Sunset on Old Fort Road.

Sunset turning the clouds purple over the houses on Old Fort Road, Shoreham-by-Sea.

Started reading: A Countryman’s Winter Notebook by Adrian Bell 📚

Took a New Year’s Day beach walk with my eldest, and found somebody’s lost glasses on the strand line. The lenses have been ground into mistiness by the pebbles, and the string tied to one arm suggested a doomed attempt to keep them safe.

Sea-worn glasses. Found on Shoreham Beach.

Beach life, December 22nd 2023

Light shining through a crack in the clouds over Shoreham Beach.

Fog on the Adur.

Fog over the River Adur, looking eastwards from the Adur Ferry Bridge.

It’s beginning to look a lot like…

Christmas decorations on Clerkenwell Green in London.

A dalmatian pelican at the Arundel Wetland Centre.

A dalmatian pelican in Sussex.

Sadly, I had no ducks left to give.

A sign saying “ducks (and staff) only”.

Greetings from Storm Ciarán…

Adam Tinworth in the rain, during Storm Ciarán.

Great to see Ghost building its new recommendations feature on open standards: it’s basically Webmentions under the hood.

I was one of the test group - and it’s great to see it out there.

The Ghost recommendations feature at work.

Happy Halloween 🎃!

Screamer on duty outside our house this evening.

A carved Halloween pumpkin.

Having a gourd day. 🎃

Pumpkins a’plenty at Roundstone FarmGreen gourds at Roundstone Farm.

Nighttime in Farringdon, Autumn 2023.

An autumnal tree in Farringdon, illuminated by streetlights.

I treated the girls to pancakes to celebrate the first day of half term.

A stack of freshly-cooked pancakesFresh pancakes seen from above.

Picadilly Circus, London, Autumn 1991

Picadilly Circus, London in 1991Picadilly Circus 1991, looking northPicadilly Circus in 1991, looking toards Leicester Square

This screensaver in MacOS Sonoma makes me unexpectedly happy.

A Scottish landscape screensaver in MacOS.

Literal standing room only for the lunchtime talk by BBC News’ Ros Atkins on explainers at City Journalism.

That includes me. I am standing…

Ros Atkins talking to the City, University of London journalism department.

Time is different when you work on The Spectator, it seems.

A Lunchtime Espresso emails sent at 4pm&10;

Fair point.

A sign on a London coffee shop saying that the Romans did not have coffee.

I feel judged by my iPad.

An iPad warning that I have too many tabs open.