Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Life is a Lasagna. I’m on the motorway. Cruise control on. 62mph. Sitting steady in the inside lane. It’s busy. All lanes. Both directions. 9am. I spot a tractor driving slowly over one of those bridges, built where a small lane once crossed this land. I’m listening to Senator Rand Paul talk about automation. How, […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Mid-Winter Planning. Happy New Year. Well, Happy Mid-Winter. It’s a stupid time of year for a fresh start. We force this Gregorian New Year on ourselves, despite nature telling us it’s not a new beginning. It’s time to hunker down. Eat the nuts we gathered in the autumn and wait for the new growth of […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
The Good Old Days. I was in a coffee shop the other day. Coffee #1 in Shirley, Southampton, in case you care. While trying to edit an hour of video footage into a 37-second segment, I was distracted by an old couple at the next table. A gentleman had been sitting there for a while, […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
The House That Needed Turning Upside Down. Some houses tell you exactly what’s wrong the moment you step through the door; others take a little time to reveal their story. The terrace house I looked at this week — a tiny two-up two-down in Southsea — definitely belonged to the second group. A small two-up […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
A hundred weeks of curiosity. This is the 100th edition of Thoughts for the Weekend. When I started in June 2023, there wasn’t a grand plan — more a marketing push after launching a new website, an effort to explain what I do a bit more clearly. The idea was to shed some light on […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
A Ride to Liverpool. I was watching the football on Sunday with my son. Everton were playing, and we got talking about their new stadium, which is in Liverpool’s docklands, just north of the city centre. An aside: Why I need to pay the government nearly fifteen quid a month to watch football via a […]
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The Hippy and the Physicist. I was sitting in a 6500-year-old burial chamber, listening to a hippy chant. It was the first day of a new moon. Fifty-million-year-old sarsen stones stacked to form the Long Barrow around me. Heavy. It was a spontaneous day trip to visit megalithic architecture. There is something deeply satisfying about […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
How to Design a Winery Before Bed. After finishing my day’s work yesterday, I set myself a challenge: design a winery before bed. I’d spent the morning in a medieval vault and a rooftop bar discussing the project with my group of students, whose final-year project it is – see the TFTW from a couple […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
It’s good to be free. It’s Friday. Raining outside, I’ve just finished work for the week and am heading to Rhondda’s to make a curry for when she gets home. Rucksack on my back, headphones in. Pull the door shut with a flick of the finger. Press play on my new old iPod. The little […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
The Enhancification Department. I had a wander around historic Southampton yesterday with a group of students. First day back and they are tasked with designing a winery on a car park right next to the medieval city walls. At first glance, it sounds mad. But Southampton has the longest surviving stretch of medieval walls in […]
