Laura's Rebel Journey

 I had the "Longest Verified Weevil-Free Path to Zsa Zsa Gabor in the Connection Combat!  They gave me a sticker for my profile page! 😀

  My postcard to Germany arrived and was given a Favourite! 💚 I had a postcard from Germany as well. 

 Today I finished The Last Hours in Paris by Ruth Druart . This would complete: 45. Chapter headings have dates. This one was alright. I suppose.  Although I'm fed up with WW2 books.

 I received my first Post Crossing card today. This hobby is fun, but so expensive.

 Went for a walk with a friend today and hunted down two new caches . And that's the Geocaching badge complete. I still want to do the Adventure Labs clause.  I think that might be something for the better weather.

  Apparently there are some completely sucky humans as well as decent people in the world.  We are taking steps, as a street, to remove this and replace it with some proper artwork.

 Finished Death in Fine Condition by Andrew Cartmel . This would complete: 31. contains a personal phobia - there's an awful lot of Agatha driving! This book was awful compared to his Vinyl Detective novels.  The main character is dreadful and I had no sympathy with her at all.

Some lovely human donated a whole box set of Michael Morpurgo books to our Little Free Library.  

 My postcard arrived in Germany and was given a Favourite! 💚

 I have now finished Life after Life by Kate Atkinson and Winter's Gifts by Ben Aaronovitch . Life After Life could be used for: 11. Lowercase letters on the spine 12. Title starting with the letter L 15. Part of a duology 24. Cover without people 45. Chapter headings have dates Winter's Gift could be used for: 5. Magical Realism 18. An apostrophe in the title 46. Featuring indigenous culture

This is the last day of My Style and HUZZAH! No more taking outfit photos.  Right, what was that last question? My favourite outfits, I think. These jeans because they fit well and don't have chicken poop and craft materials on them.  And these stripes too, I guess.  Reasonably new still and fit in the correct places.  Stick some Hufflepuff in the mix and I'm good to go.  I did buy some Snoopy socks at the weekend. 😆  

 Old stripes to see if they're worth wearing.  Looser cuffs than I'm happy with and it's fading a bit.  I may well let this one go. I also completed Sommelier today.  I didn't do any of the Clauses that involved going out / spending money, but six of the nine Clauses are research based.  So I've done all the research and my findings are now all stuck into my bullet journal where I keep all my Rebel Badge research. They say "scrapbook", but making another book just for each Badge creates more clutter, and there are badges designed to help you stop clutter AND to help you reduce spending!  It's an odd mix at times.

 Non-stripes, but this top has suddenly turned itchy. 😡 I have been given control of the UPHILL ONE NAME STUDY on WikiTree.

Bright lights. Needed to shade the camera! I decided to finish this when I reach 30 outfits.  This is the 27th, so I might get this Badge finished by the end of the week. 💜  Whoop!  I can do these awful self-reflecting challenges - not that I'm any happier about it!  

This floaty thing again.  I'm not convinced by this, or it's black and white sibling either.  Originally purchased to cover up the tummy issues, but those issues aren't so bad now.  I think I will shuffle off the black one, which is a size larger and keep this for days when I feel the need to be floatier! I have posted my first Post Crossing card , and bought myself a few of the really expensive stamps that are now required for cards to the USA.   Karen says she would like a coded letter, and her Grace is also into Detectives now, so I may send her a card as she is a "Child I Do Not Live With".  That would be three of the Clauses done and I could claim the point.

 Right.  I decided to wear this non-stripe top with the collar & cuffs combo on a regular day so it's actually being worn.  It's reasonably new, so it's not going out and I will wear it more.  I have applied to start a One Name Study for UPHILL on WikiTree.

Stripes!!! 😂 I have now finished Top Marks for Murder by Robin Stevens  

That's the first month done and I've counted up my Time Outdoors.  It came to 21 hours and 46 minutes .  I'm going to fill this tracker in before I make a start on the larger 1000 Hours tracker. My final distance walked total for the month is 198.41km , which comes to 123.3 miles .  Of course, February is a shorter month, so if I manage to go over 123.3 this month, then that will be a great improvement.  Long term weather forecast though... sucky for a fortnight! And here is the first outfit of February.  Stripey stripes!  Black jeans though.  Bit snug, but they are staying in the wardrobe.