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Books on pre-order:

Platform Decay (Murderbot 8) by Martha Wells (5 May 2025)

Books acquired in November (and all read!)

Testimony of Mute Things (Penric & Desdemona) by Lois McMaster Bujold
Goalie Interference (Austin Aces) by Kim Findlay [7]
After Hours at Dooryard Books by Cat Sebastian

Books acquired previously and read in November:

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan [May 2016]
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan [May 2016]
Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan [May 2016]
Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan [May 2016]

Borrowed books read in November:

Murder at the Grand Raj Palace (Baby Ganesha 4) by Vaseem Khan [3]

Rereads in November:

Heated Rivalry (Game Changers 2) by Rachel Reid
Tough Guy (Game Changers 3) by Rachel Reid
Common Goal (Game Changers 4) by Rachel Reid
Role Model (Game Changers 5) by Rachel Reid
The Long Game (Game Changers 6) by Rachel Reid

Yes there's a TV adaptation of Heated Rivalry, no it's not available (legally) in the UK yet, also I have had no time to watch it even if it were. But watching it is very definitely in my future plans.

[1] Pre-order
[2] Audiobook
[3] Physical book
[4] Crowdfunding
[5] Goodbye read
[6] Cambridgeshire Reads/Listens
[7] FaRoFeb / FaRoCation / Bookmas / HRBC
[8] Prime Reading / Kindle Unlimited

rmc28

I'm playing for Cambridge Womens Blues against Oxford Womens Blues tonight. My BUIHA stats page tells me this will be my second game for Cambridge WBs against Oxford WBs, hopefully it goes better than the last one three years ago. None of my teammates from that game are playing today, although five of the Oxford women are the same (and one of those five was on my Biarritz tournament team this summer).

My stats page also tells me that I have scored more points against Cambridge Huskies than for them (1 is more than 0), and that two of my current teammates were my opponents in my WBs v Huskies game three years ago. I have no memory of either of them in that game.

The Womens Blues game is immediately followed by a matchup between the Mens Blues teams, so I'm looking forward to watching that, before we all pile on the coach back to Cambridge.

squirmelia

I went to Chelsea, down the steps by the boats and walked between Battersea Bridge and Albert Bridge, on the north side of the river. From the bus, I could see rainbows on the river, caused by the reflection of windows.

I spoke to a person on the foreshore and asked them what they'd found and they had found a ring, although a modern one.

I found a chunk of a stoneware ginger beer bottle - Clayton’s. It would have said on it:
Clayton’s
Old English
Stone
Ginger Beer
London and Kingston-on-Thames

I found two buttons.

The bus stop was still there, as well as a Lime bike.

A crisp packet floated by.

I found two stickers, one of which was a festive bauble.

(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)

jack

I made ten levels for the programming puzzle game I wrote in rust!

Play online at the link: https://cartesiandaemon.github.io/rusttilegame/programming_release.html

It's clunky in several places but you can successfully play! Drag the instructions onto the flowchart. Press space to start the crab robot moving. Get them to the exit.

Leave the tab open, there's not yet any save :)

It's currently best played in a browser on a PC. (It works on mobile except that you need a spacebar. You can also build an exe for windows or Linux if you want, repo https://github.com/CartesianDaemon/rusttilegame)

rmc28

About ten days ago, my hockey-and-languages buddy Owen enthused about Percy Jackson to me on the journey to/from my game in Lee Valley. (Owen was riding along to provide photography services.)

I was like, I've never read the books but I'm pretty sure I've got Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief somewhere in my to-read pile. So I took a look and sure enough, I had ten Percy Jackson books in my kindle account. My emails tell me I bought them in May 2016, and I have no memory of doing so or why (except that they were all 99p so that might have had something to do with it).

I opened up Lightning Thief to see if it was as good as expected ... and got fairly instantly hooked. I've read the first series of five books, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, then I briefly borrowed and read the short story collection The Demigod Files, before moving on to the next series of five, Heroes of Olympus. I'm currently a few chapters into the second book in that series, Son of Neptune. I'm having a great time: the books are good reads and I'm reviving a lot of memories from my childhood Greek myths phase. The positive ADHD rep doesn't hurt either.

squirmelia

It was raining so I went for a coffee while waiting for the rain to stop. It eventually did and I walked down onto Ernie’s Beach. It started raining again and I hid underneath Waterloo Bridge for a while. Not pleasant conditions for mudlarking.

Finds included:

Two pieces of Empire Ware. Empire Porcelain Co were based in Hanley and active from 1896 to 1967. https://www.thepotteries.org/allpotters/389.htm
One of these pieces is from the 1930s as Empire conveniently stamped their pottery with the month and year around that time. The 3 is quite visible.

Three pieces of Express Dairies.

It seems it was the river’s birthday. Happy birthday, River Thames!

A lid from something? Or a holder of something. It looks quite new somehow, so could be some kind of religious offering.

(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)

squirmelia

A lunchtime lark and I found some bits of Westerwald, and what looks like a bit of a comb, with nit comb on one side, possibly bone.

(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore)

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Hello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means

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To-read pile, 2025, November

Off to Oxford

Mudlarking 69 - Ginger beer

Dr Crab Robot Reaches the Exit

Wednesday reading: Percy Jackson

Mudlarking 68 - Rain and Empires

Mudlarking 67 - comb

Look! I remembered to post before December started this year!

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