Tree Shopping
As part of getting the garden done, we’ve been out and about looking for trees. It’s quite exciting seeing in person all the …
Ideas
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In Praise of Pulling Everything out of the Shed...
Yesterday I pulled everything out of our shed and we took the stuff we didn’t need down to the dump. No one likes going to the dump, …
In Praise of Playing the Long Game
I bought a Barbara Hepworth calendar in the sale at the Tate Modern shop that I thought was a steal until I realised it was a 2024 calendar, …
All Part of the Process
Writing a blog post every day is not essential. It’s not part of some new year’s resolution, despite the fact that the start of …
The Human in the Loop
I want to start making generative art again. I can’t say I ever did it that seriously but using programming languages to generate …
On learning new tools
It strikes me that it is better to sit and think about what you need to do, rather than endless try out new tools and hoping you end up with …
If anything, make it weirder
Today I listened to ‘Cloudbusting’ by Kate Bush for the first time in a while. What a gloriously strange song it is. Best of …
Drawing a line on the page
Ingrid has joined an online drawing class. She sits there on Teams getting feedback on her drawings, while I sit there attempting to absorb …
I was twenty one at the time…
“I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school. Caught in …
Some Tips For Saving Time
A non-exhaustive list of ideas for saving time:
Things to Remember
These are some things I jotted down one day last week, I’ll refine them a bit more later on. Think of it as an aide-memoire of things …
Ambitions Revisited
Back in 2012 I wrote a post listing my ambitions for the future. Well it’s the future now isn’t it? Almost. After all, I’m a …