#BEDM17 Why striving for perfection is wrong
I’m blogging every day in May, for no particular reason other than I can. I’ve come up with 31 topics and I’m going to bash…
My Mediocre Opinions
This is my personal blog.
It got its name back in the late Noughties, inspired by Costa Coffee (my employer at the time) launching their “saving the world from mediocre coffee” campaign. It’s a jibe at myself. Just like the world didn’t need saving from mediocre coffee (because that’s subjective), you may well find my opinions mediocre.
The books of 2016
For the first time ever, I achieved my Goodreads target for the year in 2016. It’s only the second year I have done the challenge,…
Oh. I’m taking a month off.
About three weeks ago, I started thinking about what I really wanted to achieve and the answer that came back from my head shocked me…
My mission for 2016
It’s lovely to see houses and the office without all of the tacky decorations and things again isn’t it? The end of pine needles in…
Libraries of Hampshire: I believe in you.
Yesterday I dispatched a missive on this very blog about how I, if someone were to have accidentally left me in charge, would run Hampshire’s…
Libraries of Hampshire: believe in yourself
I took part in Hampshire County Council’s consultation over the future of its libraries a few weeks ago. The consultation itself has been rather controversial…
What we come to expect
I had a remarkable experience at Woking railway station the other day. It shouldn’t have been remarkable at all; it shouldn’t even be the topic…
Content lessons from your primary school
For some reason I ended up browsing my primary school’s website the other day. I still can’t work out how I got there or what…
39 dwellings
It’s hard to tell just how many tweets there have been about the flooded development site near Whalley in Ribble Valey just off the A59 but it’s fair to say it’s been a quite a few.
It gets you from A to Be doesn’t it?
For reasons that I won’t go into, because they’re rather uninteresting, I have a hire car at the moment. It’s a Suzuki Switft, which I’ve…
I say, you do
I’ve had a lot of trouble with couriers this week, or at least it’s felt like it, and it’s struck me that acting on feedback…
Why that’s the worst illustration of cycling infrastructure ever
I’ve seen this image pop up on Twitter a couple of times today and each time it’s had a tweet something along the lines of…