October 2025 monthlog
October is dark but I put up some fairy lights and drove up and down the Diwali lights many evenings. Enjoyed some colourful leaves in the woods and sunny days in the garden.
Updates here
- 21 posts
- expanded the movements/collectives blog post into its own page. Still not sure what to call them
- added a Creative Commons licence, Website Carbon Calculator link, and a style guide to the Notes
- also a feeds page
- and a secret page
- wrote a post for the blog carnival about thirty years on the web and made a tiny page about ketchup for it
Progresses elsewhere
- showed a zine to someone and they asked to keep it
- did I finish a chapter? No. But did I fantasy cast all the characters and spend hours on google maps planning their road trip itinerary? Yes. Yes I did.
- drank half a pint of cider which will do me for the rest of the year, did a couple of school runs successfully collecting the correct child, did not get covid when everyone else seemed to be, made it to the woods three times, went in a cave, frolicked around Chatsworth House ("But who was your mother? Who are your uncles and aunts? Do not imagine me ignorant of their condition."), made a lot of pumpkin soup, did not get involved in any spooky shenanigans. Yet.
Favourites this month
- Slow Horses. On paper it's not my thing but it's so funny, I love it.
- Enjoyed the film Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, why not.
- Still reading the Gertrude Stein biography because I got distracted by a bunch of other stuff including vintage adventures, a reread of The Word for World Is Forest
- and Taylor Jenkins Reid's Atmosphere which I loved because I'm dumb and soppy
- and Katabasis by RF Kuang. Academia is hell.
And this month I'm still mostly listening to Sharpen The Knives by Oskar Haag from last month. The following are all French, because The Algorithm moves in mysterious ways.
♫ 1998 - Johnny Jane, Sun in June - Hugo Santini, Double d'amour - Sans Lactose, Bleu ou vert - BARON.E
November things
- going to do a game jam just my wife and I
- going to do lots of other creative stuff. Want to finish some zines. Will definitely finish a chapter! Definitely
- going to write a post about surviving winter because it will be winter