blogging
Lovely day for a beach walk.
Requiem for a lamp
I’m saying “goodbye” to an old friend this morning. For the last 23 years, whenever I’ve been working at my desk, across three different properties, this old, battered lamp has lit my work. Last week — in the middle of a lecture — it finally, catastrophically fell apart.
I didn’t even choose it. It came into my life because my girlfriend of the time was working at Terry Farrell & Partners, a firm of architects. They were having an office refurb (or was it a move? I can’t recall at this distance) and she grabbed some things that were being thrown out.
She left it behind when she exited my life and, amusingly, my relationship with the lamp has lasted well over ten times longer than my relationship with her… But I’m proud that I’ve used this thing that came my way for so long. This lamp has had over two decades of extra use after it was first consigned to the bin, and in an era when we’re ever more aware of the climatic cost of a throw-away culture, this small choice has proven to be surprisingly satisfying.
Revamped online lecturing and training setup working well. 👍🏻
New, chez Tinworth.
Facing the sea.
The fact that the entire British political establishment is waiting anxiously for a blog post makes my deep loyalty to the medium feel completely validated. 😏
Media artisans and their tools…
Quite proud of this:
Hello, Big Sur.
(That sounds like something from a really bad prison movie: “Jim, if you want to survive in here, you need to keep Big Sur happy…”)
Should I?
Today’s experiment: my Canon M-series camera as webcam…
Shell.
Met this chap on our beach walk today. Seemed nice enough, but not very talkative.
It’s not exactly puzzling why we chose to live here, is it?
There’s something utterly magical to me about beaches in the off season, when it’s just us die hards out there…
Birthday beach walk with my daughters.
Have to say - I wasn’t expecting to be spending time in A&E on the first day of lockdown.
So, lockdown it is, from tonight. I’m very lucky to be living very near to these places. It’s going to be much easier for us than so many others.
Sometimes you have to get something out of your head before you can concentrate on the other things you need to do.
It’s out of my head, so it’s time to get editing training videos.
Autumn roof, from below.
Misty, dreich morning in Sussex.
