Back in the Saddle
I did that thing I sometimes do and that is really think about what I’d like my blog to look like instead of actually getting on and …
Best Albums 2025
Faced with writing about the best albums of 2025 a bit late, I figured an extra six months of perspective might help me make some decisions …
Panini Stickers 2026
Ten years ago, ahead of the 2016 European Championship, I wrote a few posts about the Panini sticker album for the tournament and my efforts …
Darkmans
About eighteen years ago, I got a copy of Nicola Barker’s “Darkmans” for Christmas. It’s a hefty novel, one of those …
New Year Twenty Six
This is a quick blog post to say Happy New Year. I’ve got lots of things to write about, including my favourite albums of last year …
Some more thoughts on Civ 7
It’s been about 5 months now since the release of Civilisation VII and it’s starting to become a playable game. This is partly …
LLMs and Cryptic Crosswords
At the time of writing, one way to demonstrate the illusory nature of LLM intelligence is to get one to try and answer a cryptic crossword …
The Birds and then the Bees
“I’ve never had one fail” says my Dad brandishing his drill on Boxing Day 2022, before heading out into the garden and …
808 State, Don Solaris
I sometimes wonder if I picked the correct 808 State album for my understated classics series. That’s because today I was listening to …
Personal Development Environment
I’ve been trying to settle on a text editor, IDE, and terminal for a long time now. Partly I’m limited by what I can use at work …
Tree Shopping
As part of getting the garden done, we’ve been out and about looking for trees. It’s quite exciting seeing in person all the …
Bill Drummond, 45
45 is Bill Drummond’s sort of memoir, albeit one with a hazy memory of the events most readers (myself included) are likely to be …