Meanwhile, my eldest is raiding my badge collection from the 70s/80s.

A collection of vintage pins and badges featuring various designs and logos is displayed on a wooden surface.

Doing some half-term Hallowe’en crafts…

A painted wooden cauldron with a grinning face and a wooden pumpkin are displayed on a table with paint supplies.

Emily Maitlis is somewhere in this scrum…

A group of people is gathered in an auditorium, engaging in conversations and taking photos.

Packed house for this discussion between Emily Maitlis and Dr Ayala Panievsky, despite a long day of teaching/learning…

A large lecture hall is filled with people attending a talk between Emily Maitlis and Ayala Panievsky, with a screen displaying the title “Journalism under attack”.

Listening to Emily Maitlis interviewing my colleague Ayala Panievsky about her new book The New Censorship.

Two people are sitting at a table with books titled The New Censorship, engaging in a discussion while someone takes a photo.

This morning I feel like a hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is.

It won’t last.

I thought we had autumnal mist forming outside the swimming pool, but as soon as I went outside, the smell told me it was someone burning something. And it’s still two weeks from bonfire night!

A pathway curves around a lush forested area with trees displaying autumn foliage under a cloudy sky.A cloudy sky looms over a landscape filled with trees, some showing hints of autumn foliage.

Bright, cold autumn morning.

Sunlit green leaves are in the foreground with a tall pine cone-shaped object and a car in the background.

Ten years ago this would have been very exciting to me: Movable Type 9 Released.

But then they started charging $499 for a licence, and MT and I were done. But I have a lot of nostalgia for it. It was MT that really made me fall in love with blogging.

That feeling when you realise that your Reddit account is older than many of your students…

A Reddit notification celebrates Cake Day for user u/adders, marking their 19th anniversary on the platform with cake and party emojis.