Writing
Everything on this site by topic. Find a word, then the entry numbers that cover it; bold is where to start reading.
The full index
Updated with No. 148 (sample)
A
- allotment see garden
- apples
- storing 61, 118
- windfall cake 119
B
- bicycles
- mending a puncture 44
- the old tourer 97
- night riding 112
- books see also reading log
- bread
- rye 88, 102, 131
- sourdough starter 23, 56
C
- coast path
- Springfield to Gull Point 74, 75–79, 101, 128
- cold water see swimming
D
- dad’s recipes 30, 91
- darning 147
E
- editing
- as a job 12, 64
- my own writing 99
F
- fish, buying from the boats 58, 59
- frost see garden
G
- garden
- raised beds 17
- tomatoes 52, 121
- first frost 125
- garlic 148
H
- harbour
- winter storms 86
- the fish market 58
- habits see also lists
K
- kitchen, the small one 4, 31
L
- letters, writing them 66, 140
- lists 8, 95
M
- mending
- jeans 81
- a jumper 147
- moving house 2, 3–6
N
- notebooks
- how I keep them 1, 50
- the index 100
P
- pencils 29, 100
- plums 117
R
- reading log 139, 143
- rain 84, 86
S
- soup, Sunday 33, 34–47
- swimming, cold water 109, 126
T
- trains
- to the coast 70
- the night train 146
W
- walking see coast path
- winter, things for 126, 127
- 88 the main entry
- 118 with photographs
- 34–47 a run of entries
- see look under another word
- 33 start here
Series
Some topics grew into runs of entries. Each run sits in the index under its own word, with its entry numbers.
A soup every Sunday through one winter, with the shopping list and what it cost.
Nos. 33–47
Winter 2021
Springfield to Gull Point in fourteen stages, one Saturday a month, written up the next morning.
Nos. 74–79, 101, 128
2022 to now
Learning to bake rye bread from a recipe card in my father’s handwriting. The failures are included.
Nos. 88, 102, 131
2023 to now
On the shelf
What I read this year, newest first. Old books mostly: the library sale is good to me.
The Natural History of Selborne
Gilbert White
Letters about one village, written over twenty years. The reason this site exists.
October
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Read for the bean field; stayed for the household accounts.
August
The Compleat Angler
Izaak Walton
A fishing book that is mostly about conversation and lunch.
June
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Took all winter. Worth every evening.
March
Reading log for this year (sample).
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