Life doesn’t always go to plan. The secret to resilience is to just adjust and forge new paths forwards. And that’s fine.
Well, dealing with the flat tyre put pay to our planned afternoon out. But, given how tired the girls were, I have a suspicion it was for the best.
“I heard someone recently describe Twitter as a social network where the users hate the service and they hate each other. That’s unflattering, but I think it’s also completely accurate.”
Right, I’m now using my own Mastodon instance for work-style stuff. Anyone interested in journalism, audience and the creator economy can follow me there.
Finally solved the email problem, and my personal Mastodon instance is working. A few more tweaks, and then I’ll open it up to newsletter subscribers.
I just discovered that the minister from my childhood home carried on working well into his 80s.
There’s something quite moving about being that committed to a calling.
There’s a certain joy to early starts in the autumn, and this morning’s early trip to the station was spectacular.

Amazing news for non-iOS mobile journalists and filmmakers - Lumafusion is now on Android and Chromebooks.
The consensus is that it’s the best mobile video editor.
I’m just an ordinary guy, looking at the weather, and asking it to stop pissing it down before I have to go and collect my daughters from school.
Well, I’d completely forgotten just how much noise the echo of 30-odd primary school children and a bouncy castle can make in an otherwise empty sports hall.
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I’m having an idiot evening. I was just about to build a special page for Microblogvember and then I remember it’s much easier to just do a category. D’oh.