Bluesky is a rollercoaster. I’m not sure I like the direction it’s going after a nice few weeks, those little irritations that made Twitter an awful place are starting to materialise there. Anyway, I don’t want to be ‘that guy’ who talks about a social media app on a different platform so…
Renewed my passport. Forgot they were now blue, reminded me to push on with becoming an Irish citizen.
For the first time in months, maybe years, I feel I’m approaching a state of being in control of my days rather than becoming overwhelmed with everything I need, and want, to do and ultimately doing nothing but eating bad food and mindlessly watching television while scrolling on my phone. 😐
I’ve turned off cross-posting to Bluesky. I think I need to simplify matters and concentrate mostly on micro.blog until I get back into a blogging routine.
Going to spend the morning making a base curry sauce and garlic and chilli paste from The Curry Guy’s book. My fingernails are likely to be yellow for a little while. 🌶️🥘
Up at 6am the past two mornings to get the dog walk done and dusted early doors. Horrible going out at that time, but great to get my exercise completed before the day starts. 😐🏃🏻🐕
The excitement is building as Burnley’s return to the Premier League begins with the visit of Man City tonight. I am positively bubbling over with joy. ⚽️
Going to take a break from procrastinating today and upgrading to some good old ‘mooching’. 😐
After the avocado unpleasantness yesterday, my label printer is playing up. Why do you mock me, life?! Why?!
We planted multiple fruit trees many years ago and I’ve pretty much left them alone, more through laziness than design. Anyway just had a plum, my first plum, from the tree and it was magnificent. There’s not many there, but I hope to keep an eye on their ripeness as wasps have descended on the apples. 🌱
Shane the lurcher had another wobble this morning and hid, shaking, in the garden. Leela the terrier and Shane managed to escape the garden last night through a gap in the hedge, which they know they shouldn’t do. Leela was covered in cow shizz but was unbothered, Shane obviously ruminated. 🐕
Underripe avocados are one of the most frustrating things in life. Middle class problems, I know.
Squeaky wheelbarrow, laughing at my attempts at manual labour. 🌱
Decided to bite the bullet and book a ticket for a Burnley game. Most home games are sold out already, but I found a solitary ticket for Luton in January. Every time I book for a Prem game, some catastrophic event happens - so if some new pandemic happens around Christmas time ‘my bad’. ⚽️
One of the all-time classic penalty shootouts. ⚽️
And now it’s raining. 😂
Unlike the rest of Ireland, the next few days are promised dry here. I have three tonne bags of bark mulch to tidy up the paths around the raised beds, which are themselves overgrown with weeds. I’m still annoyed with myself for letting things get so bad, but little I can do about it now.