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(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?
It's been about a month since my last update. Some brief notes on what's been going on:
๐๏ธ Had a really nice two week, two part holiday: five days in a cheap-and-cheerful all-inclusive in Majorca with some friends, a day in Barcelona, then an eight day cruise accidentally with my parents. I had a really nice time - Alcudia has the most stunning beach, Barcelona remains one of the greatest cities in the world, those Virgin Voyages cruises are relaxing and just plain fun. And we were with people all the time, which is a real novelty considering we usually work from home alone most of the time.
โ๏ธ We keep having heatwaves. Just about to enter heatwave five of the summer which is ludicrous...
๐งโ๐ง ...made all the stupider by having an ongoing issue with our underfloor heating/heat pump which means it's warming all the rooms all the time. Infuriating.
๐ Had a nice time in London on the Saturday just gone. We went in with no agenda other than just intending to walk, and walk we did. It's nice to people watch, nice to do that long Southbank walk, nice to go to the food market in Seven Dials for massive pizza, nice to mooch about Chinatown. Just a nice time all in.
๐ฟ Got some excellent music while visiting both Third Man and Sister Ray - both Jack White and Paul McCartney's latest albums, a Raconteurs live album, a fun 3CD compilation of 90s indie classics, the latest single from Bodega, and the Olivia Rodrigo/David Byrne split 7" single. Lots to be working through.
๐ฌ Really enjoyed seeing The Odyssey. Thought The Devil Wears Prada 2 was fine if not really for me.
๐ Read an awful lot over the past month partly due to being on holiday. I've just finished Nathan Hill's 'The Nix' which zipped along despite its 900+ pages and was genuinely excellent. I love a good American novel that swirls between eras and generations of the same family. Speaking of which, isn't it time that Jonathan Franzen released his next novel?