Lindenfield Noteshttps://lindenfield-notes.com/Small notes on walks, food, books and repairs.en Soup seasonhttps://lindenfield-notes.com/2026/10/soup-season/https://lindenfield-notes.com/2026/10/soup-season/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:30:00 +0000The first properly cold week arrived in October, and with it the yearly return of soup. From now until about March, Sunday afternoon means a large pot on the stove and lunches sorted for most of the week. Repairing a chair, badly, then less badlyhttps://lindenfield-notes.com/2026/09/repairing-a-chair/https://lindenfield-notes.com/2026/09/repairing-a-chair/Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:30:00 +0000There is a wooden kitchen chair that came with the flat. Beech, probably, with a rush seat that has seen better decades. One of the back rungs started to wobble in the spring, and by August it had come out of its hole entirely and was living on the windowsill. A month without the phone on the nightstandhttps://lindenfield-notes.com/2026/08/phone-off-the-nightstand/https://lindenfield-notes.com/2026/08/phone-off-the-nightstand/Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:30:00 +0000In mid-July I moved the phone charger from the bedroom to the hallway. That was the whole experiment. The phone sleeps in the hall now and I sleep in the bedroom, and we meet again in the morning. Notes on reading slowlyhttps://lindenfield-notes.com/2026/07/notes-on-reading-slowly/https://lindenfield-notes.com/2026/07/notes-on-reading-slowly/Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:30:00 +0000Last year I read a lot of books and remember almost none of them. I was reading the way you eat standing up, quickly and without tasting much. This summer I am trying the opposite: one book at a time, a few pages a day, with the paper notebook open next to it. Walking the long way to the stationhttps://lindenfield-notes.com/2026/05/walking-the-long-way/https://lindenfield-notes.com/2026/05/walking-the-long-way/Wed, 27 May 2026 09:30:00 +0000The direct route to my station takes eleven minutes and runs along a road with four lanes of traffic and one bakery. There is another route that takes twenty-five minutes. It goes behind the allotments, along a canal with a towpath that floods in March, and past a row of small houses where someone keeps an impressive number of cats. The bread that finally workedhttps://lindenfield-notes.com/2026/05/the-bread-that-finally-worked/https://lindenfield-notes.com/2026/05/the-bread-that-finally-worked/Sun, 03 May 2026 09:30:00 +0000I have made bad bread for years. Dense loaves, pale loaves, one memorable loaf that stuck to the tin so firmly that tin and bread went into the bin together. This spring I gave up on being clever and went back to the plainest no-knead recipe I could find. Back to a paper notebookhttps://lindenfield-notes.com/2026/04/back-to-paper/https://lindenfield-notes.com/2026/04/back-to-paper/Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:30:00 +0000For about six years every note I took went into an app. Shopping lists, half ideas, the name of a song someone played at a party. The app was fine. It synced, it searched, it never got coffee spilled on it. And at some point this winter I realised I had not read a single one of those notes twice.