I always enjoy The Verb. I think the micro.blog 🖋 folk would like this one.
Ian McMillan's guests Emma Smith, Naush Sabah and Gerry Cambridge celebrate books and pens
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Welsh Poppy in the evening light
Garscube Estate Bridge, has a wee walk this afternoon. Saw a kingfisher bullet under the bridge and a few minutes later two thrill up the river. Bluebells, wild garlic, garlic muster & stitchwort. Hawthorn in full blossom. Overcast occasional rain drops & sunbeams.
A couple of roe in the reeds. Earlier we saw a mallard lead a large brood across the road.
Read: The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami ★★☆☆☆ 📚
Simple, slow and quiet tale, told rather flatly. Left me feeling slightly depressed.
Blue Moon over the park early this evening.
A nice walk around Ardinning Wildlife reserve on Sunday morn, very quiet. Cuckoos, curlews & other singing & calling.
Images: Ardinning Loch, caterpillar, wood anemone, bluebells, dandelion & a green veined white.
Chris Aldrich (boffosocko.com)The IndieWeb is attempting to remove these barriers, many of them complicated, but not insurmountable, technical ones, so that we can have a healthier set of direct interactions with one another
This is a lovely essay on the IndieWeb. Too many quotable sentences:
Venture capital backed corporate social media has cleverly inserted themselves between us and our interactions with each other.
OneDrive woes and fixes – apparently not. I’ve spent a hour or two this evening trying to get some school work done!
Read Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart ★★★☆☆ 📚