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Currently somewhere off Galicia heading for Lisbon. Our second Cunard cruise and, whilst we're not quite as enamoured as we were with Queen Victoria, it really is a great ship.

It's possible that a fair bit of this is CGI but I think the main buildings are real.

We're always looking for new players. You can check us out on Instagram or message me and I can let you know when your next rookie training session is and meet you there.

It's a great community to be part of!

Incredible find in Oxfam Bookshop.

http://archive.today/2026.08.06-162238/https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/26442807.thetford-asylum-migrants-violence-protest-unfolded/

If you've been paying attention, there's been a lot going on in Thetford over the last few years and it seems to be reaching boiling point now with mobs and violence towards foreigners.

It's worth reading the article because the EDP have never been shy about uncritically reporting the comments of these anti-migrant protestors and some of the comments made here are really stomach-churning.

Hope everyone is having a fun day in the sun! Always a privilege to march in Norwich Pride and it seems to have gone smoothly this year with no counter-protestors or drama.

Happy Pride everyone!

Life is tough for the guy who prefers the lined notebooks to the squared ones.

Cheese, sausage roll, multigrain bread, butter, chutney, pickled onions and salad with vinegarette dressing.

I’d like to know the calorie count so I can eat it many more times!

My guess is 950?

I am the absolute last person you’d ever think of as a runner, but I’m doing it! I’ve been running two 5ks a week for the past month and, alongside some other lifestyle changes, I’ve never felt better.

I did my first run in proper running shoes today and I can see why everyone has been telling me to buy some.

I thought I’d need to do something like Couch to 5k since I thought of myself as pretty unfit but I found I was really wanting to just run and, as the month has gone on, I’ve graduated from a 10:40 pace to 7:50ish with negative splits and my fastest km at 6:20. I am quite shocked at myself!

Just wanted to share something here since I don’t use social media!

Thinking about braving a Parkrun soon.

I began to use a commonplace book back in 2023 as I transitioned into a digital minimalist lifestyle. I've kept one up ever since and have found it tremendously useful and a good in and of itself. If I'm trying to come up with ideas for writing or my videos, I just leaf back through old notebooks now.

I've changed how I used them a fair bit. I have moved the journal elements into a separate Field Notes notebook and I spend less time organising and indexing because my interactions with them rarely go through those tools and a more organic. I've stuck to the same notebooks though, you can't beat a plain B6 Leuchtturm.

Cal Newport looked at six posts from this subreddit this week as part of the Deep Questions podcast. He went through the advice and rated its effectiveness.

I was really pleasantly surprised that he picked one of my posts (and gave it an A!).

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/can-i-be-a-digital-minimalist-in-2026-monday-advice/id1515786216?i=1000774676980 - well worth a listen!

I am honestly in shock. I was doing 10:00+ km because I thought that’s all I had in me. I sped up to pass someone on km 2 and just didn’t slow down.

I‘m a big guy but I play rugby and go to the gym so that has helped with cardio capacity.

I just feel very, very proud. ✨

One of the activities I've replaced doom scrolling with is scanning in interesting things from my collection of old books and ephemera. I'm loving the chance to reconnect with these collections but I want to be able to share them with friends without using social media.

In the distant past, I used to use Tumblr for this. I want to build a small, simple website to host these images and some blog posts and poetry.

I've looked at Jekyll and GitHub pages but it sits outside my technical ability and I don't want to use AI. Are there any simple website builders out there I could link to my custom domain name? Ideally, it would be a WYSIWYG editor.

I am building a body of scans of interesting books and artefacts from my collection. It is an activity I've taken up to replace doomscrolling and I am really enjoying the chance to review books and ephemera I've collected over the years.

I'd really like to be able to upload them to the web and share them with my friends. In the quite distant past I used to use Tumblr for this. I have investigated building a website with Jekyll and hosting it on GitHub pages but it sits outside my technical abilities and I don't want to use AI.

Any advice on building a simple website with galleries? Ideally, using a WYSIWYG editor and with the ability to use my custom domain name.

I have run at a calorie deficit every day for over a month now. Is this shop perfect? No. Is it progress towards a simpler life and a healthier existence? Yes.

I’m cooking more, eating out less, not ordering any more deliveries. Planning, prepping and, most importantly, feeling full and satisfied.

I've had great fun making these little photo zines the last couple of days. I've really enjoyed selecting photos from my enormous photo reel and arranging them.

I just use a template on Canva and print them out on A4 paper then it's just a case of trimming, folding, cutting and sticking. It makes a really satisfying little booklet that I'm starting to build a collection of.

https://www.museums.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/how%20to%20fold%20a%20zine.pdf < this is the instructions I used

Tough one today. Drove home from work, cooked a proper meal, headed out into the evening for a cycle ride. Sat by the river, read my book, had a cup of tea and wrote my journal.

A step up from my old tough day routine of a takeaway and three hours of scrolling.