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Christmas 2024
This year, I was mostly ill – yay! I tried to have fun, and I did, but gosh, I could have done without the sickness. Boo!
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Today it snowed
When I was a child, the snow would reliably come each year. We’d have weeks of snow, and it would lay on the ground, thick and knee deep. Now it goes for years without snowing, but when it does come, I have to go out into it and try to relive some of the joys that I had as a child. Today was such a day.
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Not sleeping well over a long time is brutal
I have nothing further to add, I’m too tired.
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I love where I live
If you know me, you know that I love the place where I live. However, it’s easy to forget just why you love it. I went down to the coast today with my camera and watch Santa sail in on a fishing trawler, to the delight of countless young children gathered there. It was a real moment of re-remembering why I love where I live. The people, the coast, the sea, the architecture.
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I’ve joined Bluesky
I’ve not been all that happy about my continued use of X / Twitter. I’ve decided that I’m going to focus more effort into Bluesky from now on. I see this as a platform which has ethics more aligned to my own. You can find me here: https://bsky.app/profile/nathanwrigley.com
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Trying something new
One of the things that I’ve noticed about myself lately is that I’m getting stale! I’m not really trying out new things. This is not a bad thing, but I had a revelation the other day that I ought to try out some new things. So this morning I headed to my local theatre and joined in the session in which you got to interact with the actors / actresses from the production that they’re putting on at the moment. It was really wonderful and I’ll be going back. Now I need some more new things to try out. Oh,…
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I love stumbling upon things, like this church
Today I decided to go for a walk. I picked a random place on the map, drove for 20 minutes and got out the car and started to walk. I stumbled upon a church, walked up the path and pushed the door, expecting it to be locked. To my surprise, it was open, and in I went. It was a beautiful church and I got enormous pleasure wandering around, knowing that I had no intention of visiting it.
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I’m not that house proud
I’m not normally house proud. I can cope with a fairly high level of mess and chaos. However, today, I decided that I was going to do a huge tidy up. Root and branch. Top to bottom. You know what, it feels good. Today I’m feeling house proud. I should do this every decade or so. P.S. I cannot cope with untidy cables. I’m cable proud to a ridiculous degree.
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Paris
My family just went on a, somewhat impromptu, trip to Paris over the last few days. To say that I love Paris would be an enormous understatement. I think that it’s profoundly wonderful in so many ways. The architecture, the food, the culture. It’s all great. Now, I’m sure that if you live there, the daily grind would be just the same as elsewhere, but for a few quick days, just wandering about and taking in what the city has to offer, it’s wonderful! I would add that it was hysterical that I managed to cause stress at every-single-point at…
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My happy place
This fills me with enormous satisfaction. Every year at about this time, the temperature starts to drop, and we start to use the fire.
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The last time
I’ve recently decided that I need to focus more on what matters to me. This is not from some conceit to gain more, or be more productive. It’s more about getting in touch with what really matters to me on a profound level. Finding meaning if you like. I feel like I’ve lost touch with some of the ideals that I had as a child. Ideals which, upon reflection, I should never have let go of, and which I’m puzzled that I did let go of. With this in mind, I’ve been meditating; following a course of meditation from a…
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Working from home
I love working from home. There’s a few small things that are not ideal, but mostly it’s excellent. However, for a couple of weeks each summer it’s even better. That’s when Wimbledon – the tennis tournament – is on. I love watching tennis, and so I have it on another screen, with the volume set to zero. It does not cause me to have a loss in focus, but just keeps me going. So there you go. Working from home + Wimbledon = Excellent!
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My Facebook account got suspended
So just now, my Facebook account got suspended. Weird. I was not doing anything, was not even near a computer and none of the devices that I own have Facebook installed. I got this email: When I clicked on the only link in that email I got this: As you can see, all very satisfying and nothing weird about that! I’m 99.9% sure that I’ve violated no guidelines as I’m about as benign on the internet as it’s possible to be, but you never know! Anyway, it’s promoting me once again to consider the use of Mastodon over every-other-app as…