Joined a tea (primarily Chinese tea) discord because I had a discount code for some tea website and they had a discord and it is fascinating how white the vibe is, particularly since my experience with tea drinking (particularly gongfu tea) has primarily been with my Chinese family and like… it’s not a huge, serious, formal deal. It’s just hanging out, drinking tea.

@alpine_thistle I saw this and thought of you! There is a zoom option if you want to attend (tho not sure how timezone will pan out for you etc) https://www.stalbanscathedral.org/Event/the-strange-joyfulness-of-bonhoeffers-prison-letters

Today is a bangers and mash kind of a day

Finished my end of year film round up yesterday and only now remembering to share it. Next up, do my hair and then eat custard.

https://blog.herdivineshadow.com/2025/01/2024-films-and-stuff/

Not me looking at the Universal Scrobbler subreddit and the “cancel subscription” posts and being like “I’ve got premium but no subscription, what’s going on”

and now finally, after years of wondering about this, have finally realised that I paid a one off $5 YEARS ago instead of going for a monthly $1 and this is why

Turns out Listenbrainz is pretty good at serving me music I’ve not heard, that I might like.

Food

I made banana cake with kaya filling yessss

“do we need rice?” as if the answer will ever be anything other than “yes”

Some GENIUS replaced the thread loops on the christmas tree baubles at some point with garden wire and it is SO EASY and then it is easy to remove afterwards!

(might… actually have been me tbh, but I do not remember)

Looking back in my last.fm account and apparently I saw Muse in 2009 in BIRMINGHAM when I NO LONGER LIVED THERE???

I do not remember seeing them AT ALL, although there are old reminder emails I’ve sent myself from my work address around then saying to bring Muse CDs to lend my work colleague and what time she’s coming over on the day of the concert (3.30pm). I mean… she must have bought the tickets since I don’t have those emails but???