Pandemic pleasures: being at home enough to keep your Hotbin composter at a steady temperature of nearly 60C. 🌱
Poirot after Christie
I’m currently reading and enjoying The Mystery Of Three Quarters: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery by Sophie Hannah 📚. While I was sceptical about the idea of Poirot novels not authored by Agatha Christie, they work because they aren’t Christie pastiche.
They’re books featuring a completely recognisable Poirot, and set in the same sort of era, but are very much told in the author’s own voice.
Good, escapist, murderous fun.
Here’s one reason every journalist should write a newsletter for a while: nothing teaches you more directly the relationship between what you write and subscriber churn.
I am embarrassed it has taken me until my late 40s to understand the difference between a good quality, long-lasting t-shirt, and a cheapo one.
The pandemic lockdowns seem to have kicked the tablet market back into growth.
Apple has 38% of the market with the iPad, Samsung is next with 18.7%.
Well, this makes sense: Social media is addictive if you like embarrassing people
Schools, Covid-19 and the risk of unintentional misunderstandings.
Sometimes they way we write something can do more harm than good.