latest strategy to hurry along my knee surgery: go on holiday somewhere where knee surgeons go, draw a large arrow pointing at the knee, lie on the beach, wait for them to be irresistibly drawn to it

Suffolk Archives have branded sweets. so jealous

IYKYK

good morning Ipswich! (museum still not reopened so I welcome suggestions that aren’t Christchurch Mansion)

did you know that Ryvita was first produced in 1932 … in Birmingham?? (am now off on a massive tangent instead of editing an article on Scotland's qualifying campaign for the 1998 World Cup)

apparently our cataloguing system can’t accept “[13th or 14th century]” as a date but will happy take all the five-digit nonsense that Excel sometimes converts dates to without even flagging it 🫠

if you have thoughts about integrating “prints and drawings from archival collections (some in bound volumes) that were catalogued as museum objects” into an archive catalogue lmk

spent half my Pilates class thinking about cataloguing problems 🫠 why am I like this

fusion cuisine from desperation - despite the nice evening I don’t want to go out to buy sev but pretzels are basically the same thing, right? right??

bought a Victorian writing slope! for Penny, you understand

if any fellow parkrun tourist would like to drive me to Clare Castle so I can connect Bury St Edmunds to the rest of my map lmk (also – new event in Herts, outrageous)

the post-parkrun cheese toastie war between Chipping Norton and Bury St Edmunds has begun

good morning Bury Sr Edmunds!

happy first day of the season to those of you who celebrate

cut my knuckle while slicing bread. not with the knife - with how crusty the bread is

wanted to knit my friends’ baby a hat with stash yarn but everything I own is expensive, lace weight and/or grey

raining in Miami so I’m watching a film (!!) which is an approximately once-a-year occurrence for me

something something digitisation 🫣

Penny is sceptical about KKR

Wordle 1,744 4/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 (sharing for the aesthetic)

maybe the first football hat-trick I’ve seen live? (have seen at least two in cricket)

all ready to have helpful men tell me that that’s not an Arsenal shirt

I'm in the market for a new litter tray for the monsters but some of these product pictures are absolutely terrifying

good morning Didcot!

tower of cats

it is impossible for all three inhabitants of this flat to be content at the same time

also in Chipping Norton: the implausible serendipity of finding the book for next book group in a charity shop! (The Pursuit of Love, in case you’re wondering. not my choice. It was my turn last time and I ended up hating the book 😬)

a belated good morning from Chipping Norton, which had sunshine, @hannahkj.bsky.social and the world’s largest cheese toastie 👌

guess who threw together a halfway decent samosa chole chaat from emergency ingredients

busman’s holiday at the V&A East storehouse

I have been awake since 4am (and to Bromley and back) but I also really want to watch Medvedev beat Sinner 🥱🥱🥱

I guess I’ve introduced a room divider to keep the cats happy (they can pretend the other one doesn’t exist)

all I want from a day out tbh

good morning Bromley! (rarer Sunday tourism adventure on the way to the football)

good morning Ebbsfleet!

also, apparently NEC stands for "not elsewhere classified" which upsets me in the depths of my archivist soul

filling out a gigantic pre-surgery assessment questionnaire and don’t see why they can’t check anywhere what your preferred name is. I’d really rather come out of anaesthesia and not be called by my full government name, is that too much to ask?

parkrun at RTW today celebrating my 200 tourism streak. I have not repeated an event since early January 2022. incidentally I don’t recommend this as a lifestyle choice

good morning Royal Tunbridge Wells!

niche question: in the last week or so I read about some kind of object of which there are only two (in the world or in the UK), one of which is at the museum in Tunbridge Wells. given my job and indiscriminate interests this could be *anything* – does this sound familiar to anyone?

@briteeyedviolet.bsky.social any post-parkrun brunch recs in Tunbridge Wells? tourism party is tomorrow 🙂

crushed to inform @melindahaunton.bsky.social and BlueSky at large that Paralympic curling is exclusively throwing and no sweeping, so I’m no longer interested in my one chance of a gold medal

Penny has moved so many cushions off the back of the sofa that she no longer has space to lie down (in fact she fell off the sofa shortly after I took this photo)

just frying some pierogi in ghee for @girlinthe.bsky.social’s delight

🐙 🧦

please don’t lick the archives

now that Medvedev has won Dubai twice I could repeat a parkrun ??

someone found the sunny spot on the sofa

today in fusion cuisine

good morning Winchester! (muddy)