Today’s TDC asks us to depict a lurker. Here’s a couple of our cats. Lovely Juve cat, the first cat resident with us in this house, lurking in my doorway while I was ill in bed:
juve lurk flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license
And little Cagney cat, hiding under the rhubarb, stalking the birds in the garden:
Lurker flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license
And just like that July is over. Here’s my seven months of photos, one for each day. As I was a way for some of the month it was quite hard to only pic one image to represent my holiday adventures.
The ugly underside of knitting flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC says that:
‘Like an evil twin or a twisted pair, happy places can have an ugly underside’. Is your happy place always happy? What is its underside.
On my knitting chest there is a bag containing a jacket half knitted by my MiL many years ago. I have plans to finish it and gift it to her daughter, my SiL, but have not got around to it yet. It’s a thing of beauty – a jacket from a pattern by Kaffe Fassett which is incredibly complex as every row is different, and with three different colours in every row. This means that the two yarns not being knitted have to be carried across the back, and this means that the back is never as beautiful as the front. There are also many, many loose ends that will need to be sewn in at the end, sigh (like most knitters I loathe this part!). However, as my MiL was such a neat crafter, the back of this project is actually not as bad as it could be.
Anyway, that’s the ugly underside of any piece of knitting – not just what the back looks like, but all of the work that goes into making the final version look beautiful.
Image from here
As today is the last day of my holidays I’ve been trying to suck every last minute of my freedom – but the heavy rain this afternoon thwarted my plans for one last walk and confined me to the house. As I mooched around my various social media haunts I remembered that I’d seen a link to sign up for Blaugust 2026, so here’s my intro post. In case you don’t know:
Blaugust is a month-long event that takes place each August which focuses on blogging primarily and has started to include other forms of serialized content over the last several years. The goal is to stoke the fires of creativity and allow bloggers and other content creators to mingle in a shared community while pushing each other to post more regularly. Above all the goal of Blaugust has always been to prove to folks that they can in fact sit down every day and create something fresh and then share it with the world.
Well, I do like a daily challenge – and recently I’ve been blogging some of my Daily Creates here, but sometimes not till a couple of days later and sometimes not at all. So my intention for August 2026 is to complete the TDC each day in a way that I’ll be happy posting it to my blog and sharing it with the Blaugust community – and hopefully some other Ds106ers will also be joining in.
A quick doodle for today’s TDC. We were given a doodle to complete. Here’s mine.
Porcupine and flowers flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC asks us to make a hat for a sea urchin. I found a sea urchin on Flickr and added a hat via powerpoint online images.
Sea Urchin Cowboy flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC sends us to the Wikipedia Seismograph and asks us to share what we do there. I chose to compare graphs for pages of 4 sea birds.
Sea birds flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Today’s TDC asks us to:
Tell, show, what a culture of belonging looks like
Since about 2016, when I was looking at CLMOOC for my PhD, I’ve had this sketch on my wall
HOMAGO flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
This takes the HOMAGO from Mimi Ito and maps it onto the 3Cs model from sociology of religion – Community, or who we are; Cultus, or what we do; Creed, or what we believe. I talk a bit more about it here.
DS106 and the TDC exemplify this for me – it’s about people working out in the open, practicing what they preach and welcoming others who share their values.
It’s not about charging people to join Zoom calls or gated communities.
Phoenix United Mine flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
