It was also the year of the biggest + smallest carves I've ever made: a pretty large mushroom and a 4-gram duck from an offcut

Honourable mention: a small pair of entangled mushrooms sitting on a shelf in Hartlepool. The most rewarding part's always in the overlap between 'made' and 'given'

I like to end the year by writing down things I've made, consumed, taken, given, and learnt. Thought I'd share a selection of things I made in 2025:

At least 14 kilos of dal
2 wooden spoons + their necessary blood sacrifices
A home of Scotland
Elderberry jam
6 sudoku puzzles
New friends

The test-solve for this took me an hour, which means either it's either a wave of genius or my brain's reached that point of end-of-semester frazzle—I suspect the latter. Anyway, my wintry puzzle:
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A brilliant Making Space session this evening with @guildmedmak.bsky.social.
The owl I've been working on certainly looks "medieval".

ᴵ ᴹᴬᴰᴱ ᴬ ᴸᴵᵀᵀᴸᴱ ᴾᵁᶻᶻᴸᴱ
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sudokupad.app/crlan0ou0e