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  <title>Sauntering Vaguely Downward</title>
  <subtitle>Into the land of lowered expectations</subtitle>
  <author>
    <name>Mad Scientess</name>
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  <updated>2026-02-28T22:10:57Z</updated>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-24:119376:1474297</id>
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    <title>1SE for February 2026</title>
    <published>2026-02-28T22:10:57Z</published>
    <updated>2026-02-28T22:10:57Z</updated>
    <category term="olympia"/>
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    <category term="project: 1se"/>
    <category term="spring"/>
    <category term="travel: usa"/>
    <category term="travel"/>
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    <content type="html">&lt;iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MgtWg3c6i3g?si=h_GmsEdYiSItg2Gl" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I spent a lot of the first half of the month travelling, and the second half of the month recovering from the travelling while also working. I feel this video reflects those two halves pretty accurately.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nanila&amp;ditemid=1474297" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-24:119376:1367903</id>
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    <title>Sunset</title>
    <published>2022-03-13T14:31:36Z</published>
    <updated>2022-03-13T14:31:36Z</updated>
    <category term="country life"/>
    <category term="spring"/>
    <category term="photo"/>
    <category term="worcestershire"/>
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    <dw:reply-count>14</dw:reply-count>
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I'm starting to believe that spring is coming.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nanila&amp;ditemid=1367903" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-24:119376:1288924</id>
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    <title>Day 50/183: Lambing season</title>
    <published>2020-03-25T21:26:14Z</published>
    <updated>2020-03-25T21:26:32Z</updated>
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    <category term="country life"/>
    <category term="spring"/>
    <category term="photo"/>
    <category term="project: 183 posts"/>
    <dw:mood>baaaaa</dw:mood>
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Spring rolls on relentlessly, and here in the countryside, that means lambs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://nanila.dreamwidth.org/1288924.html#cutid1"&gt;Baaaaa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nanila&amp;ditemid=1288924" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-24:119376:1245892</id>
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    <title>Bug hunter</title>
    <published>2019-05-04T13:10:58Z</published>
    <updated>2019-05-04T13:22:30Z</updated>
    <category term="child-rearing"/>
    <category term="spring"/>
    <category term="country life"/>
    <category term="keiki"/>
    <category term="photography"/>
    <category term="worcestershire"/>
    <category term="canal"/>
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    <content type="html">&lt;a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nanila/46854896255" title="Bug hunter"&gt;&lt;img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/46854896255_28206cc31b.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Bug hunter"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keiki and I had a big walk up the canal today. He hunted bugs and I hunted photos. Both of us were successful, and celebrated with jelly babies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://nanila.dreamwidth.org/1245892.html#cutid1"&gt;+1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nanila&amp;ditemid=1245892" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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