Collections

Grouped by what's actually happening, not by keyword. Each collection is short on purpose — between eight and fifteen, because a list of a hundred is a list nobody reads to the end.

Ordinary days

• Nothing happened and it was lovely.
• Tuesday, doing its best.
• The good kind of uneventful.
• I made soup. That's the update.
• Small day. Counted anyway.

Walks

• Same bench, different year.
• Took the long way on purpose.
• Six miles and one opinion, now resolved.
• Went out for air, came back with a plan.
• The hill won, but only just.

Moving house

• Everything I own, in eleven boxes and one bin bag.
• New postcode, same mugs.
• Day one: the kettle knows where it lives.
• Still finding the light switches by feel.

Birthdays you'd rather skip

• Another one. Fine. Cake helps.
• Thirty-eight. Reader, I coped.
• Low-key by design, not by accident.

Small wins

• Finished the thing I'd been avoiding since March.
• Made the call. It took four minutes.
• Kept a plant alive for a whole year.

Older collections are in the archive. A few of them I've marked as dated, because language moves and some of these now sound like 2020.