The plastic pollution culprits — and other links worth reading.


Day 2: It’s never fully dark, down by the river. #mboct

A calm waterfront promenade is illuminated by streetlights and reflections from buildings on the opposite shore during nighttime.

There’s something quite nice about a day so wet and blustery that you feel no guilt at all about just chilling out in the house.

A foggy waterfront scene with a small bridge, several boats on the water, and a few buildings barely visible in the background.

Day 1: My daughter couldn’t resist reaching out to touch these fishy up-cycled spoons at the Artisans’ Market. #mboct

A person wearing a red jacket is holding and interacting with a metal musical wind chime shaped like fish.

I see the inevitable 15.0.1 update is out for your Apple device bug-fixing pleasure…


It feels like a crunch is coming in the UK petrol crisis in my part of the country, at least. Those people who have held off filling up, as their needs were less urgent, are beginning to run out of fuel.

And the situation is not easing, as promised.


A dramatic evening beach walk.

A girl standing on a shingle beach with stormy clouds overhead.

The deadlines of my working life used to be defined by when the presses needed to roll. Now, they’re defined by school pick-up time.


A first play with the iPhone 13 Pro’s cinematic video mode.


Well, I wasn’t expecting My Little Pony: A New Generation to deliver some of the most on-point political commentary about the last 5 years, but here we are: