What I am doing with my days at the moment, updated whenever it stops being true.

This is a now page: not an archive, just a note on what has my attention this month. Last updated in November 2026, from the kitchen table, with the radiator ticking.

A grey mug on a wooden table
The current state of the desk.

Reading

A secondhand field guide to clouds, with the margins full of a stranger’s pencil notes. Somebody spent the summer of 1974 looking up at a lot of cumulus and had strong opinions about it. I am also three chapters into a history of the Baltic that I did not intend to buy.

Cooking

The same lentil soup, week six. It is nearly right. There is something it needs and I suspect the answer is more vinegar. I have also started baking on Sundays, with results I am not yet ready to discuss in public.

Making

A paper index of every walk I remember, one card for each. Forty cards so far, most of them rain. I do not know what it is for. I have decided that is not a question for this stage of the project.

Learning

How to fix a bicycle puncture without swearing. Progress on the first part has been good.

Not doing

  • Getting up early. We have been through this.
  • Looking at the news before breakfast.
  • Saying yes to things in March because March feels far away.

If you are reading this and it is much later than November, assume the soup is still not right.