Nathan Wrigley

  • #WPLDN – December 2025

    Join the fun at #WPLDN’s latest event featuring a unique AI contest, pub quiz, and quirky prizes for participants!

  • 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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  • Weird English stone carvings

    Explore the captivating gargoyles of York’s churches, offering a glimpse into the rich history and architectural beauty of these iconic structures.

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  • #WPLDN – November 2025

    #WPLDN is a meetup for WordPress enthusiasts where attendees enjoy pizza and drinks while learning from experts. Recent speakers Graham Armfield and Rhys Wynne discussed HTML accessibility advancements and Rhys’ freelancing experiences. We’re seeking 2026 sponsors and invite you all to a festive special on December 11, 2025, featuring an AI contest.

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  • Black Friday savings

    On the verge of Black Friday 2025, discover how I plan to save big by buying nothing! Ingenious.

  • Snow

    The UK in winter is not the cold place it was when I was a child. I have memories of frequent snow in the winter. Every year there was some. Many years there was a lot. These days, many years go by in which there is none. Children only see snow on the TV, or on Christmas cards. Last night I went to bed, and woke up to a blanket of snow. I had no idea this was going to happen, which made the experience this morning all the more wonderful. Right now, I’m still in the ‘isn’t this wonderful’…

  • 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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  • Being certain

    I’ve come to the conclusion that in almost every case, certainty is misplaced, unhelpful and sometimes downright harmful. I hate to break it to you, but almost every-single-thing that you hold as immutable truth is either wrong, subject to change or something that you’ve misunderstood.

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  • Have your own presence on the web

    A couple of years ago a friend of mine had his Facebook account suspended. No warning or reason given. Repeated attempts to contact their support were ignored. In the end he gave up and just decided not to use that platform any more. A little while later, I had a similar experience. My account was banned, but I was able to get it back in a couple of days. None of this really matters unless Facebook is important to you. Perhaps your business has a page over there which gets lots of hits. Perhaps you run a community which is…

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  • We are all addicted to our devices

    This is going to be nothing new to you, because you already know that it’s true. You know it’s true for you, and almost every person you know. I consider myself lucky to have been born into a world in which there was no mobile technology. No portable computing devices of any kind. Computers back when I was a child were bulky, did almost nothing exciting, and had to be plugged directly into a wall. As a child, very little in the way of excitement came via something which consumed electricity. The TV was about the only thing, but in…

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  • I love sound, not just music

    This might sound (!) strange, but I love music and sounds equally. My favourite sound is without a doubt that of flowing water. Not the heavy crash of a waterfall after rain, rather the sound of a slow moving river or stream moving over rocks. There is no way to explain this, it’s been with me since I can first remember, but it’s profound. That sound can transform my mood. Take me from ‘low’ to ‘normal’, from ‘normal’ to ‘ecstatic’. Just the sound, no visuals required. It shifts the gears of my temperament. It’s anchored somewhere deep inside. There are…

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