Things I've written about recently in my journal

Over the last year I allowed myself to get out of the habit of regular journalling. I'm not sure why exactly, but although I often thought of something that I would like to journal about, I couldn't encourage myself to pick up a pen and start writing.

But I have recently been inspired again, and here are some of the things that I've been writing about:

* I found a diagram in my daughter's Geography textbook which I found really interesting. It was very similar to this one on BBC Bitesize, and it explained how caves, arches, stacks and stumps are formed. I don't know why, but something about it really appealed to me, so I made a copy and stuck it in!

* We bought a new side table which matches some of our existing furniture, and so I glued in the page from the catalogue. It will remind me in the future which range it is, in case we want to add to it, and as I'm hoping to own the furniture for a good while yet I think it will be interesting to look back on.

* I wrote about a walk that I took on a sunny day over the weekend, and painted the background green to match the lovely green fields that I walked through.

* I documented a positive technology experience - using ChatGPT to find out the name and author of a science fiction short story that I remember enjoying years ago and then finding a free public domain copy on Amazon which I could download to my Kindle ("The Poison Belt" by Arthur Conan Doyle if you are interested).

* Before Christmas I bought some beautiful poinsettia plants which still look lovely, and I pressed some of the leaves. I then painted a page green and glued in the leaves, I love the papery texture. It didn't capture the true colours that well, but it's a reminder of how much I enjoyed the bright red leaves before they start to fade.

I also have a couple of other notebooks/journals that I update regularly. I have a Gardening Journal, and I've been making notes of how the garden is coming on this spring, things that I've planted and so on. I also have an Everest Journal, although it is slowly expanding into a more general Himalayan, mountaineering journal. This week I watched 14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible and I've been making notes about the things that I found interesting.

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I'm so glad that I've picked up the habit again!