Back in the Saddle
I did that thing I sometimes do and that is really think about what I’d like my blog to look like instead of actually getting on and …
Writing
19 posts
Patch (A poem)
This is a short poem I wrote for Ingrid about our little herb garden. I am reproducing it here in celebration of work that is shortly going …
More Uses For Little Notebooks
I’m an avid collector of small notebooks. So much so that I have a box full of them in my office. I’m not afraid of writing in …
In Praise of Putting Pen to Paper
Around this time last year, I wrote in praise of writing a diary. I also rather misanthropically referred to it as a “negativity …
Unindexed?
There was an excellent article on The Verge yesterday about how Google is transforming the kinds of sites and blogs that are on the …
Come back to us Brother Matthew
As with most years, I had hoped to start off 2023 with a flurry of new blog posts. Instead I caught Covid, which knocked me out for most of …
The paths in the wood
I began writing this post after realising that it is the first of June and I might as well attempt once more to write a post every day. The …
Strategy one
I decided to create my own deck of creativity cards. I was sick of all the adverts for similar products on Instagram. You know the kind. …
Sprucing up the Blog
This post explains some of the modifications I made to a minimal Jekyll theme to get this blog as I wanted it. This blog (currently) uses …
Reboot
As much as I hate to write about writing, especially when I write so infrequently, I feel I need to reboot this blog. I wrote so few posts …
A Diary?
This year promises to be exciting so this week I tried to buy a diary. One of those day-to-a-page affairs for scribbling down all the things …
Create
It can be a struggle to keep writing. I’ve found this happened a lot since I moved the blog. First, there was the business of moving …