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There is an awful lot of waffle on this blog. I totally understand if you don’t want to wade through it all to find the good stuff.

These are some of my favourites. They still include a lot of waffle but it’s a better quality of waffle :)

Three Beautiful Things

I very much enjoy using Clare Law’s fantastic journal model: it helps me focus on slowly down, looking around and being positive.

There are over 1000 posts in the full archive but these are some of my very favourites:

• Six beautiful things from our house move
• Alfred Einstein
• The end of another production

Remembering

• My goodbye posts to Carla, Carbon & Boron. And some photos of Silicon in her last weeks.
• My goodbye post and list of 100 nicknames for Lily-dog.
• Remembrance of biscuits past: 25 years in the life of a biscuit eater
• My life, so far, in video games – that’s the written account but I’ve also put the same data in a venn diagram
• The last time I vomited (spoiler: it was in 1996 and was quite grotesquely spectacular)
• 10 years ago about my 18th birthday
• Then and Now, comparing the changes in my life between 2000 and 2010
• A letter to my 16 year old self, from 34 year old me
• Thoughts and observations of a nearly 35 year old
• Another letter, this time to my 36 year old self
• Biodata: All the places I’ve spent the night

Reading & Writing

• Some book reviews: “American Wife” by Curtis Sittenfeld, “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy, The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer, Ghost World by Daniel Clowes, Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis and Childhood’s End by Arthur C Clark. I also re-read a number of Douglas Coupland’s earlier works – books that coloured my life as a young adult – and reviewed them from a new vantage point. (More book reviews…)
• Embryonic mornings – a writing exercise about waking up
• Search Terms – a list of some of my disparate search terms for NaNoWriMo in 2011 & 2012

Making

I’ve made lots of things over the last few years but blogged about shockingly few of them on here. A few things though:

• A long stitch rendering of our old house
• My “makes for 2013” mega-list
• My Team Peach cross-stitch
• Ceramics Jan-June 2014
• Learning about Raku (ceramics)
• (More things I’ve made…)

Overheards, Funnies & Odd Stuff

A number of short posts that about the world around me and glimpses into how my brain works:

• Three Louisa moments from the day
• Things I’ve realised since getting a dog
• Handles
• A moment saved
• My Saturday afternoon
• Overheard on the bus
• Another overheard on the bus
• Five things I’d do if I could stop time
• Frustration, two poems about our old postman, written in IM
• Limerick, another poem written in IM