Life in General

  • The park in the Danube that doesn’t exist

  • “One of the best 80s pop song almost nobody’s ever heard” and some fun links.

  • Email subscriptions now via Jetpack rather than Mailpoet.

  • I was reading about a Chinese tradition similar to an advent calendar that starts on this day. It’s 81 days…

  • Something I have been thinking about recently is how much the internet itself has changed in the past few years,…

  • I’ve been tired and busy lately. Here’s a great bubble gum advert from the 80s with a Kraftwerk-meets-Eurythmics soundtrack, and…

  • If I remember my dreams I try to write them down in a notebook, to use for later inspiration. The…

  • I had dream that there was a craze for parmesan-infused mineral water, and everyone was obsessed with the stuff. I…

  • I haven’t eaten meat since the late 90s. Vegetarianism was on the rise at the time in the UK, but…

  • The building I live in was built in the 1870s, and still has the original wooden windows. Well-looked after original…

  • Happy Christmas, if you celebrate it. I was brought up unreligious, by unbelieving parents, in a not very religious country,…

  • Ruth had a dream that you could buy tins of something called “Greencheeks” that seemed to be tinned Kermit meat.…

  • It’s very unlikely I or anyone else will be travelling much this summer (I’ve not been more than a mile…

  • I cleaned and reorganised one shelf that I’d never been happy with, and before I knew it, I’d spent pretty…

  • Not many people are getting to the beach these days, but I live right next to it (in fact I…

  • I haven’t posted much this month because I was ill- not ill enough to need medical attention or be bedridden,…

  • Amstetten is the most extremely average place in Austria. It’s a largish commuter town in between Linz and Vienna. You…

  • I was supposed to be in Austria right now running school workshops, but obviously that’s not happening. Like many other…

  • Here’s some assorted photos from Deutschlandsberg. It’s a very ordinary small Austrian town near Graz. Although it’s a pretty and…

  • Fertöd is also home to Eszterhazy Castle, a baroque palace often called “The Versailles of Hungary”. The Eszterhazy family were…

  • Get a nice surprise in the post every month- sent out on the 22nd of each month. Zines, mini-prints, postcards,…

  • I’ve got some more of those 70s badges people liked so much (plus some mushroom and moth ones leftover)

  • I moved to this flat in January but only recently sorted out the bedroom how I wanted it. Due to…

  • I have spent the past few days rearranging and cleaning my office. The old layout just didn’t work. I spend…

  • Here’s the best stuff I got for very cheap in the excellent charity shops in Bognor Regis (the only entertainment…

  • Here’s another song for you- The Song is the Single by Barr. It originally came out when I was at…

  • I’ve been out of action for the last ten days after a stage light fell from a shelf onto my…

  • This is the creepiest animation I’ve seen in a long time. I love it. The youtube comments are split between…

  • Five interesting links for you

  • So like a lot of people lately I’ve been thinking about the influence of the big social media sites, especially…

  • 2018 was a hard year and felt like it lasted a million years rather than just one. I spent most…

  • I have barely updated this blog since the summer because I’ve been both very busy and rarely home. I spent…

  • A handful of interesting links

  • So here’s my room. I moved to this small unfurnished flat in October, and until the New Year I didn’t…

  • Today is the last day of my 32nd year on the planet. As someone with a mid-January birthday, I particularly…

  • So I returned permanently to the UK in September and moved to Margate. I grew up in Kent, but haven’t…