Started reading: Murder Before Evensong by Richard Coles 📚

A bored, time-killing charity shop find. The beginning is pleasant enough.

At the BBC today. Just been chatting to the chap who wrote the Doctor Who Christmas special press release yesterday. He’s very happy with his work…

A person with glasses excitedly poses in front of a Dalek from Doctor Who.

No, good sir, your daypack does not get a seat to itself on a packed commuter train.

New pontoon in the river.

A small blue boat is grounded on a muddy shore near a series of wooden docks, with houses, a green shed, and a building labeled The Waterside in the background.

An end to the Tom Foolery

Sad times. This used to be my favourite coffee shop, Tom Foolery. Two years on from the change of ownership, it’s had the soul ripped out of it, the prices are way up - and there’s no wifi. The old days of working here for a few hours, buying a couple of coffees and lunch, are gone. They clearly want the tables turning over.

It’s not for me.

A bland café features several people seated at tables, with one table displaying a tablet and a cup of coffee in the foreground.

Games Workshop launched pre-orders for the 11th edition of #Warhammer40k at the weekend. So, I decided to take along the very last edition I bought…

A tabletop game scene features Warhammer 40,000 miniatures, terrain, and rulebooks, including Armageddon and Operation Imperator.

Sad news: Anthony Head has passed away.

We’re having a weird spring. Hot summer last week, stormy weather like this over the last few days, and back to sunny now.

For the past 14 years, I’ve been exploring how tech will shape our long term future for a client. Now, I’m going to start doing it for myself.

So, here’s my first launch of several in the coming weeks: Coffee & Complexity — a newsletter about our lives in two years’ time, and 10 years’ time.

Things change. Things end.

The trick is to take the best of what came before, and make something new from it.

And that’s what I’m thinking about now.

And yes, I am being intentionally vague about what I’m referring to. Thanks for noticing. :-)