My youngest is enjoying a trip to the local Lidl far too much.

A young girl with a shopping basket is standing in front of a display case filled with various baked goods in a store.

Finished reading: The Earth Beneath My Feet by Andrew Terrill 📚

Quite a remarkable book. It takes you deep into the highs and lows of an epic - and probably deeply unwise - hiking adventure.

Last early morning trip to the swimming pool before the Autumn. Rewarded with some lovely views.

A lush green tree stands beside a fence with a sunlit field of grass and shrubs in the background.

Lovely still afternoon on the river.

The Adur from the Adur Ferry Bridge.

What’s the role of experiential journalism in a world saturated with experiential social media?

Well, fibre to the premises certainly makes a difference…

The internet speed test shows a download speed of 463.59 Mbps, an upload speed of 110.10 Mbps, a ping of 9 ms, and jitter of 0.9 ms, conducted on an iPhone 13 Pro connected to the BT network in Eastbourne.

Coastal blessings - the warmest it got yesterday was 33.5° in the back garden. Everywhere in the house stayed sub-30°.

The graph shows temperature variations throughout the day, peaking at 33.5°C at 5:22 pm and currently at 26.5°C.

Instagram is dead.

Or, at least, it’s no longer recognisable as a photography app.

The back garden’s hit 29℃, closing in on our predicted high of 31℃ today. Windows all shut and curtains drawn on the side of the house with the sun on it, and it’s pretty tolerable right now.

I’m not quite sure when and how it happened, but I’ve slowly become a mornings person. I was always a night owl, but getting up at 6.30am to have my daughter swimming by 7.30am increasingly feels like a pleasure, not a burden.

A scene showing a green leafy tree with dried, withered plants hanging from its branches, set against a rural background with a fence and open field.