That is a bright orange canna with a blue spruce behind. These are two and three.
#bloomscrolling
My big remaining problem with reclaiming my bought and paid for music is having to use Audio Hijack to record songs bought from iTunes pre 2007 to free them from the DRM so they can be played by #Navidrome
And it is a right pain.
Open sourcing a quiz maker
When I designed my “Which HTML element are you?” quiz, I wrote all of the HTML and JavaScript required to make the quiz work by hand. It took a lot of work, but it was a lot of fun! I used that code as the template for my second quiz, the Blogger Archetype Quiz. With that sa...
Blogger Archetype Quiz
Have you ever wondered how best to summarise your character as a member of the blogging community? If so, this quiz is for you!
Answer the following questions to find out which blogger archetype best suits you.
Question 1
When you are spending time outdoors, what do you li...
why does every show ever suddenly present with an avengers infinity war style poster i HATE it
Forward
This post develops my thoughts on the theme of home that I first explored with focus in Home. You may appreciate reading Home before continuing to read this post.
Whenever people ask me where I live, I have, for so long, spoken about the proximity to the city, knowing that ...
Diverting my Stream
A little while ago I decided that paying micro.blog to host my, er, micro blog was probably a better bet for my mental health than continuing to plug away at my self-hosted idno (aka WithKnown). It was not an easy decision, which probably owes more to the sunk-cost fallacy t...
Just wonderful. Dunstan Orchard’s reel to reel tape machine. I wish the larger project he mentioned had launched.
Day
The warm glow at the door, intensified by the morning sun beaming and then reflecting on the blank walls of the hallway, is the first colour I notice when I wake. I then look around and see the blue around the blinds – colour from the evening before, but seen from a new pers...
Late night blogging
Blue light passes through the edges of the black-out blinds as I lie holding a pillow, on the edge of dreaming.
When I look back on my choice to study art history, I feel delighted. This year I have been pushed in new ways: to write essays short and long, to write stories, ...
Always Empty the Cache
A kind cyberchum alerted me to some mobile display issues, initially with my podcast website and then this site. I set to yesterday and with the help of the developer tools in Firefox and Safari, managed to diagnose the problem and find a fix, which involved the new-to-me CS...
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.
Rainbow
“Cheers.” I like to say a toast to the day: to myself and others: peace, hope, happiness, health. After I raised my glass of orange juice, I looked up and saw a rainbow. I don’t think I have ever seen a rainbow from this view before: a rainbow that stands out among the grey ...
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
Lovers
I wanted to try and write a little bit of fiction for my blog. I started with the prompt "You've been staring out of the window for the last 3 hours. Why?" and ended up writing the story below. Please enjoy!
“Excuse me. I noticed you’ve been staring out the window all day. ...
Views
The faint reflection of the hall catches my eye; how nature and humanity blend — how there are so many ways to see the world; how painting lets us explore what we see and what we want the world to be, just like words. A figure — a few brush stokes and colours — stands out in...
The fountain
I opened my eyes and saw pink flowers; the countryside was dotted with flowers of all colours. Bees bounced between the thistles. I was delighted by all that I saw when I opened my eyes on the train journey; sleep is seductive, but so, too, is colour.
I spent the afternoon ...
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