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Slow days, small kitchens
and long walks.

  1. Kitchen / 01

    A Year at the Kitchen Window

  2. Slow Travel / 02

    Walking Out of a Bad Decade

  3. Essays / 03

    Everything I Kept From My Father’s Workshop

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Notes to Self

Small reminders, kept in public.

Balcony with flowers and an orange awning

Notes to Self 27 Oct 2026

A Balcony, Six Pots and One Stubborn Geranium

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The geranium has outlived two landlords and one marriage.

A fountain pen resting on a sheet of paper

Notes to Self 27 Aug 2026

Handwriting Is the Last Slow Thing I Do

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Late at night I sometimes watch a stranger’s hand move across a page, and I have stopped being embarrassed about it.

Balcony with flowers and an orange awning

Notes to Self 14 Aug 2026

What a Stranger Taught My Balcony

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After four years of killing things on the roof, I finally did what I should have done at the start and watched somebody who knows what...

A person holding a coffee cup

Notes to Self 10 Jun 2026

A List of Things That Can Wait

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I keep this on the inside of the cupboard door, and I add to it whenever I catch myself rushing.

A person riding a bicycle on a road

Notes to Self 20 May 2026

The Summer I Stopped Taking a Phone on Walks

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It started as an accident, when I left it on the kitchen table, and it turned into the best habit I have.

A shadow of a vase with flowers on a wall

Notes to Self 30 Apr 2026

Sunday Evening, Before It Starts

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There is an hour at the end of Sunday that has a particular weather of its own, and I have spent years trying to do something about it.

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