And so it goes. Another morning in lockdown.


Somebody is being far too generous about my linguistic competence.


Shooting random time lapses, because why not?


Remember folks: stay the f*ck at home


April is here. Off I go on trying to post on One Man & His Blog at least once a day: Viruses, Lies and Spammers


One reason the UK is struggling on Covid-19 testing: centralised policy decision are leaving labs standing idle.


John Gruber: How to Open the Emoji Keyboard While Using a Hardware Keyboard on iPadOS

But the shortcut he refers to for opening the Emoji picker on MacOS is even more useful. 🥳


Seven’s a good age for learning to code in Swift, right?


Dominic Cummings in isolation as pressure mounts over NHS testing - I suspect that means that pretty much everyone leading our response has the novel coronavirus.


Well, the quasi-lockdown in the UK is really good at showing up who are the selfish people in your neighbourhood - and who has the scary authoritarian tendencies.


Parenthood involves far more gluing toys back together than I expected, to be frank.


So, today I corrected one small piece of misinformation about the government’s position, and got accused of all sorts of things as a result, before being blocked.

How’s your day going?


We need more than great coronavirus reporting right now. We also need distraction — and journalists could make that easier to find.


How BBC Radio 4 is going to keep The Archers going during Coronavirus lockdown.


One for the Blake’s 7 fans…

a cooy of Blake's 7 magazine issue 1.

Here I am in the Stockport Advertiser in July 8th 1976:

The Tinworth family in the Stockport Advertiser in 1976.

Oh my, oh my.

A photo of Adam Tinworth on the back of his Famous Five club membership card.

Oh, my.


Blossom in the garden. Nature’s beauty continues, oblivious to our anxiety. And it is a balm for it, too.

Blossom on a fruit tree in our back garden.

Dear fellow journalists,

It is not necessary to give every article an intro linking it to the pandemic, especially if it has nothing to do with Covid-19.

Thank you, Adam