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My shoes are one of my favourite things.

This month's IndieWeb Carnival is being hosted by Marisabel on Pages.

Being as I wrote about cooking the garden yesterday and then James made a food questions challenge I thought I would give it a go.

Last week I got a bit of a nesting instinct come over me.

I've been procrastinating one of my autumn jobs which is doing a houseplant audit.

You know those questions people ask something along the lines of "If you could give everyone in the world a skill what would it be?"

There was a running event here at the weekend.

Once I was in a meeting with a guy who asked why everyone couldn't be above average.

Every time I go to write a story I describe the genre as scifi with a side of romance and then have to confront the reality that it's an 80k romance with two sentences referring to a time machine.

As a partner to yesterday's Words that are not right here are some words that are not officially right but feel correct.

Skuka says they barely share good things online and I understand why.

I've read over a hundred writing craft books.

I've read over a hundred writing craft books.

Lots of fun and cool links from the fun and cool internet.

We're always being told society is at war, we are divided, "more divided than ever" even.

September has felt really long, so much action and adventure.

Watching Widow's Bay and the return of Slow Horses makes me think about one of my frequent criticisms of all TV and films.

Got a lot of tomatoes this year, still going strong.

I suspect my house has an above-average number of cloaks for 21st century Britain.

There was some reminiscing going on earlier this week about old cinemas in the city.

At my mum's house with the niblings we discovered one of my old books, The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch.

It's the equinox so it's officially autumn here, whichever way you slice it.

When I mentioned Hey Ya!

There's someone I know, probably a lot of people we all know, who is always wishing away whole tranches of time.

Looking at lots of new blogs during Blaugust and Robert Birming's SepThemeBear and his blog theme building guide has got me thinking about themes, blog design, and such.

Music memories is the theme of the Bear Blog Carnival this month, being held by James at with words, wonder.

I've been sorting out my art and all the frames, and trying to put them together.

My post about raising kids when you're not a parent was a bit vague.

My wife says I live in a fictional world.

My niece was talking about traditions and said she didn't have any.

Winther is holding this month's IndieWeb Carnival on Parenting.

When I first heard about Hannah Ritchie's Not the End of the World, I thought, Oh, so like Factfulness but for the environment.

To round off Blaugust I did a part two of my favourite Blaugust posts so check that out for 121 more great links.

I've come up with a new game show.

This post brought to you by feeling unwell and also I've been working on my personal canon.

I'm very susceptible to how other people talk.

Thinking about music ahead of the music memories blog carnival and I need to exorcise these ear worms that are plaguing me.

I visited the Blaugust participants and these are my favourite blog posts from the second half of the month, following up from 132 Blaugust posts.

At the beginning of the year I wrote ideas for 2026 and updated with progress on 2026 in March.

I'm sorting out my books, part one hundred and sixty-five.

We've had some excellent storms this past week.

Even though I sort of fill this in throughout the month I'm really blanking on August?

Blaugust isn't over technically, I know.