#mbjune Day 9: Wood 📷

All the images from the challenge.

A wooden birdhouse is attached to the trunk of a large tree with leafy branches extending into the scene.

Escaping email hell with a beach walk before school pickup.

A pebble beach stretches along the coastline with two people and a dog walking near the water's edge under a clear sky.

When did you last reply to someone on social media?

As Elvis didn’t sing, a little more conversation, a little less promotion please.

The downside of falling behind with your email:

“Wow, that looks like an interesting event. I must book. Let’s see, when is it…? Oh. Two weeks ago.”

I have spent the last 20 years of my career endlessly campaigning for the journalism business to take the idea of community-building around its journalism seriously.

Now it’s finally, finally happening I should feel vindicated and celebratory. But largely I just feel tired.

#mbjune Day 8: Travel 📷

All the images from the challenge.

A Snapchat advertisement on a London Underground platform features a collage of photos, including people and a dog, with overlayed text and the Snapchat logo.

I can’t find the list of #mbjune prompts for today onwards. Anyone seen it?

#mbjune Day 7: Switch 📷

All the images from the challenge.

A white light switch is adorned with a small, yellow bee decoration at its center.

My daughter clearly likes hanging around in our local Warhammer shop too much. This was her latest procrastination technique in face of my “Ready to go yet?”

A group of white dice with black dots is neatly arranged in a grid pattern on a red surface, next to a Warhammer Age of Sigmar Spearhead battle mat. All of the dice are showing 6s

Grabbing a coffee, some Aeropress filters and a vegan croissant at Small Batch Coffee. And catching up on my feeds in NetNewsWire.

The weekend!

A cafe interior features tall chairs lined along a counter by large windows with potted plants and pendant lights, next to a barista station.