Status:
Lucy came over this afternoon and we took all the compostables to the allotment. This included a drop-off from another rabbit-caring friend who saves up their poop and pissy hay for us, so we actually have a glut at the moment.
As usual I had to restrain myself from doing the actual physical work which is so hard as I really want to get stuck in. I think I did fairly well, managing a bit of light sorting while Lucy did the lugging around.
Everything is so damp right now. On the one hand it feels dead because nothing is sprouting, but on the other there’s so much luminous green growing on all the surfaces. I took some phone snaps but should really take the Nikon up there before it all dries out in the spring.
Overnight listening:
Reading:
- Two terrible children on a windy hill: a rereading of Wuthering Heights - “What has struck me, reading Wuthering Heights for the first time, is how little of what is held in the cultural memory actually exists in the book." Friends of mine recently watched The Graduate and expressed similar confusion as to how it didn’t match the “cultural memory”. Fascinating how the zeitgeist edits art to fit it, rather than the other way around.
- An internet of checkpoints - a lovely article by Bijan Setphen on the sanctuary offered by internet comments, something that has intrigued me since my blog was colonised by a emergent community that had nothing to do with me back in the early 2000s.
- ME and Long Covid have brought my children’s lives to a standstill - it’s reassuring to see the BBC publishing stuff like this as it’s easy for folk in my situation to completely fall off the radar. Ends with a quote from the government claiming significant investment in Decode ME, which could be promising, and cites their ME/CFS delivery plan from last summer which I guess I should have a look at when I have the energy.
- Life on Peptides Feels Amazing 🪜 - I have no interest in injecting grey-market wellness supplements and this whole story is kinda terrifying, but I have to admit, the idea of a simple injection to tell my body to stop being tired all the time is…
- The End of Analogue: Elizabeth Goodspeed on the limits of imperfection as a design strategy - lots of fun observations about the value placed on analogue processes in a pretty much digital world. (I’ve been thinking about toying with analogue photographic processes but then I remembered I hated all that nonsense and felt liberated by digital cameras, even if a lot of my subsequent work was faux-analogue looking. Complex shit!)
- Noah Kalina’s newsletter and then clicking through his new photo archive.
- Hobbes vs Anarchism
Watching:
- Noah Kalina: What do chickens do in the cold? (13:06) - Noah’s feelings about chickens mirror mine about rabbits. I’ve often thought they’re of a similar vibe.