Rachel Coleman

I am waiting on call for my part of some weekend working (other people have to get their parts done first).

1996 matriculation year had a small but lovely cohort: two friends I've somehow managed to stayed in touch with ever since, three I haven't but very much enjoyed meeting again and hearing about their lives.

I found my way to the lake at Milton this morning and joined the organised swim.

Work is very busy, ice hockey is ramping up, I have my first WNIHL game a week tomorrow, and my knee injury from a week ago yesterday is still niggling a little, though much much better than it was.

Penn long weekend After spending a Sat-Tue long weekend in Sheffield with fanf's relatives based there, we spent the following Fri-Sun in Penn, near High Wycombe, with the remaining in-laws.

I've been merrily heading off down a rabbithole of books on the Greek myths: tellings and retellings and inspired-by stories, partly because of Percy Jackson, partly because Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has started a dozen conversations that remind me…

Books on pre-order: Call Me Traitor by Everina Maxwell (1 Dec) Unrivaled (Game Changers 7) by Rachel Reid (1 Jun 2027) Books acquired in August: and unread: The Jargoon Pard by Andre Norton Zarsthor's Bane by Andre Norton Gryphon in Glory by Andre Norton…

https://theconversation.com/five-fiction-books-that-will-help-you-understand-ukraine-290003 The City by Valerian Pidmohylnyi (1928).

I started running again today, and blew the dust off c25k with a lengthy update of the whys, hows and whats.

Today I wrangled laundry (the backlog from being away was ... large) went to the library and picked up two reserved books (the very last day I could before they would be returned to the pool and I would have lost my £1 of reservation fees) had a very cheap

We've just had a long weekend visiting family in Sheffield.

I've just had two weekends in a row in Sheffield.

Ok, this will be bullet points just to get caught up.

Books on pre-order: Call Me Traitor by Everina Maxwell (1 Dec) Unrivaled (Game Changers 7) by Rachel Reid (1 Jun 2027) Books acquired in July: and read: Distilling Sunlight (Mysterious Arts 7) by Celia Lake Unknown Depths (Liminal Mysteries 3) by Celia La…

Drove up with a couple of friends this afternoon, mostly ok apart from a long long queue resulting from the A1 being closed at Peterborough services.

I got an EV charger installed on the house this morning by Octopus, and hopefully I'll soon be on their specialist tariff giving me cheap overnight charging.

Last Saturday was a one-day women's ice hockey tournament hosted by the Sheffield Shadows, and Kodiaks sent a team, a mix of both Kodiaks 1 and Kodiaks 2 players. ( ice hockey day ) Sunday morning I drove back to Cambridge, unpacked, packed a picnic, pick…

It was my birthday at the end of June, and I did a number of celebratory things during the week, in the midst of an epic heatwave: "rewind" screening of Jurassic Park in the cinema (the day after May Bumps) a midweek student production of Romeo and Juliet,

Books on pre-order: Call Me Traitor by Everina Maxwell (1 Dec) Unrivaled (Game Changers 7) by Rachel Reid (1 Jun 2027) Books acquired in June: and read: How to Fake It in Society by KJ Charles Playoff (Toronto Blaze) by Kim Findlay [7] Foreplayer (Rookie…

One of the small joys of the May Bumps was reading the daily "Notes and Fines" from the umpires.

After my afternoon-and-a-bit earlier this year of watching Lent Bumps, I committed and got to most of the May Bumps this year.

I have about 15 minutes before I need to go to a school meeting, and I haven't updated in ages so: Hockey The inaugural season of Kodiaks 2 finished mid-May: we played 20 games and won 1.

(aha, this post-by-email has finally appeared!)

I managed to go Monday evening, Tuesday lunchtime to early evening (no closure Tuesday afternoon), Wednesday lunchtime and Thursday evening.

... a new railway station in Cambridge!

In January, I passed my 25-year anniversary of working at the University and was sent a nice email from my head of department.

Beer festival this evening, I had three cheeses on the platter: Cornish Yarg Pecorino Mayfield (a swiss cheese, excellently tasty, a+ would eat again) I also had four different 0.5% beers, all them also vegan[1], of which the standout was Mash Gang's Less…

I'm off this evening to watch Top Gun 40th anniversary screening in the local IMAX.

I have had a migraine this afternoon and evening, which is the warning sign I'm pushing my sleep schedule too much, again I read the new Murderbot book, very hard to put down, enjoyed it very much earlier this week fanf and I joined 20th wedding anniversa…