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• Post #4394265

  #3GoodThings 🗃️ A quick board game tidy up turned into a full scale take everything off the shelves including lots of stationary, jigsaws, books etc that had got muddled in. Everything much better organised now and much less dust. 💭And some nice memories came back while I was sorting through the stuff. 🌧️ I didn't think we'd had that much rain but evidently it has been enough to half fill the water butt.

• Post #4390403

  Yesterday’s #3GoodThings 🚲My bike service was done super fast! 👕Going to put the washing on the line and finding it was already there. 🔌The super long extension cable that lets me keep working in the garden longer than the laptop battery does.

• Post #4364671

  #3GoodThings 🌸Petals blowing around me while I'm sitting in the garden. 🚲 Bike dropped off at the workshop for a much needed service. 🥵Managing to get stuff done despite the heat.

• Post #4292054

  #3GoodThings 🪳Bugs that looked like they might be tricky to fix actually just turned out to be longstanding typos. 🧵A pile of sewing supplies ready to have fun making things with. 🧠 Something complicated suddenly made more sense to me. Might not be right but it's a step in the right direction.

• Post #4245225

  I've been reading _What We Cannot Know_ by Marcus du Sautoy for several months, after several years of it loitering in my bedside table stack of books. My #SummerReadingChallenge finally persuaded me to finish it. It's an exploration of the edges of scientific knowledge and whether we know whether there are things that we'll never know. It's basically taken me a long time to read it because most of it's really interesting. I unexpectedly liked the brain s...

• Post #4245224

  I picked up _The Trouble with Goats and Sheep_ by Joanna Cannon as I'd read one of the author's books a couple of years back and really enjoyed it. This was a delightful book too. Set in a suburban cul-de-sac during the 1976 heatwave. It starts with the disappearance of one of the residents but there's more going on under the surface. There's a ten year old narrator who sees what the grown ups do but doesn't entirely understand it so the reader gets to pu...

• Post #4245223

  Nice bike ride along the Burton Marsh Greenway stopping for a coffee and heading home the same way again because it was so nice. https://nocto.com/photoposts/default-ride/ #cycling #BikeTooter

• Post #4245222

  #3GoodThings 😌My mind was addled and annoyed when I left home for a bike ride but calm when I returned. 🦋So many little wildlife spottings on the cycle paths today. Butterflies and other hovering insects, rabbits, mice, all sorts of birds. ☁ Clouds: giving me both pretty things to look at and shade from the sun.

• Post #4245221

  A sequel to a book I'd really enjoyed by a favourite author meant that there was never much chance I wouldn't enjoy _Love Lane_ by Patrick Gale and it was indeed a really good read. It's now the 1950s and Harry Cane from the previous novel _A Place Called Winter_ returns from Canada to visit the daughter he left in England when he went to farm on the prairies. Cane was based on one of Gale's own great-something grandfathers and this is a fictionalised family memoi...

• Post #4212387

  #3GoodThings 💡Having located the spare bulb supply in the shed the house is brighter in the evening again. (Nights must be drawing in.) 🌊 Booked a holiday! 🚙 Solved the problem with the car bike rack (so we can take bikes on holiday too).

• Post #4143289

  #3GoodThings 🐈Eventually found the grille for the cat carrier so we could get Ajay to a vet appointment. 🛖The shed has had a big tidy up and we've cleared a stack of stuff out of it (involuntarily started by needing to search for the grille). ♻️ And we've already got the junk taken to the recycling centre.

• Post #4068855

  #3GoodThings 🏊🏻‍♀️ Managed to time swimming so that I had the big pool almost to myself. 👓 Lost my glasses but found them where they had blown under a garden chair. 🍇The hedgerows are loaded with blackberries. Going back tomorrow with a tub!

• Post #4021041

  #3GoodThings 🛬 Managed the airport pickup within the ridiculously tight limit where parking is merely bloody expensive. 🧳 Which means the offspring is home for a while and it's lovely to have them here. 🌳 A benefit of this dry spell is that even the super muddy footpath is usable.

• Post #3969422

  #3GoodThings 🌞 We're back to much more normal UK summer temperatures and it's really nice. Hopefully the rain in the weekend's forecast actually turns up though. 🚲 It's the beginning of the school summer holidays here and there were so many less cars on the road today. 📄Got some paperwork sorted out. One of those things you put off for months and then find it takes ten minutes.

• Post #3940420

  I really glad I finally got around to reading _Beloved_ by Toni Morrison because it's an absolute masterpiece of both storytelling and writing. It's obviously tough to read in places considering the subject matter is slavery. It was difficult to review because I just couldn't do justice to it. https://nocto.com/books/beloved/ #books #Bookstodon #BookReview #SummerReadingChallenge

• Post #3867921

  #3GoodThings 🧅Homemade cheese & onion rolls were really tasty. 🧾VAT return sorted out and submitted. 🚲Took my partner's bike to the bike workshop and they were able to repair it in 5 minutes.

• Post #3794014

  #3GoodThings 🕊️It's really peaceful in my garden on a weekday. None of the neighbours seem to be doing building work at the moment. 🧾A panic where I thought I'd lost a load of bank statements was completely baseless and I had just forgotten how months worked (I'm not going to dwell on that last bit too much!) 🌳 Found another shady reading spot in the garden - it's small but I'm doing a good job of chasing the shade around it.

• Post #3724863

  #3GoodThings ⏳Created some time by getting up and doing stuff earlier whilst it was cooler. 🌅 Really nice watching the sun go down with a glass of wine and a book. Feel like I'm on holiday but I'm in my back garden. 🤔Reminiscing about holidays as a result.

• Post #3683399

  #3GoodThings 💡Disconnected the outside light that's been stuck on for months and had started buzzing. 📺 Got the TV aerial taken down and removed by a lad we spotted doing a similar job for a neighbour. 🌱 Another wheelie bin worth of weeds removed from the garden. The bushes trying to encroach beyond our fence onto the pavement have almost been tamed.

• Post #3680120

  #3GoodThings 🧦 Sorted out my underwear drawer and threw out all the threadbare items. 🏖️Bought a new garden parasol, it's not quite what I wanted but what I mostly want at the moment is extra shade! 🪏 I also now own a hoe with which to battle the weeds.

• Post #3654039

  #3GoodThings 🧼Cleaned my laptop screen. 🛒Got the supermarket shopping done. 💻Opened up a project I'd abandoned and had some ideas for what to do with it next.

• Post #3636088

  #3GoodThings @3goodthings@a.gup.pe 🧵 Arranged a day trip to sewing show with my mum. 👩🏻‍💻Did a software upgrade that's been waiting months for me to get to it and all was ok. 🍓 Harvested (and ate) 7 strawberries from my hanging basket.

• Post #3573284

  #3GoodThings 🧽Scrubbed all the grouting in the shower clean. 🚫I only soft-deleted the stuff I thought was wrong so I was able to restore it easily when I realised it wasn't. 👩🏻‍💻Figured out how to upgrade some software that's been spewing error messages each time I try.

• Post #3566111

  #3GoodThings 📆 I started the day thinking it was Thursday so Friday evening has been an unexpected surprise. (I think I thought yesterday was Wednesday. I remember it being Tuesday for definite before that. I've no idea what happened to actual Wednesday.) 💾Caching. 🥃White chocolate liqueur, since it's Friday after all!

• Post #3497268

  #3GoodThings 🌅 Getting to watch the sunrise was a bonus that came along with the 4am airport drop off 🗺️ The sat nav helping out when you realise it knows about the nighttime road closures that you don't. 📦 The cat is enjoying the delivery box house in the garden.

• Post #3453108

  #3GoodThings 📖 My reading mojo has definitely returned in the last few days. ⛅️The weather is definitely feeling much more normal (for the north of England) today. 🛏️ Clean sheets on the bed for a (hopefully) cooler sleep tonight.

• Post #3409799

  #3GoodThings 🩳The offspring, who is off to even hotter climes, managed to find some shorts they liked enough to buy them. 👩🏻‍💻Enjoying remembering/refiguring-out how "sed" works. 😥 It's definitely cooler this evening.

• Post #3393401

  #3GoodThings 🐦Sitting outside at 5am listening to the birdsong. Also it's nice and cool at that time. 🍪 The ginger biscuit recipe came out really chewy this time but that's fine, so long as there are biscuits it'll always be fine! 🧊 Discovered that the freezer freezes ice cubes really quite quickly. Very handy.

• Post #3375930

  #3GoodThings 🪑Found a shady spot to sit and work in front of my house. 🥯 We found two bagels in the back of the cupboard so there were enough components for a meal without going to the supermarket. 🦋 Butterflies fluttering in the overgrown verges.

• Post #3368076

  #3GoodThings 🌺Coming across a bright and beautiful field of poppies by the cycle path. ☕️Remembered to use up one of my free reward point coffees before I paid for it. 🍞 Cleaned a small mountain of crumbs out of the toaster.