Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
A Tale of Two Burgers. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of being ripped off; it was the age of not. It was the FA Cup semi-final, it was the last game of the season. It was Wembley Way, it was St Mary’s. We had […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
The Underpants. Two conversations recently, both drifting from floor plans and kitchen layouts into the state of things. “We need Rupert Lowe. He’s the only one who can save this country,” she said. “The trouble is, this isn’t a superhero movie,” I said. And then, a few days later: “I think we’re heading into a […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Two Tribes. I was sitting in the architecture studio yesterday listening to students explain their design ideas when we heard that whirring air-raid siren. I’m too young to remember the Vietnam War, although I do remember the ‘boat people’ at RAF Sopley in the New Forest. My first news memories, alongside the background threat of […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Independence Day. It’s Independence Day next week. Like the movie of the same name, I’m hoping the aliens come down and do us all a massive favour. Well, me at least. I shouldn’t speak for everyone. In my dreams, the aliens in their galactic cruiser will hover over Westminster and suck it up into a […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Allergy Denier. I am six weeks away from a year of writing a weekly article. Most weeks have been pretty easy, but the odd week, like this one, tests my resolve. Not helped by the energy and motivation drain of a bad cough and the associated green flem. I may have reached a terminal point—a […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
It Won’t Be Long, Yeah, Yeah. I’ve been busy this week. Listening to podcasts while building 3D VR models and drawing electrical layouts. Grocery shopping, reading books on tax dodgers and a garden in Dungeness, plus a bit of Four in a Bed and chatting with a new AI app that suggested avocado and honey […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
At the Laundrette. Stepping into the laundrette on Monday with an over-full load, I entered not just a place of washing and drying but a realm where every spin cycle mirrored the complexities of society itself—a lesson in diversity, resilience, and simple yet strange human connections. Yeah, really. It is a strange place. You watch your […]
