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Tokyo Report

May 5, 2025

Hello everyone! Thanks for your patience as I think it’s been about two weeks since the last newsletter and it’s been a busy time for your friend Matt, the...

Thinking about working

April 23, 2025

Hello everyone, I don’t have a ton of updates to share this week. My roadtrips were good, I think broadly productive, and this week and next week I’m...

A short break between

April 16, 2025

Hello everyone, Today I’m in Broken Hill, a large town that’s pretty much the start of the outback in Australia. North or West from here leads you to fairly...

The Sydney Report

April 10, 2025

Hello everyone, Today I’m writing to you from the backyard of my girlfriend’s cousin. I’m staying here while working on our next book We Were Just Little...

Quarter year reflections: the die is cast

April 1, 2025

Hello everyone, This will be a somewhat complex newsletter as I’m feeling a bit down about the how the business is going at the moment. Apologies in advance...

Watching the trees grow

March 26, 2025

In my small courtyard garden, at the front of my home, along with many other plants, I have four trees growing in pots. A magnolia my girlfriend and I bought...

Lots of wins, but still a way to go

March 19, 2025

Hello everyone, I’m happy to say that, so far, this week has had a lot of wins, a lot of progress and some really nice making it work while working for...

A Tale of Two Cities

March 13, 2025

This past week has been a huge series of ups and downs, and I’ll keep things a bit shorter today. The downs are more recent, and I might start there and get...

What I have done with more time

March 6, 2025

I’m guilty of being a bit panicky this week. Last week I shared that I wanted to do more substitute teaching work, but I haven’t really been able to do that...

A bit of stressin'

February 26, 2025

What a week! A lot of random stressful things happened but I think we’re all ahead of it now, but gosho! First of all: I should be doing some more CRT work -...

WHAT A BIG WEEK!

February 18, 2025

Hello everyone, It has been a MASSIVE week over at Matty Dunne Head Quarters. Pretty much all great stuff. So, first of all, Tall Poppy Press’ FIRST BOOK for...

Working a day job

February 11, 2025

Well, I am now working a day job again - being a substitute teacher (or supply teacher for UK based folks, or relief teacher or CRT). For me, given that...

Locking it in

February 5, 2025

Hello everyone, I wrote a few weeks ago that I felt both like the year had started but also things weren’t really kicking off. I was planning a lot but not...

6 months bought me 12

January 28, 2025

Hello everyone, I want to start this email with some clarity - my (mostly) successful 6 month experiment being a full time artists was successful enough to...

We are SO BACK

January 22, 2025

Hello everyone, First - so I can just get my plug out of the way, Tall Poppy’s first workshops of the year are live and you can book them here. With that out...

The experiment is over

December 18, 2024

Hello everyone, We’re one week from Christmas and my experimental six months off is officially over. For the few of you who started following this newsletter...

Dragging my feet

December 11, 2024

So I held off on writing this week’s newsletter as I was hoping to share two updates. One, how my first day as a substitute teacher went and two the awardees...

Home again, home again, jiggity jig

December 3, 2024

Hello everyone, I’m finally home - I’m lying down on my couch, a cool change is rolling through and gosh it’s so nice being back in my space - comfortable...

The Taipei Report

November 25, 2024

Hello everyone, Coming to you from a small bed in a hostel - which I accidentally booked instead of a hotel - in downtown Taipei. So, this week I have been...

The London Report (long one!)

November 19, 2024

Hello friends! I’m writing to you today from a friend’s dining room table. I’ve been staying at his place for about a week now, and I head off to Taipei...