There’s something quite nice about a day so wet and blustery that you feel no guilt at all about just chilling out in the house.
Day 1: My daughter couldn’t resist reaching out to touch these fishy up-cycled spoons at the Artisans' Market. #mboct
I see the inevitable 15.0.1 update is out for your Apple device bug-fixing pleasure…
It feels like a crunch is coming in the UK petrol crisis in my part of the country, at least. Those people who have held off filling up, as their needs were less urgent, are beginning to run out of fuel.
And the situation is not easing, as promised.
The deadlines of my working life used to be defined by when the presses needed to roll. Now, they’re defined by school pick-up time.
Well, I wasn’t expecting My Little Pony: A New Generation to deliver some of the most on-point political commentary about the last 5 years, but here we are:
Journalistic clichés to avoid like the plague.
Note to self: rewrite before posting.
Gotta say, shipping the new GoPro in a plastic bag somewhat undermines the “plastic free packaging” messaging…
Life is too short to gift attention to unpleasant people
Something I should have worked out 30 years ago:
If someone whose work you like and enjoy turns out to be a complete tosser, let them and their work go. There are many lovely people out there doing great work who deserve your attention and money instead.
From a famous humorist who was the very first person who was just brutally unpleasant to me in my journalism career, to a former co-author who decided to interpret everything in bad faith, a lot of people have contributed to this insight. But now I’ve had it — and been using it for the past year or so — my world is a happier place.
The new Netflix CGI He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (the kid-friendly reboot not the Kevin Smith continuation series) is really quite a bit of fun, with some imaginative touches. My daughters are really enjoying it.
In less than two weeks, we’ve gone from “so hot in my study, I had seat beading on my face during courses” to “so cold I’m contemplating turning the heating on”.
Just ordered a new iPhone for the first time in four years.
That’s the longest I’ve held onto a phone in the smartphone era. But the time to upgrade has come…