Seeing this magazine on sale in my local newsagent is odd. I associate it so strongly with my Mum and my childhood, it seems almost incomprehensible that it’s still going so long after she died. A silly reaction, I know.

Boats on the Adur

Boats moored in the River Adur between Shoreham-by-Sea and Shoreham Beach

Just preparing my notes from this morning’s Digital News Report 2019 launch event for publication - how refreshing to have an all-female panel at a journalism event:

I find upgrading firmware on devices a surprisingly satisfying process.

Nice to be heading up London late enough to drop a bag off at the charity shop and get a coffee from Tom Foolery.

Of all the things to find, a shopping list from my Mum, who has been gone over a decade:

Go on. Guess which option I picked.

Working on a Friday, unusually, due to a day swap with my wife. Throughly dreich out there today, so working seems better…

Those elongated ovals from the new version of the TV app seem to be a major design trend in iOS13.

Screen break beach walk.

kite-surfer on Shoreham Beach

Nice view as I crossed the bridge this evening.

View towards New Shoreham and the South Downs from the Adur Ferry Bridge.

Current view.

the back garden in late spring. Irises are in full bloom.

Today, I have made all the fritters.

Today’s beach life:

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Extinction Rebellion die in at the Shoreham by Sea farmers market.

Loving nature is a political act

The river at Wowo Campsite

It seems impossible to me to be, now, passionate about nature and not be also both political and ethical about nature. We no longer have the luxury of ‘pure’ pleasure in place, enticing though that is.

Robert Macfarlane in the March issue of Country Walking magazine.

I love this photo of Iris in the woods from yesterday.

Nesting…

Nesting swan at Woods Mill, West Sussex.

Today’s workplace.

Working on old negative scans does make me miss the grain and texture of film photography - but I really don’t have the time to indulge in it any more.