The Forever Now
Writing this post came about from frustration with blogging. Specifically the tools I am using. Often it feels like a new language or …
Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War
This Is How You Lose the Time War is a short novella about two members of opposing factions (Red and Blue) engaged in a ’time war’: …
Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Last year I started to write a review of Italo Calvino’s “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller”. I read it while we …
Richard Powers, Orfeo
“The mind may give up its desire to improve on creation and function as a faithful receiver of experience.” John Cage
Album Digest 2020
I’ve listened to music in slightly different ways to normal in the last nine months, but it’s still been a decent year for music. When I …
Old photographs
Recently I’ve had cause to dig out some old photos. If I’m honest it’s made me sad. Sadder than I was expecting. …
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. …
Am I caring for a naughty cat?
“He keeps biting me on the leg” says Ingrid one day as I mill around her desk during the new water cooler moment that is a …
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 …
Travel Writing After All This
While sprucing up this blog a bit during lockdown, I fell into reading my old posts about South America. I enjoyed it, mostly for the …
Holiday Tabs
Over the course of a week on holiday, I started reading many interesting articles. In lockdown there isn’t much to do but read …
Living in the Pi Hole
Ingrid bought me a raspberry pi for my birthday. I’ve set it up to run the Pi-hole software. Pi-hole is a nifty bit of kit that …