Pulling the threads together
Nov. 13th, 2022 04:32 pmSome weekends are slow, sleepy, nesting weekends, and some weekends are socialising weekends, and this weekend was definitely the latter. Our friends ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
notasapleasure and her husband, who were for so long our only local friends (and who ended up being our pandemic buddies, the only people we saw in person other than shop assistants for basically the whole of 2020), moved away last year. Visiting them is complicated due to the public transport situation (no direct trains, only buses), and we haven't seen as much of them as I would have liked.
However, this weekend, they came and stayed with us, arriving for dinner on Friday night, and leaving around lunchtime today.
The main purpose of the visit was to go into Cambridge (where we met up with another mutual friend, and one of his friends) for a beer festival that was happening across six different neighbouring pubs. I don't drink beer, but I'm perfectly happy spending an afternoon with friends in pleasant surroundings, and these pubs certainly qualify — most have nice outdoor areas, one of them had a roaring fire, and another was visited by two very friendly, very fluffy dogs. It was good to catch up with everyone, and just be out and about in one of my favourite parts of Cambridge.
Today I managed to get out to the pool for my regular 8am swim, and the town was shrouded in mist.
Much of the rest of my week has been taken up with adding a bunch of new newsletter subscriptions to make up for the impending Twitter collapse. I don't know why I didn't do this sooner — I much prefer longform writing, and newsletters are the next best thing to social blogging (I find that even if they have a comment function, they feel much more like blasts of information, or essays in magazines, and commenting feels intrusive). There are a lot of people writing great newsletters on a variety of interesting topics — I suppose I should do a roundup post at some point gathering them all together. What I'd really like to do is find a way to get a feed of each newsletter importing into Dreamwidth — I know this is theoretically possible for blogs hosted elsewhere, but I'm not sure if it works for Substack (or similarly platformed) newsletters.
We had a load of wood for the fire delivered at the same time as Friday's milk delivery, and this inevitably coincided with warm weather! I'm hoping the mist today is a sign of impending autumnal (or even wintry) weather — I can't wait for fires, and coziness.
notasapleasure and her husband, who were for so long our only local friends (and who ended up being our pandemic buddies, the only people we saw in person other than shop assistants for basically the whole of 2020), moved away last year. Visiting them is complicated due to the public transport situation (no direct trains, only buses), and we haven't seen as much of them as I would have liked. However, this weekend, they came and stayed with us, arriving for dinner on Friday night, and leaving around lunchtime today.
The main purpose of the visit was to go into Cambridge (where we met up with another mutual friend, and one of his friends) for a beer festival that was happening across six different neighbouring pubs. I don't drink beer, but I'm perfectly happy spending an afternoon with friends in pleasant surroundings, and these pubs certainly qualify — most have nice outdoor areas, one of them had a roaring fire, and another was visited by two very friendly, very fluffy dogs. It was good to catch up with everyone, and just be out and about in one of my favourite parts of Cambridge.
Today I managed to get out to the pool for my regular 8am swim, and the town was shrouded in mist.
Much of the rest of my week has been taken up with adding a bunch of new newsletter subscriptions to make up for the impending Twitter collapse. I don't know why I didn't do this sooner — I much prefer longform writing, and newsletters are the next best thing to social blogging (I find that even if they have a comment function, they feel much more like blasts of information, or essays in magazines, and commenting feels intrusive). There are a lot of people writing great newsletters on a variety of interesting topics — I suppose I should do a roundup post at some point gathering them all together. What I'd really like to do is find a way to get a feed of each newsletter importing into Dreamwidth — I know this is theoretically possible for blogs hosted elsewhere, but I'm not sure if it works for Substack (or similarly platformed) newsletters.
We had a load of wood for the fire delivered at the same time as Friday's milk delivery, and this inevitably coincided with warm weather! I'm hoping the mist today is a sign of impending autumnal (or even wintry) weather — I can't wait for fires, and coziness.