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I’m profoundly lucky

It’s the time of the year in which I find that I have more time to reflect upon life. Apart from the normal gratitude for my health, family, security and normality / predictability of my life, the thing that I’m…

Christmas 2024

This year, I was mostly ill – yay! I tried to have fun, and I did, but gosh, I could have done without the sickness. Boo!

Holiday

I’m on holiday for Christmas 2024. I’ll be off from Friday 20th December 2024, until Tuesday 7th Jan 2025. I wish you all a happy Christmas! See you next year!

Podcast no-show

You might not know, but I make podcasts in the WordPress space for a living. I talk to people about their products, services and their involvement in the WordPress community. One of the things that I do to make life…

WPLDN Festive Event – what a blast!

The festive WPLDN event took place yesterday, and what fun it was. A speed build with Jamie Marsland v Dan Maby. A pub quiz with lots of nerdy WordPress facts and figures. And someone walked away with a brand new…

I hate Ikea, usually

One of the least enjoyable things I can imagine doing is going to Ikea. The fact that millions of people go there “for fun” is quite beyond by comprehension. There’s almost nothing I’d rather do less. So yesterday, when we…

Today it snowed

When I was a child, the snow would reliably come each year. We’d have weeks of snow, and it would lay on the ground, thick and knee deep. Now it goes for years without snowing, but when it does come,…

Wireless headphones

I recently bought a fairly inexpensive, but pretty good (to my ears), wireless headphones. They’re the over-the-head type, not the in-ear ones. The noise cancellation is remarkable and it’s a complete revelation! They sound great. I’m not really all that…

I love where I live

If you know me, you know that I love the place where I live. However, it’s easy to forget just why you love it. I went down to the coast today with my camera and watch Santa sail in on…

I’ve joined Bluesky

I’ve not been all that happy about my continued use of X / Twitter. I’ve decided that I’m going to focus more effort into Bluesky from now on. I see this as a platform which has ethics more aligned to…

Trying something new

One of the things that I’ve noticed about myself lately is that I’m getting stale! I’m not really trying out new things. This is not a bad thing, but I had a revelation the other day that I ought to…