We did it again on Friday morning. Sorry if you wanted to come but didn’t see a reminder. It seems (to me) to be working, whatever it is and whatever it’s supposed to be for. I realised today for the first time explicitly that what I’m doing with the Friday “Living Culture Coffee Mornings” is most…
I was going to write something on Facebook, but Nick was a blogger and so this belongs here. I heard this afternoon that my dear friend Nick Booth died yesterday after a fall at the weekend. It’s not right. It shouldn’t be like this. We ought to have been celebrating his 60th birthday next month….
This was just sitting waiting to be published for almost 55 years. Those who’ve heard my more recent (ie since 2004) podcasting will recognise the roots of my presenting style. As far as I can tell, it was recorded on the same day as the picture was taken. Script assistance by “Mummy”. Sound Engineer: “Daddy”….
I’m on the train to London and trying out Wordland on my iPad. All seems good. The editor box is left-aligned rather than centred, but I can live with that – maybe it’s an update that I haven’t noticed because I haven’t logged out on my desktop machine yet 🙂 I’m doing another round of…
Ugh, the end of last week and the weekend were wiped out by norovirus. No more details necessary. I think there’s a long-running series that will emerge here called “I’m not retired but…” because although I’m still doing lots of interesting work, I also have started taking my Audit Commission pension which doesn’t even pay…
When I was a kid, you'd see people who lived with paralysis or muscle-weakness as a result of contracting polio. The vaccine was first introduced in the UK in the mid-fifties and by the time I was born, at the end of 1964, we were all getting it on sugar cubes. So when I asked…
Another day, another new app. Today I saw that Flashes is available in the iOS app store. It is supposed to be to Bluesky what Insta is to Threads, kind of. But it doesn't have a separate timeline – so if I post a picture with the app using my main bsky account all of…
Dipping a toe into the Wordland water. It's warmer than expected. The first thing I notice is nothing to do with the product itself, rather how ugly and cluttered my WordPress template has become. It's one of those things you don't like to think about too much. I made it less cluttered, but it still…
Dear friends, here we are again. Another long but short but ordinary but weird week. Quote of the week “Any jackass can kick a barn down. But it takes a carpenter to build one” – Sam Rayburn Doodle of the week What’s on my mind Heartbeats The group I was part of at Hard Art…
Dear friends and neighbours near and far, prepare yourselves for the shock of a second newsletter before the end of January. Doodle of the week Quote of the week “Boundaries are what we tell someone we will do, they don’t require the other person to do anything”. Dr Becky Kennedy talking about parent/child relationships in…