SERIES

There have been a few ongoing themes through the years, that I've written about in chapters. Whether it's the social distancing of 2020, or the ongoing battle against hayfever, here's the list of series I've blogged about:

Isolation Diaries - surviving the Covid pandemic

The Pollen Diaries

This is the recurring theme of hay fever which hits me every summer. It's grim.

• Part 1 (April 2014)
• Part 2 (May 2014)
• Part 3 (June 2014)
• Part 4 (June 2014)
• Part 5 (June 2015)
• Part 6 (May 2016)
• Part 7 (June 2016)
• Part 8 (June 2016)
• Part 9 (July 2016)
• Part 10 (June 2017)
• Part 11 (June 2017)
• Part 12 (May 2018)
• Part 13 (June 2018)
• Part 14 (June 2018)
• Part 15 (June 2018)
• Part 16 (June 2019)
• Part 17 (July 2019)
• Part 18 (May 2020)
• Part 19 (June 2020)

Home Hunting

This is the story of how I bought my flat in 2015.

1. The Inbetweeners
2. The Merry-Go-Round
3. Green Light
4. Imagination
5. Planet Gogetter
6. Gazumpery
7. Prerequisites for a Miracle
8. Character
9. The Matrix
10. Unreachable Palaces
11. Too Low
12. Return to the Forbidden Planet
13. Wait for It
14. Top Trumps
15. The When and the How
16. Solicitors' World
17. Home Straight
18. Impatience Quotient
19. Exchange Day
20. The Miracle

And this is the story of how I left it six and a half years later…

The Unsettling Adventure

1. The Unsettling Adventure
2. Sweaty Will Smith
3. Piles of Boxes
4. Getting Moving
5. Keyholders For a Time
6. The Quiet Front Door 
7. Tortoise Thoughts
8. Stuff Jail
9. Poppy Linda and Her Automated Tree of Pressable Options
10. Catch Up
11. Faith at the End-of-the-Road Signpost
12. I Just Want to Go Home
13. Garden Leave
14. Twenty-Thousand Foot Silence
15. Dragons and Drawbridges
16. Weighted Blanket
17. Weary for Home
18. Orientation
19. Crunch Week
20. Squashed Tea
21. Tales of the Pussy Cat
22. Night Voices
23. Snowy Denouement
24. Cold Stars and Burst Pipes
25. Angry Night
26. In Theory
27. Easy Does It
28. Grit, Grace, and Growth: The End of the Unsettling Adventure

Blog Birthdays

These are the posts I've written each year on this blog's birthday, November 18th. Their titles are all lines from The Walrus and the Carpenter (as much as you might expect) though not in the right order.

2014: Why the Sea is Boiling Hot

2015: And Whether Pigs Have Wings

2016: Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

2017: Of Cabbages and Kings

2018: To Talk of Many Things

2019: The Time Has Come, The Walrus Said

2020: The Sun Was Shining on the Sea

2021: The Billows Smooth and Bright

2022: And This was Odd Because it Was

2023: The Middle Of The Night

2024: The Moon was Shining Sulkily

2025: The Sands Were Dry as Dry