A day when I find a new pretentious coffee shop is always a good day.

Small Batch Coffee in Worthing.

So, the reason for my silence here over the last couple of weeks was that I was holidaying in a nearly bandwidth-free place.

And it was lovely. Just taking a first pass through the photos now.

View from a seaside villa in La Flotte, Île de Ré, France.

A fruitful garden

Two green pears are hanging from a tree branch surrounded by leaves.A branch with small, unripe crabapples and green leaves is shown against a brick wall.Four green and slightly reddish pears hang from a leafy branch against a brick wall background.Two green apples with some reddish and dark spots are hanging from a tree branch surrounded by green leaves in front of a brick wall.

Possibly the most manly thing I’ve done all year…

An old tree stump on a lawn

Garden harvest.

A pile of fresh, bright orange carrots with green tops, some still dirty, rests on a white paper towel.

Back from holiday to a dull, rainy Sussex. Ho-hum.

A Circle of Words: emails to blogs to newsletters

Well, this is depressing - but painfully resonant. Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism

Blimey - a story about Instagram that’s actually positive: A woman documents the clothes her boyfriend ‘hates’ on Instagram

It’s just been that kind of a day.