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Sep 26, 2025: Going down all sorts of rabbit holes as I thumb through Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me.. Here’s Uncle G Isaac. Fairly certain I …
Sep 24, 2025: Out and about in Woking
Sep 20, 2025: Most of us are a living, breathing soup of memory and imagination… We may not be the best arbiters of which is which. Arundhati Roy in Mother …
Sep 18, 2025: Bold predictions on AGI from Mustapha Suleiman.. Fascinating, though I’m less bullish for next year. What Now? with Trevor Noah: Will AI Save …
Sep 17, 2025: The Avicii doc on netflix makes for a heavy watch for me..
Sep 17, 2025: Last day out in Den Haag for a bit….
Sep 16, 2025: 2025 Reading: Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy 📚 #Diving In
Sep 15, 2025: One Friday of summer
Sep 14, 2025: 4 out of 4.. Bailed out by a penalty from a brain fart.. hopefully Isak brings some improvement to that front line
Sep 14, 2025: My cue to switch to antennapod now, I guess… Pocketcast it was a great run
Sep 13, 2025: Oh Rangers…. All gone to pants
Sep 10, 2025: Loved the energy, passion and energy of this father daughter ceramology pair
Sep 9, 2025: On the train for the first time in a bit… Still cheesed off by folk playing music quite loudly without headphones…..
Sep 7, 2025: This week Pádraig Ó Tuama asks us what poem we want to learn by heart and why? Lots to think of but Yusef Komunyakaa’s Ode to the Drum is never …
Sep 3, 2025: Pausing a project three years into construction never boded well for this…. But still, that’s a big haircut/ write down …
Sep 1, 2025: The Man United “curse” strikes again it seems : www.bbc.co.uk/sport/foo…
Aug 30, 2025: I always come back to Fedora Silverblue on my (used) ThinkPad X1 Nano Gen 2 for the sweet spot of battery life, weight and portability. Shame Lenovo …
Aug 29, 2025: Spotted, a year ago
Aug 28, 2025: A Man on the Inside has quite grown on me
Aug 25, 2025: Won at the end undeservedly, but will take any three points at this stage. A new wonder kid is born #CallHimRio
Aug 20, 2025: 2025 Reading: Tremor by Teju Cole 📚
Aug 18, 2025: When a favourite podcast drops for the last time.. Simplifying Complexity
Aug 18, 2025: As seen on LinkedIn
Aug 17, 2025: Not sure how to feel about having to dish out just under 200 pounds on school uniforms for the 4 year old.. I guess I could blame the primary school …
Aug 9, 2025: SFI’s David Krakauer on Startalk
Jul 30, 2025: 2025 Reading: Zero at the Bone by Christian Wiman 📚 People who have been away from God tend to come back by one of two ways: extreme lack or extreme …
Jul 29, 2025: From Nigeria to the World, with Sarina Weigman in tow: BurnaBoy
Jul 18, 2025: 2025 Reading: Dancing By The Light of The Moon by Gyles Brandreth 📚 Poetry as Prayer and Reflection is something never far from my mind
Jul 18, 2025: Conquering the McKay conjecture through hard work, and love
Jul 12, 2025: Many a forlorn night of unrequited love was spent listening to Switchfoot on repeat… Which might have been part of the problem, in retrospect …
Jul 9, 2025: Josh Caterer on Giving your band up for God
Jul 4, 2025: Adieu Diogo Jota. Thanks for the memories
Jul 1, 2025: #Doing: On a U2 Binge: One, Until the End of the World, Where the streets have no name
Jul 1, 2025: The view, den Haag.. probably for the last time in a while ..
Jun 29, 2025: Finding this John Wilds arrangement of You’re Worth of My Praise particularly soothing.. albeit too short
Jun 27, 2025: Jaywalking in the Hague before the NATO crowd rolled into town with their SUVs and Helicopters
Apr 6, 2025: 2025 Reading: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport 📚
Mar 18, 2025: 2025 Reading: Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart 📚
Mar 15, 2025: Spotted in the wild… A Texas number plate on a not so random street in Lagos
Mar 14, 2025: The Framework 12 2-in-1 seems like just the thing I’ve been on the lookout since never truly replacing my 2017 pixel book. Hopefully it runs …
Mar 13, 2025: 2025 Reading: The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant by Tae Kim 📚
Feb 23, 2025: McLaren in the wild #Woking
Jan 21, 2025: Picture… Whilst I wait…
Jan 20, 2025: From the poetry unbound podcast Don McKay’s Neanderthal Dig: Wherever you’re gone may your spirit wander wild as a swan in the Vale of Neander. …
Jan 10, 2025: Brrrrrr….
Jan 9, 2025: Finally watching Ted Lasso, thanks to the apple TV+ trial
Jan 4, 2025: Not a bad looking table… Hopefully the lads do their bit again Man Utd tomorow
Jan 2, 2025: Passed by the local library in my neck of the woods to get my card activated.. I had forgotten how nice library folk can be (and the great value the …
Jan 1, 2025: Back to wet, cold and windy Blighty.. #Home
Dec 27, 2024: Last night
Dec 25, 2024: Spotted…. A cybertruck in the wild..
Dec 23, 2024: Lakefront property goals
Dec 21, 2024: Currently Reading: On Getting Out of Bed by Alan Noble
Dec 21, 2024: Hanging out…
Dec 12, 2024: I should really go out more .. #PocketCastWrap
Dec 7, 2024: Intel Inside: On Gelsinger’s tenure from Spyglass
Dec 1, 2024: Finished reading: Dispatches from the Diaspora by Gary Younge 📚
Nov 22, 2024: Sunborn on (the) Thames
Nov 6, 2024: Vauxhall station
Oct 27, 2024: Swanning about with the Swans #Staines
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 …