A black and white sketchbook version of the drawing of a Japanese bar with a spiral staircase up the side.
Black and white version in case anyone is interested in what they look like in my sketchbook
#Tokyo #Sketchbook
A tall, narrow building with a spiral staircase, lit up in yellow against a deep blue evening sky. On one side is a tall apartment block. On the other is a more traditional wooden house. There are plants in pots on either side of the door and a drinks-vending machine to the right. A bright light from the stairs spills out across the road.
Last few Japan drawings: I saw this cute bar with a spiral staircase in Nishi-Azabu, while walking home from Roppongi to Shibuya through the hills, chasing the sunset
Wow! Stunning!!! 🤩
Oh, amazing! 😍 I must head up there tomorrow and look!
I have spent too long on LinkedIn and now I feel queasy as hell because I have used words like 'optimised' unironically
I promised myself chocolate if I finished the applications 😵💫
I guess I passed because I got an email saying I was cleared to apply for the job
But they didn’t tell me my score (or which questions I may have got wrong so I can brush up) 😭
Just took the civil service numeracy exam and to this day, I have no idea how to combine two sequential percentages (which is why I never, ever gamble with real money)
My brain now feels completely broken by the total vagueness of the questions (poor business analysis) and I need lunch
Thanks for the tip! A bit lacking in South London but I can try to cycle to Battersea Park. I walked down the Herne Hill parade last week but they weren't out yet. I'll have to see if Coll's Road in Peckham is in bloom yet, too.
(What tree were you looking for?)
I have pricked out the two snapdragon seedlings that survived and planted them on.
Then I planted about 8000 seeds just past their best-by date in the hopes that something will come up. (Cerinthe, Purple Nicotiana, Ruby Lavatera) 🤞
Jesus H. Christ can this country just be normal about trans people for even 30 seconds?
Discovery of the day: if cavolo nero is left to go to seed, it will basically produce sprouting broccoli (ate it with soba noodles and it was delicious! Also yummy raw, though!)
It was not a hyacinth. Wrong shape and did not smell at all
West Norwood! One of the Victorian Magnificent Seven
It is still very early for either variety
10 seconds into IGNITER and I am in love with Imai Hisashi again 🥰
Also, the wild primroses in this cemetery (normal pale yellow primrose colour) have hybridised with the fancy primulas folks have planted on graves, so now the wild primroses come in every colour of the rainbow
A clump of bluebells surrounded by dead leaves and spring shoots
Just spotted my first bluebell. It is the first week of March.
LOL Spotify tried to guess my enneagram based on the music I listen to and got it COMPLETELY WRONG!!! (Apparently I come across like a 4 but I am consistently a 5)
Your sense of colour is amazing! 😍
Sour Times? ;)
OMG Duolingo just emailed to say it’s my 10 year anniversary?!?!! Has it really been 10 years since I first went to Düsseldorf?!?!!
My German is admittedly fairly fluent these days. But my Japanese remains hopeless 😱
I have been stimming lately by using perfume and scent (so sorry to anyone with sensitivity but I am scent seeking) and went to Brixton to get this amazing Arabian amber stuff and now I want to bathe in it
It’s like this particularly vicious ‘you’re not special; how dare you think you’re special’ aimed at young women
B/W this pernicious idea that ‘feminism is the only answer to all societal ills’ rather than using feminism as a lens WITH disability, trans etc. approaches
Ugh, went on Twitter and one of the UK anti-trans cabal was pushing the ‘autism is over diagnosed, particularly in young women’ myth
These two beliefs feel very connected. What do they get out of this? What are they trying to prove?
Tried one more attempt at talking to neighbours and it’s an absolute impasse. So we have agreed to independently apply pressure to the landlord to do something about soundproofing
Oh man. The last set of outages now has me scrambling to download and archive PDFs of all my stories from AO3
(Which was, for some of these stories the 3rd or 4th place they had been hosted)
This is Lambeth under right-wing Labour. They’re not going to do anything
I warn people when they move in: the floors are not soundproofed, they are very thin. I tell them I‘m autistic and have severe misophonia. I try so hard to work with people to make it liveable
But I just cannot live with being woken repeatedly at antisocial hours. I just can’t
i hate having meltdowns. worst thing in the world. I will do almost anything to avoid them. And they are TERRIFYING for the people around me
But that is what happens if I am prevented from sleeping and put into sensory overload for too long
This is just hell and I feel so trapped right now 😩
honestly think that both tenants and landlord believe if they do nothing about the noise, I’ll shut up and stop bothering them
I’m autistic, with severe misophonia. I have done everything I am able to do to cope. If it doesn’t improve, I am likely to start having meltdowns of increasing severity
