Merry Christmas from one man (and his blog).


Just an intimate dinner for a few chums, wot.

The dining room at Tyntsfield House, near Bristol, decked out for a Victorian Christmas.

A very Victorian Christmas at Tyntsfield.



I think this bauble crop is nearly ready for harvesting.


Today’s Engaged Reading Digest: killing comments, surviving after redundancy, getting better at instagram - and the power of visual journalism. All this for the low, low price of a click…



Heh. One unforeseen side-effect of having a newsletter - you get to see who is already on their Christmas break by their out-of-office updates…


As a lecturer, nothing makes you feel better than a student who turned in something pretty mediocre initially, creating a final submission that is both inspired and professionally executed. Big smile on my face right now.


Newsletters are beginning to over-whelm my in-box. Time to try out Feedbin’s ability to aggregate them in my RSS reader, I think.