Sign on the equipment in the local playpark. One day, it’ll be an historical oddity blithely ignored by children for whom it’s an irrelevance.
Roll on that day.
Beach detail.
The Isles of Scilly, a decade ago.
An additional mask, now they’re compulsory in shops.
We get some surprisingly big ships on this stretch of the river.
Buoyant bird.
Beach life.
My eldest daughter loves performing. She never voluntarily passes up the opportunity to be in the limelight.
I suspect she gets it from her paternal grandmother. Here is my Mum performing in an amateur dramatics production sometime in the early 1960s.
Darling buds of July.
Girls in the wood.
Window in the canopy.
A momento of my old life as a hotel and restaurant journalist.
It turns out that 1970s and 80s Lego is still exciting to today’s children…
I’m loving the way micro.blog plugins solve a few pain points I have with the platform - but which might not bother most people.
This is bleak news: Guardian announces plans to cut 180 jobs. 70 are editorial jobs. Best wishes to my friends and former students working there.
Just paid for another year of micro.blog. You’re stuck with me, folks.
Hand-writing this post using Scribble and my Apple Pencil in iOS 14. That was easier than I expected!
Evening swim selfie.
Exploring the idea of the blogletter. What differentiates it from a more traditional newsletter?
Current status:
Evening on the beach.
Evening in the garden.
Early evening beach walk.
After three months with almost no time for anything but work or homeschooling, it feels good to actually do a little work on a side project again: Ring a ring of ospreys from The Osprey Weekly
Hand sanitiser gels contain microplastics.
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