Lurie on the back. I found it a frustratingly inconsistent look at modern Britain through the eyes of a divorcing couple who leave London for Devon. Written in 2017 it's […] [Original post on social.lol]

#3GoodThings 😻We played back to back games of Calico to the sound of the cat snoring. 📖 Sat reading in the park for a while. ✂️ Got the fabric for a top cut out today.

#3GoodThings 👩🏻‍💻Realised I could generalise the thing I was building to make it more useful. ✂️ Cut out a sewing pattern for a t-shirt. 🫖 Being brought a cup of tea.

I’m quite impressed with getting the same number of #BoardGames plays in August as I did in July. During my holiday I missed my regular monthly day of big games but the offspring being home meant I got a few extras in. I bought expansions for both the two top […] [Original post on social.lol]

#3GoodThings 🚿 Cleaned both the shower heads out, and got them screwed back on ok as well. It was definitely procrasti-cleaning but it needed doing. 🌳 Sitting outside to work again after a few rainy days. 👩🏻‍🍳I did lots of baking yesterday so there was good low effort eating today.