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Writing

  1. ‘Ghosts of My Life’ by Mark Fisher

    Several passages from the book noted in the hope they stick in my head longer.

  2. w/e 2023-09-10

    Essex then London, in a hot and humid week. Hornets. Afire and Official Competition.

  3. w/e 2023-09-03

    Migraines and head banging, hay baling and grass collecting, Sonos speakers and NTS, Heat, La Haine, Happening, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, and a log cabin.

  4. w/e 2023-08-27

    Salesforce by Lauren Bousfield, strimming recalculation, favicon-related coding, and The Chalet.

  5. w/e 2023-08-20

    Finishing scything, the gym, season one of Silo and Tetris.

  6. w/e 2023-08-13

    Work, a new iPad, scything, and the final season of Halt and Catch Fire.

  7. w/e 2023-08-06

    Stopping things posting on Twitter, Original Rockers by Richard King, and Halt and Catch Fire season three.

  8. w/e 2023-07-31

    A week in Essex, Walton pier, Lanny by Max Porter, Halt and Catch Fire seasons 1-2.

  9. w/e 2023-07-23

    Wireless headphones, frogs/toads, Slow Horses season two, and A Visit from the Goon Squad.

  10. w/e 2023-07-16

    caroline, second-hand books, Bridge of Spies, and season one of Shrinking.

  11. w/e 2023-07-09

    Cracking the Cryptic, Thomas Dolby’s The Speed of Sound, Beef and Colin from Accounts.

  12. w/e 2023-07-02

    More Glastonbury, ooh.directory emoji and award nomination, James Bridle’s Ways of Being, and season three of Ted Lasso.

  13. w/e 2023-06-25

    Some coding, two crosswords, Annika season one, The Diplomat season one, and Glastonbury on TV.

  14. w/e 2023-06-18

    A party here, a bit of scything, a tiny bit of computing, Rufus, birds.

  15. w/e 2023-06-11

    A thirty-year reunion, scything, and The Gallows Pole.

  16. w/e 2023-06-04

    Giving scything another go, a friend visiting, eBaying, blog birthdays, the end of Succession and Barry, season one of Poker Face, and season three of I Think You Should Leave…

  17. w/e 2023-05-28

    A very quiet week of perfect weather and getting a few things done. Plus Perry Mason season two.

  18. w/e 2023-05-21

    Three days in London, Return to Seoul, One Fine Morning, and finding just the right calendar app.

  19. w/e 2023-05-14

    Visiting Essex, James Bachelder’s The Throwback Special, Eurovision, and Stewart Lee.

  20. w/e 2023-05-07

    Some shoegaze and Paste by Moin; I used ChatGPT to write some code; a squirrel-proof bird feeder; return to the gym; 1990s photos; No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood; Deep Work by Cal Newport; and Barry season three.

  21. w/e 2023-04-30

    Brains and weather, Bluesky etc, finding a USB hub, Barry seasons one and two, and Looking: The Movie.

  22. Blogroll Keepers #9

    More blogs and newsletters I’ve started following. Quite a bit of music and photography, plus several other things, like horse-drawn carriages.

  23. w/e 2023-04-23

    A trip to Bristol, Rye Lane, and two seasons of Looking.

  24. w/e 2023-04-16

    NTS’s Ambient Americana, a new bike trainer and a new bike, baffled at MacBook hubs and docks, and Tamara Shopsin’s Arbitrary Stupid Goal.

  25. w/e 2023-04-09

    Update problems, pressure washing problems, and I Hate Suzie Too.