I want to believe they greenlit the X-Men/Star Trek crossover just so they could write this gag.

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Friday’s achievements: the standard of a laundry-related task, more on the craft project, and reading a few chapters of my book.

Strands #713 “XOXOXO” 💡🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵🔵

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Have woken up to the strange sight of a bright light in a blue sky, after weeks of nothing but rain and could ☀️

I voted for Goldfinch, but all the artwork is lovely ☺️

Strands #712 “See what I mean?” 💡🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵💡🔵 🔵

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Yesterday’s tiny achievements: did a bit more of the craft project, plus the usual trifecta of laundry, making packed lunches, and reading.

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Today’s mediocre wins: - Laundry - More work for volunteer committee - Made packed lunches - Read another two chapters of my book Not much, but it’s all I’ve got for today.

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Strands #710 “Crack and snack” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 💡🔵🔵🔵

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I love the fact that this suggests that counteracting incursions from extraterrestrial abductors is a local council issue. That's as far up the chain as it needs to go.

I have a similar response when I see the students in my area (I’m not far from the university) wearing 90s-style outfits that I would have worn at uni back in the actual 90s 😭

They sit by the hot spring, on the cracked steps laid in by some long ago people. The mosses that vein the cracks also velvet their translucent dark skin. They sing to the steam and the small birds that flutter here and when I slip into the heated waters they sing to me, too.

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Yesterday’s tiny achievements: - Did quite a bit of admin work for a committee I’m on - Replied to a couple of messages from the weekend - Read some more of my book - Made the packed lunches for today Only four things, but better than nothing!

I used to work a place that had a wearhouse with lights that worked off of movement sensors. To be clear. You couldn't turn the lights on or off. They came on when they sensed movement and went off when movement stopped...

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Strands #706 “Boo-o-o-o-ring” 💡🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵

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Yesterday’s five things: - Laundry - Booked shopping delivery for Monday -More encouragement of child working on school project - Drinks out with volunteer group (not a late night though!) - Finished the book I was reading

Today we’re bringing you this charming print by Ohara Koson. Koson was a Japanese painter and woodblock print designer. He was famous as a master of bird-and-flower designs and was a prolific artist, creating around 500 print designs during his lifetime. 🦆 EA1957.81

Strands #705 “Let's face it” 🔵💡🔵🔵 🔵💡🔵🟡 🔵🔵

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Just about managed five things today: - Another load of laundry done - More encouragement of child doing school project - Booked theatre tickets - Caught up with a couple of WhatsApp messages - Read more of my book

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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Today’s tiny victories: - Did laundry -bEncouraged/ supported child to work on school project (took both effort and patience; perhaps should count as two) - Worked on craft project - Watched an episode of a show that I’m trying to rewatch - Made packed lunches for tomorrow

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Todays five mundane achievements: - Cleaned the kitchen window and windowsill - Cleaned the grill - Put away the dry laundry - Read another chapter of my book - Made packed lunches for tomorrow.

My painting TROUT WATER

Strands #702 “On key” 💡🔵💡🔵 💡🔵💡🔵 🟡🔵🔵

The lonely coyote of Alcatraz www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Decided to keep going with my daily lists of five minor achievements in February as it has been helpful on tough days. I was feeling better this morning as we’d got through the stresses of January, but another worrying thing has cropped up this evening (issues with elderly relatives 😞)

Strands #701 “Formidable flock” 💡🔵💡🔵 🔵🟡🔵💡 🔵🔵

My favourite comment on Zack Polanski was an article from the Yorkshire Post a couple of weeks ago, about a talk he did in Wakefield, which used the phrase ‘Mr Polanski, a Mancunian…’. Vital context in #Yorkshire 😀

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Feb reading goals: - Nimona by Noelle Stevenson - The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman - That’ll Teach Her by Maz Evans - Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume - The Offing by Benjamin Myers Four library books and a book club book!

January update. I read: - The Ivory Tomb by Melissa Caruso (TBR shelves) - Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford (book club) - Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan re-read) - The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey (book club) - Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn (TBR shelves)

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