2023
The origin of the phrase “up sticks”:
”Instead they used Gypsy tents of the traditional style, a tarpaulin thrown over a platform of bent wooden rods. If moved on by the keepers, they could simply ‘up sticks’ in a matter of minutes, and disappear into the trees and on to their next encampment.”
— from The Circling Sky by Neil Ansell 📚
We’re coming back into the light. The sun was rising as we drove to the pool this morning, after months of doing this trip in the dark.
Spring’s a-coming.
I declared RSS bankruptcy last night, marked the 5,000+ articles which were unread in NetNewsWire as read, and revelled in the manageable flow of new posts.
Such a great decision.
Great post by Matt Genmell on why we should give ourselves permission to write shorter, less weighty posts in blogs.
Some of this is down to platform design: micro.blog and Tumblr encourage short posts in a way that, say, Wordpress doesn’t.
I’m really looking forward to seeing what comes of City’s Creatives in Residence scheme.
This is an interesting read: it appears that a seratonin deficiency might not be the key cause of depression after all.
I have 300 open tabs on my iPad. Tonight, I wage war on them.
(By “wage war” I mean “read and decide if I’m going to blog about them”, of course.)