One Man's Notes

Quayside ladder, high tide.

A ladder down from a quay on the Adur.

Richard Durrant playing during the sunrise this morning.


More images from the sunrise Easter service this morning.


Sunrise on Easter Sunday.

A church congregation meets on Shireham Beach to welcome Easter Sunday.

A tiny escape on Good Friday.


My feelings were ambivalent - social media and the internet have introduced me to many wonderful people - but I couldn’t help thinking that all this obsessive togetherness made solitude both more intimidating and more necessary.

Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women by Annabel Abbs 📚


What’s SUP, Doc?

Two stand up paddleboarders on the Sussex sea.

New research shows that leg exercise - in particular weight-bearing leg exercise like walking - instructs the brain to produce the neurons needed to cope with stress and change. The foot-to-ground impact of walking sends pressure waves surging through the arteries, dramatically increasing blood to the brain.

Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women by Annabel Abbs 📚


Such a beautiful morning.


Morning coffee by the sea.

A flask and enamel mug on a rock.

One way where I match the stereotype of the middle-aged Dad is my obsession with correct dishwasher loading.

Why yes, we do have a visitor. Why do you ask?

😉


Jonathan Haidt:

“A mean tweet doesn’t kill anyone; it is an attempt to shame or punish someone publicly while broadcasting one’s own virtue, brilliance, or tribal loyalties.”


Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid

“Once social-media platforms had trained users to spend more time performing and less time connecting, the stage was set for the major transformation, which began in 2009: the intensification of viral dynamics.”


Some beautiful prints of British wildlife, signed by nature presenters and celebrities.

50% of the proceeds go to nature charities.

Which to pick… 🤔


My Mark 2 is finally here – only a year after Studio Neat planned. Still, worth waiting for.


Apparently students these days buy their clothes by the kilo…

A vintage clothes by the kilo sign near Northampton Square, London

I suspect I have written more words this week than any other week so far in my life.

And it’s still only Thursday.


The couple of years since the allegations about Warren Ellis came to light have been on long succession of internet-famous people from 15 years ago or more progressively revealing themselves to be rather unpleasant people.


It may be bitterly cold here in Sussex, but the beach knows it’s spring. The first of the plants that dominate the beach during the summer months are pushing their way through the shingle.

Just looking forwards to the temperatures catching up…

A plant thrusts its way through the shingle on Shoreham Beach.

Weekend Nature Reads: the Good News, Bad News edition…

Sometime’s it’s hard not to despair when reading about things like this. But there is hope.


I do wonder if one of the triggers of moving from independent consultant to small agency is that having more bodies in the operation gives you mores ability to mitigate the workload problems of the famine/feast cycle.

But I suspect it swaps those problems for a different set.


This is a fascinating tale of a man who enjoyed taking photos more then developing the, creating a huge recovery and archiving challenge: Photographer’s 3,200 Undeveloped Film Rolls Hold History of Rock ‘n’ Roll - PetaPixel


Finished reading: Fifty Words for Snow by Nancy Campbell 📚

Took me quite a while to get through this one. It wasn’t that I disliked it — it’s that the format of 50 short essays about different snows around the globe lends itself to dipping in and out of the book, rather than losing yourself it.

Did I like it? Yes, I think. I need to mull it over for a while to be sure.


Flippin’ ‘eck, this is worrying: The Ocean Is Having Trouble Breathing And yes, it’s climate change at work again.


Online lecture mode.