Lovely sunrise over Hassocks station this morning.

A winter sunrise over Hassocks Station in the UK's South Downs. 2023-01-30

Took me too many years - but I finally got that last elusive micro.blog badge…

2023-01-30

Home learning on teachers’ strike day, thanks to BBC Bitesize.

A girl doing home learning on a Mac 2023-02-01

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.)
2023-02-01


This is an interesting read: it appears that a seratonin deficiency might not be the key cause of depression after all.
2023-02-02


I’m really looking forward to seeing what comes of City’s Creatives in Residence scheme.
2023-02-02


Visiting.

A house in Wandsworth, London. 2023-02-02

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.
2023-02-03


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.
2023-02-03


My kind of diversion.

A sign reading "coffee diversion". 2023-02-03

Beware: killer clowns and hangry bears.

2023-02-04

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.

A 7.20am sunrise over the South Downs. 2023-02-05