What I did in December 2018

I went to St Albans for Christmas and spent time with my family. We played with umbrellas and watched Mary Poppins, ran around trees, caught bubbles and saw where fairies live.

I learnt that some buildings have shoes hidden in the walls, at the Spellbound: Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft exhibition at the Ashmolean, which I visited in Oxford with glyn.

I played on the swing inside the birdcage at St Pancras, while waiting for a train.

I reminisced about taking photos of cranes and being given a lift in a police van, with flangey, when we caught up in the Devonshire Cat.

I ate yellow peach sorbet and vegan apple turkey stuffing ice-cream.

I visited the Museum of London one lunchtime and saw the Experimental photography exhibition.

I had lunch at a Turkish restaurant to celebrate jacqui_c's birthday.

I went to Bleak Christmas and ate a slightly bleak dinner and sang carols and happy birthday to Jesus and chanted “Je-sus” a few times.

I visited the Orleans House Gallery and the Stables Gallery and saw the exhibitions and then wandered around Eel Pie Island as it was an open day.

I wandered around Bromley, shopping with my mum, for unicorn onesies and spaceship sweatshirts.

I saw ice melting outside the Tate Modern and video clips of certain times Marclay's Clock inside.

At Somerset House, I saw the Athi-Patra Ruga: Of Gods, rainbows and omissions exhibition.

I ate Vietnamese food with doseybat in Ravenscourt Park.

I visited the vegan Christmas market at the Guildhall Yard.

Ingress:

I went to the Ingress Enlightened Monthly Social.

I did the Kingston Pub Quiz Missions and walked around Kingston.

What I did in January 2019

I visited an underground farm and ate salad that was grown there! It was a farm in a disused air raid shelter.

I played musical games and typing games and beat 'em ups and other games at the National Videogames Museum in Sheffield with cerebros_vivos and it was excellent to catch up.

I saw Mary Poppins Returns and Colette at the cinema with doseybat.

I went to Croydon on multiple occasions! I went to an Ingress First Saturday there and also to Croydon Fun Weekend! I played a game by Kevan, ate food at Uncle Lim's, had a vegan chocolate and rosewater milkshake at Shakeaway, went on a pub crawl, went on a guided walk, played boardgames at the Ludoquist.

I drank Mexican Lion Boy coffee, ate chicory coffee chocolate chip flavour nitro ice-cream, and also ate a vegan sausage roll at Greggs.

I went to London Burning Pub at the Miller Pub and to a birthday party at the Apple Tree.

I saw Daniel Kitson's Keep and oh, it was funny and moving and good.

I did Veganuary and ate vegan for a month.

On New Year's Day I went to Hastings with my mum and the sun shone and we watched drummers there.