I think this photo pretty much sums up my life.

A child wearing face paint and a sunhat stands barefoot on a man's back as he lies on the grass taking a photo, while other people sit and relax in the background.

Practicing the art of productive procrastination, by tidying up my Ulysses app.

A new group is being created with the title Drawnalism under the parent group iCloud with an option to edit the icon.

One of the better spur-of-the-moment decisions I’ve made in recent years was the creation of a Sunday Sunday playlist of podcasts. It’s all outdoors/nature/comedy podcasts, with no politics or tech. Such pleasure from that initial investment of time.


In other news, today I met a ferret.


Today has been rather posher than normal…

A polo match in progress.

We be rollin’, they be hatin’

An old-fashioned garden roller is situated among dense bushes and plants in a backyard.

My eldest on holiday last year.

A young girl with braided hair is standing at the shallow end of a pool, holding the hem of her white dress while stepping into the water.

The Comfortably Dumb - Om Malik follows up in his post about his growing discomfort with embedded tech from the big companies in “smart” devices.


This is fascinating - there’s a new visual language evolving around doing drama in vertical videos:

Chinese vertical dramas made for phone viewing show the future of mobile video


Random discoveries via navigation apps

Lovely, random experience this evening. Apple Maps brought me an unexpected route home, showing me a bunch of villages and towns a short drive from where I lived that I’ve never seen before.

At least two of them are now on my “to visit" list for the near future, and another will be the first place I take Hazel on our summer holiday “adventures”.