Week 34: £137,000
A week of thinking about dad, second flat viewings, paying London rent for 7 years, and making my static website searchable. Read more.
Weekly updates about what’s happening in my life.
Rowan’s Weeknotes
Week 33: Fire Safety
A week of house buying progress, new characters, sun and champagne with friends, and a lot of time spent learning how webmentions work. Read more.
Week 32: Daisy Chain
A week of sunny parks, wearing shorts at every opportunity, some improvements to my mood, and fun racing games. Read more.
Week 31: Vaccine
A week of sore arms, feeling useless, an awful lot of Minecraft, and delicious blended banana. Read more.
Week 30: Office
A week of office visits, successful speedruns, tetris-like cities, a mini Eurovision party, and training myself to like soap weed. Read more.
Week 29: Pizza Party
A week of blogging, trying to get rid of a mattress, binging all of The Circle, and a slightly over-the-top pizza party. Read more.
Week 28: Crusty Ears
A week of fish tacos, simplified communication, very painful ears (thanks Apple), and my rule-breaking family. Read more.
Week 27: Fish Cake
A week of cute birthday boys, blogging again, many crosswords, and a 10-mile walk which my body wasn't prepared for. Read more.
Week 26: Five Pizzas
A week of not working, getting great house news, eating and drinking a lot, and burning 20 hours on a game. Read more.
Week 25: Forbidden Hug
A week of haircuts, COVID tests, time with friends, a forbidden hug, and doing an awful lot of crosswords. Read more.
Week 24: Charismatic Hair
A week of good cladding news, excellent (and very fancy) fry ups, having too much hair, and an off licence crawl. Read more.
Week 23: Wild Garlic
A week of better sleep, better holiday, some very impressive show-jumping from Tootsie, and a wholesome harvest. Read more.
Week 22: Nine Hundred Grams
A week of being a more technical principal, celebrating with champagne, learning something new, and oversharing. Read more.
Week 21: Cladding
A week of boring mortgage calls, thai green curry, rum tasting with strangers, and a food-obsessed cat. Read more.
Week 20: Treasure
A week of exciting treasure hunts, exciting house hunts, and organising my physical and mental space. Read more.
Week 19: Sichuan Peppercorns
A week of Grace Dent, mouth-numbing noodles, giving stuff away, and hunting for London flats that aren't horrible fire traps. Read more.
Week 18: Striptease
A week of takeaway costumes, promotions and bonuses at work, amazing new hoovers, and being an embarrassing drunk. Read more.
Week 17: Thumb
A week of very monotonous TV watching, eating four tablespoons of olive oil in one sitting, and having to type like an old person. Read more.
Week 16: Escape to the Country
A week of driving in the country, a funeral, some shitty news, and drinking a lot of cocktails. Read more.
Week 15: Jackie Weaver
A week of no boardgames, getting drunk along to average TV, surprising life hacks, and the question on everybody's lips: did Jackie Weaver have the authority? Read more.
Week 14: Lemon Meringue
A week of being 33, eating a lot of pie, Lady Whistledown's society papers, and a very cuddly cat. Read more.
Week 13.7: Bonus Note
It's been 13.7 weeks since I started writing weeknotes. Read more.
Week 13: David
A week of more bad news, a few silver linings, building factories, and hunting down cinnamon buns. Read more.
Week 12: Bad News Comes in Fours
A week of bad news. Read more.
Week 11: Cloud Bed
A week of being vegetarian, mapping out an imaginary continent, meeting work objectives, and sleeping under a cloud. Read more.
Week 10: Missed by 137 Miles
A week of surprise rent reductions, impulse-buying, Denethor being bad at eating, and 45 hours in front of the TV. Read more.
Week 9: Festive Spreadsheet
A week of over-eating, chopping things really small, gripping chess montages, and building hospitals. Read more.
Week 8: Cancelled
A week of cancelled plans, breakfast champagne, excessive TV, and a warming cascade of green ticks. Read more.
Week 7: Culinary Genius
A week of truffle oil, Christmas gin tasting, tasting menus, and trousers that no longer fit. Read more.
Week 6: Pointy Tree
A week of spare-time coding, some good reading, an increasingly boozy Christmas cake, and our exceptionally pointy tree Read more.
Week 5: Aldovia
A week of useful feedback, a new (and nearly finished) RSS reader, three research trips to Aldovia, and a box-obsessed cat. Read more.
Week 4: The Princess S(and)witch
A week of writing a blog post, eating far too many toasties, and watching the sequel to one of the best films ever made: The Princess Switch. Read more.
Week 3: Production Issue
A week of being more technical at work, fun treasure hunts across London, and opening a book for a change. Read more.
Week 2: Islands in the Stream
A week of compulsively checking election results, craving cinnamon buns, and having one song on repeat. Read more.
Week 1: Plumbing
A week without running water, finding a new favourite board game, and two Christmas films which don't compare to The Princess Switch. Read more.