7th Feb 2019
In
front
of
the
Sovereign
House
offices
on
Vision
Park
in
Histon
that
I
work
in
(as
of
2019)
there
is
a
gentle
pond.
It
has
a
fountain
that
is
sometimes
spurting
forth,
water
lilies
that
in
their
season
squat
on
the
surface,
and
ducks
that
keep
on
trying
to
rear
ducklings
but
keep
losing
them
to
herons
and
other
predators.
Watching
over
the
pond
there
is
a
coffee
and
sandwich
bar
d:licious
which
I
patronise
once
a
week.
In
early
2019
they
(whoever
they
are
in
this
case)
decided
that
this
pond
needed
a
makeover.
This
was
a
radical
makeover
which
involved
removing
the
fish
and
terrapins,
digging
the
pond
right
out,
laying
new
liners,
reseeding
the
surrounding
green.
As
something
to
put
on
my
website
here
is
a
photographic
record
of
the
process.
22nd Feb 2019
Seeing
snowdrops
time
again
at
Anglesey
Abbey!
A
wonderfully
fine
day
for
doing
so!
The
snowdrops
were
out!
The
cream
on
the
mixture
of
textures
and
shapes
and
hues
on
display.
What
problem
could
there
be?
They
even
had
the
underthrow
wheel
at
the
mill
working!
Well
it
was
half-term,
a
wonderfully
sunny
day,
and
most
of
Cambridgeshire
had
turned
up.
We
barely
found
space
in
the
overflow
car
park
to
the
overflow
car
park.
National
Trust
's
website
had
warned
us.
So
it
was
our
own
fault.
My
sister
had
come
down
to
Cambridge
which
was
why
we
went
on
this
Friday.
1st Mar 2019
One
synopsis
on
offer
for
"Lookout"
is
"People
lose
loved
ones
in
crimes
and
the
criminals
are
not
punished.
The
daily
lives
of
these
people
are
completely
broken.
They
form
a
group
to
realize
justice."
Or
young
kid
traumatised
by
miscarriage
of
justice
grows
up
to
seek
revenge
on
the
corrupt
prosecutor
responsible.
He
enlists
or
manipulates
other
victims
to
help.
Bowls
along
at
a
good
pace.
Villains
to
boo
at.
Plenty
of
traumatic
experiences
and
traumatised
people.
Cast
which
worked
well
together.
Did
not
get
stuck
in
a
rut
but
gave
an
unfolding
story.
Fun!
22nd Mar 2019
We
see
a
lost
village
in
Tyneham,
museums
in
Dorchester,
and
an
Iron
Age
fort
at
Maiden
Castle
when
we
spent
a
week
in
Dorset.
3rd May 2019
"Rilakkuma
and
Kaoru"
is
a
totally
adorable
stop
motion
animation
series
starring
perpetual
loser
Kaoru
and
the
soft
toys
(Rilakkuma
Korilakkuma
and
Kiiroitori)
who
live
with
her.
See
it
or
lose
a
magical
experience!
The
soft
toys
(two
bears
and
one
bird)
are
Sanrio
toys.
There's
a
store
at
Rilakkuma
World.
The
thirteen
episodes
are
short,
whimsical,
poignant,
profound.
18th May 2019
Virginia's
mother's
80th
birthday
20th May 2019
Mug.
Missing.
is
a
text
based,
CYOA
(choose
your
own
adventure)
style
game.
The
plot
has
you
searching
for
your
coffee
mug
across
a
range
of
locations
and
times,
hence
the
name
of
the
game!
There
aren't
puzzles
as
such,
the
choices
each
player
makes
decides
the
order
they
experience
the
game
in
rather
than
affect
the
final
outcome.
I
was
struck
by
the
observation
that
the
order
of
episodes
doesn't
really
matter
in
stories
like
Don
Quixote,
let
alone
TV
soap
operas.
I
think
Lee
Sheldon
made
this
observation
in
a
book
he
wrote.
So
I
was
tempted
to
do
a
work
of
interactive
fiction
where
the
player
apparently
has
real
choices,
but
all
those
choices
do
is
drive
the
order
they
experience
the
episodes
in.
I
don't
claim
this
is
an
original
idea,
one
of
the
laws
I
remember
from
my
university
days
is
if
you
think
you've
discovered
something
new
then
either
someone's
already
discovered
it
or
you're
wrong.
But
I
want
to
do
some
kind
of
game,
and
a
story
with
multiple
paths
through
it
appeals
on
an
aesthetic
level
to
me.
"Mug.
Missing."
is
not
remotely
serious.
Achieving
a
polymorphic
story
is
easier
if
one
can
abandon
realism
or
sense
to
start
with.
"Mug.
Missing."
is
implemented
in
a
custom
DSL
transcompiled
to
Tweego
input
files.
Ruby
code
is
used
to
do
this
transcompilation,
it's
in
a
Github
repository.
I
have
uploaded
the
game
as
well
to
itch.io
at
Mug.
Missing.
by
Lailoken.
29th Jun 2019
My
birthday
fell
on
a
Saturday
this
year,
during
Feast
Week
in
Histon.
A
Flower
Festival
is
held
in
the
Parish
Church
St
Andrews
Histon
during
Feast
Week,
and
Virginia
and
I
like
to
go
and
see
the
displays.
It
was
an
uncomfortably
hot
day
with
a
boring
blue
sky,
but
looking
at
flowers
diverted
attention
for
a
while.
17th Jul 2019
We
cruised
to
Iceland
by
way
of
Norway
and
Ireland
on
the
P&O
ship
Arcadia
which
we
had
been
on
before.
9th Aug 2019
My
sister
Laura
and
her
husband
Phillip
took
Virginia
and
me
to
Nevills
Cafe
in
Medbourne,
a
charming
old
village
with
a
stream
running
straight
through
it.
By
the
traditional
Church
the
stream
even
makes
a
ford!
A
lot
of
water
had
fallen
recently
and
a
Land
Rover
and
trailer
made
a
bigger
splash
when
they
rushed
across
the
ford.
There's
an
ancient
pack
horse
bridge
there
too
if
one
doesn't
want
to
get
one's
feet
wet.
The
cafe
was
interesting,
but
I
don't
know
I
want
the
cucumber
and
mint
presse
again.
So
colourless
I
thought
they
had
brought
me
water
by
mistake!
But
the
taste
was
really
pungent.
25th Sep 2019
Virginia
and
I
have
spent
three
nights
in
Norfolk,
staying
at
a
'cottage'
in
Caston.
To
get
the
downside
out
of
the
way
first
this
was
the
worst
'cottage'
we've
stayed
in.
It
was
really
a
grungy
annexe
facing
what
could
have
been
a
gipsy
encampment
of
cars
and
caravans
and
vans
and
dilapidated
sheds.
I
kept
hitting
my
head
on
the
light
fittings.
There
was
a
door
marked
private
leading
to
owner's
house,
we
could
see
and
hear
the
family
as
if
they
were
sharing
the
space
with
us.
The
doors
are
all
open
with
wedges,
my
bedroom
has
a
glass
panel
in
it
Poor
Wi-Fi,
dirty
tea
towels.
Very
few
tea
bags
and
no
coffee.
No
folder
of
local
information
like
shops
and
doctors
(Caston
seemed
to
be
economising
on
village
shops
and
streetlights).
We
found
our
way
on
the
Thursday
to
Grime's
Graves
where
I
had
last
been
over
50
years
ago.
Grime's
Graves
is
a
field
of
neolithic
pits
where
they
mined
flint,
the
name
Grime
comes
from
Anglo-Saxon
Grim
which
was
another
name
for
Odin
or
Wotan.
There
was
a
large
party
there
so
I
dashed
down
the
pit
open
to
the
public
to
avoid
being
crowded.
Not
too
bad
descending
the
metal
ladder
with
a
protective
helmet
on
(you
had
to
sign
a
form
saying
you
were
fit
enough
to
go
down)
but
arduous
climbing
back
up
the
9
metres.
You
got
an
impression
of
just
how
potholer-ish
and
dangerous
it
must
have
been
mining
for
the
treasured
black
flint
nodules,
which
in
their
day
were
much
more
valuable
than
gold
would
have
been?
There
was
a
small
gift
shop
and
exhibition
there,
the
unreliable
Satnav
took
us
down
into
MOD
land
with
barred
roads.
26th Oct 2019
Our
soft
toys
have
been
with
us
to
numerous
places,
sometimes
in
person
but
more
often
in
spirit.
Their
view
of
the
world
and
the
places
in
the
world
are
different
to
ours,
and
deserve
to
be
heard.
So
I
have
interviewed
them,
and
gathered
together
their
comments
into
a
few
web
pages
using
Twine
to
organise
them.
Go
to
Toy
trips
to
read
what
they
have
to
say!
I
did
a
version
of
these
pages
as
a
virtual
treasure
hunt
for
Virginia
-
so
she
could
find
where
her
presents
and
cards
were
hidden
on
her
birthday
in
2020.
19th Nov 2019
A
lunatic
version
of
"Peter
Pan"
from
the
"Cornley
Drama
Society",
Mischief
Theatre
's
fictional
amateur
dramatic
group
famed
for
their
ineptitude.
Utterly
glorious
and
inventive.
Peter
Pan
Goes
Wrong
follows
the
source
material
quite
faithfully,
that
is
as
faithfully
as
cast
conflicts
and
lack
of
acting
ability
and
technical
blunders
and
serious
accidents
allow.
The
whole
Tinkerbell
episode
was
transcendental
joy.