Pete Ashton
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Pete Ashton
@peteashton.com
· Mar 24
The state of Pete
I've been unwell, and will continue to be unwell for a while. This is an account of where that unwellness is at.
72.peteashton.com
Wrote about my illness. 72.peteashton.com/the-state-of...
This took me a couple of weeks to write and partly in lieu of me being able to stay in touch with a number of friends and family. Chronic fatigue is a fucking arse, but I'm slowly learning how to manage it.
This took me a couple of weeks to write and partly in lieu of me being able to stay in touch with a number of friends and family. Chronic fatigue is a fucking arse, but I'm slowly learning how to manage it.
Notes and links from 2 Oct: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/10/02/notes-and-links-from-oct.html
A fairly nondescript day. Pottered around a bit and didn’t accidentally start a project, so that’s good. Conserving energy and resting properly. Bit bored though.
Trying not to get wound up about th...
A fairly nondescript day. Pottered around a bit and didn’t accidentally start a project, so that’s good. Conserving energy and resting properly. Bit bored though.
Trying not to get wound up about th...
October 2, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Notes and links from 2 Oct: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/10/02/notes-and-links-from-oct.html
A fairly nondescript day. Pottered around a bit and didn’t accidentally start a project, so that’s good. Conserving energy and resting properly. Bit bored though.
Trying not to get wound up about th...
A fairly nondescript day. Pottered around a bit and didn’t accidentally start a project, so that’s good. Conserving energy and resting properly. Bit bored though.
Trying not to get wound up about th...
Notes and links from 1 Oct: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/10/01/notes-and-links-from-oct.html
My local park on October 1st
One of my goals as set by the CFS occupational therapist is to go to a social space once a week. I’ve picked The Cloak and Dagger on Stirchley High Street as somewhere ...
My local park on October 1st
One of my goals as set by the CFS occupational therapist is to go to a social space once a week. I’ve picked The Cloak and Dagger on Stirchley High Street as somewhere ...
October 1, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Notes and links from 1 Oct: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/10/01/notes-and-links-from-oct.html
My local park on October 1st
One of my goals as set by the CFS occupational therapist is to go to a social space once a week. I’ve picked The Cloak and Dagger on Stirchley High Street as somewhere ...
My local park on October 1st
One of my goals as set by the CFS occupational therapist is to go to a social space once a week. I’ve picked The Cloak and Dagger on Stirchley High Street as somewhere ...
Notes and links from 30 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/30/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
A quiet day, although I did finally receive a couple of widgets I’d accidentally ordered from China on eBay (hate it when that happens, not so much for the shipping time as for the wrongness feel...
A quiet day, although I did finally receive a couple of widgets I’d accidentally ordered from China on eBay (hate it when that happens, not so much for the shipping time as for the wrongness feel...
September 30, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Notes and links from 30 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/30/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
A quiet day, although I did finally receive a couple of widgets I’d accidentally ordered from China on eBay (hate it when that happens, not so much for the shipping time as for the wrongness feel...
A quiet day, although I did finally receive a couple of widgets I’d accidentally ordered from China on eBay (hate it when that happens, not so much for the shipping time as for the wrongness feel...
Clearing the tabs: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/30/clearing-the-tabs.html
I need to declare browser bankruptcy so to mark the end of September here is bundle of links I haven’t read in full but think might be of interest to what passes for my readership demographic. Click with caution an...
I need to declare browser bankruptcy so to mark the end of September here is bundle of links I haven’t read in full but think might be of interest to what passes for my readership demographic. Click with caution an...
September 30, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Clearing the tabs: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/30/clearing-the-tabs.html
I need to declare browser bankruptcy so to mark the end of September here is bundle of links I haven’t read in full but think might be of interest to what passes for my readership demographic. Click with caution an...
I need to declare browser bankruptcy so to mark the end of September here is bundle of links I haven’t read in full but think might be of interest to what passes for my readership demographic. Click with caution an...
Notes and links from 29 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/29/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Psychotherapy day today, alongside a need to rest, so mostly pottering in the garden. Sister came over to borrow something from the shed so we had a brief catch-up. I mentioned my therapy had mov...
Psychotherapy day today, alongside a need to rest, so mostly pottering in the garden. Sister came over to borrow something from the shed so we had a brief catch-up. I mentioned my therapy had mov...
September 29, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Notes and links from 29 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/29/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Psychotherapy day today, alongside a need to rest, so mostly pottering in the garden. Sister came over to borrow something from the shed so we had a brief catch-up. I mentioned my therapy had mov...
Psychotherapy day today, alongside a need to rest, so mostly pottering in the garden. Sister came over to borrow something from the shed so we had a brief catch-up. I mentioned my therapy had mov...
Notes and links from 28 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/28/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Nothing much to report today. Bit of a fuzzy head so a rest day, all in all.
Not overly happy with my link-notes below. Can’t seem to get the phrasing right, but also my judgement might be off an...
Nothing much to report today. Bit of a fuzzy head so a rest day, all in all.
Not overly happy with my link-notes below. Can’t seem to get the phrasing right, but also my judgement might be off an...
September 28, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Notes and links from 28 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/28/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Nothing much to report today. Bit of a fuzzy head so a rest day, all in all.
Not overly happy with my link-notes below. Can’t seem to get the phrasing right, but also my judgement might be off an...
Nothing much to report today. Bit of a fuzzy head so a rest day, all in all.
Not overly happy with my link-notes below. Can’t seem to get the phrasing right, but also my judgement might be off an...
Notes and links from 27 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/27/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
So yeah, it’s been a week since I last posted. I had a major chronic fatigue crash on the 19th, the likes of which I haven’t experienced for a long time, maybe since Christmas? It wasn’t nice and...
So yeah, it’s been a week since I last posted. I had a major chronic fatigue crash on the 19th, the likes of which I haven’t experienced for a long time, maybe since Christmas? It wasn’t nice and...
September 27, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Notes and links from 27 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/27/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
So yeah, it’s been a week since I last posted. I had a major chronic fatigue crash on the 19th, the likes of which I haven’t experienced for a long time, maybe since Christmas? It wasn’t nice and...
So yeah, it’s been a week since I last posted. I had a major chronic fatigue crash on the 19th, the likes of which I haven’t experienced for a long time, maybe since Christmas? It wasn’t nice and...
Fox thief in the hedgehog cafe: youtu.be/73PQQrxL4T0
After the mouse heist over the weekend we noticed the bowl had been moved from it's normal position at the end of the tunnel and appeared to have been licked clean. Turns out the hedgehog cafe is not as fox-proof as we'd like. Time for a rebuild!
After the mouse heist over the weekend we noticed the bowl had been moved from it's normal position at the end of the tunnel and appeared to have been licked clean. Turns out the hedgehog cafe is not as fox-proof as we'd like. Time for a rebuild!
Fox thief in the hedgehog cafe - 21 Sept 2026
YouTube video by Pete Ashton
youtu.be
September 21, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Fox thief in the hedgehog cafe: youtu.be/73PQQrxL4T0
After the mouse heist over the weekend we noticed the bowl had been moved from it's normal position at the end of the tunnel and appeared to have been licked clean. Turns out the hedgehog cafe is not as fox-proof as we'd like. Time for a rebuild!
After the mouse heist over the weekend we noticed the bowl had been moved from it's normal position at the end of the tunnel and appeared to have been licked clean. Turns out the hedgehog cafe is not as fox-proof as we'd like. Time for a rebuild!
Mouse thief in the hedgehog cafe
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz4a...
Not much hedgehog action this last month but we've noticed the food has slowly continued to go down. Turns out we have a thief who is ferrying the dry cat food to their nest.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz4a...
Not much hedgehog action this last month but we've noticed the food has slowly continued to go down. Turns out we have a thief who is ferrying the dry cat food to their nest.
Mouse thief in the hedgehog cafe - 19 Sept 2026
YouTube video by Pete Ashton
www.youtube.com
September 20, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Mouse thief in the hedgehog cafe
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz4a...
Not much hedgehog action this last month but we've noticed the food has slowly continued to go down. Turns out we have a thief who is ferrying the dry cat food to their nest.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz4a...
Not much hedgehog action this last month but we've noticed the food has slowly continued to go down. Turns out we have a thief who is ferrying the dry cat food to their nest.
I have at least six versions of Eddie Campbell's early Alec stories. Possibly more. (Escape magazine, Escape collection, ACME/Eclipse collection, Bacchus magazine, self published collection, Top Shelf collection.)
Name a comic you’ve bought more than three times. #comics
September 20, 2026 at 12:34 PM
I have at least six versions of Eddie Campbell's early Alec stories. Possibly more. (Escape magazine, Escape collection, ACME/Eclipse collection, Bacchus magazine, self published collection, Top Shelf collection.)
Notes and links from 18 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/18/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Didn’t sleep too well, pretty tired today. This has definitely been a recovery week.
What ME/CFS is, and how it’s wrecking me
Didn’t sleep too well, pretty tired today. This has definitely been a recovery week.
What ME/CFS is, and how it’s wrecking me
September 18, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Notes and links from 18 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/18/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Didn’t sleep too well, pretty tired today. This has definitely been a recovery week.
What ME/CFS is, and how it’s wrecking me
Didn’t sleep too well, pretty tired today. This has definitely been a recovery week.
What ME/CFS is, and how it’s wrecking me
Notes and links from 17 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/17/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
More pottering today, thought I appear to have accidentally gestated a couple of plans so I guess my brain is over the fatigue?
The first is to extend the water harvesting to the shed roof and pi...
More pottering today, thought I appear to have accidentally gestated a couple of plans so I guess my brain is over the fatigue?
The first is to extend the water harvesting to the shed roof and pi...
September 17, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Notes and links from 17 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/17/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
More pottering today, thought I appear to have accidentally gestated a couple of plans so I guess my brain is over the fatigue?
The first is to extend the water harvesting to the shed roof and pi...
More pottering today, thought I appear to have accidentally gestated a couple of plans so I guess my brain is over the fatigue?
The first is to extend the water harvesting to the shed roof and pi...
TIL Michael McIntyre and Macklemore are not the same person.
September 16, 2026 at 10:34 PM
TIL Michael McIntyre and Macklemore are not the same person.
Notes and links from 16 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/16/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Rest day, mostly pottering in the garden and making the finishing tweaks to the rabbit run water harvesting system. I’m happy that it’s now good enough to run through the winter and save up enoug...
Rest day, mostly pottering in the garden and making the finishing tweaks to the rabbit run water harvesting system. I’m happy that it’s now good enough to run through the winter and save up enoug...
September 16, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Notes and links from 16 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/16/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Rest day, mostly pottering in the garden and making the finishing tweaks to the rabbit run water harvesting system. I’m happy that it’s now good enough to run through the winter and save up enoug...
Rest day, mostly pottering in the garden and making the finishing tweaks to the rabbit run water harvesting system. I’m happy that it’s now good enough to run through the winter and save up enoug...
Notes and links from 15 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/15/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Ideally this would have been a rest day but Tuesday is psychotherapy day so no rest just yet. The session went well but afterwards it was clear my battery was exhausted and I got a bit stress tri...
Ideally this would have been a rest day but Tuesday is psychotherapy day so no rest just yet. The session went well but afterwards it was clear my battery was exhausted and I got a bit stress tri...
September 15, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Notes and links from 15 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/15/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Ideally this would have been a rest day but Tuesday is psychotherapy day so no rest just yet. The session went well but afterwards it was clear my battery was exhausted and I got a bit stress tri...
Ideally this would have been a rest day but Tuesday is psychotherapy day so no rest just yet. The session went well but afterwards it was clear my battery was exhausted and I got a bit stress tri...
Notes and links from 14 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/14/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Rest day, and much needed. Lots of sleeping, not much doing.
Rest day, and much needed. Lots of sleeping, not much doing.
September 14, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Notes and links from 14 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/14/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Rest day, and much needed. Lots of sleeping, not much doing.
Rest day, and much needed. Lots of sleeping, not much doing.
Notes and links from 13 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/13/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Today was the Birmingham Honey Show at Winterbourne Gardens, which means Winterbourne Gardens is free entry and also there’s honey. Plus one of my Birmingham-based cousins developed a beekeeping ...
Today was the Birmingham Honey Show at Winterbourne Gardens, which means Winterbourne Gardens is free entry and also there’s honey. Plus one of my Birmingham-based cousins developed a beekeeping ...
September 13, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Notes and links from 13 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/13/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Today was the Birmingham Honey Show at Winterbourne Gardens, which means Winterbourne Gardens is free entry and also there’s honey. Plus one of my Birmingham-based cousins developed a beekeeping ...
Today was the Birmingham Honey Show at Winterbourne Gardens, which means Winterbourne Gardens is free entry and also there’s honey. Plus one of my Birmingham-based cousins developed a beekeeping ...
Notes and links from 12 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/12/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Very much a rest day today. Was hoping to pop along to the Woodland Games but nope, no energy available.
Very much a rest day today. Was hoping to pop along to the Woodland Games but nope, no energy available.
September 12, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Notes and links from 12 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/12/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Very much a rest day today. Was hoping to pop along to the Woodland Games but nope, no energy available.
Very much a rest day today. Was hoping to pop along to the Woodland Games but nope, no energy available.
Notes and links from 11 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/11/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
We went on a relatively big adventure today, driving out to Compton Verney with my sister and bro-in-law. I think it’s the furthest I’ve been since December? Fi gave me loads of opportunities to ...
We went on a relatively big adventure today, driving out to Compton Verney with my sister and bro-in-law. I think it’s the furthest I’ve been since December? Fi gave me loads of opportunities to ...
September 11, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Notes and links from 11 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/11/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
We went on a relatively big adventure today, driving out to Compton Verney with my sister and bro-in-law. I think it’s the furthest I’ve been since December? Fi gave me loads of opportunities to ...
We went on a relatively big adventure today, driving out to Compton Verney with my sister and bro-in-law. I think it’s the furthest I’ve been since December? Fi gave me loads of opportunities to ...
Notes and links from 10 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/10/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Made it out to the hardware store on my wee scooter, the first time it’s been out for quite a while. (My goal is to go out weekly…) Managed to get there, ask a guy about plumbing tape, buy it and...
Made it out to the hardware store on my wee scooter, the first time it’s been out for quite a while. (My goal is to go out weekly…) Managed to get there, ask a guy about plumbing tape, buy it and...
September 10, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Notes and links from 10 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/10/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Made it out to the hardware store on my wee scooter, the first time it’s been out for quite a while. (My goal is to go out weekly…) Managed to get there, ask a guy about plumbing tape, buy it and...
Made it out to the hardware store on my wee scooter, the first time it’s been out for quite a while. (My goal is to go out weekly…) Managed to get there, ask a guy about plumbing tape, buy it and...
Notes and links from 9 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/09/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Had a visit from my sister this afternoon which was very welcome. It would have been our mum’s 80th birthday this week so we’re going to try and spend a bit of time with all the family photos she ...
Had a visit from my sister this afternoon which was very welcome. It would have been our mum’s 80th birthday this week so we’re going to try and spend a bit of time with all the family photos she ...
September 9, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Notes and links from 9 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/09/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Had a visit from my sister this afternoon which was very welcome. It would have been our mum’s 80th birthday this week so we’re going to try and spend a bit of time with all the family photos she ...
Had a visit from my sister this afternoon which was very welcome. It would have been our mum’s 80th birthday this week so we’re going to try and spend a bit of time with all the family photos she ...
Notes and links from 8 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/08/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Psychotherapy today, which took up all of my energies really, so the rest of the day was mooching and pottering. Feeling much better though so the crash is over. Going to cautiously resume engagem...
Psychotherapy today, which took up all of my energies really, so the rest of the day was mooching and pottering. Feeling much better though so the crash is over. Going to cautiously resume engagem...
September 8, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Notes and links from 8 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/08/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Psychotherapy today, which took up all of my energies really, so the rest of the day was mooching and pottering. Feeling much better though so the crash is over. Going to cautiously resume engagem...
Psychotherapy today, which took up all of my energies really, so the rest of the day was mooching and pottering. Feeling much better though so the crash is over. Going to cautiously resume engagem...
Notes and links from 7 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/07/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Another rest day. Had a go at fiddling with the water butts and quickly got prickly sweat on my forehead despite doing fuckall really, so hit that on the head.
Have mostly been watching the telly...
Another rest day. Had a go at fiddling with the water butts and quickly got prickly sweat on my forehead despite doing fuckall really, so hit that on the head.
Have mostly been watching the telly...
September 7, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Notes and links from 7 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/07/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Another rest day. Had a go at fiddling with the water butts and quickly got prickly sweat on my forehead despite doing fuckall really, so hit that on the head.
Have mostly been watching the telly...
Another rest day. Had a go at fiddling with the water butts and quickly got prickly sweat on my forehead despite doing fuckall really, so hit that on the head.
Have mostly been watching the telly...
Notes and links from 6 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/06/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Nope, nothing happening today. Still crashed. Recovery in progress.
Nope, nothing happening today. Still crashed. Recovery in progress.
September 6, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Notes and links from 6 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/06/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
Nope, nothing happening today. Still crashed. Recovery in progress.
Nope, nothing happening today. Still crashed. Recovery in progress.
Notes and links from 5 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/05/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
And lo, the chronic fatigue crash did finally come. All the usual bullshit — tired, impatient, sore, grumpy, irritable, aching, fuzzy head, can’t read, can’t think. It’ll pass, it always does.
Was...
And lo, the chronic fatigue crash did finally come. All the usual bullshit — tired, impatient, sore, grumpy, irritable, aching, fuzzy head, can’t read, can’t think. It’ll pass, it always does.
Was...
September 5, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Notes and links from 5 Sept: https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/05/notes-and-links-from-sept.html
And lo, the chronic fatigue crash did finally come. All the usual bullshit — tired, impatient, sore, grumpy, irritable, aching, fuzzy head, can’t read, can’t think. It’ll pass, it always does.
Was...
And lo, the chronic fatigue crash did finally come. All the usual bullshit — tired, impatient, sore, grumpy, irritable, aching, fuzzy head, can’t read, can’t think. It’ll pass, it always does.
Was...