Just wonderful. Dunstan Orchard’s reel to reel tape machine. I wish the larger project he mentioned had launched.
It was fun to be taken down memory lane twice, in a way, by this thing I published 20 years ago today and to realise that my feelings about the whole fandango have not changed one bit. I still like tinkering. I still barely know what I’m doing. I still get something approaching what I set out to do.
We have a lot of cannas on the terrace and I think this one, fresh this morning, is my favourite. Snagged from a resort in Puglia, I call it Badisco. No idea of the correct variety name. #bloomscrolling
New episode: The Tomato in England
The first tomato plants in England were noted around 1590, but there aren’t many recipes until the 1720s. Why did it take so long?
The stories you may have heard are probably wrong.
Dr Serin Quinn explains what really caused the delay.
Reports of “brown marks” reading 8647 on the grass of the National Mall reminded me of a far superior prank. Wags used fertiliser to inscribe ☮ on the hallowed lawn of an Oxbridge college in the early 1970s. Much smarter, because weedkiller is easily dug up and resown, fertiliser, not so much
The sixth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: In Episode 6, I chat with Cory, the author of coryd.dev. We talk about, among other things, the role of community in the indie web, a day in the life with his website, and music listening and community as it relates to personal websites. I hope you enjoy the episode! Wonders of Web Weaving has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.
