“I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now.”

The famed Field Notes tagline is all very well but what if, even having written it down, you fail to remember it? Quasi-disaster ensues, if you’re me. As usual, the culprit is past me not paying enough attention to future me’s needs.

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⏱️ 05:21 total (2:45 actual) ⇄39.3km ⌀14.3km/h ↗?m ↘?m

Yesterday there was a Pedalata Solidale in an area to the south of Rome, organised by Salvaiciclisti Roma. I belong to a different cycling organisation, but it seemed like a good idea to get out and about for the first time in ages...

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The Squeeze’s yoga class had transferred for the summer to a spot on the far side of our local park. Last night was the first chance she had to go and I elected to go with so that I could help on the way home. There was a beautiful fullish moon so it wasn’t hard to see and it was a very pleasant walk. When we got to the gate out of the park, however, disaster.

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Ravelry is an astonishing resource for knitters, crocheters and various other fibre crafts. It hosts patterns, advice forums, yarn details and kinda sorta blogs, all co-created (as the cool kids would have it) by the hundreds of thousands of members. I joined earlier this year, when I took up crochet, in search of something more interesting than Granny Squares.

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Whose responsibility is it, in the wake of Typepad’s pulling out its own plug any day now, to maintain those links? It is sad, for sure, that they simply issued an ultimatum to all the writers who gave them “content”. Some may well choose to relocate. Many probably will not. And some that ought to k...

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