An ordinary year with ordinary things happening, most of the time. Fully in the post-covid world, with working from home as the new normal, but travel and cultural events all happening again.<\/p>\n
Travels:<\/p>\n
My usual autumn hike didn’t happen because Nysse disappeared<\/a> and turned up three days later, badly hurt<\/a>. He got patched up<\/a> but had to spend many weeks on cage rest<\/a>. Which meant me staying at home with him all that time, taking him out for walks, etc. Thus – no hike.<\/p>\n Work-wise, I visited the Urb-it hub in London<\/a>, only for my contract with Urb-it to be terminated a few months later because they were running out of money. (Despite all their efforts, they went bankrupt at the end of the year.) I moved on to join a dev team at Sortera<\/a>, a waste management company.<\/p>\n Lots of crafts. Finished the fire-coloured cardigan<\/a> on the first of January, and knitted a pretty shawl<\/a>, and a frustrating sweater<\/a> that I both love and am continually annoyed by. Started but did not yet finish embellishing a skirt<\/a>; sewed three dresses<\/a> and then one more<\/a> plus a dressing gown<\/a>. I am now set with comfy summer loungewear for many years.<\/p>\n Bought and started using glasses<\/a> for fiddly work.<\/p>\n This year’s landscaping project was the area to the side of the stairs, where I paved some parts<\/a> and planted others<\/a>.<\/p>\n What else might leave long-lasting marks? I joined an embroidery club<\/a> and am enjoying it a lot, so that’ll probably last. I started volunteering for the scout club, helping out with their accounting and finances<\/a>.<\/p>\n Adrian finished grade six<\/a> and went on to the accelerated math and science programme at Sp\u00e5nga grundskola (which Ingrid also did). Got a gaming computer<\/a> for his birthday, and started shopping at menswear departments<\/a> because he now has size 41 feet.<\/p>\n Ingrid started gymnasium<\/i> with a focus on business\/economics and law, and participated in their art programme<\/a> She has now overtaken me in height<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An ordinary year with ordinary things happening, most of the time. Fully in the post-covid world, with working from home as the new normal, but travel and cultural events all happening again. Travels: The skiing holiday was a total bust for me this year because I was horribly sick all that week. My annual ski […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-observing_the_self"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19338"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19343,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338\/revisions\/19343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}