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Last year I wrote about habit forming and the fact that I was going to use a physical device that used noticeable colour indicators (paper and felt tips) to keep track of one single habit - cycling every day - with the hope that making the habit tracking more obvious would help it stick. Here's how I did (greens are "d...

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From "Timekeeping on the Moon on Wikipedia: As more countries are active on the Moon and interact with each other, a different, unified system will be needed. Artemis will probably never get t...

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Two recommendations from people at work this month! The Centre - interesting but by the end I really disliked the main character, which is a bit of a shame since she's sort of touted in-book as a strong, diverse, open-minded lead and it gave me real concerns about the author. I can't...

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In November I was still not in the mood for reading and so made my way through Hail Mary AGAIN and Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

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Moondial - I actually got this out from the library for my daughter to read over Halloween but she wasn't interested and so I read it, having seen a few episodes of the TV version in the late 80s. This was surprisingly spooky! It was also quite entertaining despite the loose ends and unresolved questions. A good ghos...

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Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's most well known plays. It's also largely a retelling of an Italian novella by Matteo Bandello, translated with a rather adroit spoiler in the title as "Of the sad end of two hapless lovers, one dying of poison, and the other of grief; together with sundry events".

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Leaving Twitter so you can post elsewhere? Off to write toots on Mastodon? Making long posts on Bluesky? Have some ambition.

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