blogging
Pandemic pleasures: being at home enough to keep your Hotbin composter at a steady temperature of nearly 60C. 🌱
Poirot after Christie
I’m currently reading and enjoying The Mystery Of Three Quarters: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery by Sophie Hannah 📚. While I was sceptical about the idea of Poirot novels not authored by Agatha Christie, they work because they aren’t Christie pastiche.
They’re books featuring a completely recognisable Poirot, and set in the same sort of era, but are very much told in the author’s own voice.
Good, escapist, murderous fun.
Schools, Covid-19 and the risk of unintentional misunderstandings.
Sometimes they way we write something can do more harm than good.
The current wave of newsletters are often compared to the early blogs - but most of them miss one critical element.
Sign on the equipment in the local playpark. One day, it’ll be an historical oddity blithely ignored by children for whom it’s an irrelevance.
Roll on that day.
