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I write weeknotes (but they're quite bad so I call 'em weaknotes). These posts are short and personal and primarily for me. My weaknotes archive is here.

I also sew my own clothes. You can see all my sewing posts here.

Occasionally I write proper blog posts.

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Here are all my posts

• 16 Nov 2024
  Week 324: I am conscious of time
• 9 Nov 2024
  Week 323: Smooth and Crunchy
• 2 Nov 2024
  Week 322: Piano mover
• 1 Nov 2024
  Pom Pom Tuskaft
• 26 Oct 2024
  Week 321: Wuaghhhhhh
• 19 Oct 2024
  Week 320: Sparkle inspectors
• 12 Oct 2024
  Week 319: White ribbons
• 5 Oct 2024
  Week 318: Skanky
• 28 Sep 2024
  Week 317: I like to move it! move it!
• 21 Sep 2024
  Week 316: Clippered head
• 14 Sep 2024
  Week 315: I Am Not A Statistician
• 8 Sep 2024
  Week 314: How this makes me sound
• 1 Sep 2024
  Week 313: Duxford
• 24 Aug 2024
  Week 312: Norfolk
• 17 Aug 2024
  Week 311: Heavenly Skyomish
• 11 Aug 2024
  Week 310: Pottering interspersed
• 5 Aug 2024
  Week 309: Right bastard
• 28 Jul 2024
  Week 308: Gingerly
• 21 Jul 2024
  Week 307: Sungold
• 14 Jul 2024
  Week 306: Murder cat
• 8 Jul 2024
  Week 305: Experimental
• 30 Jun 2024
  Week 304: Usnik
• 23 Jun 2024
  Week 303: Albino tadpole
• 15 Jun 2024
  Week 302: Talking to strangers
• 8 Jun 2024
  Week 301: Group of lions
• 2 Jun 2024
  Week 300: Still a mystery
• 26 May 2024
  Week 299: Rite of Passage
• 18 May 2024
  Week 298: Jollies
• 11 May 2024
  Week 297: Auntie skip-rope
• 4 May 2024
  Week 296: Offal
• 28 Apr 2024
  Week 295: Blinged out orthodox cathederal
• 21 Apr 2024
  Week 294: Helpless baby
• 14 Apr 2024
  Week 293: Aga
• 6 Apr 2024
  Week 292: Muscle Tom
• 30 Mar 2024
  Week 291: Big spare woman
• 24 Mar 2024
  Week 290: Difficult second birthday
• 16 Mar 2024
  Week 289: Personal drama
• 10 Mar 2024
  Week 288: Bobs and bits
• 2 Mar 2024
  Week 287: Litter tray in the sky
• 24 Feb 2024
  Week 286: Driving
• 17 Feb 2024
  Week 285: Tedious fussing
• 10 Feb 2024
  Week 284: Conjure a picture
• 4 Feb 2024
  Week 283: Are the elephants
• 27 Jan 2024
  Week 282: 'Orange flavour'
• 20 Jan 2024
  Week 281: Welcome to hell
• 13 Jan 2024
  Week 280: Abdication
• 6 Jan 2024
  Week 279: Wobbly posters
• 2 Jan 2024
  Yearnotes 2023
• 30 Dec 2023
  Week 278: What Nancy
• 23 Dec 2023
  Week 277: Loose Glitter
• 16 Dec 2023
  Week 276: Tired
• 10 Dec 2023
  Week 275: Shrinkflation
• 2 Dec 2023
  Week 274: Sodden
• 25 Nov 2023
  Week 273: Juggle
• 18 Nov 2023
  Week 272: They said it couldn't be done
• 11 Nov 2023
  Week 271: Laundrette
• 5 Nov 2023
  Week 270: I will beaver for you
• 28 Oct 2023
  Week 269: Flatworms
• 21 Oct 2023
  Week 268: Fun with a riff on prim
• 14 Oct 2023
  Week 267: jo-jo and the wonky weenie
• 7 Oct 2023
  Week 266: Mary and Murray
• 30 Sep 2023
  Week 265: curly top
• 23 Sep 2023
  Week 264: I was in a bubble and it wasn't funny
• 16 Sep 2023
  Week 263: Fly
• 9 Sep 2023
  Week 262: Trying not to bore on
• 4 Sep 2023
  Week 261: Jesus loves me stickers
• 26 Aug 2023
  Week 260: Saltdean
• 19 Aug 2023
  Week 259: Jumper for a rabbit
• 12 Aug 2023
  Week 258: Boggle hole
• 5 Aug 2023
  Week 257: Duttons
• 29 Jul 2023
  Week 256: Seagull legs
• 22 Jul 2023
  Week 255: Blossom end rot
• 15 Jul 2023
  Week 254: Hardly any!
• 8 Jul 2023
  Week 253: Some weird little freak
• 1 Jul 2023
  Week 252: StaffPlus
• 25 Jun 2023
  Week 251: DETAILS MATTER, PEOPLE
• 17 Jun 2023
  Week 250: Let us preserve the distinction
• 11 Jun 2023
  Week 249: Raspberry ice cream
• 3 Jun 2023
  Week 248: Artventor
• 28 May 2023
  Week 247: Inner leg
• 21 May 2023
  Week 246: I was naked were you there?
• 13 May 2023
  Week 245: annoyance incident
• 8 May 2023
  Week 244: Wear spots
• 29 Apr 2023
  Week 243: Homie Club
• 24 Apr 2023
  Week 242: Chop-chop lollipop
• 15 Apr 2023
  Week 241: Mung beans
• 8 Apr 2023
  Week 240: Weird little co-inky-dink
• 2 Apr 2023
  Week 239: Face toward the sunshine
• 25 Mar 2023
  Week 238: Bunk-hole
• 18 Mar 2023
  Week 237: It's a classic for a reason
• 11 Mar 2023
  Week 236: Cats? Magpies? Foxes?
• 4 Mar 2023
  Week 235: Urchin accent
• 25 Feb 2023
  Week 234: A bit scabby
• 25 Feb 2023
  Jaquard fielder
• 18 Feb 2023
  Week 233: Chicken pox
• 11 Feb 2023
  Week 232: Detritus
• 4 Feb 2023
  Week 231: Momentarily confused
• 1 Feb 2023
  A Tee Shirt in Calamity linen
• 29 Jan 2023
  Week 230: Musical theatre voice
• 22 Jan 2023
  Week 229: Birthday party
• 22 Jan 2023
  A Hovea in Rasai Jacquard
• 14 Jan 2023
  Week 228: Yoto icon
• 7 Jan 2023
  Week 227: Man employed by energy company
• 7 Jan 2023
  Yearnotes 2022
• 31 Dec 2022
  Week 226: Conventional bedding
• 25 Dec 2022
  Week 225: Wispy front parting
• 18 Dec 2022
  Week 224: I can hear the moon
• 10 Dec 2022
  Week 223: Nativity
• 3 Dec 2022
  Week 222: Tree's up
• 27 Nov 2022
  Week 221: A Complete Loser
• 20 Nov 2022
  Week 220: Mandatory
• 13 Nov 2022
  Week 219: squawk-cackle-laughing
• 5 Nov 2022
  Week 218: November then
• 29 Oct 2022
  Week 217: Starve Together
• 22 Oct 2022
  Week 216: Too bloody right it's me
• 15 Oct 2022
  Week 215: Where is the hot-hatch
• 9 Oct 2022
  Week 214: Financially and spiritually
• 2 Oct 2022
  Week 213: Astonishing
• 24 Sep 2022
  Week 212: Little cutie queen
• 17 Sep 2022
  Week 211: Grape vine
• 10 Sep 2022
  Week 210: Chaotic lesson
• 5 Sep 2022
  Week 209: September
• 27 Aug 2022
  Week 208: Tall boys, taller boys
• 20 Aug 2022
  Week 207: First fig
• 13 Aug 2022
  Week 206: That was a joke
• 7 Aug 2022
  Week 205: Pragmatic Book Club
• 30 Jul 2022
  Week 204: Chaos brain
• 23 Jul 2022
  Week 203: Pleasantly adversarial
• 17 Jul 2022
  Week 202: 90s Blue Peter
• 9 Jul 2022
  Week 201: Poor decisions
• 2 Jul 2022
  Week 200: Morning mood is playing softly
• 27 Jun 2022
  Book Review: Everything I Know about Life I Learned from PowerPoint
• 25 Jun 2022
  Week 199: Live and die in confluence
• 24 Jun 2022
  How to explain technical architecture with a natty little video
• 23 Jun 2022
  Book Review: The agile comms handbook by Giles Turnbull
• 19 Jun 2022
  Week 198: Frozen themed
• 12 Jun 2022
  Week 197: Funky little beans
• 5 Jun 2022
  Week 196: Love a theme
• 28 May 2022
  Week 195: I AM A HOOT
• 21 May 2022
  Week 194: Well adjusted
• 14 May 2022
  Week 193
• 7 May 2022
  Week 192: Start blogging
• 30 Apr 2022
  Week 191: Laughing maniacally
• 23 Apr 2022
  Week 190: Broad beans
• 16 Apr 2022
  Week 189: Unwinding
• 9 Apr 2022
  Week 188: Purple gloves
• 3 Apr 2022
  Week 187: Rescheduled
• 27 Mar 2022
  Week 186: Dicky tummy
• 19 Mar 2022
  Week 185: Curly quotes
• 12 Mar 2022
  Week 184: Pragmatic
• 6 Mar 2022
  Week 183: Raspberry
• 26 Feb 2022
  Week 182: Bouncy castle
• 19 Feb 2022
  Week 181: Little Old Man
• 12 Feb 2022
  Week 180: Easy seizy
• 5 Feb 2022
  Week 179: I fixed his printer
• 31 Jan 2022
  Week 178: Messy pacing
• 22 Jan 2022
  Week 177: Wow
• 15 Jan 2022
  Week 176: Discombobulated
• 8 Jan 2022
  Week 175: Sobbing and then wondering
• 3 Jan 2022
  Yearnotes 2021
• 1 Jan 2022
  Week 174: That's it
• 25 Dec 2021
  Week 173: Do the most
• 18 Dec 2021
  Week 172: Postictal State
• 11 Dec 2021
  Week 171: Why aren't they taking their shoes off?
• 8 Dec 2021
  Week 170: Catch My Shadow
• 27 Nov 2021
  Week 169: Very peaceful noodling around
• 21 Nov 2021
  Week 168: Beautiful noggin
• 13 Nov 2021
  Week 167: Parallelogram
• 6 Nov 2021
  Week 166: Magnesium
• 30 Oct 2021
  Week 165: barely perceptible in-joke
• 23 Oct 2021
  Week 164: The refuse workers
• 16 Oct 2021
  Week 163: Bad time
• 9 Oct 2021
  Week 162: flucoxacillin
• 4 Oct 2021
  Week 161: Campervan
• 25 Sep 2021
  Week 160: Boots Meal Deals
• 18 Sep 2021
  Week 159: Ah well, life
• 13 Sep 2021
  Eve trousers in Jacob Check
• 11 Sep 2021
  Week 158: Whiteboard
• 4 Sep 2021
  Week 157: Sweetly naff
• 28 Aug 2021
  Week 156: About 320
• 21 Aug 2021
  Week 155: Comfortable and relaxed
• 14 Aug 2021
  Week 154: Yarf
• 7 Aug 2021
  Week 153: Friends
• 31 Jul 2021
  Week 152: Bit of crime
• 23 Jul 2021
  Week 151: Early weeknote
• 17 Jul 2021
  Week 150: Sludge
• 10 Jul 2021
  Week 149: Babies, man
• 3 Jul 2021
  Week 148: Thrip
• 26 Jun 2021
  Week 147: Nobody tell Lachie
• 19 Jun 2021
  Week 146: 📯 - Toot toot
• 12 Jun 2021
  Week 145: Dark egg
• 5 Jun 2021
  Week 144: 30 My Little Ponies
• 29 May 2021
  Week 143: Accidental Partridge
• 23 May 2021
  Week 142: Zero to hero
• 16 May 2021
  Week 141: Brakes Coppice
• 8 May 2021
  Week 140: Pfizer shot
• 2 May 2021
  Week 139: Mealy Mouthed Pragmatist
• 24 Apr 2021
  Week 138: Crazy golf
• 17 Apr 2021
  Week 137: Absolutely rancid
• 10 Apr 2021
  Week 136: Seeing how the sausage gets made
• 3 Apr 2021
  Week 135: Glass and spiders
• 27 Mar 2021
  Week 134: Several mistakes
• 20 Mar 2021
  Week 133: Liminal space
• 13 Mar 2021
  Week 132: Creatures
• 6 Mar 2021
  Week 131: Samey
• 27 Feb 2021
  Week 130: Mock tudor
• 20 Feb 2021
  Week 129: ¯ (ツ)_/¯
• 13 Feb 2021
  Week 128: Do the typing
• 6 Feb 2021
  Week 127: Of or resembling a snake
• 30 Jan 2021
  Week 126: Gritter
• 23 Jan 2021
  Week 125: Dino facts
• 16 Jan 2021
  Week 124: Bottoms
• 9 Jan 2021
  Week 123: Things are getting very... bitey
• 3 Jan 2021
  Programming note for the RSS massive
• 2 Jan 2021
  Week 122: Beaknotes 🐦
• 1 Jan 2021
  Yearnotes 2020
• 26 Dec 2020
  Week 121: Bisto
• 23 Dec 2020
  Lullaby Layette from Oliver and S
• 20 Dec 2020
  Week 120: Gran and papa
• 20 Dec 2020
  Tencel Florence
• 12 Dec 2020
  Week 119: Goofy tooth
• 5 Dec 2020
  Week 118: Gay abandon
• 29 Nov 2020
  Week 117: Water
• 21 Nov 2020
  Week 116: Lefty
• 14 Nov 2020
  Week 115: Ned Flanders opens the Leftorium
• 7 Nov 2020
  Week 114: Sock fluff
• 31 Oct 2020
  Week 113: Battle of will
• 24 Oct 2020
  Week 112: Novel corona virus
• 17 Oct 2020
  Week 111: piggy back
• 10 Oct 2020
  Week 110: TV? Snap snap snap
• 3 Oct 2020
  Week 109: Ideologically opposed
• 27 Sep 2020
  Week 108: Latin!
• 19 Sep 2020
  Week 107: Big energy
• 12 Sep 2020
  Week 106: Two
• 5 Sep 2020
  Week 105: Something for everybody
• 29 Aug 2020
  Week 104: Defunct
• 23 Aug 2020
  Week 103: Imagine the hijinks
• 15 Aug 2020
  Week 102: Boob responsibly
• 8 Aug 2020
  Week 101: Planet baby
• 1 Aug 2020
  Week 100: They have very small noses and are not compliant
• 27 Jul 2020
  Week 99: PRAY 4 THE HAIRCUT PPL
• 18 Jul 2020
  Week 98: Trees
• 12 Jul 2020
  Week 97: Very soft
• 4 Jul 2020
  Week 96: Breakfast
• 27 Jun 2020
  Week 95: Since we're on the topic of bodily fluids
• 20 Jun 2020
  Week 94: Extremely relieved
• 13 Jun 2020
  Week 93: Thinking about the muffin
• 6 Jun 2020
  Week 92: The search for a way to legitimise my toxic leadership style continues
• 30 May 2020
  Week 91: Chaise longue
• 23 May 2020
  Week 90: Can You Fill Me In
• 16 May 2020
  Week 89: It's not interesting
• 9 May 2020
  Week 88: There is wee on every single available surface
• 2 May 2020
  Week 87: Metropolitan friends
• 25 Apr 2020
  Week 86: Welp
• 18 Apr 2020
  Week 85: A residual fuzz on the tongue
• 11 Apr 2020
  Week 84: Alice, sweet heart
• 4 Apr 2020
  Week 83: Groundhog days
• 28 Mar 2020
  Week 82: So tonks
• 21 Mar 2020
  Week 81: Sorry in advance
• 14 Mar 2020
  Week 80: Very shit endurance test
• 7 Mar 2020
  Week 79: Slow spring
• 29 Feb 2020
  Week 78: Tiny bald overlord
• 23 Feb 2020
  Week 77: Looking very normal
• 16 Feb 2020
  Week 76: I'll be the tiny matriarch
• 8 Feb 2020
  Week 75: 𝔞𝔭𝔭𝔰 𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔤𝔶
• 2 Feb 2020
  Florence Top
• 1 Feb 2020
  Week 74: Full of tiny delicate baby veins
• 25 Jan 2020
  Week 73: G33k hot
• 19 Jan 2020
  Week 72: The Arch Bishop of Canterbury naked
• 12 Jan 2020
  The Right To Roam rucksack
• 11 Jan 2020
  Week 71: What happens when a tornado hits a volcano
• 4 Jan 2020
  Week 70: Exactly how I feel about inaccurate reflexive pronouns
• 1 Jan 2020
  Yearnotes 2019
• 28 Dec 2019
  Week 69: - nice
• 23 Dec 2019
  Week 68: A sprinkling of things to improve
• 14 Dec 2019
  Week 67: Just remarkable what bodies can do
• 7 Dec 2019
  Week 66: HOW DARE YOU
• 4 Dec 2019
  Week 65: 96th birthday
• 23 Nov 2019
  Week 64: Welcome to Lenin's Communist School
• 16 Nov 2019
  Week 63: Still haven't remembered the thing
• 10 Nov 2019
  Week 62: From the internet
• 3 Nov 2019
  Week 61: The Sugababes are reforming
• 26 Oct 2019
  Week 60: Well done Squirrels
• 19 Oct 2019
  Week 59: Very aesthetic bruises
• 12 Oct 2019
  Week 58: Soft and cute
• 12 Oct 2019
  Mittens For E
• 5 Oct 2019
  Week 57: Slimy
• 28 Sep 2019
  Week 56: Some people just want to watch the world bone
• 21 Sep 2019
  Week 55: Working dad
• 14 Sep 2019
  Week 54: big on 'castleing'
• 8 Sep 2019
  Mittens For Me
• 7 Sep 2019
  Week 53: I forgot to add a title
• 31 Aug 2019
  Week 52: A whole year of weaknotes
• 26 Aug 2019
  Week 51: Hotel, motel, Holiday Inn
• 19 Aug 2019
  Week 50: Active toilet rolls
• 13 Aug 2019
  Week 49: Camping
• 3 Aug 2019
  Week 48: Cheese sandwiches
• 28 Jul 2019
  Week 47: It's hot
• 20 Jul 2019
  Week 46: Tepid nonsense
• 13 Jul 2019
  Week 45: One day this will be an otter 🦦
• 6 Jul 2019
  Week 44: White Frag
• 29 Jun 2019
  Week 43: Noodle
• 23 Jun 2019
  Week 42: Sweet pea
• 15 Jun 2019
  Week 41: Biggleywinks
• 8 Jun 2019
  Week 40: Strongly pro
• 1 Jun 2019
  Week 39: Typing the right things fast
• 25 May 2019
  Week 38: This week's least popular word is 'automating'
• 18 May 2019
  Week 37: (not a typo)
• 17 May 2019
  Tottorri Cross Kalle
• 17 May 2019
  Tottorri Cross Bantam
• 11 May 2019
  Week 36: t('_'t)
• 4 May 2019
  Week 35: Enjoyable foible
• 27 Apr 2019
  Week 34: Spritz your bum
• 21 Apr 2019
  Week 33: Weird flex but ok
• 13 Apr 2019
  Week 32: A lot of Ru Paul's Drag Race makes sense
• 6 Apr 2019
  Week 31: More wokenotes than weaknotes
• 1 Apr 2019
  Improving our career map for engineers (cross post)
• 31 Mar 2019
  Week 30: Stylish people
• 31 Mar 2019
  Bird Shirt
• 23 Mar 2019
  Week 29: Bourgeois millennial nonsense
• 17 Mar 2019
  Week 28: THE MOST ILLEGAL MOVE IN WRESTLING
• 10 Mar 2019
  Wool and The Gang Ruby Rabbit
• 9 Mar 2019
  Week 27: I'm getting less funny
• 3 Mar 2019
  Chroma Key Cigarette Pants
• 2 Mar 2019
  Week 26: Not to brag
• 23 Feb 2019
  Week 25: Smash that interactive rebase
• 16 Feb 2019
  Week 24: I'm Pauly, from New Joysey
• 9 Feb 2019
  Week 23: Edited a hunk
• 2 Feb 2019
  Week 22: Antithesis of hunky
• 27 Jan 2019
  TN31 Parka
• 26 Jan 2019
  Week 21: IS IT APT? IS IT FUNNY? IS IT NEW?
• 20 Jan 2019
  Week 20: Phoning in
• 12 Jan 2019
  Week 19: In practice RIP my quads
• 11 Jan 2019
  rip Flickr
• 6 Jan 2019
  Week 18: Stop torturing me with your bad manicures
• 1 Jan 2019
  Yearnotes 2018
• 1 Jan 2019
  Shared parental leave
• 25 Dec 2018
  Week 17: Minimum Viable Parenting
• 16 Dec 2018
  Week 16: A real crook!!
• 9 Dec 2018
  Week 15: Properly hydrated
• 25 Nov 2018
  Week 14: Eels writhing across a canteen floor
• 25 Nov 2018
  Week 13: Thank you internet stranger!
• 17 Nov 2018
  Week 12: Phoney and insincere
• 10 Nov 2018
  Week 11: What is the deal
• 4 Nov 2018
  Week 10: Determined and independent
• 27 Oct 2018
  Week 9: Subprime code crisis
• 27 Oct 2018
  Merchant and Mills Ottoline
• 20 Oct 2018
  Week 8: Clapping along with the contestants on the telly
• 13 Oct 2018
  Week 7: Tell Martin he needs to eat more fibre
• 6 Oct 2018
  Week 6: Buckets full of dead mice
• 26 Sep 2018
  Week 5: A bit dim
• 20 Sep 2018
  Week 4: Hairy bond girl
• 15 Sep 2018
  Week 3: I'm over 30
• 10 Sep 2018
  Week 2: The day after that is Saturday
• 5 Sep 2018
  Week 1
• 17 Apr 2018
  Yumiko Higuchi Fish Mobile
• 10 Jan 2018
  Yearnotes 2017
• 6 Dec 2017
  [Crosspost] Tips for in-house teams in a free market software culture
• 17 Apr 2017
  BurdaStyle Quilted Baby Coat
• 26 Feb 2017
  Hot Water Bottle Cover
• 15 Jan 2017
  Zebra Kindle Case
• 1 Jan 2017
  Yearnotes 2016
• 4 Dec 2016
  My Second Tamarack
• 24 Jun 2016
  A decent attempt at a date filter
• 21 Jun 2016
  Origami crosspost
• 21 Jun 2016
  October 2015 LRUG writeup
• 16 May 2016
  Sew Ultimate Tropical Trousers
• 16 Apr 2016
  A white-label slide deck
• 13 Feb 2016
  Wedding Camber Dress
• 30 Dec 2015
  Yearnotes 2015
• 15 Nov 2015
  Which Sewing Blogs Do You Follow?
• 15 Nov 2015
  Tamarack
• 5 Nov 2015
  Simple Sews Classic Trouser v2
• 19 Jul 2015
  What is the business case for accessibility?
• 22 Mar 2015
  White Camber top
• 22 Mar 2015
  Simple Sews Classic Trouser
• 22 Mar 2015
  Cyan Swing Scout
• 22 Mar 2015
  Black and White Chambray Archer
• 25 Jan 2015
  jQueryUK interview
• 6 Jan 2015
  Yearnotes 2014
• 21 Dec 2014
  Quilted Kindle Case
• 25 Nov 2014
  Tampon Club v2
• 25 Sep 2014
  Bee print Archer
• 20 Sep 2014
  Fabric shops of London
• 2 Sep 2014
  Tampon club
• 25 Aug 2014
  Kindle Case
• 7 Aug 2014
  Six months at GDS
• 2 Aug 2014
  Stop asking how can we hire more women?
• 19 Jul 2014
  Tropical Alder
• 7 Jul 2014
  Archer For Alice
• 15 Jun 2014
  Five facts about smell writeup
• 8 Jun 2014
  Negroni Shirt From Walden
• 18 May 2014
  Very Easy Very Vogue 7074
• 18 May 2014
  Pink Pocket Scout
• 12 May 2014
  Brown Archer
• 12 Apr 2014
  Manning Scout
• 16 Feb 2014
  Black and White Scout
• 12 Jan 2014
  White Archer