The perfect weather for a beach walk this afternoon.

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A rather lovely hagstone - and a deep one - found on a quick beach walk this afternoon, trying to burn off some of my daughter’s energy. She’s home today because of the teachers’ strike.

A hagstone on the beach.

Trust in me, just in me…

I really need to learn to trust myself. Yesterday, I opened the slides for week two of my social media course.

“Why so few?” I thought. “I’ll need more content than that for the 90 minutes.” So I prepared more slides, and pulled some forwards from week 3.

Guess what?

Yes, I ran out of time, exactly where Adam-from-four-months-ago had cut off the slides. I know what I’m doing. Old me knew what he was doing. We need to learn to trust each other…

Your swimming pool whiteboard wisdom for the day.

A sign saying “Rivers know this: there is no hurrry, We shall get there some day.” A.A.Milne

A fun evening, watching our students grill the hell out of a former prime minister. All under the Chatham House Rule, alas, so I can’t say any more.

David Cameron at City, University of London.

Any discussion of games journalism that doesn’t include YouTube at its heart doesn’t understand the existing games coverage business.

Yeah, not getting in that way. It’s looking pretty secure.

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A padlock on a get at City, University of London.

I have seen the future of smart glasses and it‘s as ugly as sin, apparently.

Stressful morning with a happy outcome: my eldest got her first choice of secondary school.

What a difference a couple of weeks makes. The sun is up for our early morning pool run. The views up the Adur valley were spectacular.