One Man's Notes

Well, this reads like the opening of a horror novel: Inaccessible first-floor Wisbech property for sale for £100


Beach plant.

Plant on Shoreham Beach

One of the nice things about Shoreham Beach is that, as a protected and rare habitat, we get a good range of plant life, even in winter.


Gnome Hide

In a hole in a tree there lived a gnome

Welcome to the 21st Century. Now patch your lightbulbs to stop them being hacked


The head of Apple News steps down after less than a year. It’s looking like the most troubled of Apple’s services offerings.


A new report on UK news consumption during the general election shows that many of the things we think about the media and politics are false - and that people’s news consumption is less than 3 minutes a day.

Worrying stuff.


Reading some embargoed research - and it is basically 😱. Huge shift to the way I think about .


Spot the children’s beginning reading book.


Volunteers needed.


TikTok is the social media hype cycle on speed - and the challenges ahead are beginning to emerge.


Y’know, normally I mourn layoffs at a content website. But I’ll make an exception for The Daily Stormer. The wages of hate cannot make payroll…


Reflect.

My daughters watching the ducks on Wakehurst Pond

Russell Davies always does such creative One Second Everydays: January 2020


Sight.

The family watching a video at the Millenium Seed Bank

Open.

Door in Wakehurst

I’ve never come across any device that’s better for writing on than an iPad. There might be a big ass Mac behind it, but the wee iPad is perfect for squeezing words out of my brain.


Unsplash’s Year in Review makes for fascinating reading - and the images are stunning.


Well, this is one way of dealing with it: The Daily Dot, Nahila Bonfiglio: Influencer gets revenge on her male trolls with Instagram account


On my Om, Om Malik: iPad at 10. An affair forever:

”And after so many years, I can confidently say the machine has made me more productive — and yes, even more joyful.”


The great unsolved mystery of the last 22 years: we still don’t know what she gonna look like with a chimney on her.


I don’t tend to procrastinate on difficult tasks. It’s the boring, repetitive ones I put off too long.


Finally started watching Halt and Catch Fire. I now want to listen to a lot of 80s music. 📺


Took a riverside walk today. It’s a good reminder that Shoreham-by-Sea is still very much a working port.

Fishing boats moored in the Adur.

Sunset silhouettes.

A cpuple talking as the sun goes down on Shoreham Beach.

This is rather lovely, too. Classic on the outside, modern on the inside: John Pawson designs his own Home Farm in the Cotswolds