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#18 - Response & Responsibility

Hello folks, After the intensity of last week, it's been a sedate week personally. Finished off a long-lingering draft, had some gentle evenings and survived...

#17 - Continental Drift

Quite a rollercoaster week, this. A reflective newsletter ahead which inevitably means some mental health chat, so just a heads up on both that and the fact...

#16 - Outsider Blues

Hello hello, What a week, eh? Unsurprisingly sh*tty weather, unsurprisingly sh*tter debates, unsurprisingly sh*ttiest Max Landis and my neighbour playing...

#15 - Leave No Trace Of Grace

Hello! I'm back from my two weeks off and straight into your inboxes. Gather round children, for I have many lurid tales of adventure in lands afar and - no...

#14 - Taking Time

So. How about that Game of Thrones, huh? No, don't worry I'm not going to get into that again. OK, I will. But only one sentence. Here goes... Within the...

#13 - Hot Takes, Cool Guys

I'm going to start with Game of Thrones. Sorry. If you haven't seen it, there's a spoilers-over rejoin point in bold letters below. It seems at this point...

#12 - "This Is Our Time"

Good morning from the PatelODome (my kitchen). I'm writing this early for once! The reason being I've got a slightly terrifying meeting later and I'm not...

I'm taking a day off today, my first one for a good many months, and whilst I had told myself I would at least write a Patelogram, having wrestled with this...

#10 - The Art of the All-Nighter

Today I am writing after getting six and a half hours sleep. That would be fine if I hadn't been awake for forty two hours before that. I am oddly sparky,...

#9 - Excavations

I’m late with this. Again. It’s not a habit I’ll get into, but a pretty brutal work week has put me in a bit of a daze. I needed to employ the dreaded all-...

#7 - GWR Why Have You Forsaken Me

I'm writing this on a train. A packed train. A packed train on a Friday afternoon. The man opposite me is heavily invested in exploring every nook of his...

#6 - The Small Hours

So you're receiving this tiny letter on Saturday morning instead of on Friday evening. I missed this deadline because I missed another deadline and both make...

#5 - The Ways Through

Not been a vintage week, this. But it has at least given me material for this TinyLetter (Tinyletter? tiny letter?) and I am, in fact, writing this as a way...

#4 - Shifting Stories

My first week (and first letter) as a 33 year old. 33 feels strange to me, a little bit of a nothing age, older than most your heroes, younger than most who...

Actors, Alcohol and 'And Ins (An outrageous reach, but let me have it)

End of the week! At last. God. I'm tired and it's my birthday tomorrow and my brain has already half checked out so I'll try and keep it brief today. I...

Forever Delayed

When I was 13, the two words that brought me the greatest joy were "Friday Afternoon". Because it meant I got the weekend off. Now I'm 32 (!), the two most...

If you've read any of my blogs in the past, a fair few of them were dissections of various miseries. This was cathartic and the introspection was useful, but...

Why Am I Doing This To Myself

February 25, 2019

Hello, If you know me, you'll be aware that I have A Lot On. It might seem like a terrible idea to start with yet another piece of writing. My hope though is...