Last updated: 29 Sep, 2025
This is a /now page, listing out the stuff that's going on with me at the moment. If you have your own site, you should make one too.
What's happening?
- ๐ Autumn has arrived. Jumpers are on, walks are snug, conkers abound. First time we're experiencing this in our current house; there's a tree next door which is raining leaves in our garden and I can't decide if that's charming or annoying. I love cosy Autumn so much that for now it's a happy thing.
- ๐ Saw my niece for a while. She's still at an age where she loves running around in the park and pointing at weirs. She's also possibly the smiliest person imaginable.
- ๐๏ธ Over covid we often went to the local reservoir and did A Big Walk there, something we've fallen out of the habit of doing. Managed to get there this weekend on a morning which started grey and turned blue and crisp. An hour-long walk of the circumference sipping a mocha and looking at the cormorants and grebes is a great way to spend a Sunday.
- ๐ Finished off Martin Amis' sort-of autobiography Experience which turned very tender at the end. I started Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - I can understand why it got the plaudits it did. Won't take long to finish off that.
- ๐ถ New albums recently from my all-time favourite band The Divine Comedy and singer-in-a-band-I'm-very-fond-of Emma Pollock. The Divine Comedy one is much less morose than the marketing led me to believe and I'm enjoying it a lot. Emma continues to be a little mournful in her solo work but it suits the season.
- ๐บ As the final series is due to start in a few weeks we started a rewatch of Stranger Things. I liked it a lot on first viewing nearly ten years ago now (!) but really appreciate how good it is now.