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Today was my non-working Friday, and I got up, and left the house, and got a bus to town, and went to the Bodleian where they have an exhibition about divination, which was interesting.

And then I bought a book in the gift shop, and a coffee and cake in the cafe, and went to get the bus home and discovered I'd dropped my Loop earplugs in the cafe when I was paying, and went back calmly to retrieve them and then actually got the bus home and crashed out for the afternoon. It may have been the tiniest of tiny adventures, but apparently it took quite a lot of energy.

I won't be swimming this weekend, because it probably actually is too cold (there is a non-zero chance of the lake actually being frozen, and while we have broken ice to swim before we were way more acclimatised then). I might go for a walk instead.

In the last week, I have:

- been to the cinema (Paddington in Peru, clearly Not As Good As Paddington 2 but very enjoyable nonetheless)

- been for a walk (4.8 miles on a bright chilly day)

- been swimming, twice (first time since September, but we are trying hard to get back into it, and succeeded in not talking ourselves out of it yesterday because the air temperature was barely above freezing, which was absolutely the right decision because it was brilliant. And we have agreed a standing swimming date at 11am on Saturdays.)

- finished knitting a cardigan

- moved two of the belt loops on a pair of trousers I finished last month because I hadn't got the placement quite right, and also added belt loops to the softshell trousers I made a couple of years ago which are the perfect trousers for winter swimming tips except that the fabric was too heavy for the elastic so they tended to fall down. And now they won't, and that was worth the slightly fiddly sewing in deeply awkward fabric, and if I can only manage two hours of sewing in a day rather than a really long sewing session, so what? Very few of my me-made clothes are anywhere near wearing out, so sewing slowly is probably a good thing.

If I can keep swimming every Saturday (or even most Saturdays), and get in a couple of hours of sewing every weekend, that will already be a big improvement on most of last year. And I want to use my Fridays off for some tiny adventures, starting small but just trying to get my confidence about going places and doing things up again, because otherwise I'm just going to spend the rest of my life sitting at home feeling like something is missing and resenting T for having his own life and not wanting to do the same things I want to do. The thing I really want to do is to get on a train and go to the seaside and walk along a beach and eat fish and chips looking out over the water, and maybe even swim, but I think I probably need to start smaller; go somewhere different for a walk, maybe, or go to another town and potter round shops and cafes, or find an interesting exhibition to visit. Suggestions welcome, though I don't necessarily promise to take them.

Tiny Friday adventures, part 1

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