Before sunset
I was obliged to move desks last week. My new desk is about two thirds the size of my old one, but I don’t mind at all. Because it is…
Mexican bean soup
My offering for the latest issue of Scouting magazine was not altogether seasonal. As usual, the designers at the Scouts have done a beautiful job of animating it.
Keeping the weather off
Can something be a series if there are only two of them? Can you be continuing a series if there was only one before? A few weeks ago I said…
Pumpkin head
If The Nightmare Before Christmas was real, and each festival in the calendar really did have its own little kingdom, then I would belong firmly in Bonfire Night Land. It…
Hallowe’en for geeks
Ever heard of a zombie webpage? Apparently it’s where a page is deleted from the content management system but still somehow appears on the website. A colleague of mine sent…
Writing on the wall
I have mixed feelings about graffiti. Sometimes it can be quite clever (though rarely as clever as it thinks it is), sometimes it can be quite beautiful, and sometimes it…
Sunday afternoon freelancing
It’s always nice to have some company.
Pitta pocket pizzas
My latest cookstrip is out, once again drawn from a recipe by the jerky king, Derek Wright. And as a bonus, Leona Smith at The Scout Association has made it…
Emerging from the tunnels
Eleven years in London, and it never loses its potential to surprise me. Last Saturday, I was returning mid-afternoon from a conference at the Gatwick Hilton. I had singularly failed…
Esio Trot
This summer, I bade farewell to my twenties. They were largely squandered, but I think I enjoyed the squandered bits more than the rest, so maybe I ought to re-evaluate…
