Twenty

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 …

“The mind may give up its desire to improve on creation and function as a faithful receiver of experience.” John Cage

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 …

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. …

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. …

“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 …

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 …

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 …

Over the course of a week on holiday, I started reading many interesting articles. In lockdown there isn’t much to do but read …

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 …

I read this book on holiday in Belgium last year. Having forgotten to pack a novel I scoured almost every book in the Waterstones at St. …

Amanitore of Nubia is available in a base game DLC. She also has her own scenario “The Gifts of the Nile”, which like most scenarios has …