Archive
This is everything on the site, newest at the top.
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Focus Pocus
Documenting getting a simple-seeming but complicated thing working with some help from a friend
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The Workshop
The workshop, after many months, is finally done.
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Brick Red
The workshop, it is painted! At last! Brick red can look pretty exotic in the sunshine you know.
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Roses
A rose by any other name and all that. I don't know the names of a lot of the roses in my garden but I love them all and like taking pictures of them.
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Arancello
I'm making arancello!
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Wet Summer
It's been a wet summer so far, but parts of the garden are doing pretty well
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Politics
We had an election, dare we hope?
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Green!
Green things in the garden!
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Boston
I went to Boston for work, took some photos
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May Garden
Photos I took around the garden in May
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Fedigram
Instagram algorithms are giving me the fear
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Spring Sprang Sprong
At last some colour and life in the garden
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Drawing Machines
Letting a machine help out
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Apple Cake
Got apples? Then make apple cake!
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There, I did it!
A print, a veritable print! Also rose-print-FINAL-v2-LATER-FINAL-v3
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Attempting Intaglio
Intaglio! Intaglio! Can you handle the pressureio?
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Typestamped
A very, very long blog post describing a long project that wore me out
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Sun Box
The sun, in box form
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Dodecahedron
A box for platonic blossom, and how I made it.
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Winter Leaves Box
A miserable winter's day inspired a marquetry box.
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2022
(Almost) everything I made in 2022.
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Emboss!
I tried dry embossing and it just worked. Amazing.
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Solstice
It's all up from here.
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Wheeze
The smoke has some air in it, just about.
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Frozen Garden
We had frost at last and the garden is decorated with sparkling ice
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Jovian Skies
The sky was full of Jupiter's colours
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The Yellow Season
The leaves are such a bright yellow on the cherry and pear trees
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Five Moons
I took a photo of our moon and of the moons of Jupiter (how sci-fi does that feel to type)
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Jackdaw
A distant jackdaw on a roof
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October Garden
Flowers, leaves, a spider, more leaves
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Four Quarter Moons
Four pictures of the moon, all taken around one in the afternoon today and adjusted differently
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Tomato!
The last of the tomatoes from the greenhouse, made into sauce
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Once More Onto The Beach
Lovely eroded bricks and sand and tide pools
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Snaps
Some recent photos
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A Writing Box
I bought a very worn out writing box and fixed it up. This is how.
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Boxed Advent
I made reusable advent calendars, and I've finally written about it
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Carousel
A full write up with lots of photos of the wind-powered carousel I made.
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Eggs!
Painting and decorating a set of pandemic matryoshka eggs
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Smooth Booze
I made fake Baileys. It's a close substitute, I think it's actually a bit better.
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Sound the Trumpets
Normie normie makey makey thingy wingies
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All of it
Everything is now nagware
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Oh good!
US election post
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Nopetober
Not-Inktober
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Canvassing
I painted a painting
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Circles and Rectangles
A sense of surprise at finishing something so physical and practical.
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The Great Outdoors
A world made of multicoloured brick-shaped paving slabs.
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I should have written it down
Building a patio!
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Diggety-Dig
Digging holes into endless dependencies. And birds.
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Soft Concrete
Concrete!
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Toast Sandwiches
A quarter notes. Stuff I did and made, and yes, actual toast sandwiches.
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Anchored
I made an actual thing.
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Time Enough
Grief
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In These Times
Making arts, assembling twigs
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News!
News, news and not-so-news
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Coronalolapalooza
Not really about that thing that's happening
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February
Painted months, Welsh in a Week
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Painter
Alt-ish text: A full-page image of watercolour blocks and a man climbing down through them.
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Diabolical Chess
Snooker players being tactical
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Apples & Pears
Apples and pears, a punctured palm, fresh rose and hopping hungry birds.
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Year & Decade
A decade that was.
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Forest Garden Planning
Forest gardening
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Bulk Buy
Buying plastic to reduce plastic?
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Particulars
Inktober things, new headphones
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Inktober
All my Inktober 2019 drawings and the story I made to tie them all together.
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Unexpected Outages
Unplanned unconsciousness, sudden illness, sunny coastal walks and Inktoberish planning.
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Myths & Sagas
Inktober planning, medical mysteries, a photo diary and feeble justifications of occasional consumerism.
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Black-Eyed Susan
The named flower, not a person getting hurt
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St. John's Wort
St John’s Wort in our garden
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Buttering Flies
Insect vision hacks, rapid-fire photography, some beautiful books and the world of type, calligraphy and cartography again.
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Bumblebee!
Bee, poppy!
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Prehistoric
A creature from another time
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Bin Berries
Berries from bin juice
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Honeysuckle
Videos on photos, sporty pens, annoying technology and really good technology.
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After The Storm
Camellias and greenhouse vs Storm Freya.
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Rain
A procreate drawing of moorland nearby.
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Red Glowing Eyes
The red glowing orbs above London
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Achieving
The slow, sweaty and often unrewarding quest for health
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January
A kind of weeknotes, but for a month.
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Magic Gadget
I got the new iPad Pro.
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Blankness
A long overdue update, mostly about silicone rubber and epoxy resin.
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That 2017 Thing
A kind of review of the year so far.
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Inktober
I did Inktober, and here are the results.
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Weeks
Updates from a few weeks
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Bzzzt!
Beeeee!
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Stormy
A visit to London in the pissing rain and then a glorious sunlit journey home.
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Kidwelly Crows
Crows! Crows! Lots of crows!
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King Street
A view from the 13th floor in the rain.
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Box Unbox
The first hopeful post in a probable series about our renovation work. I hope the rest are as positive.
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Eyes!
I started a character drawing course. I drew eyes. Many eyes.
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Winter Solstice
Celebrating the solstice.
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Just Walk
How to teach empathy?
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Autumn
Frost, yellow leaves
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Brexit
Fuck.
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Dystopian
London looking picturesquely dystopian
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Hammersmith & City
A photo of Paddington just after I've arrived
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Paddington
A photo of Paddington as I'm about to leave London
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Use Fewer Words
I gave a talk on using simple language
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Crescent
Yes, yes, another picture of the moon. What of it?
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Train View
A gif I made from a video taken on the train
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Going East
Early morning travel
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Apples!
Preserving apples from the garden.
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Imps!
Imps. They're real, I tell you.
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Ice Cream
Experimenting with making sugar free ice cream. With recipes!
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London Panorama
Taking pictures from the hotel room.
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London & Back
Some pictures and a (large) gif I made when in London.
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All The Sports
Thoughts on the Olympics.
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Zooming
New shiny camera!
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Summer Garden
Enjoying the fruits of someone else's labour (honestly, mind)
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Wales → London → Wales
Mostly a gif I made.
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Hello
The inaugural post.