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a bird stands for something
June 5, 2022
UNSUBSCRIBE because this one meanders hello, June. Jubilee. Weather/times like this always make me think of these lines from Forty Years On: MOGGIE: Then in...
The whole pie with jam in
May 2, 2022
hello hello, 5 Things I have a minor hobby replying to climate skeptics in the letters page of our local paper. I'm trying to work out the best language to...
too much about HR at lunch
April 3, 2022
hello again, I didn't write last month because Putin had just invaded Ukraine and paying attention to this sort of stuff seemed wrong. A month later, and...
The padding trade
February 6, 2022
hello, I have a big pile of unread New Yorkers above my desk. I like to go out first thing in the morning for coffee and to read one. But my eyesight can...
Stay tuned for fashion goals
January 2, 2022
Hello It’s 2022. Every year now sounds like a futurist from the 80s trying to pick a year that’s not 2000 or 2050. I read a lot about archetypal plots when I...
Because the soup is getting cold
December 12, 2021
hello, It just occurred to me. This is supposed to happen the first Sunday of the month isn’t it? Ah well. Sorry. World turned upside down. The times, they...
Pocket cakes
November 14, 2021
hello, Sorry about missing you all last month. Interesting times! With some ado, here are 5 things: I received more than one piece of enthusiastic feedback...
Dogs are barking but the train keeps moving
September 5, 2021
hello, Dogs are barking etc is one of those phrases that rattles around my head. It appears to have Arab origins (except as ‘..the caravan moves on’) but has...
Can you see my screen?
August 1, 2021
5 things: Listen to this fantastic, tiny! radio feature about “Parson’s Pleasure, a male-only nude bathing place on the outskirts of Oxford.” Sexuality,...
Far from the Google Cloud
July 4, 2021
hello, I’m writing this on the first day of holiday. I’m obviously not really that far from the Google Cloud I just thought it was a good line. If anything...
This meeting has been ended by host
June 6, 2021
hello, I was tempted to send this late, just so I could invoke this: Katie Henry @KT_NREI have never in my life identified more with a piece of writing than...
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May 2, 2021
hello, A paper in Nature (‘People systematically overlook subtractive changes’) reports on experiments which show how people find it more obvious to solve...
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April 4, 2021
hello, I am aware that Substack has become problematic. The technical team is looking into migration options. 5 things: The best quiz question I’ve heard in...
How's your interregnum?
March 7, 2021
hello, Unsubscribe. You don't have time for this. 5 Things: Carol Kay is a legendary bassist. She played on every good record. This tiny moment of instagram...
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February 7, 2021
The shortest month. I’ll keep this brief. Postlight shared Pleasant Internet Things. What a good idea. Not least because happiness is contagious. Here are...
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January 3, 2021
Happy New Year everyone, here we go again. 5 things: If you have a resolution that involves less doomscrolling can I recommend Favejet? It’s the best way to...
No idea
December 6, 2020
Hello, I’ve recently read advice that says the first thing you should do with these things is remind people who are you and why they subscribed to your...
Running and shouting with a large group of people
November 8, 2020
hello, Technically this is late. Should have happened last Sunday. But, something (laziness) stopped me doing it. This Sunday is different. This is a...
Exploding old toilets
October 4, 2020
Here in the UK it felt like Autumn arrived very suddenly. There was an extra bonus day of lovely warm September and then grim rain arrived and hasn’t gone...
Short one this month
September 6, 2020
September! The best month. I will never not be cheered at the prospect of not going back to school or university. Buried inside a BBC documentary about...
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