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My three favourite bits of tech
I’m surrounded by tech. Actually, it’s slightly more nuanced than that. I personally don’t have all that much tech compared to many of the people I know, but it’s everywhere in my life, in other people’s houses, in my own, or out in the wider world. I get quite excited when I see knew tech coming on to the market. I read quite a lot about how it works, and how it might alter my life. Usually, the excitement dies down pretty quickly as I realise that I’d never really make much use of whatever it is, perhaps it’s too…
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An English seaside town in the winter
I’m exploring the beauty of the charming English seaside town nearby. It’s filled with lovely winter walks, historical sites, and captivating photography opportunities.
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Recycled churches
In the UK, church attendance has been in decline for decades, possibly a century. Almost nobody I know, including myself, go to church for it’s intended purpose. Our villages, towns and cities are peppered with thousands of churches. Many of them are very old, expensive to maintain and trying to find a place in a world in which their old role has been all but washed away. This past week I attended two events. One was a ‘festival of light’, and the other was a group of Armenian musicians. Both events took place in churches. Both were remarkable. One of…
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The ubiquity of walking
I’m lucky enough to live in, what we call in the UK, the countryside. There is very little of the UK which does not have the stamp of humanity upon it. Our countryside is composed of farmland, stone walls, managed forest and the like. In other parts of the world you have the chance to visit places where there’s no evidence of humans anywhere. People have not built things, knocked things down or altered things in any way. It’s the same now as it would have been hundreds of years ago. Given the huge population to space ratio of the…
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Don’t just consume, create something too
We’re so used to consuming the content that other people create online, that we’ve forgotten the importance of creating things ourselves. Get creating for yourself.
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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 my own. You can find me here: https://bsky.app/profile/nathanwrigley.com
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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 try out some new things. So this morning I headed to my local theatre and joined in the session in which you got to interact with the actors / actresses from the production that they’re putting on at the moment. It was really wonderful and I’ll be going back. Now I need some more new things to try out. Oh,…
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I love stumbling upon things, like this church
Today I decided to go for a walk. I picked a random place on the map, drove for 20 minutes and got out the car and started to walk. I stumbled upon a church, walked up the path and pushed the door, expecting it to be locked. To my surprise, it was open, and in I went. It was a beautiful church and I got enormous pleasure wandering around, knowing that I had no intention of visiting it.
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My happy place
This fills me with enormous satisfaction. Every year at about this time, the temperature starts to drop, and we start to use the fire.
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Music that I like
I’ve always liked folk music, and this is (a taste of) something that I think sums up why I like it.