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September 2023  1 post



August 2023  2 posts

(Don’t) Party like it’s 1999  ·  Oppenheimer

July 2023  1 post

In praise of the sheepsfoot

June 2023  2 posts

Backup Matters  ·  Friday the 13th and the Sad Little Men

January 2023  1 post

Less

December 2022  2 posts

2022 Reading List  ·  52(ish) things I learned in 2022

October 2022  2 posts

Music Matters  ·  State of the Pens

September 2022  1 post



July 2022  1 post

A ‘revolution’ in photography?

June 2022  1 post

Game Over...

May 2022  1 post

This is a ★★★☆☆ blog post

April 2022  1 post

Picard

February 2022  1 post

Sad Little Men

December 2021  1 post

52(ish) things I learned in 2021

October 2021  2 posts

Unexpected benefits...  ·  Return of a King

June 2021  2 posts

Poetry Please!  ·  Dad Joke

April 2021  1 post

The new World of Work

March 2021  1 post

Leica Monochrom

January 2021  2 posts

Cameras for sale... Grit in the machine

October 2020  1 post

Face Masks

August 2020  2 posts

The Bomb  ·  And, breathe...

July 2020  1 post

Knife sharpening

June 2020  1 post

TWSBi Go!

May 2020  1 post

The Four Ts

February 2020  2 posts

How I read  ·  Consider Phlebas

January 2020  1 post

Sláinte

December 2019  2 posts

2019s in numbers  ·  An ode to an old desktop

November 2019  1 post

Ancillary Justice

October 2019  1 post

Vietnam

August 2019  2 posts

Brassicas  ·  Red Oxx Messenger Bag

July 2019  4 posts

All the bags  ·  Misanthropic Planning  ·  Mamiya RZ67  ·  Moon Dust

June 2019  1 post

Blown Away

May 2019  4 posts

Planners  ·  Chernobyl  ·  The Idea Factory  ·  The Name’s Bond...

April 2019  1 post

Book Group

March 2019  3 posts

Better Touch Tool  ·  A Grand Pen Scoring Methodology  ·  Ceramic Knife

February 2019  1 post

Spark joy

January 2019  5 posts

Annual Email Backup War of The Worlds Audio Four years of turning up for work Why I Do This

December 2018  6 posts

Reading  ·  Three for December  ·  The Year of Health  ·  Winter walk  ·  Christmas Tree  ·  Desktop Mementos

November 2018  3 posts

Three for November  ·  The repetitive nature of tradition is comforting  ·  New diary day!

October 2018  1 post

Three (actually only two) for October

September 2018  2 posts

Three for September  ·  What goes around comes around

August 2018  1 post

Three for August

July 2018  1 post

Three for July

June 2018  2 posts

Three for June  ·  The ‘Butterfly’ Bowl

May 2018  2 posts

Things my kids will never understand  ·  Three for May

April 2018  2 posts

Three for April  ·  The Hobonichi Experiment Continues

March 2018  2 posts

Three for March  ·  Libraries

February 2018  1 post

Three for February

January 2018  3 posts

Three for January Stepping Back New Phone Day

December 2017  1 post

Festive Five 2017

November 2017  1 post

We will remember them

October 2017  1 post

My EDC Essentials

September 2017  2 posts

Hobonichi Planner  ·  Red Oxx Mini Boss

August 2017  1 post

Montblanc 147 Traveller

April 2017  1 post

The Music

March 2017  1 post

The cup in my hand

February 2017  1 post

Where is my data?

January 2017  2 posts

Micro-blogging The Making of The Atomic Bomb

November 2016  1 post

Lest we forget

September 2016  1 post

Stuff

August 2016  1 post

Breathing Space

July 2016  1 post

A rant...

June 2016  2 posts

Brexit  ·  Broken Vows: Tony Blair

May 2016  2 posts

A Rotation of Fountain Pens  ·  Gilgamesh

April 2016  1 post

Nakaya Pens

March 2016  3 posts

Elbow grease  ·  I Saw Goody Proctor with The Devil  ·  Sunset Song

February 2016  2 posts

Peanut Butter  ·  OmniFocus Niggles

January 2016  1 post

Requiem for a shirt

December 2015  2 posts

Festive Five 2015  ·  The dreaded Christmas letter

November 2015  1 post

Everyday Water Bottle

October 2015  1 post

Blinded by the light

September 2015  1 post

Spurtle

August 2015  2 posts

Knock-knock...  ·  A Shepherd’s Life

July 2015  1 post

Inside Out

June 2015  1 post

Ink & Graphite

April 2015  2 posts

Trade secrets  ·  500 Words

January 2015  1 post

Rocket Science

December 2014  1 post

One year with a Hobonichi

September 2014  2 posts

The Best  ·  Shoes

May 2014  2 posts

Sulluzzu v4.0  ·  Bertha’s book

April 2014  1 post

Inheritance Tracks

March 2014  1 post

A history of my life in 50 objects

January 2014  2 posts

Possibilities Revolution in Time

December 2013  1 post

2013 Festive Five

November 2013  1 post

This is a man’s world

October 2013  3 posts

No Signal  ·  On the move again  ·  Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

September 2013  5 posts

The Treachery of Photography  ·  Changes  ·  Exploring Audio Nirvana  ·  Good things come to those who wait  ·  RSS Choices

August 2013  2 posts

Tubular Bells  ·  Adobe Lightroom

July 2013  4 posts

The end of RSS  ·  Ten reasons why we are together  ·  Dominion  ·  Don McCullin

June 2013  3 posts

Desert Island Discs  ·  P1 Pen Hacking  ·  Legacy

May 2013  2 posts

A Point Of View  ·  Cycle Speedway

March 2013  4 posts

Kodachrome Red  ·  Japanese Lady  ·  Typewriting  ·  On writing

February 2013  4 posts

Gangster Squad - Nuneaton  ·  Digital Housekeeping  ·  Best of British  ·  Sporting Days

January 2013  4 posts

And speaking of modern... Modern Art Foghorns Just Offally good food

December 2012  2 posts

2012 Festive Five  ·  Corson

November 2012  3 posts

Beware of the clouds  ·  My compleat guide to shaving  ·  Malta 1919

October 2012  9 posts

Memories  ·  A child possessed  ·  Changed Days  ·  The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell  ·  Girls on the beach  ·  Princess Duckface and The Mechanical Monkey  ·  Dress up as ladies!  ·  Vindolanda  ·  I ♥ Film

September 2012  3 posts

Mystery Woman  ·  Digitally Remastered  ·  Going to the pub won’t pay the Bills

August 2012  4 posts

See  ·  "I am thinking here. You know, that strange feeling"  ·  Tommy Cardwell  ·  Classic Designs

July 2012  4 posts

Angels and stories  ·  Why do we write documents for printing?  ·  The Camera Exchange Programme  ·  Magna Carta

June 2012  7 posts

Me vs. Miles Davis  ·  The Landmark Trust  ·  Camera Bag  ·  My hand on a pen  ·  Alasdair Gray  ·  Nice!  ·  Ernest Hemingway

May 2012  1 post

Stopmotion Drawing

April 2012  4 posts

The people around us...  ·  Take the high road or the low road?  ·  Diamond Mine  ·  They’re not just toys

March 2012  6 posts

Blotting Paper  ·  Enveloop Pen Case  ·  Greenvoe  ·  Pen For Men  ·  The Wound and The Gift  ·  When I buy things...

February 2012  1 post

A English country house with an industrial chimney

January 2012  4 posts

Mistitled: BAR SOPA The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Aperture or Lightroom (Take 2) The Bolton Ecky Thump club at their inaugural meeting celebrate a great win over Barnsley

December 2011  7 posts

2011 Festive Five  ·  Spring Heeled Jack  ·  Reading outside the comfort zone  ·  You don’t take a photograph, you make it  ·  Ansel Adams  ·  2011 Discoveries  ·  Friends of Adobia

November 2011  12 posts

Snake Oil  ·  Eleanor is 10  ·  Commonplace books of the 21st century  ·  Weeds  ·  The WP 34S Project  ·  2012 Calendar Wallpaper  ·  Hardly anyone reads this  ·  People don’t belong here  ·  Brooks Messenger Bag  ·  In the spotlight  ·  The House of Silk  ·  Slide Film

October 2011  5 posts

The Zen of Python  ·  Grandmother’s Traditional Rhyme  ·  Cathedrals  ·  A Classic Reborn  ·  On Software Updates

September 2011  3 posts

Happy Hacking!  ·  Do not glare upon thy snot  ·  Slightly Out of Focus

August 2011  3 posts

Nikon FM3A  ·  Earth  ·  Mary and Max

July 2011  4 posts

Geotagged Music  ·  Doctor Who Chess Set  ·  The Umbrian Print Shop  ·  Summer 2010

June 2011  3 posts

Music to work to  ·  Tadpoles in the mist  ·  Stealth Mode Fountain Pen

May 2011  1 post

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April 2011  7 posts

My Menu Bar Icons  ·  Microsoft Word’s Teeny Tiny Cursor  ·  Torn Paper Syndrome  ·  Pinhole Photography  ·  The Joy of Text  ·  Coffee for workers  ·  Time Management By Dummies

March 2011  3 posts

The Devil’s In The Details  ·  Worms  ·  Gravestone through a pinhole

February 2011  5 posts

Shakespeare, King Richard Ⅱ  ·  Peggy in the window  ·  Snowdrops through a pinhole  ·  The Water of Leaf  ·  Girl Famuż għall sulluzzu Wara Inkarigati bil Qtil

January 2011  4 posts

Slide Rules It came from outer space but now it’s been sent to bed! If text Editors Were Films Standoff (or how not to rebuild a computer)

December 2010  9 posts

A Season Ticket to Adobia  ·  Festive 5  ·  The genius of Shakespeare  ·  Aperture or Lightroom  ·  Henrietta Lacks  ·  Another Visit To Adobia  ·  2011 Calendar Wallpaper  ·  Into The Trees  ·  Helping Angels Keep Their Wings

November 2010  4 posts

Leaves (by Lucy)  ·  Night of the long pegs  ·  Rocken Robbin  ·  Art Nouveau Amy Pond

October 2010  4 posts

A little glimpse at the 19th century  ·  The Invisibles  ·  A Warning...  ·  John Berger on life as a child

September 2010  11 posts

John Berger on books  ·  A Very Determined Case Of Suicide  ·  Hope Fear & Happiness in Edinburgh  ·  I Like This Cheshire Cat  ·  Cat in the air  ·  Henry Ford  ·  New Music  ·  TrueType vs. OpenType  ·  Ten Reasons Why They Should Be Together  ·  Tell me, and I will forget  ·  Adobia

August 2010  4 posts

Backup Madness  ·  iPhone Wallpapers  ·  CAPCOM ... Check. CONTROL ... Check  ·  Pasting text in Microsoft Word (an angel will lose its wings!)

July 2010  6 posts

Signal vs. Noise  ·  Bullshit!  ·  Instapaper Text-only View  ·  Pyramid on Holy Island  ·  Camera and Film Comparison  ·  My attempt to explain the Curse of Hello! magazine

June 2010  3 posts

Mask  ·  Pipework  ·  Three Men dancing

May 2010  10 posts

Boraxo  ·  Dead Heads  ·  Modern  ·  Travels with my Kindle  ·  Don’t turn your back, don’t look away, don’t even blink!  ·  Kentish Fried Chicken  ·  Caboosh - The Fight Continues  ·  Runaway Train  ·  Sleeping Giant  ·  To a kitchen timer...

April 2010  4 posts

Benefits of a Bicycle  ·  Lovely Old Colours  ·  Wandering about out Edinburgh  ·  Bed-time

March 2010  3 posts

Portobello Beach  ·  Mysterious Door  ·  Spring Scene

February 2010  3 posts

The Irony of My ‘Piracy’  ·  My useful desktop wallpaper  ·  Seymour: An Introduction

January 2010  4 posts

iScotland How I use Mail.app Covering-up the kindle Bicyclist Myths

December 2009  2 posts

Snowy Face Bleugh, bleuch, bleugh with the babies!

November 2009  2 posts

Brockless Family Christmas Pudding The Kindle Experience

October 2009  3 posts

There once was a small boy called Neil Sublime Text Manhole

September 2009  3 posts

Sunday Morning Set-up Alternating Row Colours in Excel Zanzero for coffee. And upholstery

August 2009  3 posts

Or Alternatively... Cycle Path Memorial Tension between meaning and non-meaning

July 2009  5 posts

Thunderbirds Are Go Devon Pottery Poetry Lucy... Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for

June 2009  6 posts

iPhone App Store Featured Items WTF is this supposed to mean? "It smells like all my favourite things!" More Adobe Madness Strange Flowers Fun font of the day

May 2009  2 posts

Pilot Capless Fermo Fountain Pen LAPTOP REQUIRED

April 2009  6 posts

Omnigraffle Annotations Omnigraffle Annotations Little Sparta Simplicity If you want to truly understand something If you want to truly understand something

March 2009  3 posts

The history of my calculators Word, how do I hate thee. Let me count the ways Adobe Acrobat 8.1