Here I am making an analogy about content design being like designing a bookshop.
Our Design With Us project continues apace and if you work in the homelessness sector, you can be involved!
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I've been off social media since the beginning of the summer, and checking back in to see what's been going on here . . . what have I missed?
I'm back on my Substack, frowning at trees and pointing at churches, might be worth a look.
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Back on Substack, musing on a pile of books and what they mean about the past, the present and the potential future.
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I've always wondered why I can never find a second-hand copy, and now I know . . .
I’ve been inching my way through this strange and beguiling book for a while. With all of Carrère’s work, you just go along for the ride.
Saw your post and listened to this on my commute home, knowing nothing about it/him. It’s incredible! Every track goes off in surprising and enchanting directions. Thanks for the recommendation!
🚨 New Nicola Barker klaxon 🚨
I had no idea a new novel was coming - always an important event.
My time on the bike is sometimes a transcendent space and sometimes just a space to unravel thoughts.
🏕️ I’m using my Substack to unpick our knotty, complicated relationship to nature as seen from the bike. Please subscribe and come along for the journey … 🌳
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The Ange pull was the dream of what was around the corner, so we will always be wondering what Season 3 would have held, knowing it would have been beautiful madness.
A really weird one.
Ange made me fall back in love with the club after the Mourinho and Conte years, and Bilbao topped being at Wembley and seeing Allan Nielsen’s header in 1999. No other fanbase could be locked in this anguish of knowing it’s the rational decision but still being heartbroken.
The thickest tubeless plug and the wonder of Hutchinson tyres carried me home …
Two weeks ago today up in the Peaks, Hope Valley. Amazing how luck works out on the bike, a long weekend of rough terrain and then I get a slice of glass through my tyre on the stretch of road back to my house 🫠
Off on my monthly commute into London, on my 6 year anniversary at @homelesslink.bsky.social!
I’ve got a really exciting digital project coming up this year - hope to share some of the journey on here 🙌🏻
Could this be the first time in some time, that I’m looking forward to listening to @vftlpodcast.bsky.social? That I won’t cry from despair after listening?
End of the Middle by Richard Dawson
Sun setting over field, ditch running up the middle of frame with dog on right-hand side
Only one thing to listen to today … Richard Dawson is one artist who continues to amaze me with every new release.
Wet field leading to row of trees.
Album cover of Brown Rice by Don Cherry
This weather is so uninspiring, sometimes you need something to cut through the gloom.
Farm track running between two fields, surrounded by fog.
I got out on my bike early doors yesterday - was worth making the effort to get out and onto the bike! I passed a man who said it was “the best fog” he’d ever seen 🤷🏻♂️
Some chapters more successful than others, but a really interesting dive into the ongoing influence of Paradise Lost. Reminded me of one of my favourite books of recent years, The Life Inside by Andy West, ultimately asking hard questions of what our vision for freedom is.
The Going Beyond podcast back catalogue is such a brilliant insight into a range of issues and conversations around homelessness, and this new series with Stonewall Housing is really moving and illuminating.
Album cover of Comradely Objects by Horse Lords
Photograph of moss growing on flaking bark
AM dog walk listening: Comradely Objects - Horse Lords. A great record for blowing off the cobwebs before a busy day.
Absolutely delighted and honoured to take over as Chair at the wonderful @homelesslink.bsky.social - already so impressed by the brilliant senior management and staff teams and trustees - big job ahead but really looking forward to helping tackle and eliminate homelessness
Album cover for In A Silent Way by Miles Davis
Cutting through the misty morning.
This is a really interesting case study on the importance of designing accessible content with users at the centre 👇🏻
Landscape photograph of trees lining a field with orange sun behind trees.
Landscape photograph of fields and trees.
AM and PM sky shots.
Album cover of In These Times by Makaya McCraven. Name and title of album with circular image of branches with artist in the middle.
Album cover of Mosaic by Fennesz. Landscape photo of large ferry/cruise ship on body of water.
AM and PM dog walk listening today.
AM: In These Times - Makaya McCraven
PM: Fennesz - Mosaic
And all the good non-fiction I "read" was on audiobook, listened to whilst driving/cooking/walking/cycling:
Revolutionary Acts - Jason Okundaye
Where We Come From - Aniefiok Ekpoudom
The Searchers - Andy Beckett
Killing Thatcher - Rory Carroll
2024 Nothing Ever Just Disappears - Diarmuid Hester The New Life - Tom Crewe Kick the Latch - Kathryn Scanlan God Complex - Rachael Allen The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
Didn't read as much as I would have liked last year as I was in head-down writing mode for a lot of 2024, but these were the things that I did read which chimed with me, some vaguely new and some vaguely very much not new.
*more new music!
I’d fallen out of love with discovering new music, picking up only a few new records here and there. Big part of remedying that was discovering people on here and the other place recommending stuff - there is so much amazing stuff out there if you just put your ear to the ground 👂
Tiled wall of 20 album covers.
I’ve settled somewhere about here with my albums of the year. My New Year’s resolution this year was to listen to new music and feels like I chose a bumper year to do so as there are so many records (Wendy Eisenberg, Godspeed, Shane Parish) that I love that didn’t make the list.
Bring on 2025.
