Acts of Random Jotting
I started this page early in 2025 and did not really anything about it, but this will be where I think about any new projects that occur and that I tend to just pop into a notebook and then forget about.
2026
- Reading - Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- Reading - The two anthologies of Japanese Literature. And, as part of learning about Japan I want to start listening to some of the Japanese History podcasts - I am aiming for the 40 updated general history of Japan podcasts.
- Complete my photobook project - the taking, curating and creation aspects.
- Weekly nature thing - local nature, learn about something new each week - mosses, fungi, lichens would all work in winter.
- More felting of mushrooms - some every week is my goal
- Crochet - use up the wool I have and make something each quarter
- Work through the sewing book I have
- Read another couple of George Smiley novels
- Write a haiku a day - I did this for over 2 years and then seem to have stopped
- Write some poetry every week
- Read some poetry every day
- Re-read the Very Short Introduction Books I have about the brain, consciousness, viruses etc
- Start reading about European History - start with France as the book is already sitting on the shelf
- Plan more things for this website
- Make more of my steps website
- Go running every week
- Learn to use Affinity Publisher
- Lots of collage
- Start rereading books
- Back to playing with art materials
- Start some regular Pilates to complement my yoga practice
- Finish the third book in the So You Really Want to Learn Latin series
- Finish the Lingua Latina book - for the Latin I will need to get back to doing some Latin every day.
- Finally get round to developing all those films
Sometime in the future - new things
- Learn to use Affinity Designer
- Try some digital collage
- Nalbinding
Things I have tried and would like to do more of
- Wet felting - both 2d and 3d
- Weaving, including backstrap weaving
- Braiding, sprang
- Lino and block printing
- Bookbinding
- Paper making
- Paleography
- Calligraphy
Random ideas not fully thought out
- Gel print onto printouts of steps, make these into 3d steps - would need to learn how to fold paper first
- Patchwork quilted shawl like a pocket shawl
- Embroidered patchwork quilt
- Some sort of photo essay -perhaps revisit Pevsner or choose a local church or building
- Document the buildings in Daventry and compare them to various maps of years gone by
- Document the trees of Daventry - the older ones anyway
- City scapes in collage, maybe fabric
- Look at the sustainability of some of the heritage crafts - compare old with new in terms of environmental imapact
- Something to do with the snails and animals in medieval manuscripts
- Physic gardens and herbals