Vauxhall station


Swanning about with the Swans #Staines


Christian Wiman on poetry against despair

suffering can suddenly catalyze an intimacy that ordinary life would have prohibited


Today I learned that http://httpforever.com in Firefox could fix the inability to connect to captive wifi portals on my Linux machine (whilst travelling)

HT: discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/cannot-…


Out and about #DenHaag


Hanging on a mountain #albufeira


On the Humans and Heroes podcast: The Diego Maradona story.


… the essay remains an ideal vehicle for satisfying that human urge so many of us feel - to not just live year by year but to capture a bit of that life….

Currently reading: Crafting The Personal Essay by Dinty W. Moore 📚


“His name is Joel Matip, he comes from Africa”.. In which Joel Matip, arguably one of Liverpool’s best ever free transfers, retires


A bit dreich #albufeira


Currently reading: Truth Over Tribe by Patrick Keith Miller 📚


The story behind the Panenka


Having just listened to Alan Noble and Rebecca McLaughlin talk depression through the lens of Christianity, I now want to read On Getting Out of Bed by Alan Noble 📚


The price for compliance from the three year old having spent two days alone without outside company for the first time…


Fascinating read on the decline/demise of search at Google and the folk who have failed upwards behind it.


#SlowReading: Cosmos by Carl Sagan 📚. I probably should re-read We Have No Idea right after this.


Writing as Thinking is a paradigm I feel like I have stumbled on intuitively and am glad to see touched upon elsewhere, including in academia


To the three year old, the past is yesterday, every other thing is today.. a fantastically reductive way of thinking about time.. but then I might be biased 🤗


The data on extreme human aging is rotten .Saul Justin Newman


Homebound