This is worrying: an OFSTED report has found that “nearly all children” have seen a negative educational impact from the pandemic.

At last, I threw down my article and smote its ruin upon the mountainside. I’m off to have a celebratory coffee, while the editor goes to work on it.

13 years ago, taking a film in to be developed already felt antiquated. I suppose I’d had digital cameras for half a decade at that point.

I am happy to report that you can now get my witterings from my notebook [as a (free) weekly email](microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/subscribe…].

I noticed a little while ago that all the posts I did for TEDxBrighton back in 2012/13 were no longer online. I’m slowly starting to reconstruct them from the Wayback Machine and republish them here. Just one so far, but I will work steadily through them in down moments.

Shoreham sunset.

A frosty morning down on the beach.

If the last two years have taught us anything, it’s that the more British politicians say that “holiday x will be fine”, the more likely it is to end up with us in lockdown instead. How’s you omicro… sorry, morning going?

A lot of a individual creator newsletters are basically a week’s worth of old-style blogging (lots of links with context, a bit of analysis, a hot take or two, with some personal life stuff mixed in), stuck in an email and sent. Not a good or a bad thing, just an observation.