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- 04 Jan, 2026 *
So much I want to do!
Here on the site:
- write more about books I’m reading
- work on some themes for all this, I’m thinking my ‘creativity and curiosity’ and ‘trying new things and doing more stuff’ ideas from last year
- keep developing more pages in a digital garden sense rather than just the blog
- write up some personal canon type things
Personal, home, family stuff:
- for some reason there’s a desire for the fam to go to a monster truck rally? My brother and my wife are planning this? I don’t know?
- swim event in the Lakes
- already…
- 04 Jan, 2026 *
So much I want to do!
Here on the site:
- write more about books I’m reading
- work on some themes for all this, I’m thinking my ‘creativity and curiosity’ and ‘trying new things and doing more stuff’ ideas from last year
- keep developing more pages in a digital garden sense rather than just the blog
- write up some personal canon type things
Personal, home, family stuff:
- for some reason there’s a desire for the fam to go to a monster truck rally? My brother and my wife are planning this? I don’t know?
- swim event in the Lakes
- already thinking about fun summer parties
- maybe I will actually renew my passport and leave the country for the first time in fourteen years?
- take portraits of the niblings. They are all of them absolute gremlins in front of a camera
- my wife and I could do a team sport. I’ve been looking at pickleball. Or barely-sport like pinball. We’d also like to go canoeing again
- do more stuff in my local community. Keeping an eye on events and goings on
- dig out The Mound of excess soil in the garden. Put up the bird feeder
Learning, reading, projects stuff:
- big reads of the Emily Wilson translation of The Iliad, and Middlemarch
- cloudspotting
- old school photography stuff. Think I’ll start with cyanotypes. Work my way through the history
- basic electronics. Which I know nothing about
- I’ve got to do something new about my French because I just coasted through 2025 which is not helpful
- also my French Revolution reading list and Modernism reading list / project
- finish the Marianne North Recollections project
Games:
- go to the boardgame cafe, perhaps regularly
- work on my ttrpg curriculum
- print off modules and organise my collection better
- absolutely going to DM a game that isn’t D&D. Hopefully Monster of the Week, Cairn, Mythic Bastionland, or Troika
Creativity:
- finish my fic! I’ve been saying this every year for four years now! But this is the year! I swear!
- post a zine
- a writing retreat with a friend
- actually finish and submit to a game jam
- learn some proper graphic design