: 🎵 I’ve been listening to a lot of Harry Chapin over the last couple of days. Just had …
: 🎵 If you like Americana/folk-rock/maybe a bit alt-country but all raw and close to the bone, Bill …
: 🎵 Younger son (12) did a thing. He’s very excited about it. linktr.ee/JoelGoody
: 🎵 “Montreal” by Mark Lettieri. Daaaaaaang. www.youtube.com/watch
: 🍿 Caught Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse over the weekend while it’s in a brief return to …
: Wow. iOS app store review approval eleven minutes after submission. I think that’s the …
: 🎵 Listening to Electric Six today and thinking that the lascivious announcement of each …
: Finished reading: Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes by Eric LaRocca …
: Finished reading: Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree 📚 I was skeptical of a prequel, but I …
: Finished reading: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree 📚 Everyone who recommended this was right.
: Finished reading: The Rain by Joseph A. Turkot 📚
: Finished reading: The Beast You Are: Stories by Paul Tremblay 📚
: Finished reading: This Cursed Light by Emily Thiede 📚
: Finished reading: Cave 13 by Jonathan Maberry 📚
: Finished reading: Long Past Midnight by Jonathan Maberry 📚 Pine Deep is my favourite of …
: Finished reading: The Maw by Taylor Zajonc 📚 Got a little silly towards the end, but still fun.
: Finished reading: Cackle by Rachel Harrison 📚
: Finished reading: Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman 📚
: Finished reading: Bad Dolls by Rachel Harrison 📚
: Finished reading: The Return by Rachel Harrison 📚
: Finished reading: Starter Villain by John Scalzi 📚
: Finished reading: Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison 📚 One of those books I started reading when I …
: Finished reading: Mister Magic by Kiersten White 📚
: Finished reading: All Souls Lost by Dan Moren 📚 Urban fantasy private investigator who deals with …
: Finished reading: Wayward by Chuck Wendig 📚 Took me a while to get through this massive novel, but …
: 🎵 Bruce Cockburn, “Wondering Where the Lions Are”. He is one of the best. …
: 🎵 Today is Pat Martino on repeat. musicthread.app/link/2WfH…
: YouTube’s “no ad blockers here” bit is getting more intrusive. There’s now a …
: Just spent an hour arguing (good-naturedly) about what we need to do to handle dates, times and …
: 🎵 New GUNSHIP album today 🎉 musicthread.app/link/2W4L…
: Finished reading: The Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai 📚
: Watching #guitar YouTubers with shelves of amps and pedals behind them, and racks of guitars. It all …
: 🎵 That Olivia Rodrigo album that came out last week 👍🏻 musicthread.app/link/2VQy…
: Instagram just served me an ad for a prosthetic leg. That’s not something I’ve ever …
: 29°C here over the weekend. 14°C today. Today is much more my comfort level.
: Finished reading: Treason of Hawks by Lila Bowen 📚
: Finished reading: Malice of Crows by Lila Bowen 📚
: Finished reading: Conspiracy of Ravens by Lila Bowen 📚
: Finished reading: Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen 📚
: Younger, pianist son has discovered Rachmaninoff. Things have got a bit dramatic in our house this …
: Finished reading: This Vicious Grace by Emily Thiede 📚 Certainly has its issues, but I enjoyed …
: Finished reading: Inside Man by K. J. Parker 📚 Quite disappointing. I enjoyed Prosper’s Demon …
: It’s 2023 and I just fixed a table cell reuse bug.
: Finished reading: Prosper’s Demon by K. J. Parker 📚
: I get tired of following a link to something that sounds interesting and ending up with Medium …
: Finished reading: Witch King by Martha Wells 📚 I’ve read a few really good books so far this year. …
: It’s new notebook day at my desk!
: Finished reading: Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs 📚 No real surprises along the way, but …
: Falling rain heard through an open window is one of my favourite sounds. Calming and relaxing, and …
: Finished reading: Dead Moon by Peter Clines 📚 Not worrying too much about the plot holes, and I was …
: Finished reading: Terminus by Peter Clines 📚
: Finished reading: Maniac Menagerie by Iain Rob Wright 📚 Nice and quick read, in and out with lots of …
: Finished reading: Paradise-1 by David Wellington 📚 A bit long and repetitive in parts, but left me …
: Finished reading: Ogres by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚 I should read more Adrian Tchaikovsky. I always …
: Finished reading: Nosferatu by Peter Cawdron 📚 The last holiday read to catch up on. A fair bit …
: Finished reading: Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder 📚 This was a wild ride. I loved it.
: Finished reading: We Need to Do Something by Max Booth Iii 📚
: Finished reading: Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice 📚
: Finished reading: Winter’s Gifts by Ben Aaronovitch 📚 I always love it when there’s …
: Finished reading: Death’s End by Cixin Liu 📚 Catching up on posting what I read on …
: Finished reading: The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu 📚
: Finished reading: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu 📚 I don’t know why it took me so long to …
: I was getting my eyes checked and the optometrist gave me my first “…for your …
: Finished reading: Season of Skulls by Charles Stross 📚 The Laundry Files/New Management books remain …
: 🎵 Scary Pockets does With Or Without You. www.youtube.com/watch This is at least a thousand times …
: Finished reading: The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson 📚 After the cliffhanger at the end of the first …
: Finished reading: The Battle Drum (The Final Strife, Book 2) by Saara El-Arifi 📚 I love this world. …
: 🎵 It’s a good music day today. New albums from the Foo Fighters and The Aces. Then I saw this, …
: 🎵 Well here’s a thing that I never would have considered. music.apple.com/gb/album/…
: I am chuffed to an irrational degree with the Solarized-themed keycap set that arrived yesterday.
: 🎵 The YouTube algorithm did good today and served me up some Joe Pass: www.youtube.com/watch
: Yesterday I spent an evening with guitars in a friend’s attic for the first time since I was a …
: Finished reading: No One Will Come Back For Us by Premee Mohamed 📚 A brilliant selection of short …
: Finished reading: The Sharp Edge of Yesterday by K. M. Herkes 📚 Flawed, sympathetic characters …
: How do they rise up? GNU Terry Pratchett
: 🎵 I’m only a light and occasional DAW user, and Ableton has been my choice for quite some …
: Finished reading: The Vessel by Adam Nevill 📚 A very lean but satisfying folk horror. Nevill is good …
: Finished reading: For the First Time, Again by Sylvain Neuvel 📚 Wrapping up the aliens-among-us …
: 📺 Over the weekend I watched a few episodes of the live-action Cowboy Bebop released the other year. …
: I was listening to a podcast with Cory Wong interviewing Nuno Bettencourt. Nuno kept talking about a …
: Some of the music I spent time with in April: musicthread.app/thread/2N…
: Finished reading: The Bone Shard War by Andrea Stewart 📚 A neat and satisfying third in the trilogy.
: 🎵 After a first run through I think I like the new boygenius record quite a lot. …
: Finished reading: The Law by Jim Butcher 📚
: Finished reading: Planetfall by Emma Newman 📚 Really interesting. Was not about what I expected it …
: 🎵 This morning I’m back on one of my absolute favourite albums ever: Audible Sigh from Bill …
: 🍿 Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: For when you don’t need Great and Worthy Art but want …
: Finished reading: The Insatiable Volt Sisters by Rachel Eve Moulton 📚 They were wizards and …
: Finished reading: The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix 📚
: Ended up having to go to Ikea this morning. Unexpectedly for a Saturday morning on a bank holiday …
: 🎵 In an unexpected development, today I am mostly listening to Polyphia. Quite enjoying myself, too.
: Finished reading: The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix 📚 The …
: 🍿 John Wick Chapter 4 does its thing very well. The cast is great. The fight choreography and stunts …
: Finished reading: How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix 📚 I enjoyed this one quite a lot. …
: Finished reading: Hide by Kiersten White 📚 A fun ride, this one. Thought-provoking, too.
: 🎵 One disc in, and I’m not sure what to make of the new U2 record. Some of the versions of …
: Finished reading: Her Majesty’s Royal Coven (HMRC, Book 1) by Juno Dawson 📚
: Finished reading: The Power by Naomi Alderman 📚 Picked this up after seeing a trailer for the TV …
: 🎵 Let’s have some Covet: music.apple.com/gb/album/… 🎸
: Watching The Matrix with the boys. Everyone in it looks very young. 🎬🍿
: Finished reading: The Jaguar Path (The Songs of the Drowned, Book 2) by Anna Stephens 📚 These really …
: 🎵 A list of some of the music I listened to in February: musicthread.app/thread/2L… Not …
: Finished reading: Old Country by Matthew Query 📚 A bit of folk horror. Might have benefited from a …
: Finished reading: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi 📚 Sets out to be a fun diversion, …
: Finished reading: Impostor Syndrome by Mishell Baker 📚 An eventful conclusion to the Arcadia Project …
: 🎵 In a totally unexpected development, I’ve found myself listening to The Bangles this …
: Finished reading: Phantom Pains by Mishell Baker 📚 A pretty affecting follow-up to Borderline. …
: Finished reading: Borderline by Mishell Baker 📚 I first heard of this book on a couple of podcasts …
: Finished reading: Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo 📚 A very enjoyable follow-up to Ninth House. Looking …
: Finished reading: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo 📚 Yup. Great fun.
: Currently reading: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo 📚 I’m about two-thirds through a re-read in …
: 🎵 Giving Måneskin a go. Turns out rock doesn’t sound bad in Italian.
: Finished reading: The Violence by Delilah S Dawson 📚 This is very, very good. Harrowing in places. …
: Finished reading: Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚 Quite different to the previous two in …
: 📺 The Sandman is out today. The comics were a big deal for me as a teenager, so I’m really …
: I’ve not seen a red weather warning before 😮
: Maybe it’s the baggage I carry from growing up in Northern Ireland, but plastering the Union Flag …
: Waiting outside the older boy’s swimming lesson and the coffee machine is broken 😩
: I realised today that my one trip to WWDC in person was ten years ago. That was a fun trip, but I’m …
: 📺 Finally got to the first couple of episodes of Stranger Things S4 last night. I stayed up too late …
: I’ve been looking at email services to maybe get away from gmail, and I remembered how years …
: I spent £100 putting unleaded in the car today. That’s not much fun. Makes me even more glad …
: 🍿 The boys have selected Pacific Rim for this evening’s movie. Excellent choice 👍🏻
: 🍿 First cinema trip since before COVID. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was… pretty …
: 🎵 I’ve put some Journey on for the afternoon. Which always makes me think of Scrubs, but there …
: 🎵 I don’t remember hearing this song covered before. I like this a lot: …
: 🎵 Yesterday evening, a friend introduced me to the music of Laurel Premo. This is gorgeous: …
: At 41 years old, when something is delivered and you look at the shipping box and say, “That’s a …
: That thing where you open the AWS console and the whole infrastructure is gone and you don’t …
: My son told me I’m playing my music too loud. Isn’t it supposed to be me telling him …
: 📺 Cowboy Bepop and Hellbound have both dropped on Netflix, Wheel of Time has hit Prime, and …
: 🎵 This afternoon I have taken a notion for Pocket Full of Kryptonite …
: YouTube has started recommending me videos on Dunning-Kruger. I’m a little concerned the …
: This morning I am listening to Regina Spektor singing No Surprises on repeat. www.youtube.com/watch
: If you ever hear me say the words, “It should just work,” please give me your most …
: I’m not usually all that cynical about signature instruments, and there are some crackers out …
: I am pleased by the new Dune trailer. youtu.be/8g18jFHCL…
: I don’t know why I’m only discovering Cory Wong now. Some of those live shows on YouTube …
: It was bound to happen. I just dipped a pen in my mug of tea instead of putting it in my pen mug.
: Back on the new Greta Van Fleet album this afternoon. That’s the stuff right there.
: Youngest told me today I should make videos for YouTube of me playing guitar. Parenting achievement …
: Met a man with a ferret standing outside a coffee shop this afternoon. We are in Yorkshire, after …
: When the embargo expires and all the guitarists on YouTube publish their video of the new Fender …
: YouTube just served up a reminder of why Nuno remains my favourite guitarist: www.youtube.com/watch
: Four people in this house, today, all either working or schooling from home. And at one point …
: Pianist on YouTube records Piano Man to hit the opening line right at 9 o’clock on a Saturday 😂 …
: I took a notion for an egg and onion sandwich, so my lunch tasted of christenings, the evening party …
: I, a software guy needing to make holes in a brick wall, have been introduced to the concept of an …
: I admire my children’s ability to be at each other’s throats one minute and be best of …
: About to attempt to fill my own tooth. 🤞🏻It only has to last three weeks.
: And the snow turns to rain 😞
: I may have turned 40 not that long ago, but seeing snow falling outside still gets me giddy.
: TIL that when the kids are “working on their YouTube” they don’t appreciate me …
: My brain is weird sometimes. I look at pictures like this one and my first thought is to wonder …
: It’s a great album. I’ve been listening to it all day. twitter.com/LarkinPoe…
: Tonight our big watch through the MCU with the boys reached Doctor Strange. I do enjoy that one, …
: This is cool: 7-colour e-ink display for a Raspberry Pi. I can think of a bunch of things to do with …
: This story on tor.com is right up my street. I loved it. And apparently there are more to come. …
: Listening to The Incomparable, thinking I should watch Aliens this weekend. It’s been a while.
: Nine: “I don’t wear shirts.”
: Every year the clocks going back scunders me for days.
: A spent (we thought) LR44 button cell sitting on our mantelpiece all by itself just exploded. Bang, …
: Caught a gap in the rain, yesterday.
: Definitely autumnal this morning.
: Saw a big old Irish Wolfhound lolloping about in Leeds this morning. Day: made.
: Ooh. This is niiiiiiice. twitter.com/LarkinPoe…
: Went outside for the first time in several days (having been at home with an isolating younger child …
: I’m sure weekends are shorter than they used to be.
: I’d forgotten just how much fun this is, the track and the video: Weapon of Choice
: The Pacific Rim soundtrack makes even this morning’s administrivia dramatic. …
: I hadn’t really thought of brass band RATM covers as something I need in my life, but then …
: Youngest: “I heard it from [brother], who heard it from [brother’s friend], who heard it …
: Craster Harbour, towards Dunstanburgh Castle made tiny by the phonecam.
: Watching our youngest (nearly nine) working in Roblox Studio is reminding me of my days noodling in …
: “Boss! Boss! I know how we can sell more window blinds!”
: I suppose Facebook does provide the opportunity for the racists to show themselves for what they …
: I must stop looking at Facebook. It always leaves me raging at some racist I thought I had respect …
: PJ is right. twitter.com/pauljhold…
: How do they rise up? twitter.com/terryandr…
: This is not a bug, but a memory use optimization.
: Our children just Do Not Get spoiler etiquette.
: Looks like a solid list of Hugo finalists: conzealand.nz/about/exp… Genuinely includes some …
: For the days we’re in, “kick at the darkness ‘til it bleeds daylight.” …
: Marvelling at how, for our family, our friends and our neighbourhood, WhatsApp and Zoom have quickly …
: “Somewhere in the darkness, the gambler he broke even.”
: The time has come to introduce the eldest to KotOR.
: Remote working life: when, on a video call with your boss, you take a massive cramp in your thigh, …
: In the bakery this morning, I asked for a slice of Battenberg to have after my lunch. The lady …
: Happy National Self-Own Day, UK 😞
: Had a moment and bought the boys a cheap looper pedal. I don’t regret it yet.
: Roundhay Park in New Year’s Day.
: I have opinions on the Honours system. My opinions are conflicting and not completely internally …
: 🎧 When both boys have new guitars 😱
: I’ve been to the cinema twice this weekend. Of the two films I’ve seen, wouldn’t …
: Just a handful of days left in 2019, and I’m only now discovering John Mayer’s version …
: It’s a pair of winter-ready squirrels hanging out on our front fence.
: Having been shopping for my sons’ Christmas gifts, it seems that these days you can get a …
: Turns out that if I put a # character in a title, it confuses the crap out of Jekyll and mistitles …
: Campaign for it to be customary for the owner of the trees to come and rake the leaves that fall in …
: Thinking about how Have I Got News For You still sets the standard for empty-chairing a politician. …
: Modifying a hand-me-down UNNAMED BRAND hoover attachment to fit our slightly newer model. …
: I’ve been unable to #makevember for the last week and a half thanks to general busyness, but …
: Everybody loves new notebook day.
: Very much enjoyed listening to The Incomparable talking about one of my favourite movies, Edge of …
: Uncomfortable as I may feel about the occasion, the firework show in Roundhay Park doesn’t …
: I revisited yesterday’s #makevember determined to get the batteries inside the jar. Sadly, even …
: A string of cheap Aldi LED skull lights left over from Hallowe’en makes for a very light-weight …
: Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon was fantastic. Laugh out loud the whole way through, with a pleasingly …
: All dressed up and ready to go for the indoor season.
: Having to open the hex editor is rarely a good start to the day.
: Huh. One of the “other Marks who occasionally (unintentionally?) use my email address” has signed up …
: Did iTunes break “Play Later”? It now seems to do the same as “Play Next” 😞
: I think it might be time to put the shorts away for the winter.
: “Use your administrator privileges to merge this pull request” Click.
: I recently learned of (can’t remember from where, sorry) Nick Cave’s Red Hand Files, an email …
: Email: “Your Hue Bridge has been reset to factory defaults and removed from your account.” No …
: 🎵 Getting round to giving the new Taylor Swift a listen. That is some poppy loveliness.
: Having a little “Good grief, Kid A was nineteen years ago” moment.
: Experiencing Worldcon FOMO 😞
: Just catching up that Automattic is buying Tumblr. That’s an interesting development.
: Five boys on holiday, aged eight to thirteen. The thirteen year-old loves D&D. They’re now all …
: 📚 Somtimes you finish reading a book and are left with the realisation that it was something really …
: Woo! My tipping-bucket rainfall gauge has arrive. Plans proceed..
: My day would be going a bit more smoothly if Xcode wasn’t so fond if its wee spinning …
: Today is a Regina Spektor and Ben Folds singing “Dear Theodosia” kind of day. …
: ❤️ the recently-added “Viewed” checkbox on files in Github’s pull request review …
: The pharmacy is air conditioned. I might just stay here ❄️
: Conversation discussing our (presumed) soon-to-be prime minister, discussing anything he might …
: I bought a fan. The fan didn’t work. I took it back to the shop. I now have a different fan, that …
: Just finished Stranger Things 3. Now I’m waiting for my eyes to stop leaking 🥺
: Hi to the mother who dropped her kids off to school with the instruction to “Dominate at …
: I can hear my son downstairs videoing himself playing his Grade 1 Rock Guitar songs. Not going to …
: I didn’t even know floating solar was a thing. twitter.com/MikeHudem…
: “Dad, back then was it a luxury to have windows?” “… Back when?” “When you were a kid.”
: Jeepers, it’s getting warm ☀️
: Three weeks without lifting a bow and nursing a sore back, I wasn’t expecting much today. I …
: If I remember the dates right, it’s three years today since we moved back to the UK from Toronto …
: That (mixed) feeling when weeks of work is represented by one short line in the release notes.
: Total agreement with this. Being interrupted, switching contexts… That’s working in a team. …
: Pool empty and lessons cancelled after someone… polluted the environment.
: I have yet to accidentally set anything on fire today. That’s an improvement on other days …
: Slightly tempted to shift my blog from Jekyll to Hugo just so that I don’t have to fiddle with …
: We could count the ways this is funny. twitter.com/iannmcdon…
: 📚 This evening I read Tade Thompson’s The Murders of Molly Southbourne. Wow. That really was …
: Jeremy’s been watching Logan’s Run again. twitter.com/Jeremy_Hu…
: Well, hello there, new Divine Comedy album. I didn’t know about you.
: I read this going, “Yup… Yup… Yup…” When programmers’ string opinions meet the Real World™. …
: All the websites that republish StackOverflow content surrounded by their own ads and clog up the …
: Sits in a little metal tube for an hour, sharing the air with 80 other people. Gets sick. ✅
: Contemplating those going for the Tory leadership. Rory Stewart seems to have a history of being …
: Leaving the house before 6 is much less painful when it’s daylight.
: Camping in Wensleydale over the weekend. Sadly this weather didn’t last.
: www.buzzfeednews.com/article/k…
: Chills. twitter.com/SirPatSte…
: Found this wee boyo crawling round my office this morning. I’ve no idea what it is.
: “Of course I’m going to go for it” are clearly the words of someone who grasps the …
: 🎙️ I’m a bit late to the party, but I really enjoyed Tim Ferriss interviewing Neil Gaiman. …
: This looks like a great lineup. Sad I won’t be able to make it. twitter.com/NIDevConf…
: Older child turns 10 today. Is this what getting old feels like?
: 🎵 I wanted to listen to something different today to what I’ve had lately. I’ve ended up …
: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-n… I don’t know what to say. I only met Lyra in person once or …
: I don’t know what the birds round here are eating this year, but getting the car clean nearly took a …
: 🎬 It’s a shame The Silence is such a dull film. I quite enjoyed the novel it’s based on.
: I successfully spent a Scottish banknote in an English shop. I am invincible! I can do anything!
: Looking north up Gare Loch this evening. Great view of the mountains.
: Words to live by. twitter.com/tdierks/s…
: SF starting to get political. Mustn’t have read much SF before… twitter.com/WIRED/sta…
: Nice to see BBC News getting their troll on a wee bit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/news…
: MS OneNote is pretty good, but I really hurt for the lack of proper Markdown support 😞
: Days since I accidentally typed “:w” in a Slack window: 0.
: Woo! Swag! For when I need distracted from politics, stickers!
: Another from Fountains Abbey. It’s a very peaceful place. Until my children started shouting 😬
: We took a trip to Fountains Abbey this afternoon. It was much bigger than I expected, both the ruins …
: So, I take it you all have watched the new Stranger Things trailer?
: 📚 These should be worth watching out for. The Themis Files were an excellent trilogy, and the recent …
: A lone nail, spotted in the wild.
: I have just learned that orange Smarties are orange-flavoured. At 38, how did I not know this?
: Is Tory party internal shenanigans not what got us into this entire mess in the first place? …
: Every time we talk about moving (or do move) from one project management product to another, it …
: OH: “I don’t need to get washed. I got washed on Wednesday.” #parenting
: 📚 I love when Kindle pre-orders drop and new books appear in my hand! Today is Elizabeth …
: “Far-left”. Ha. twitter.com/GOP/statu…
: Oh no. It’s World Book Day next week.
: There’s a broken tile on our bathroom floor and, when someone stands on it, it sounds exactly like a …
: Sneaky spot for a geocache, down a wee entry in Whitby.
: Also, what is the point of butterfly? Every other stroke seems to have a use or purpose. Butterfly …
: I will never not chuckle at my son’s swimming instructor standing by the pool demonstrating the …
: Today was a cracking afternoon to start getting back into the swing of things for the outdoor …
: It was a pretty dreich afternoon at Eccup, but the geocaching was successful.
: It’s Whitby Abbey. No sign of any vampire, though.
: I’ve never seen it in action, but I have seen this roller parked in different places, so I think it …
: It’s not apparent from this picture just how busy Roundhay Park was yesterday afternoon. It was the …
: Creepy dog robots are better at doors than I am. twitter.com/OnlyInBOS…
: Too many pens inked. I should clean some out 😞
: 📚 This is interesting. Ararat was great fun. twitter.com/DEADLINE/…
: Everybody loves new notebook day.
: It was a little bit frosty this morning. Still is, seven hours later.
: Older son: “The book I’m reading is really old. It was published in 2003.” Me: 😶
: Not pictured: the doughnut the size of my whole hand.
: I do like the look of these, especially the Pelham Blue. twitter.com/cultpens/…
: Adds Doctor Who GIF to the pull request description 👍
: 🎬 Hard to express just how much I enjoyed Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It looks incredible, …
: Wee problem with working remotely today: when I’ve lost my voice, the mic doesn’t pick me up …
: The first snow of the year started to fall.
: 😱 It’s just started snowing here.
: More Sagrada this evening. We quite like it, and it’s a very nicely produced game.
: The gas is off today, so I’m huddled round a candle for warmth 😃 I’d light the fire, but it runs on …
: An old satchel was in a box since a house-move or two ago. I found this in the bag 😁
: Since the gas was off at home, I spent the morning somewhere warmer. With a rather nice breakfast, …
: Dice from a new game: Sagrada.
: Over Kirkgate Market, Leeds.
: I can’t remember if I posted this. I meant to. The Mournes, from the centre of the maze at …
: One more from in and around Tollymore last week.
: A small splash of colour from Tollymore last Friday.
: Whenever I read The Gruffalo, in my head Fox is voiced by James Mason. Just me?
: Responded to a Brexit post on Facebook. Why did I do that? I know better than to do that.
: Probably credibility-damaging observation: My niece is sitting here watching Frozen and Let it Go …
: Well-played to the Amazon delivery person who decided our black wheelie bin was both a sensible and …
: OH: “I’m about to make this experience as rich as Jeff Bezos.”
: I’m four episodes in to Netflix’s The Mist series. So far, not one likeable character, but balanced …
: According to Goodreads, my Year in Books was only one long. More of a Year in Book. Which …
: Good morning. Happy Monday, folks.
: Fletching my arrows the night before a competition. Is that typically organised for me?
: 🎵 This afternoon’s debugging has been brought to you by Apple Music’s Essential 90s Soft …
: Good job, Internet, keeping me free of Crimes of Grindelwald spoilers. Now I’ve seen it: 😮
: This sounds good to me. twitter.com/monzo/sta…
: That thing where you log out of App Store Connect and back in again and the build stalled in …
: A watched build is never processed…
: 📚 New Rivers of London, today. Yeooo!
: “Mrs May. “We handed you a pile of cold horse droppings on the understanding that you would change …
: Downside of working from home: spending lunch peeling the spuds to get the stew on for tonight. …