I used to live in fear of doing this. It still makes mes me wince when I see it in a magazine.

An unwritten caption in Outdoor Swimmer Magazine.

Early morning mist over the Adur.

Mist sitting in the Adur valley, seen from Lancing College.

The ruins of Hillfoot House, near Dollar in Scotland. Photographed in 1983.

Even these ruins are gone now, apparently, replaced by a modern new house. My friends and I used to play in and around the ruin as pre-teens.

The ruin of Hillfoot House, in Dollar, Clackmanannshire, circa early 1983.

Mum, March 1983.

Ann Tinworth, out for dinner on 11th March 1983.

Yikes. I need to do better than that.

A graph from Apple Health showing my average sleep at 5 hours 50 minutes.

Well, who doesn’t?

Graffiti in a railway siding reading “I ❤️ eggs”.

Today I have been moving over 30Gb of videos around my network, archiving footage from livestreams and other events.

Every single file I’m moving is many, many times the size of the hard drives of my first few Macs.


Ah, who can fail to love one of these?

An a-frame backboard with “secondhand bookshop” written in chalk.

Weekly 7.30am swimming lesson whiteboard wisdom.

A whiteboard with the following written on it: “Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and responsibly to pick youself up&10;- May Holloway”

Started reading: Local by Alastair Humphreys 📚