
This is everything on the site, handily coloured according to what the page looks like, which may or may not be helpful. Stylish though, eh.
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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 Blossom Box
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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Bits Bits Bits
Working on things
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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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City
Thinking of times I used to go to London
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Lemons!
Lemons are ripening in the greenhouse and I am very happy about that.
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Muted
A record of all the times I got grumpy enough on Twitter to mute something
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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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Still Harvesting
Red peppers and red leaves
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Jackdaw
A distant jackdaw on a roof
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October Garden
Roaming the garden looking at all the flowers and spiders.
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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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Snap Snap Snap!
Some recent photos
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Autumn Blast
Motivation lost, motivation… maybe returning
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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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Anniversary
So many wonderful years
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Carousel
A full write up with lots of photos of the wind-powered carousel I made.
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I Like Index Cards
Not much more than a test post, but! Index cards!
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Eggs! Eggs! 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
Annoyed at all the techno-admin
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Oh!
Unexpected joy and hope
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Nopetober
Not-Inktober, not-UK, not-London… but pro crepe paper and fluffy drag.
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Canvassing
Longer post than usual. A painted canvas, more projects, hoarding cheese, professional professionalism and planting bulbs.
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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
Colourful concentric concrete circular casting.
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Dig Dig Dig
Digging holes into endless dependencies. And birds.
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Soft Concrete
If it's in a week then it's a weeknote. This time on 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
My Mom died at the end of April. It was quite sudden.
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In These Adjective Times
Making arts, assembling twigs, that Hockney thing and grumpy-git grumbles, The Thing That Is Happening, shopping and a bit of hope.
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Superlatively
News, news and not-so-news, spring springing a bit early, temporary art and gold frames.
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Coronalolapalooza
More things happening than That One Thing. Art, daffodils, illustrated months, frames, tarnishing brass and the end of the world, maybe.
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February
Painted months, Welsh in a Week, more Welsh in more weeks, Victoria and Albert as hoarders and an idea for defunct wind turbines.
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Multiples
Hospital success, cars ruining everything and technology ruining what's left.
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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
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Ouchie
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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On The Up
Increasing daylight, too much food, relaxed festivities and friendly dystopian exploding taxis.
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Oh Dear
The sound of cold rain falling
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Good Grief
Computering like it's 1997, a burgeoning forest garden, and understanding a retreat to software design emotional safety.
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Atlas
High volume plastic reduction, glorious seclusion, springy non-weights and hardcore gloopy adult weird art with knobs on.
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Forks and Spoons
Dull winners, modern Versailles, gorgeous 45 year old designs, a sideways N on a chapel and a potential resurrection of a ministry.
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Proper Rainy
Wheeze, hack, cough, dubious opening chapters, rain, rain, rain, dubious inter-colleague communications and magical medical gunk.
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That in Particular
A finish to Inktober, a blissful erasure of sound, alarming side effects and more sparkly TV, but with a darker edge.
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Inktober
All my Inktober 2019 drawings and the story I made to tie them all together.
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Mellow Dampness
In which our intrepid correspondent draws some things, puts up a shelf or three, stretches some rubber in place of pumping iron and then watches some sparkly shiny TV.
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Rounded Silver Pot
Almost-nothing medical things, too-soon software upgrades, could-be-shinier shiny trinkets and farcical security circuses.
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Wet Jalapeños
Fairytale stories in ink, giant edible spider webs, jalapeños, pruning and a terrible book printing service that can’t print books.
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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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National Discordance
Inking stories from random words, the increasing horror of our government, medical anxieties and a glass house full of spiders.
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General Anaesthesia
Glorious unconsciousness, bats, and please won't somebody think of the children.
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Resurgent Plums
Trees regrowing, plot holes in German castles and Euclid’s Elements.
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Poor Susan
How did Susan get her black eye, the benefits of soaking soy, first tomato harvests and a moth murder mystery.
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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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The Value of Nothing
Touchbars, remote working, sketchbooks, beautiful windows and surviving politics.
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Bumblebee!
The bees like poppies.
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Seventies Focus
Red and blue flowers, wild gardens, precise and perfect older technology and failing new gadgetry.
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Prehistoric
Stupid prehistoric technology tropes, badly implemented good things, incredibly beautiful creatures, great TV series and hacking magazines to bits.
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Cherries On Top
Cherries! Lots of cherries! A red and blue flashing heart, and flesh-eating flies. Nice.
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Bin Berries
Berries from bin juice (maybe), London Planes, tomatoes, biscuits and some fab technology again.
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Honeysuckle
Videos on photos, sporty pens, annoying technology and really good technology.
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Fiddlesticks
Custardy custardness, and some sharp photographic portraits.
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Weeknotes 22
Bees! ALL THE BEES. And a roaming London, illustration reference, and a butterfly.
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Weeknotes 21
A shit club sandwich this week. Good, bad, good, bad, etc. A couple of Procreate brush recommendations though.
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Weeknotes 20
London trees, misapplied information technology and towering pillows.
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Weeknotes 19
Asparagus people, online deliveries, an English seaside postcard and yay Eurovision.
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Weeknotes 18
The relentless march of time, interviewing, doctors and local wildlife. And not being impressed by not-cheese.
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Weeknotes 17
Holidays, moral erotica, thrilling tales about books and that thing we want to just stop.
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Weeknotes 16
Retro easter eggs, planting crops, that terrible fire and playing cards.
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Weeknotes 15
Frankenstein's apple, the jackdaw's share, illustrating and food watching.
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Weeknotes 14
Chunky dandelions, flowering trees, annoying TV memes and patriotic ordure.
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Weeknotes 13
Wearing your heart (traces) on your wrist, a comic at last, flowers and the greenhouse finally being built.
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Weeknotes 12
Worthwhile workshops, grouchy greenhousing, zombie politics and a carnivorous flower.
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Weeknotes 11
Health scares, caffeine, sports and a legend in woodlouse lore.
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Weeknotes 10
Viennese waltzes, lemon pancakes and annoyingly porny design sites.
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After the storm
Camellias and greenhouse vs Storm Freya.
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Week 9
Climate-catastrophe daffodils, an imagined exploded pigeon and algorithmic achievements.
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Rain
A procreate drawing of moorland nearby.
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Week 8
A greenhouse, Lego and neuroplasticity.
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Red Glowing Eyes
All watched over by machines of baleful intent. Actually no, not really, but it's a good line, right?
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Weeknotes 7
Malfunctioning technology, remote investigation and personal development.
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Achieving
The slow, sweaty and often unrewarding quest for health
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Week 6
A week of daffodils, fish, scarves and books.
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January
A kind of weeknotes, but for a month.
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Magic Gadget
The amazing illustration tool that is 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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Many Weeks Later
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Week 27
A weekly illustrated newsletter
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Houseplanting
Stupid stupid packaging for house plants.
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Week 26
Wardrobes, plants and paint.
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User Interfaces
Stupid shitty little aphorisms piss me off.
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Week 25
Stone the crows. Seriously. With rocks.
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Week 24
Wonderful, wonderfulness, and late eBay sellers
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Bzzzt!
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Week 23
The magic of modern medicine
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Stormy
A visit to London in the pissing rain and then a glorious sunlit journey home.
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Week 22
A late entry, but winning anyway.
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Week 21
Singing to bolts while turning.
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Week 20
1970s styling, in colour
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Week 19
Renovations complete, lessons learned, tubes.
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Week 18
Chairs, 1972 Olympic ephemera and hotel concepting
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Shading Practice
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Week 17
Painting, doodles and fake flowers
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Week 16
She wants gin. Not tea, dammit.
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Week 15
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Week 14
Spring sprang (and sprung) sparklingly sprightly.
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Week 13
Beep beep fucking beep
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Kidwelly Crows
Crows! Crows! Lots of crows!
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Week 12
New font, ripped paint and illuminated curtains
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Colour & Light
The colour of the walls, under lighting conditions
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Week 11
A spring fresh update, with mention of peacocks with unlikely emotional states.
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Week 10
Colours, and blocks. Blocking, perhaps.
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Week 9
Getting to the end of building, and a sad thing.
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Ten A Day
Something something health guidelines
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Week 8
How many clicks does it take to change a lightbulb?
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Week 7
Chickens go bok bok bok
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Salty
I admire some salt packets from a buffet breakfast
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Week 6
Mostly tales of moving furniture and finding hidden hearths
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Week 5
Jolly tales of another week in South Wales.
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King Street, Hammersmith
A view from the 13th floor in the rain.
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Week 4
The renovations begin for real. Really noisily.
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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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Week 3
The house redoing begins!
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Week 2
Some positivity, at last. Also many faces.
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Week 1
The start of the year, and some intensive self-regard.
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Eyes!
I started a character drawing course. I drew eyes. Many eyes.
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Week 52
A weekly, and yearly update, with a fancy schmancy gif.
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Week 51
It's Christmas! And so on.
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Winter Solstice
In which I eulogise about the scientific aspect of celebrating the solstice.
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O Tannenbaum!
We decorated the tree and I got a tune stuck in my head.
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Week 50
The weekly roundup, using a different design this time
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Just walk…
Pondering using VR to teach how painful some things can be to use.
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We got a new fridge
In which the mundanity of life gets a write up.
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Week 49
This one has a tit in it.
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Week 48
Another week! Anxiety about noise, but I was warm in bed.
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Autumn
An excuse to post some pictures of autumn leaves.
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Week 47
Week 47, in which I mention Lego, designer books and pain
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Sketchy
A sketch/drawing of autumn trees. A bit of relaxation.
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Week 46
Week 46! Tempus fugit and all that.
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Week 45
Week 45! Historic, in some senses.
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Brexit
In which I moan about people.
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Dystopian
London looking picturesquely dystopian
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Paddington
A photo of Paddington as I'm about to leave London
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Paddington 7 Nov 2016
A photo of Paddington just after I've arrived
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Week 44
The week 44 roundup
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Use Fewer Words
I gave a talk on using simple language, and I have a bit of a whinge about American journalism.
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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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Week 43
Things in the world of me in week 43
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Going East
Photos taken during a trip to London earlier this week
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Fragments of a Portrait
I watched a 1966 documentary on Francis Bacon
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Week 42
A round up of good and not so good things for week 42.
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Apples!
Preserving apples from the garden.
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Week 41
What was good and not good this week.
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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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Excited
That word. Sigh.
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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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Dichotomy
Annoyance at the this-or-that nature of debate on the internet (mostly)
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Summer Garden
Appreciation of the garden made by the previous owners of our home.
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Wales → London → Wales
Mostly a gif I made.
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Hello
The inaugural post.