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- Petition for an eighteen-monthly Christmas
- Thinking about writing about books
- Two cakes
- Links: Publishing Edition
- March 2026 monthlog
- Progress on 2026
- Museum memories
- Things I want to do with my website
- Action-packed vs busy
- Birthday season
- Conversations with children about a birthday cake
- Happy New Year
- Reading eight books at once
- What's the big idea?
- Not opening a print shop
- Everything I need is already there
- What would Leeroy Jenkins do?
- Links: Reading and history and more
- Smells of my childhood
- Sylvia Plath and authors I've not read
- Love a dance scene
- Springtime
- Slow living
- Copyists and fraudsters
- Victorian taxidermy
- Crimes and murders shows I actually like
- In like a lion
- February 2026 monthlog
- What am I looking for?
- Conversations with a three-year-old about losing at video games
- Links: Books and writing, creativity and ideas
- Writing jail
- Appreciation of Bear's post template
- Intersecting interests
- Proust's questionnaire
- Where art exists in my life
- Say it with flowers
- One star reviews of my favourite books
- Taking the fight to boredom
- Getting growing
- My top ten most used emojis
- Paintings of paintings
- Truth is a matter of the imagination
- Master studies
- Thinking about time travel
- 1886 and more years
- Links: Community, creativity, dinosaurs, and medieval churches
- January 2026 monthlog
- Unforeseen advantages of my site
- The miracle of our simultaneous existence
- Maybe the meaning of life
- 1910: Human nature changed
- Old things I own
- How I relax
- Do-it-yourself archives and collections
- Book adaptations
- 1922: Year Zero
- Romanticism roundup
- Conversations with a five-year-old about parties
- Down the rabbit hole on giant octopi
- Made a zine about joy
- Links: New Year Edition
- Natural habitat
- Virtual spaces as places
- Not sweating the small stuff
- Ideas for 2026
- All the end of year and new year posts
- Virtuous cycles
- December 2025 monthlog
- Favourite things 2025
- The life and afterlife of Gertrude Stein
- Adventures in wiki building
- Not herding cats
- Keeping the web small
- Solstice
- One tiny thing at a time
- Build it even though they might not come
- Links: Optimism Edition
- Ideas about realism in dialogue
- Committed to the bit
- Early memories of home computing
- Lavender media that made me feel things
- Writer-friendly keyboard remapping
- Music this year
- Favourite kids books that are just great books
- Conversations with a five-year-old about how we know each other
- Just invent new genres why don't you
- November 2025 monthlog
- Fond memories of my first car
- Links: A Bit Retro
- The washing machine cycle of creativity
- An inventory of my loot
- Before I go to see Wicked
- Being the worst video game player
- Links: Games Edition
- Witches and highwaywomen
- What to learn next
- Eviction from the comfort zone
- Trying new things
- Microhobbies
- Creativity and curiosity
- Links: Crime and creativity
- A bit of narrative energy, please
- Twelve years of Nanowrimo
- Winter is coming
- October 2025 monthlog
- My poor communication skills
- The Good Ship RSS
- Thirty years on the web
- Historical misconceptions that get my goat
- The slow web
- Authors I'll read just because
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth
- Making a movement
- Failing at a game jam
- Links: Lonely blogging
- Not buying a secondhand bookshop
- How ebooks should work
- Links: Internet Times
- Hills I will die on
- Procrastinating productively
- The Great Wishlist Purge
- The Good Words
- The Hampshire Conspiracy
- Quotes about writing
- To see stars
- September 2025 monthlog
- Into the woods
- Thirty-seven works in progress
- Deadlines whooshing by
- Fun in the BBC archives
- Tropes to make my brain happy
- Three monster stories
- Hundred
- Open letter to the birds of my garden
- How you know it's the Forties
- Links: The I love humans edition
- Becoming an aunt
- Autumnal
- My seventeen-year-old self and the Wayback Machine
- Victorian etiquette manuals
- Convincing myself to blog
- Appendix N appreciation
- Dangerously close to prepper territory
- A philosophy of the Sun
- Entropy and fighting the universe
- Shaking out the brain
- Inner critics
- August 2025 monthlog
- Deguilting my pleasures
- My phone is great, actually
- Revelations at my local arts cinema
- Entitlement zero
- Novella appreciation
- Everyone's doing it
- Friends? Friends
- Project progresses
- Why would the world need this from me?
- Big dumb monster movies
- Links: Apocalypse meh and more
- Journals for Future Me
- Not in a fact a random photo of spinach
- And all I got was this lousy leech
- Fetes worse than death
- Second guessing
- There's still time to do the thing
- Not really playing Skyrim
- Making a website for my Marianne North autobiography project
- Deadline but in an achievable gentle way
- July 2025 monthlog
- Fiction versus biography
- Conversations with a seven-year-old about architecture and not knowing everything
- Completely missing the big reveal
- Why do we get quotes so wrong?
- Stretching the limits of human ability
- Onions
- Doing the de-amazoning
- More than I care to know about Survivor
- Eight years of my favourite songs
- Dealing with many minor annoyances of my digital setup
- Doing the degoogling
- Conversations with a toddler accidentally gave me a growth mindset
- Learning how to make a chocolate teapot
- Things I can do that once felt impossible
- Propertarianism
- What I like to see in stories
- Sports reviews by someone who doesn't understand sports
- Should this be about something?
- Cosy conflict
- Ladies chasing monsters, being chased by monsters
- June 2025 monthlog
- More cosy debates
- Conversations with a two-year-old about witches
- Summertime
- Imaginary worlds and real life
- Tenses, perspectives, points-of-view!
- Ephemera and advertising
- Save time by reading a summary
- Internet privacy and 'having nothing to hide'
- DnD and TTRPGs and games and such
- Updates on finishings
- Unnecessary optimisation
- Why I love present tense
- Not giving relationship advice
- Tomatoes and other garden pests
- Cosy existential dread
- Making a defence of fanfiction
- Figuring out a literature curriculum
- These are a few of my favourite words
- A non-asker on non-asking
- People keep recommending crime shows to me
- Full hipster incoming
- No starting, only finishing
- Watching this film sixty-two times
- The greatest marketing email subject line ever...
- Modes!
- Surviving the past
- Lolly Willowes
- Conversations with a seven-year-old about stories. Also, tropes
- I didn't make it for you
- Context
- Reading fiction as if it were non-fiction
- Through the miserable frustrations
- It's not the consuming, it's the content
- Taking all the fun out of cryptids
- Things that happen even if I don't want them to
- Party pieces
- Doing the thing
- Cartography books
- Predictable problems with reading 1930s pulp fiction
- Getting fun and dumb
- Putting together a Brontë reading list
- Trying something
