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OK. It’s March 1st. It’s the start of metrological spring. The real New Year. If I’ve bumped into you in the past two months I will have bored you with this fact. January and February only muscled their way onto the calendar because of a Roman bureaucratic hack. The original Roman calendar started on March 1st. And that’s how it should be. Forgive yourself for Jan and Feb. Disregard their misery and fire yourself up for fun and resolution.

Five things:

1. Ronald Blythe wrote this about March:

   “The colours of Christmas have been exterminated and New Year resolutions are seeping away in to grey and hopeless damp. No colour anywhere. Then to the sound of trumpets in thrusts March. Triumphant. Purple fields, the trees still black and naked, the green shoots of life piercing and rising-up through the earth. It is sexy, this surge of sap. Optimism is reborn. There is clear light and plenty of bracing air in which to walk. And mud to negotiate. Suffolk mud is a strange mixture of clod and water, making each step uncertain and exciting. The sky lowers darkly while clouds speed across. The sun suddenly appears. March contains the dark of winter and the light of summer almost simultaneously. After the hibernation of February, eyes closed, there is a shock awakening of all the senses, eyes open.”

   (I may well have shared this last year. And/or every year)

2. This fragment has summed up my fit/moodboard goals

   

3. Clara Bahlsen wrote this about presenting/organising content for Its Nice That. But it’s the best advice for, well, everything:

   “Keep the main layout and structure simple and clear. Add little irritating/fun/odd/nonsense/bleeding-edge features to the mix. Voilà.”

   (via the splendid stratscraps)

4. Just in case you’ve not seen this

5. Some of the pleasure of football writing, or any form of criticism, must be constantly being on the look out for metaphors. And then feeling the joy of applying them in just the right place. I bet Jonathan Wilson is pleased with this.

   SELF PROMOTIONAL NEWS

Please mention Interesting on your socials, your LinkedIn or your bus. Tickets. About. The line-up is starting to look great.

Also, I’ve started telling stories on YouTube. I’ve got one about presenting and another about missions and Soho Square. Apologies about the beard.

russell

(There are 1025 of you. DIN 1025 was the German Institute of Standardization standard that defines the dimensions, masses, and sectional properties of hot rolled hexagonal steel bars. Obvs.)