Happy Hogmanay & Happy New year to you all. Let’s hope we can all stretch out and relax a bit in 2026 and that everyone can just find a bit of peace and tranquility. 2025 has been a bit of a challenge in so many ways, so I’m sending out Big Love 🩷 to everyone who’s found it hardgoing X
December 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Happy Hogmanay & Happy New year to you all. Let’s hope we can all stretch out and relax a bit in 2026 and that everyone can just find a bit of peace and tranquility. 2025 has been a bit of a challenge in so many ways, so I’m sending out Big Love 🩷 to everyone who’s found it hardgoing X
I was in a couple of situations close together a while ago, which pale in magnitude by comparison, but where I felt the only choice I had was over when to pull the plug, not whether or not to pull it.
And it's so hardgoing, knowing it's a choice you have to make, but doing so hurts you the most.
And it's so hardgoing, knowing it's a choice you have to make, but doing so hurts you the most.
December 19, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I was in a couple of situations close together a while ago, which pale in magnitude by comparison, but where I felt the only choice I had was over when to pull the plug, not whether or not to pull it.
And it's so hardgoing, knowing it's a choice you have to make, but doing so hurts you the most.
And it's so hardgoing, knowing it's a choice you have to make, but doing so hurts you the most.
hardgoing-ass pic
October 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
hardgoing-ass pic
Yeah. Pier to pier swim. Was bloody lovely (if not a little hardgoing!)
September 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Yeah. Pier to pier swim. Was bloody lovely (if not a little hardgoing!)
Nice! You can also etch lino with a caustic soda solution if the carving is too hardgoing in terms of hand pain.
www.matthiasprintmaking.co.uk/what-is-lino...
www.matthiasprintmaking.co.uk/what-is-lino...
What is Lino etching? — Matthias Printmaking
Lino etching is the process of using Caustic soda paste (a strong Alkali solution mixed with wallpaper paste) to etch the surface of a linoleum block to create a range of marks.
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September 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Nice! You can also etch lino with a caustic soda solution if the carving is too hardgoing in terms of hand pain.
www.matthiasprintmaking.co.uk/what-is-lino...
www.matthiasprintmaking.co.uk/what-is-lino...
Not exactly a go-to novel for me either given how dark and relentlessly bleak it is ... tbh I even found the Del Toro film of it hardgoing ...
September 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Not exactly a go-to novel for me either given how dark and relentlessly bleak it is ... tbh I even found the Del Toro film of it hardgoing ...
Huh, I didn't know that. My knowledge is largely drawn from the fact I read everything Alan Watkins wrote in the NS political column when I was appointed to write it, but I found...however came after James Fenton?....hardgoing so skipped ahead.
September 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Huh, I didn't know that. My knowledge is largely drawn from the fact I read everything Alan Watkins wrote in the NS political column when I was appointed to write it, but I found...however came after James Fenton?....hardgoing so skipped ahead.
Oh it was really hardgoing, I struggled more and more as I went along but still managed to push through and run 5k so was pleased with that
August 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Oh it was really hardgoing, I struggled more and more as I went along but still managed to push through and run 5k so was pleased with that
Absolutely agree. Achieving change will be hardgoing, require a huge consensus and some personal sacrifices along the way. National strike? Civil disobedience? Demonstrations in every town and city? Or something else?
July 27, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Absolutely agree. Achieving change will be hardgoing, require a huge consensus and some personal sacrifices along the way. National strike? Civil disobedience? Demonstrations in every town and city? Or something else?
Ugh. Hope the shift isn't too hardgoing
July 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Ugh. Hope the shift isn't too hardgoing
Me editing TAWB: Maybe this book is a bit hardgoing and unpleasant sometimes :/
Me remembering the body count of THK, which several readers have told me is their favourite of the trilogy: Hmm, it's probably fine, there's only one massacre in it
Me remembering the body count of THK, which several readers have told me is their favourite of the trilogy: Hmm, it's probably fine, there's only one massacre in it
June 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Me editing TAWB: Maybe this book is a bit hardgoing and unpleasant sometimes :/
Me remembering the body count of THK, which several readers have told me is their favourite of the trilogy: Hmm, it's probably fine, there's only one massacre in it
Me remembering the body count of THK, which several readers have told me is their favourite of the trilogy: Hmm, it's probably fine, there's only one massacre in it
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June 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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There is also a great deal about the Church in the East ("Orthodox" or otherwise) and its development under the Byzantine empire, though those chapters were a bit hardgoing for me. I need to revisit some of these topics after reading a bit more.
April 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
There is also a great deal about the Church in the East ("Orthodox" or otherwise) and its development under the Byzantine empire, though those chapters were a bit hardgoing for me. I need to revisit some of these topics after reading a bit more.
Overall thoughts are that you get an amazingly polarised album here, but it's only the first couple tracks that sound like contemporary Cale in a cool way. The other highlights really throw back to his classic Fear/ Paris 1919 outlook. Full of gems, but kinda hardgoing for the contrast.
March 16, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Overall thoughts are that you get an amazingly polarised album here, but it's only the first couple tracks that sound like contemporary Cale in a cool way. The other highlights really throw back to his classic Fear/ Paris 1919 outlook. Full of gems, but kinda hardgoing for the contrast.
Yep, weirdly, I always find the first chapter of any of his novels hardgoing. It like he's working out what he's writing as he's writing. After the first or so chapter, he's found his story and I'm completely hooked.
January 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Yep, weirdly, I always find the first chapter of any of his novels hardgoing. It like he's working out what he's writing as he's writing. After the first or so chapter, he's found his story and I'm completely hooked.
YESSSSSSSS
(The first episode is hardgoing worldbuilding/mythology dump but ep 2 is 😵💫🥰😭🥺 and that’s the ep that hooked me in good)
(The first episode is hardgoing worldbuilding/mythology dump but ep 2 is 😵💫🥰😭🥺 and that’s the ep that hooked me in good)
January 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
YESSSSSSSS
(The first episode is hardgoing worldbuilding/mythology dump but ep 2 is 😵💫🥰😭🥺 and that’s the ep that hooked me in good)
(The first episode is hardgoing worldbuilding/mythology dump but ep 2 is 😵💫🥰😭🥺 and that’s the ep that hooked me in good)
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👯Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly (trilogy starts with city falling to fascism, seen from the Emcee of Cabaret and his spy boyfriend, who get separated. So good but book 1 is hardgoing because fash)
🏯Jade City by Fonda Lee (1970s kung-fu movie inspired setting, 1 PoV char is queer)
/more…
👯Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly (trilogy starts with city falling to fascism, seen from the Emcee of Cabaret and his spy boyfriend, who get separated. So good but book 1 is hardgoing because fash)
🏯Jade City by Fonda Lee (1970s kung-fu movie inspired setting, 1 PoV char is queer)
/more…
January 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
…/
👯Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly (trilogy starts with city falling to fascism, seen from the Emcee of Cabaret and his spy boyfriend, who get separated. So good but book 1 is hardgoing because fash)
🏯Jade City by Fonda Lee (1970s kung-fu movie inspired setting, 1 PoV char is queer)
/more…
👯Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly (trilogy starts with city falling to fascism, seen from the Emcee of Cabaret and his spy boyfriend, who get separated. So good but book 1 is hardgoing because fash)
🏯Jade City by Fonda Lee (1970s kung-fu movie inspired setting, 1 PoV char is queer)
/more…
I do really enjoy these aspects of it because as someone who works on 17th century texts and manuscripts, I'm interested in the material and intellectual culture of the period and I like the historical immersion. It's just also really hardgoing in a language you're not fluent in...
December 17, 2024 at 11:45 AM
I do really enjoy these aspects of it because as someone who works on 17th century texts and manuscripts, I'm interested in the material and intellectual culture of the period and I like the historical immersion. It's just also really hardgoing in a language you're not fluent in...
Dead in Winter by Scottish author Stuart McBride. Hardgoing if I'm being honest.
November 23, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Dead in Winter by Scottish author Stuart McBride. Hardgoing if I'm being honest.
this pic goes hard feel free to screenshot
July 26, 2023 at 2:52 PM
this pic goes hard feel free to screenshot
the Hardgoing-est Wife immediately offered to go get the truck but I bravely put my dang shoes on and went back down and up the hill. and then we got burger :) just one :)
July 19, 2023 at 12:24 AM
the Hardgoing-est Wife immediately offered to go get the truck but I bravely put my dang shoes on and went back down and up the hill. and then we got burger :) just one :)
A hardgoing day. Temperature wise and going up in attic at my folks house (another challenging temp environment). Parents house has been sold. Sort things out. Lots of memories up in attic. At least found my old fishing gear, which shall use in Devon shortly. Back of garden view.
December 15, 2024 at 1:00 AM
A hardgoing day. Temperature wise and going up in attic at my folks house (another challenging temp environment). Parents house has been sold. Sort things out. Lots of memories up in attic. At least found my old fishing gear, which shall use in Devon shortly. Back of garden view.