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Oct 24, 2024: Christian Wiman on poetry against despair suffering can suddenly catalyze an intimacy that ordinary life would have prohibited

Oct 22, 2024: Today I learned that http://httpforever.com in Firefox could fix the inability to connect to captive wifi portals on my Linux machine (whilst …

Oct 22, 2024: Out and about #DenHaag

Oct 19, 2024: Hanging on a mountain #albufeira

Oct 19, 2024: On the Humans and Heroes podcast: The Diego Maradona story.

Oct 12, 2024: … 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 …

Oct 12, 2024: “His name is Joel Matip, he comes from Africa”.. In which Joel Matip, arguably one of Liverpool’s best ever free transfers, retires

Oct 11, 2024: A bit dreich #albufeira

Oct 3, 2024: Currently reading: Truth Over Tribe by Patrick Keith Miller 📚

Sep 29, 2024: The story behind the Panenka

Sep 25, 2024: 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 …

Sep 25, 2024: The price for compliance from the three year old having spent two days alone without outside company for the first time…

Sep 25, 2024: Fascinating read on the decline/demise of search at Google and the folk who have failed upwards behind it.

Sep 24, 2024: #SlowReading: Cosmos by Carl Sagan 📚. I probably should re-read We Have No Idea right after this.

Sep 24, 2024: 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

Sep 24, 2024: 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 …

Sep 22, 2024: The data on extreme human aging is rotten .Saul Justin Newman

Sep 20, 2024: Homebound

Sep 18, 2024: Adieu to the man who in many ways defined my coming of age Football world cup.. So much so that every kid in our daily kickbouts sought to be named …

Sep 17, 2024: Back to Den Haag for the next few weeks, the life of a prodigal abroad

Sep 15, 2024: Out and about in Woking

Sep 14, 2024: Rory Stewart on ending extreme poverty - Ted Talk. pca.st/episode/0…

Sep 13, 2024: Last flight…

Sep 13, 2024: Brrrrrr… Summer’s done isn’t it?

Sep 8, 2024: This is our God from the 2008 Hillsong Music album of the same name doesn’t get sung that often anymore in the churches I pop into now and …

Sep 8, 2024: Overpass… Morning runs

Sep 7, 2024: Birmingham days

Sep 7, 2024: Celebrated

Sep 7, 2024: On the continent

Sep 7, 2024: Calm before the storm

Sep 7, 2024: Shadows at the Tate

Sep 5, 2024: The bedlam after.. #L

Sep 5, 2024: A bit dreich, as we say in Scotland…

Sep 5, 2024: Aberdeen, Missed

Aug 27, 2024: Leah Reich from one of my favourite essays on Medium: … you can learn a lot from anything, if you’re paying attention. Because you can learn a lot …

Aug 22, 2024: Adam Gopnik in Paris to the Moon: There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see and sees it, and the kind …