Categorylife
The general parent category for most of the things I write about on here.
One of the more interesting Louisa-centric sub-categories is biodata (where I explore my personal history with graphs, maps and whatnot), and if you’re that way inclined, you can read about the wonderful felines and canines with whom I’ve shared my life too.
A few weeks ago, in those crazy moments between turning off the light and actually falling asleep, I had an idea to make this map as a way of preserving memories: a map of everywhere I’ve spent the night in the UK.
View Places I’ve spent the night in a larger map
I’ll call it an ongoing project because a) I’m not dead yet and will (hopefully) spend the night in other places in my life, and b) I might remember some things I’ve forgotten thus far, but I think it’s pretty complete. (The one major exception at the moment is the location in Wales where I spent my first birthday – got to find our roughly where that was. I suspect there also might be a few more around Merseyside – mum & dad’s friends/family – from when I was very small.)
The pinpoints with a dot in them are precise, the ones without a dot are not as precise either because it’s really hard to pinpoint exactly where it was (such as camping at a festival) or for privacy reasons (nearly all private houses are dropped at the nearest cross-roads). The only one that is inaccurate because I can’t remember exactly where it was is the one in dropped in Hexham – we got a lift from Hexham station to a nearby village, and I don’t think I ever knew what that was called.
The colour of the pins represent how many nights I spent in the location in a nice spectrum- light turquoise-y blue is 1-2 nights, mid-blue is 2-4 nights, deep blue is 5-10 nights, pinky-purple is more than 10 nights and red, a home of less than a year. Long term homes (a year plus) break the nice getting-redder colour sequence and are in green.
From the map, it appears I have never spent a night in Lancashire proper, including Greater Manchester (unusual given the clusters on either side of it), or in Wales apart from when I was very small.
On the off-chance I’ve spent a night at your house, or spent a night with you somewhere I’ve forgotten, do please let me know so I can add it to the map. Either leave a comment or email me.
I very much like the idea of making a hard copy version of this from a big map and a whole lot of coloured pushpins. One day…
- Currently feeling a lot of hate towards uncooperative hsbc fucktards. #
- @strowger78: i'm going to cancel my account with them tomorrow. (partly in annoyance and partly because i don't really use it) #
- @strowger78: really? how come? #
- @strowger78: they're coming for spencer, they heard he was illegally shiny. #
- @Kari_Leeds I actually got something labelled a sleeping bra from m&s a few years ago, so they did exist… #
- @Kari_Leeds: oh she may be doing that too ;) #
- It's clearly the day for animals to stick their tongues out Chez Peach. http://twitpic.com/619ars #
- @katethejuggler: admit it, you love his wattle. #
- @katethejuggler: does he have sexy wattles t #
- @katethejuggler: argh, carla sat on my keyboard. i was going to ask if he had sexy wattles too, naturally :) #
- @fabulousgarne: i don't think you have to say it, just having a favourite frozen yogurt place is enough ;) #
- Since it's Friday afternoon, I'm eating sweeties :) #
- @katethejuggler: fizzy cherry cola bottles. a whopping 47p from aldi :) #
- RT @really_good: Fig and fennel seed soda bread recipe http://www.thereallygoodlife.com/uqewn [frickin' yum, even if i do say so myself] #
- I have just two speed dial phone numbers set on my phone: @johnleach and the local chinese takeout place. #priorities #
- Am being a human web server (http://humanweb.ipq.co/) as an excuse to send people pictures of our cats and dog ;) #leedshack #
- Being a human powered web server is exhausting! they should invent machines to do this stuff. #leedshack #
- Out of the 460+ penny coins in our coppers jar, not one was minted in 1972. #
We heart working from home.
- It's just taken me nearly 3 hours to write 400 words. Today is not going to be my most productive day ever. #
- @swillingtonfarm: we're not quite through it but think another medium will be fine – maybe a small in sept, we'll see. thanks for asking! #
- @swillingtonfarm oh I thought it automatically reordered each month – not sure where I got that idea from – will order this afternoon! #
- Today Lily-dog and I got chased by horses. If @johnleach had been there, he would have wet himself. From every orifice at once. #
- I saw the washing basket on its side earlier and wondered what was going on. Now I know. Sleepytime. http://twitpic.com/5vrdws #
- Been painting the coal hole but I'm not feeling the paint colour. It's all #ffff33 when I'd prefer something a little more #ffdd00 #
- Animal nap time in preparation for being all wacky wide awake when @johnleach gets home. http://twitpic.com/5w8gvt #
- RT @Kari_Leeds: Brave Israeli and Palestinian women enjoy a day at the beach – http://nyti.ms/nKLAHT #
- @davidsmalley: we've done the paper signing, dropping off our keys & completing tomorrow, such a relief :) #
- Spending a day painting a room with no natural light orange, has fucked up my eyes' white balance. the world looks very, very blue now. #
- Sitting on the wall outside our old house, enjoying the sun for the last time. You were a great home, house, we'll miss you. #
- @swillingtonfarm: in your meatbox info, you mentioned a farmers market in calverley next w/end. do you know where it will be & what time? :) #
- @davidsmalley: *just* got the money through, woot ;) #
- @davidsmalley: or rather it's just been transferred, should be arriving soon. *hits reload on online banking* ;) #
- As @johnleach's cousins, niece, nephew, sister, mum, aunt and uncle leave, our house has never seemed quieter. #
- @SopranoLMU we really like our medium SF meatbox. It sounds cliche but the meat really does taste "like it used to" – really, really tasty. #
- @tim_waters: the yorkshire tea gold stuff is pretty good – we liked the kenyan when that's available. @johnleach also likes ringtons. #
- @swillingtonfarm: that's almost even better! thanks for sending the link :) #
- @katethejuggler: RT @swillingtonfarm: @louisa_ not sure if it's a farmers market its food/crafts I think http://www.creativecalverley.co.uk/ #
- Just bought @johnleach some funderwear that'll make his bum look like elmer the elephant. submit your trunk/penis jokes to the usual address #
- Lovely day in Harrogate with Team Smalley. Very jealous of their fab new house. Lily also very much enjoyed the stray :) #
- The dog, two cats and I are all sat on the same seat. It's a squeeze. #
- Just did my first bit of tiling in about 12 years. Despite possibly having more adhesive on my arms than the walls, I think it went well. #
- @comicnrrd: that used to be our most favourite hobby until the formerly confused cat got wise to it and realised she could chop down. pain. #
- I frickin' hate painting woodwork. #
- Breakfast curry, woohoo. #
- It is exactly half way through my birthday and I have eaten a curry, completed a game of tropico, watched 2 x-files & not got dressed. #win #
- Doing the "first genuine/organic visitors to a brand new site" dance. Like all my dances, it is a special, special dance. #
- Bloody hell, I'm tired today. Trying to write or do something, anything, but it's just not happening. Think I might have to nap. #
- This afternoon I have mostly been writing lists. #
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