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  1. w/e 2023-02-12

    A strange bug, Look Mum No Hands! closing, a bike trainer, Tár, Narcos seasons one and two, Happy Valley season three, and The White Lotus seasons one and two.

  2. w/e 2023-02-05

    Twitter API, simple website hosting, Fight the Power, Our Flag Means Death.

  3. w/e 2023-01-29

    Prefab Sprout, anniversary, Outback Truckers, black-and-white photos, some ooh.directory tasks, insulating the loft hatch.

  4. w/e 2022-01-22

    Walks cross London, Aftersun, Plausible Analytics, and the “real” camera.

  5. w/e 2023-01-15

    Moin, sheep, the end of Tweetbot and Twitter, and two music documentaries.

  6. Blogroll Keepers #8

    Five blogs and four newsletters that I’ve been reading long enough that I’m given them permanent space in my feedreader and blogroll.

  7. w/e 2023-01-08

    Finishing The Last of Us Part II, watching China’s Van Goghs and The Nest.

  8. w/e 2023-01-01

    Re-launching Pepys’ Diary, setting up a Ko-fi page, The Other End of the Leash by Patricia B. McConnell, Ghosts and Detectorists specials, The Story of Film: An Odyssey, and His Dark Materials season three.

  9. 2022

    Looking back at my work, non-work, health, media consumption, etc. over the year.

  10. Third time: The Diary of Samuel Pepys

    The diary is starting again from the beginning for the third time, twenty years since I first started the site.

  11. w/e 2022-12-25

    A funeral, The Wonder, Glass Onion, A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Snowfall season five, The Sinner season three, and Motherland.

  12. w/e 2022-12-18

    Preparing Pepys for the third reading, macOS Ventura, and Industry season two.

  13. w/e 2022-12-12

    A week in London and Essex.

  14. w/e 2022-12-04

    Hosting woes even more tedious for me than for you, all of Rev., and season four of Snowfall.

  15. w/e 2022-11-27

    ooh.directory launch, lunch out, a good photo, managing tasks, The English, Happy Valley season two, and Mastodon.

  16. ooh.directory

    I just launched the new website I’ve been working on, a large organised collection of good blogs.

  17. w/e 2022-11-20

    Mary’s back; writing code to fetch feeds; deciding on web hosting; improving bread baking; three more Éric Rohmer films and Listen Up Philip.

  18. w/e 2022-11-13

    Dry Cleaning’s Stumpwork; re-writing a Django app; raking more leaves; Twitter, Mastodon, MetaFilter, and TypePad; four 1980s Éric Rohmer films; jelly bags.

  19. w/e 2022-11-06

    A pheasant; pond leaves; Good Night and Good Riddance by David Cavanagh; Twitter, MetaFilter and TypePad; Drive My Car; and Community season five.

  20. Linocut printmaking resources

    A collection of links to useful blog posts for anyone interested in starting linocut printmaking.

  21. w/e 2022-10-30

    Martha’s Please Don’t Take Me Back, The Flames of Injustice, Cloudflare failure, Le Père de mes enfants, Red Road, Farewell Amor, and Cinema Paradiso.

  22. w/e 2022-10-23

    Oomph deficit.

  23. w/e 2022-10-16

    Jacki Apple, Conversations with Friends.

  24. New and old, big and small

    On W. David Marx’s description of Generation X as cultural crate-diggers, the Band Aid-era division between mainstream and indie, and identifying when Britain split.

  25. w/e 2022-10-09

    The NTS Early Bird Show, Prolapse Peel Sessions, searching for duologues, The Eddy, and Ghosts season four.