If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ve just finished reading Getting Things Done by David Allen. It’s a few years old now, but it’s just reached critical mass, with a lot of the more influential blogs singing its praises, explaining how following its rules and [...]

All our worst fears confirmed. Cakes make you fat and some people are so ignorant to the fact that we now need to print health warnings on flapjack wrappers.

Lots of news on the housing front. The house I wanted to buy - which looked so perfect - turns out not to have been perfect at all. Swamp-like damp, possible rot, a roof that may or may not be slipping off the walls, a chimney about to fall into the communal pathway, jammed windows, [...]

The Computing Which people sent me a copy of their magazine at work yesterday, strictly embargoed until this morning. In this latest fairly issue, they look at photo editing tools and explore ‘how well the software turns amateur snaps into professional prints’.
I have to admit that from their thumbnails the results are so greatly improved [...]

Plenty of the people I work either with or near read this blog, so they can vouch for the veracity of otherwise of this posting, but I thought I’d paste up an excerpt from a reader letter, received by our communal inbox from Chris of the password-protected Roffeys.com. It’s his vision of a day in [...]

Wake up at our house these days and one of the first things you’ll hear is clap-clap-clap.
It’s the sound of wood on wood; a lid clapping down as the squirrels eat breakfast on their favoured tree half way down the garden. We put up a proper squirrel feeder in the summer, to stop them from [...]

Today was the better of the two days this weekend, so we headed back across the Suffolk/Essex border to Mistley. I’d not been in ages - years, in all likelihood - but I did remember one things very clearly: the swans.
The town pays them homage with a rather disappointing swan fountain, unwisely built in such [...]

I used to like The British Museum. For the building as much as anything else. Then, last summer, I went to Greece and visited the largely incomplete Acropolis. I looked up at the gaps on the front of the Parthenon, and at the replacement women on the Erechtheion and was sorely disappointed that while I’d [...]

These things really exist. Apparently.
Lunch today, talking flat design with a couple of German friends. They live in a snazzy block that was designed in accordance with a set of concepts akin to feng shui. The walls are all very precise proportions, and the block is built in a C-shape, with the open side pointing [...]

Ticket prices, as they always do, went up on the first day back at work, and there have been headlines every day since about how it’s now cheaper to travel by air than by rail.
Well, tell us something we don’t know. They’ve been rolling out that headline every January since Stevenson invented the Rocket.
Only The [...]