🗓️ 6 to 12 July
favourite thing this week
Waiting on a bench to be picked up and staring up into the leaves of a large tree, mesmerised with the sunlight playing with the leaves.
writing
- I have finished edits on a mini journalling workshop, still struggling with turning it into an ebook. Now I only need to make a printable for it. Will probably publish it this week.
- Edited another journalling ebook on paper, which is perfect because processing the edits seems like a good thing to do in this week’s heatwave.
blogging
- On the 6th I posted my weeknotes for week 27-2026
- On the 8th, I posted a poem called Get out of your head, love
- and, as I apparently decided to only post on even days this week, on the 10th I posted how I use my notepad
- and on the 12th I shared a memory of a beach
- Added a progress bar to my read in 2026 page, I will eventually move this page to my website so it becomes an automagic thing
blog posts in the pipeline
- A new dear creative soul letter
- on de-digitalising
- my new note taking system, follow up to the notepad post linked above
- A post about my love for the Tour de France, planned for Tuesday.
- embracing imperfection
creating
- my fingerless gloves are such a joy to knit. Really helps that I know the pattern by heart so I can just keep going.
- Have painted beads this week and it was so much fun!
reading
- Martha Wells - exit strategy (on e-reader in bag)
- Roland Allen - The Notebook - a History of Thinking on Paper
read
- Heartstopper vol 6 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐︎
- N.R. Walker - Merry & Bright ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
watching
- a documentary series about an art detective
- the Tour de France. Such a joy!
- The Beatles: get back because we wanted more after the docu we watched. SUCH bickering!
watched
- the Doomies was great!
- A documentary about Paul McCartney’s lost base guitar. Such a weird story 😀 no spoilers!
- How Status Destroys Us
listening
- the constant hum of my aircooler is an enigma. It’s anchoring me and driving me nuts.
- and as I loved the Vera Wong audiobooks, I now started listening to Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
joyful things
- playing with html/css is such a joyful thing. Tinkering is my favourite thing to do, each and every day.
- snapping imperfect pictures using a tiny camera.
- reading through old writings and finding things I love never fails to make me smile.
- registered a new domain name. I love it 😀
- a Sunday morning sitting on the sofa, curtains closed, watching a program about pro cycling while eating breakfast, such a perfect moment.
blog posts I’ve enjoyed reading
something I’ve enjoyed using this week
My new tiny camera, a Kodak Charmera. I love it so much for being imperfect (hence the blog post idea above)
something that I’m grateful for
Starting the weeknotes again. I really love to work on this all week, adding small snippets of life throughout the day and then adding the last bits on Monday.
from my commonplace book
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
~ Albert Camus
snapshot of the week
