Asides

  • Directing our energies

    2012-12-19

    I can’t help but think that, if all the Instagram rage (including my own) was actually, say, poverty rage or climate change rage or… Hmm.

  • A Modern Nativity

    2012-12-19

    Was reading one of LICC‘s weekly emails today and came across this beautiful nativity scene painted by Brian Kershisnik. A modern but very down-to-earth take on the birth of Jesus. I love it.  

  • A Fresh Paint of Coat

    2012-12-17

    Oh, bother, I said that wrong didn’t I? Well, here we are. After being pushed over the edge of dumping some social media services by Instagram’s latest terms and conditions, I’ve decided to focus more on the blog here. So, I’ve given it a fresh look, installed some whizzy new plugins, and…well…we’ll see how long […]

  • Love thy enemy

    2012-05-19

    I sometimes write things as comments on other blogs that I’d like to note here as well. This was posted in response to this Bikeyface post. I’m blowing my own trumpet slightly, for which I hope you’ll forgive me, but I hope I make a point too. Last week I was out cycling and I […]

  • Verso

    2012-04-25

    So…after much deliberation, and with a hint of guilt, we put a deposit on a new car today. It was not a quick or easy decision, but our old car is fast approaching 100’000 miles, is slowly generating a few faults, and with the arrival of Isaac, is just too small – once the buggy […]

  • Hats off to the Twitter Knitters

    2012-01-27

    [Note: If you’ve offered to knit a hat, please head to the Hat Knitter’s page – and THANK YOU!] I had a message from a friend of mine. Let’s call her Amy (names changed for privacy). Amy has a friend not-called Bea and Bea has a 4-year-old daughter, Charlie.  Charlie has recently been diagnosed with Leukaemia. […]

  • The little one

    2012-01-07

    Sally and I both use social media a lot so you may think that it would be entirely natural for us to keep some detailed online records of the pregnancy, birth (well, not the birth, but the immediate time after), and early days with our boy. BUT...

  • Cycling Counsellors?

    2011-11-08

    Is the notion of a nationally co-ordinated team of cycling counsellors a crazy dream?

  • You’ve got Mail

    2011-10-28

    In similar vein to the last pic, this one shows code. But it’s specific code. This is an email header: the writing on the envelope, the stamp, the ‘return to sender’, that gets you message from sender to recipient. I’ve been working a lot with emails in the last couple of days, trying to find […]

  • Code is Beautiful

    2011-10-28

    I’m seeing a lot of this these days. I’ve seen plenty of attempts at photographing code and I do find something beautiful in it. Not always symmetry, but patterns emerge and individual characters blend together into broader ‘brush strokes’ that appear. But it’s not just static either: this is the engine room of that increasingly […]