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Memories of Books

August 31, 2024

Vintage Pens

August 15, 2024

iA Writer Notebook

August 6, 2024

Subscriptions

July 31, 2024

The ‘Aesthete’

May 13, 2024

Garlic Pesto

April 11, 2024

Håg Capisco (and Unintended Consequences)

March 20, 2024

My Secret Brexit Diary

March 11, 2024

The One

March 9, 2024

A World Without Email

February 27, 2024

Cloud Howe

January 19, 2024

Books of the year

January 3, 2024

Christmas Turkey

December 26, 2023

The 52 things I learned in 2023

December 20, 2023

Default Apps

November 8, 2023

Stepping Backwards

October 15, 2023

(Don’t) Party like it’s 1999

August 29, 2023

Oppenheimer

August 14, 2023

In praise of the sheepsfoot

July 13, 2023

Backup Matters

June 25, 2023

Friday the 13th and the Sad Little Men

June 16, 2023

Less

January 15, 2023

2022 Reading List

December 31, 2022

52(ish) things I learned in 2022

December 19, 2022

Music Matters

October 3, 2022

State of the Pens

October 2, 2022

September 12, 2022

A ‘revolution’ in photography?

July 27, 2022

Game Over...

June 20, 2022

This is a ★★★☆☆ blog post

May 21, 2022

Picard

April 16, 2022

Sad Little Men

February 8, 2022

52(ish) things I learned in 2021

December 26, 2021

Unexpected benefits...

October 27, 2021

Return of a King

October 1, 2021

Poetry Please!

June 13, 2021

Dad Joke

June 2, 2021

The new World of Work

April 15, 2021

Leica Monochrom

March 2, 2021

Cameras for sale...

January 23, 2021

Grit in the machine

January 15, 2021

Face Masks

October 2, 2020

The Bomb

August 30, 2020

And, breathe...

August 20, 2020

Knife sharpening

July 26, 2020

TWSBi Go!

June 3, 2020

The Four Ts

May 26, 2020

How I read

February 27, 2020

Consider Phlebas

February 16, 2020

Sláinte

January 28, 2020

2019s in numbers

December 30, 2019

An ode to an old desktop

December 3, 2019

Ancillary Justice

November 24, 2019

Vietnam

October 9, 2019

Brassicas

August 17, 2019

Red Oxx Messenger Bag

August 6, 2019

All the bags

July 30, 2019

Misanthropic Planning

July 26, 2019

Mamiya RZ67

July 25, 2019

Moon Dust

July 19, 2019

Blown Away

June 9, 2019

Planners

May 27, 2019

Chernobyl

May 23, 2019

The Idea Factory

May 22, 2019

The Name’s Bond...

May 11, 2019

Book Group

April 26, 2019

Better Touch Tool

March 6, 2019

A Grand Pen Scoring Methodology

March 5, 2019

Ceramic Knife

March 3, 2019

Spark joy

February 2, 2019

Annual Email Backup

January 27, 2019

War of The Worlds

January 23, 2019

Audio

January 18, 2019

Four years of turning up for work

January 12, 2019

Why I Do This

January 10, 2019

Reading

December 30, 2018

Three for December

December 27, 2018

The Year of Health

December 26, 2018

Winter walk

December 19, 2018

Christmas Tree

December 16, 2018

Desktop Mementos

December 8, 2018

Three for November

November 30, 2018

The repetitive nature of tradition is comforting

November 28, 2018

New diary day!

November 18, 2018

Three (actually only two) for October

October 28, 2018

Three for September

September 29, 2018

What goes around comes around

September 1, 2018

Three for August

August 31, 2018

Three for July

July 25, 2018

Three for June

June 26, 2018

The ‘Butterfly’ Bowl

June 9, 2018

Things my kids will never understand

May 28, 2018

Three for May

May 28, 2018

Three for April

April 30, 2018

The Hobonichi Experiment Continues

April 9, 2018

Three for March

March 27, 2018

Libraries

March 13, 2018

Three for February

February 28, 2018

Three for January

January 29, 2018

Stepping Back

January 17, 2018

New Phone Day

January 10, 2018

Festive Five 2017

December 31, 2017

We will remember them

November 11, 2017

My EDC Essentials

October 13, 2017

Hobonichi Planner

September 24, 2017

Red Oxx Mini Boss

September 23, 2017

Montblanc 147 Traveller

August 30, 2017

The Music

April 29, 2017

The cup in my hand

March 10, 2017

Where is my data?

February 12, 2017

Micro-blogging

January 2, 2017

The Making of The Atomic Bomb

January 1, 2017

Lest we forget

November 7, 2016

Stuff

September 3, 2016

Breathing Space

August 30, 2016

A rant...

July 9, 2016

Brexit

June 24, 2016

Broken Vows: Tony Blair

June 16, 2016

A Rotation of Fountain Pens

May 30, 2016

Gilgamesh

May 7, 2016

Nakaya Pens

April 6, 2016

Elbow grease

March 31, 2016

I Saw Goody Proctor with The Devil

March 22, 2016

Sunset Song

March 19, 2016

Peanut Butter

February 29, 2016

OmniFocus Niggles

February 7, 2016

Requiem for a shirt

January 23, 2016

Festive Five 2015

December 31, 2015

The dreaded Christmas letter

December 11, 2015

Everyday Water Bottle

November 5, 2015

Blinded by the light

October 26, 2015

Spurtle

September 26, 2015

Knock-knock...

August 25, 2015

A Shepherd’s Life

August 3, 2015

Inside Out

July 26, 2015

Ink & Graphite

June 7, 2015

Trade secrets

April 12, 2015

500 Words

April 4, 2015

Rocket Science

January 4, 2015

One year with a Hobonichi

December 7, 2014

The Best

September 7, 2014

Shoes

September 1, 2014

Sulluzzu v4.0

May 24, 2014

Bertha’s book

May 17, 2014

Inheritance Tracks

April 22, 2014

A history of my life in 50 objects

March 2, 2014

Possibilities

January 27, 2014

Revolution in Time

January 19, 2014

2013 Festive Five

December 26, 2013

This is a man’s world

November 10, 2013

No Signal

October 26, 2013

On the move again

October 20, 2013

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

October 7, 2013

The Treachery of Photography

September 28, 2013

Changes

September 23, 2013

Exploring Audio Nirvana

September 21, 2013

Good things come to those who wait

September 16, 2013

RSS Choices

September 2, 2013

Tubular Bells

August 19, 2013

Adobe Lightroom

August 7, 2013

The end of RSS

July 26, 2013

Ten reasons why we are together

July 16, 2013

Dominion

July 13, 2013

Don McCullin

July 7, 2013

Desert Island Discs

June 28, 2013

P1 Pen Hacking

June 18, 2013

Legacy

June 8, 2013

A Point Of View

May 12, 2013

Cycle Speedway

May 10, 2013

Kodachrome Red

March 31, 2013

Japanese Lady

March 23, 2013

Typewriting

March 13, 2013

On writing

March 10, 2013

Gangster Squad - Nuneaton

February 28, 2013

Digital Housekeeping

February 12, 2013

Best of British

February 11, 2013

Sporting Days

February 9, 2013

And speaking of modern...

January 27, 2013

Modern Art

January 27, 2013

Foghorns Just

January 12, 2013

Offally good food

January 3, 2013

2012 Festive Five

December 31, 2012

Corson

December 1, 2012

Beware of the clouds

November 28, 2012

My compleat guide to shaving

November 25, 2012

Malta 1919

November 10, 2012

Memories

October 20, 2012

A child possessed

October 20, 2012

Changed Days

October 14, 2012

The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell

October 14, 2012

Girls on the beach

October 13, 2012

Princess Duckface and The Mechanical Monkey

October 12, 2012

Dress up as ladies!

October 6, 2012

Vindolanda

October 5, 2012

I ♥ Film

October 5, 2012

Mystery Woman

September 15, 2012

Digitally Remastered

September 8, 2012

Going to the pub won’t pay the Bills

September 1, 2012

See

August 21, 2012

"I am thinking here. You know, that strange feeling"

August 13, 2012

Tommy Cardwell

August 13, 2012

Classic Designs

August 12, 2012

Angels and stories

July 29, 2012

Why do we write documents for printing?

July 24, 2012

The Camera Exchange Programme

July 21, 2012

Magna Carta

July 13, 2012

Me vs. Miles Davis

June 24, 2012

The Landmark Trust

June 24, 2012

Camera Bag

June 10, 2012

My hand on a pen

June 2, 2012

Alasdair Gray

June 1, 2012

Nice!

June 1, 2012

Ernest Hemingway

June 1, 2012

Stopmotion Drawing

May 9, 2012

The people around us...

April 30, 2012

Take the high road or the low road?

April 30, 2012

Diamond Mine

April 21, 2012

They’re not just toys

April 12, 2012

Blotting Paper

March 31, 2012

Enveloop Pen Case

March 29, 2012

Greenvoe

March 18, 2012

Pen For Men

March 16, 2012

The Wound and The Gift

March 16, 2012

When I buy things...

March 14, 2012

A English country house with an industrial chimney

February 15, 2012

Mistitled: BAR SOPA

January 18, 2012

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

January 14, 2012

Aperture or Lightroom (Take 2)

January 10, 2012

The Bolton Ecky Thump club at their inaugural meeting celebrate a great win over Barnsley

January 5, 2012

2011 Festive Five

December 31, 2011

Spring Heeled Jack

December 28, 2011

Reading outside the comfort zone

December 27, 2011

You don’t take a photograph, you make it

December 27, 2011

Ansel Adams

December 27, 2011

2011 Discoveries

December 21, 2011

Friends of Adobia

December 5, 2011

Snake Oil

November 29, 2011

Eleanor is 10

November 29, 2011

Commonplace books of the 21st century

November 29, 2011

Weeds

November 27, 2011

The WP 34S Project

November 21, 2011

2012 Calendar Wallpaper

November 18, 2011

Hardly anyone reads this

November 16, 2011

People don’t belong here

November 15, 2011

Brooks Messenger Bag

November 15, 2011

In the spotlight

November 13, 2011

The House of Silk

November 10, 2011

Slide Film

November 1, 2011

The Zen of Python

October 27, 2011

Grandmother’s Traditional Rhyme

October 24, 2011

Cathedrals

October 23, 2011

A Classic Reborn

October 16, 2011

On Software Updates

October 5, 2011

Happy Hacking!

September 22, 2011

Do not glare upon thy snot

September 17, 2011

Slightly Out of Focus

September 8, 2011

Nikon FM3A

August 21, 2011

Earth

August 14, 2011

Mary and Max

August 13, 2011

Geotagged Music

July 24, 2011

Doctor Who Chess Set

July 16, 2011

The Umbrian Print Shop

July 16, 2011

Summer 2010

July 1, 2011

Music to work to

June 29, 2011

Tadpoles in the mist

June 27, 2011

Stealth Mode Fountain Pen

June 3, 2011

An unnamed file was not found

May 10, 2011

My Menu Bar Icons

April 27, 2011

Microsoft Word’s Teeny Tiny Cursor

April 27, 2011

Torn Paper Syndrome

April 27, 2011

Pinhole Photography

April 24, 2011

The Joy of Text

April 5, 2011

Coffee for workers

April 5, 2011

Time Management By Dummies

April 4, 2011

The Devil’s In The Details

March 23, 2011

Worms

March 9, 2011

Gravestone through a pinhole

March 1, 2011

Shakespeare, King Richard Ⅱ

February 23, 2011

Peggy in the window

February 21, 2011

Snowdrops through a pinhole

February 18, 2011

The Water of Leaf

February 17, 2011

Girl Famuż għall sulluzzu Wara Inkarigati bil Qtil

February 8, 2011

Slide Rules

January 30, 2011

It came from outer space but now it’s been sent to bed!

January 14, 2011

If text Editors Were Films

January 14, 2011

Standoff (or how not to rebuild a computer)

January 5, 2011

A Season Ticket to Adobia

December 31, 2010

Festive 5

December 31, 2010

The genius of Shakespeare

December 27, 2010

Aperture or Lightroom

December 27, 2010

Henrietta Lacks

December 14, 2010

Another Visit To Adobia

December 14, 2010

2011 Calendar Wallpaper

December 14, 2010

Into The Trees

December 3, 2010

Helping Angels Keep Their Wings

December 1, 2010

Leaves (by Lucy)

November 25, 2010

Night of the long pegs

November 14, 2010

Rocken Robbin

November 13, 2010

Art Nouveau Amy Pond

November 10, 2010

A little glimpse at the 19th century

October 29, 2010

The Invisibles

October 17, 2010

A Warning...

October 7, 2010

John Berger on life as a child

October 1, 2010

John Berger on books

September 29, 2010

A Very Determined Case Of Suicide

September 24, 2010

Hope Fear & Happiness in Edinburgh

September 18, 2010

I Like This Cheshire Cat

September 17, 2010

Cat in the air

September 10, 2010

Henry Ford

September 10, 2010

New Music

September 7, 2010

TrueType vs. OpenType

September 6, 2010

Ten Reasons Why They Should Be Together

September 5, 2010

Tell me, and I will forget

September 2, 2010

Adobia

September 1, 2010

Backup Madness

August 26, 2010

iPhone Wallpapers

August 20, 2010

CAPCOM ... Check. CONTROL ... Check

August 20, 2010

Pasting text in Microsoft Word (an angel will lose its wings!)

August 8, 2010

Signal vs. Noise

July 28, 2010

Bullshit!

July 28, 2010

Instapaper Text-only View

July 23, 2010

Pyramid on Holy Island

July 20, 2010

Camera and Film Comparison

July 17, 2010

My attempt to explain the Curse of Hello! magazine

July 16, 2010

Mask

June 25, 2010

Pipework

June 25, 2010

Three Men dancing

June 24, 2010

Boraxo

May 31, 2010

Dead Heads

May 30, 2010

Modern

May 30, 2010

Travels with my Kindle

May 29, 2010

Don’t turn your back, don’t look away, don’t even blink!

May 21, 2010

Kentish Fried Chicken

May 21, 2010

Caboosh - The Fight Continues

May 21, 2010

Runaway Train

May 9, 2010

Sleeping Giant

May 4, 2010

To a kitchen timer...

May 3, 2010

Benefits of a Bicycle

April 28, 2010

Lovely Old Colours

April 24, 2010

Wandering about out Edinburgh

April 9, 2010

Bed-time

April 3, 2010

Portobello Beach

March 20, 2010

Mysterious Door

March 7, 2010

Spring Scene

March 5, 2010

The Irony of My ‘Piracy’

February 22, 2010

My useful desktop wallpaper

February 18, 2010

Seymour: An Introduction

February 14, 2010

iScotland

January 23, 2010

How I use Mail.app

January 19, 2010

Covering-up the kindle

January 15, 2010

Bicyclist Myths

January 1, 2010

Snowy Face

December 26, 2009

Bleugh, bleuch, bleugh with the babies!

December 26, 2009

Brockless Family Christmas Pudding

November 7, 2009

The Kindle Experience

November 6, 2009

There once was a small boy called Neil

October 22, 2009

Sublime Text

October 8, 2009

Manhole

October 4, 2009

Sunday Morning

September 13, 2009

Set-up Alternating Row Colours in Excel

September 11, 2009

Zanzero for coffee. And upholstery

September 5, 2009

Or Alternatively...

August 25, 2009

Cycle Path Memorial

August 21, 2009

Tension between meaning and non-meaning

August 14, 2009

Thunderbirds Are Go

July 18, 2009

Devon Pottery

July 14, 2009

Poetry

July 11, 2009

Lucy...

July 5, 2009

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for

July 5, 2009

iPhone App Store Featured Items

June 29, 2009

WTF is this supposed to mean?

June 23, 2009

"It smells like all my favourite things!"

June 16, 2009

More Adobe Madness

June 12, 2009

Strange Flowers

June 6, 2009

Fun font of the day

June 6, 2009

Pilot Capless Fermo Fountain Pen

May 28, 2009

LAPTOP REQUIRED

May 27, 2009

Omnigraffle Annotations

April 30, 2009

Omnigraffle Annotations

April 30, 2009

Little Sparta

April 28, 2009

Simplicity

April 4, 2009

If you want to truly understand something

April 1, 2009

If you want to truly understand something

April 1, 2009

The history of my calculators

March 31, 2009

Word, how do I hate thee. Let me count the ways

March 30, 2009

Adobe Acrobat 8.1

March 16, 2009