Haven’t posted a picture of a rabbit for a while so here’s Wally, keeping an eye and ear on the bastard squirrels.
Status:
Much better today. No tinnitus or grumpiness though I’m proceeding with caution, banking the batteries for seeing a few people later in the week. And of course next week for which I would rather prefer not to be grumpy, for Fiona’s sake if nothing else.
We put the tree up today. Is nine days early or late? Whatever, it’s better than last year when it went up on Xmas eve. Decorating was a bit of a low priority in-amongst all the CFS shit. Having accumulated a couple of families' worth of decorations going back six or more decades our trees lurch from classy to tacky depending on the mood. This year it’s more classy, I think, though if you look closely there’s some proper tat in there too.
Can’t get a satisfactory photo though so hopefully the awful frame will distract you from that.
Overnight listening:
Music:
- Mindful Mix: Christmas Carols - tree up music.
Reading:
- Discourse 2000: I Got Everything It Takes To Be Your Everlasting Friend: WALTER THE WOBOT
- ‘We hate it. It’s desecration’: the real cost of HS2 - Patrick Barkham walks the long construction site between London and Birmingham. Interesting that, despite the obvious sheer fuckupery of the project, I was left with a sense that it could have been worse.
- Josh Safdie on Marty Supreme, latent Jewish anxiety and why men are lost - I do appreciate how Josh Safdie talks like his films. Some interesting stuff about the anxiety of a historically nomadic culture too. “But amongst the culturally Jewish there is a sense of constant rebuilding. The idea of ‘we might have to move at any moment’. It’s a nomadic culture that’s been moved around a lot. That impermanence is actually quite spiritual, but I do think there’s a latent anxiety in that lifestyle because of it."
- Microbes at work - composter Cass Marketos stored 500lbs of cubed butternut squash in a wheelie bin for a week with quite foamy results. Also, from the other week, how to compost a t-shirt.