From Silence by Erling Kagge 📚:

“Deep down in the ocean, below the waves and ripples, you can find your internal silence. Standing in the shower, letting the water wash over your head, sitting in front of a crackling fire, swimming across a forest lake or taking a walk over a field: all these can be experiences of perfect stillness too.”


From Failure is an Option by Matt Whyman 📚:

“A seam of bullying ran unchecked through the school, which wasn’t uncommon in the late seventies and early eighties. You could be targeted for the slightest weakness, and if you didn’t fight back or assert dominance, that made the target bigger on your back.”

Ain’t that the truth.


Yup, just walking home through the graveyard. 😨


The time has come to…


Twelfth night, so saying farewell to our mighty wee tree.


Just survived the slightly nerve-wracking process of upgrading my Mastodon server to 4.0.2. All went smoothly, and it’s up and running again.

😮‍💨


That kind of a day.


Here’s my top 10 posts of 2022 from my work blog.

Interesting that the journalism world is really interested in the fall of social media and the rise of newsletters.


Probably our last festive activity of this Christmas season.


Family lightsabre action.

A man and a yoing girl fighting with toy lightsabres.

A sticker on my laptop, back in 2010. I’d love a 2022 version of this (although I doubt it would come from big-in-Japan Six Apart these days…)

A “We Love Blog” sticker from Six Apart in 2010.

New Year’s Day walk with the extended family.

Tinworths walking on Wandsworth Common

Happy New Year from (a house in) London!