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And now for my 30 minutes of evening exercise! Up the hill we go 😫

A lush vineyard extends toward a tree-lined hill under a partly cloudy blue sky.

Why centrist politics is failing to live up to the moment

This article is persuasive and powerful about the failure of centrist politicians to counter the far right. Historically, I’m guilty of the same thinking as Starmer and have mostly thought of myself as a centrist, and have mostly focused on trying to identify policy compromises to bring people into the fold. In the last couple of years, though, it has become clear to me that I am really quite far to the left of centre, and especially at the level of core values

My son’s ‘first’ artwork, framed and on our wall. Of course there have been many, many drawings over the years, but he was super proud of this one. Feels fantastic to frame it for him and for us.

A framed painting of snowmen and trees in a snowy landscape is hanging on a wall.

Little jumping spider on the table. Poor thing got fed up with me and started attacking the camera!

A close-up, side view of a small brown and tan jumping spider on a gray textured surface. The spider’s large front eyes are visible.

A close-up, side view of a small brown and tan jumping spider on a blue and black woven mat.

A close-up, side view of a small brown and tan jumping spider on a gray textured surface. The spider’s large front eyes are visible.

“Our study found that, in the case of a crash, being hit by an SUV or LTV increased the odds of a pedestrian or cyclist being killed or seriously injured by around a quarter. The odds of a pedestrian or cyclist being killed increased by 44% for adult/all-age samples and increased by 82% for children."

At this point, you basically have to be a pretty special kind of person to own an SUV (in fact we’ve known how lethal they are for at least 10 years). A good summary on Forbes of this and the other reasons why SUV owners really ought to rethink their ownership.

Just watched an episode of The Thundermans with my son. It’s a really funny Nickelodeon comedy series on #Netflix with a lovely mix of drama, charm, humour, slapstick, and action. We both really enjoy watching it. Sadly, they’re not making it anymore, so we watch it endlessly on repeat!

When someone dies and you prepare for their funeral and reach out to their friends and siblings, you learn about all the other people they were, beyond the person they were to you. And you get to know the full person they couldn’t or wouldn’t let you know, and you wish you could have known that person too. But now it’s too late and you couldn’t have known them in any other way anyway. So you’re grateful for knowing them as you did. And that has to be enough.

I just watched The Last Jedi. I haven’t watched it since it originally came out, and while I didn’t hate it when it came out, it was so different from my expectations that I was a little disappointed.

Watching it now, for the second time, I actually think it’s a very clever way to take the story forward and I really enjoyed it.

Seeing it a second time, I don’t think Luke’s character is mishandled; I actually think it’s very believable and quite a powerful message throughout the film.

I’m looking forward to watching The Rise of Skywalker, which I enjoyed more the first time I saw it, so it’ll be interesting to see how I feel about it now.