I grew up loving the library. I think Horfield library was the first place I ever visited by myself that wasn’t the home of a relative. I haunted the shelves there (and Filton, Gloucester Rd [RIP] and eventually Bristol’s Central libraries). An unreasonable portion of my paper round money was spent on library fines. Whether…

There was a time ~ really not that long ago in the grand scheme of things ~ when I used to get up, get a train to another town, then jump on a bus to the office and then spend the day surrounded by colleagues all day. FIVE days a week! EVERY week. For YEARS.…

Definitely getting to that midway point of the year. Summer solstice has come and gone and “summer” has officially started (as has my hayfever). I set out some ambitions for the year at the back end of ‘23. Things have changed since then but → I gave myself a bit of a pep talk regarding…

If I am honest I thought I’d be in a different place professionally by now. I had fantasies that cast me in a kind of civic tech/digital government procedural show where I was some kind of wizened House M.D figure (or more likely the comic relief in an ensemble – Sylvester in Scorpion perhaps) who…