Decided to take Thursday and Friday off because Tabitha's on half term. Feeling pretty guilty about it since I just had a week off but I'll make it up and no-one's waiting on me for anything.

My back hurts. Haven't played that intensely since the summer and my physical fitness is lacking. I barely have time to take one single photo outside my normal routine right now so not sure when exactly I'm supposed to hit the gym!

Back to Homestead for the evening because Tabitha's on half term. I miss going there every week - the standard is so high and I really struggle (and I am so achy!) but I can see myself improving and I love it.

Exhaustion finally caught up to me today. Crashed pretty hard in the afternoon. Felt horrible, unmotivated, moody. Ate my feelings. Hate that.

Day 2 (day 1 for me) of my BE level 2 course. Such a long day and I am terrible at group work like this. I was bad at it in school and I'm bad at it now

It was always going to be challenging, following a week of relaxing and taking pictures with a week of work.

Spent the week in the German countryside, eating too many pretzels (is there such a thing?), drinking too much Spezi, and having a very relaxing time.

Last night the F1 Fwiends went on a field trip to the World's End in Brighton to play their raceway.

What a January! If you're wondering why it's dragged it's my fault - I'm going to Germany to see Sven next week, and the last couple of weeks have been particularly torturous! I feel like the light has been absolutely awful this month. I can't remember another month where I'...

The light has been awful this month and I haven't taken many photos, but "not many" isn't "none".

I've stopped wearing my Apple Watch. Kurzgesagt did this great video on exercise that annoyingly confirmed some things I already knew but would prefer to not be true. The main one being that exercise alone isn't enough for maintaining/losing weight. Diet is way more effectiv...

I like these little question things, like a chain letter. Remember when those used to be a physical thing you forwarded on? Now I feel old.

Tabitha played her final U13 match for Sussex yesterday. Weirdly emotional day. She's been with this team for maybe 3 years and has made friends with some lovely kids (and I feel like I've made friends with some of the parents, too). I hope she gets into U15 or at least stays in touch with them; it'd be a shame to lose that.

I love sport and I wish I'd had more of it at her age. Badminton has been incredible for my confidence and I've met such a diverse bunch of people through it. I'd love to have more sports but I barely have time for the two I actually do.

If you're wondering why Bambu Lab chose to finally lose their minds when they did, it's because I ordered one of their printers.

I'm not normally bothered by photographing a sunset. In truth they never look as good in pictures as they do in real life.

I guess you can call it "back on my bullshit", but I'm giving social media another try. I had a Mastodon instance a while back and when I looked at the cost of running my own (I am never not running my own. There's no version of this reality where I'm on someone else's insta...

I made pizzas. I think these are my favourites I've ever made.

Aegir shared this post on Mastodon earlier and I think it's an interesting take on something I've attributed to an ability to debug. Fixing stuff for a living makes you really good at being wrong. Forty times a day you'll be all "Bet it's one of the outputs on this chip. No...

This month's been a bit hectic. I feel like everything's been leading up to having some time off over Christmas/New Years and I haven't done a lot of anything other than work and stare longingly at the calendar. I did play a tonne of Balatro. I didn't like it at first, but I...

I've done it again. Lots of pictures from the last month.

I've been doing a fairly primitive version of this for a little while. Instagram upped their game, so I had to match pace.

Apple Intelligence isn't just an inferior product, it seems to actively make everything it touches worse. Lasted three days before turning it all off. Does time just make everything worse? It seems to.

I bought Forza Horizon 4 on Steam because it was super cheap, and everyone says it runs better than 5 (it does seem to), and it's so fun. I feel like I knew, but it didn't occur to me, that it's set in England and that might mean I would recognise parts of it. It has the Sou...

Chris Riddell drew these 15 minute portraits for a charity in Brighton and it was such a sweet experience.

Remember when I tried Balatro and didn't like it? Who even was that guy?

This one turned out super long. I wanted to edit it to reduce it, then ended up adding way more because I was enjoying myself. Now it's your problem. ...and I thought October felt long. Wow. This month has been brutal, to be honest. I think the days getting shorter has affe...

Tabitha and I went for a walk down the boardwalk in Shoreham whilst Charlotte mooched around some shops. We saw so many dogs but there's no photos of dogs here.

Y'know I just realised that if you focus on giving your kid opportunities to exceed you, they will likely outgrow you sooner than you were anticipating, in ways that you weren't expecting. You might end up raising and supporting a stranger who doesn't recognise you, and the feeling might be mutual, and it remains your responsibility to push that stranger forward. And that's what you want, if you're being truly selfless. Which, of course I am. And you should not resent that person for achieving what you wanted them to achieve, even if it means you essentially being left behind whilst being obligated to support them. Tricky.

What a great way to make your own life feel like an absolute waste of time. Have I mentioned; struggling.

Some more snaps to round out the longest month in the history of the planet, draw a line under it, and do something better from now on.