“Something only Apple can do” is going to get really annoying really fast.


On the sofa for the Apple announcements, and my daughters have joined me…


Shaping up to be a nice Autumn day down by the river.

The River Adur from Emerald Quay

Morning beach walk.

Shoreham Beach looking towards the sea.

Just rewatched Frozen 2 with my daughters.

Anna is clearly the most thirsty of Disney heroines.

🍿


Uggh. One of those days where I’ve been working solidly since 9am, bar 10 minutes in the garden, it’s now time to go collect my daughters, and I don’t have nearly enough done.


Well, you can tell I just topped up the suet ball feeder, because it sounds like there’s an avian riot in progress in my back garden. 🐦


I just betrayed my principles and did a rant as a Twitter thread not a blog post.

I shall say 3 “Hail Sir Tim”s, and recommit to the open web.


This is going to scare people unnecessarily: Covid virus ‘survives for 28 days’ in lab conditions – the ‘lab conditions’ in question include in the dark, because UV destroys the virus. As found in, say, sunlight.

Aerosol spread seems to be the biggest danger by a county mile.


I love our beach.

Shoreham Beach in West Sussex on a Sunday morning.

Incredible light streaming into the house this evening.

Evening light streaming into our living room.

Current status:

Chilling in the garden with a coffee.

Today I learnt that COVID has led to the permanent closure of London’s cereal cafés.. 🥣😢


That’s quite a sunset.

Sunset over Shoreham Beach.

Fear my mighty traybake powers.

A sausage traybake.

Mackerel skies.

Mackrel skies over Shoreham-by-Sea.

Twitter, death threats and civility: rethinking journalism on social media

(Or why your spicy hot takes are making everything worse.)



Why we need a new framework for discussing powerful women — and it’s all the fault of the Greeks


It’s disturbing how easily the California fires slip off our radar, just as the Australian wildfires did.

I don’t so much want slow news as future-looking news; the stories that will continue to matter in the long-term.