Week 23, 2025
📱 Broke my six-year-old iPhone, three months before I was going to upgrade to the latest model; have bought another old one off eBay to bridge the gap 😩
🎥 Went to the cinema to see John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) …for the first time! 7/10
💼 Received (and accepted) a full-time job offer; start mid-July 🥳
📚 Started re-learning Latin—entirely for my own amusement—30 yrs after reading it at school; Cambridge Latin Course I, Chapters 1–2 ✅
💰 Bought a ticket for the lottery (hardly ever do this) at £2.50 for a £208m jackpot, won £2.90 😂
📞 Had a lovely catch-up on the phone with an old friend of 20+ years; made tentative plans to go visit in Aug/Sep
🎬 Mountainhead (2025) 6/10
🎧 Started listening to the audiobook of Adam Buxton’s second memoir
📺 Clarkson's Farm (S4) 📺 The Fall: Skydive Murder Plot 📺 American Manhunt: Osama Bin Laden 📺 Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story