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  1. w/e 2021-04-11

    Hen Ogledd’s Free Humans, bathrooms, linocut printmakers, Instagram, The Irishman, and season one of both Better Call Saul and GLOW.

  2. w/e 2021-04-04

    Wales Goes Pop!, touching toes, The Crown, technology and capitalism.

  3. w/e 2021-03-28

    The Cat’s Back, Letterboxd, Destination Wedding, pheasants and partridges.

  4. w/e 2021-03-21

    My birthday, new headphones, my first COVID-19 jab, me in Off the Coast, The Queen’s Gambit, Stranger Things, and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.

  5. Half-century notes

    Let’s look at how things have gone over my first fifty years.

  6. w/e 2021-03-14

    Daffodils, Big Sur, Constellation Games by Leonard Richardson, Deutschland ‘89, Hoop Dreams, Netflix, and Kicking and Screaming.

  7. w/e 2020-03-07

    adult mom, nails, walking, Justified and Black Panther.

  8. w/e 2021-02-28

    Daffodils, spoonbills, Zoom, poker, and GitHub Actions.

  9. w/e 2021-02-21

    Amanda French, hyperpop, Docker, Pinboard, plumbing, and Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America.

  10. w/e 2021-02-14

    Untold by Sophia Loizou; boring Docker and GitHub Actions stuff; Adam Curtis argument; and It’s a Sin.

  11. Adam Curtis’s Seaside Dream

    This is the story of an ordinary seaside town and the global powers that tried to hide it from the world.

  12. w/e 2021-02-07

    Emma Kupa’s It Will Come Easier, Douglas Coupland’s Life After God, and The Serpent.

  13. w/e 2021-01-31

    The main emotions, Yoga with Adriene, headphone equalisation, Larry McMurtry’s Dead Man’s Walk and finishing The Newsroom.

  14. w/e 2021-01-24

    Slaughter Beach Dog’s At the Moonbase and re-learning to play the piano.

  15. w/e 2021-01-17

    A digital watch, Spiral, His Dark Materials and TikTok.

  16. w/e 2021-01-10

    Fiona Apple, Cassandras, winter clothing indoors, a new torch, Grand Designs and This Farming Life.

  17. w/e 2021-01-03

    Upgrading things and The Newsroom.

  18. 2020

    A look back at what my year consisted of.

  19. w/e 2020-12-27

    Christmas, car, We Are Who We Are, Industry and Worzel Gummidge.

  20. w/e 2020-12-20

    Christmas tunes from The Just Joans and The Burning Hell, and my most popular Stack Overflow questions.

  21. w/e 2020-12-13

    Sylvan Esso, Cloudflare Web Analytics, Twin Peaks: The Return, and a robin.

  22. w/e 2020-12-06

    Mice again; Sparky the dog; Bookshop.org, Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things, Stewart Lee and “Stewart Lee”, and The Good Lord Bird.

  23. w/e 2020-11-29

    Fog, stollen, DNA.

  24. w/e 2020-11-22

    All this continues; Gomorrah season two; 12 Puppies and Us, Saving Britain’s Pubs with Tom Kerridge, and The American Version Of The Office.

  25. w/e 2020-11-15

    The Burning Hell, Audio Science Review, and Twitter threads.