Smith & Burrows - When The Thames Froze - YouTube

So tell everyone that there’s hope in your heart
Tell everyone or it’ll tear you apart
At the end of Christmas day
When there’s nothin' left to say
The years go by so fast
Let’s hope the next beats the last

Always Go To The Funeral : NPR

Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing.

What’s Your Word for 2025? - Nicholas Bate

Reposting this so that it’s in my head to think about.

Hot pot and 油茶 from yesterday. I remember when I first saw Lyra eating yóu chá and I remember thinking it looked weird. I still think that, but now I think it’s delicious too. A kind of porridge made from rice with spices, chilli and topped with crispy rice noodles.

I strongly dislike how Apple Music Replay doesn’t open in the Music app.

Chinese railway stations are interesting.

They are always massive spaces that could accommodate many more people than you see there. Though, I guess, sometimes it must be busy. This station is for a city an hour from us. As well, the experience is more like an airport. You need ID to get in and can only go down - the seating sits over the trains - to the platform just before the train leaves.

Reasons I update: To get rid of the red circle.
Reasons that I should update, but don’t: Security

Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
Tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.
William Martin

I wander in a city that feels ghostly, depopulated, even when bodies are on the street

Turns out the zombie apocalypse isn’t as fun as they said it would be – Rebecca Solnit on our dangerously disconnected world | Society | The Guardian

Rewatched the last episodeofe of season 1 of Silo in preparation for season 2. Also, trying to forget reading all the books.

Liam Lynch: United States of Whatever - YouTube

New Silo! 📺

JOMO - YouTube

*Joy of missing out

Do not like the new Signal icon colour.

It wasn’t working and I switched it off and on again, and it worked.

Hit read all on my rss feeds today. Time to start again.

A small book about a boy whose parent who’s sick, with a fantasy turn. I will be thinking about this for a long time I think.

feeling stressed and overwhelmed,
despite nothing specifically happening today,
I guess it’s just it’s just the weight of everything.

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Apparently having help from a 6 year old helps

punishable standards
hold ourselves up to the light
see only darkness

I put them down, because out is better than in

• Saving the last episode of Ludwig and the new episode of Shrinking.
• I ‘think’ the new vpn is fine now. I might now know how I made it work, but I know that it works. Also, buying an access point that was entirely in Chinese wasn’t the best idea - but that works too.
• Going away for the night camping. I am glad because I want to spend time with the family but also sad, since it means I won’t get any time to myself this weekend.
• Something happened at school minutes after the final bell and which had to be dealt with and which will now roll over to Monday. It’s in my head.
• We had parents in to share the kids work and I was very stressed but it was lovely.
• Still failing to out exercise my diet but doing so with no regrets.

First G-Shock.

On a slightly related note. What wrist do you wear your watch? I’m right handed but always wear it on my right. Learning that’s unusual.

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We talk about different things with no coherent plan but talk a little about names and Ancient Greece.

Transcript

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