Floods Ahoy March 2025
352 words 		"It's always a problem when you go chasing a plumbing fix."
Modular Origami with post-its April 2019
1001 words 		I resolved to use only post-its, since they were everywhere: we did Agile at work, and *all* thoughts had to spend some time as post-its on walls.
Angela Merkel is Eleanor Rigby October 2018
345 words 		Angela Merkel, picks up the mace in the Bund where a cabinet's been.
How to hit a (rounders) ball July 2017
461 words 		It all comes down to minimising the variance, maximising the overlap, visualising.
Greedy Devils April 2017
202 words 		It's a vicious fight for supremacy across the rubbish heap, gathering weapons and food. Who can get a pouch full of foods to safety?
That moment when March 2017
112 words 		a group pose, noble in intent and widely-tweeted, most surely ill-advised
Waiting for a train March 2017
175 words 		simultaneously checking buffers on both platforms, to make sure their respective trains would stop at the same position
Cross Generational Puzzles February 2017
509 words 		so had son the younger done all his homework for this weekend? "Mostly"
9 hours January 2017
353 words 		9 hours, is, it turns out, how long our house alarm's battery lasts if you make a mess of fitting a new ceiling light
New Shoes January 2017
377 words 		A slow scan of the choices available, the nearest sales bod getting edgy as 5pm loomed large. A smile which flickered between hope and despair as I asked to try on these in size 9.5


Currently favoured hypothesis

… is that the main obstacle to my writing significantly more than I do is that my handwriting and/or QWERTY typing are

(a) not fast enough to get it all down before it clogs up in the system, and

(b) often not practical for when the words start flowing, e.g. on a train. Hence investigating chorded keyboards.

Hence pondering a nifty combo of tablet/smartphone with chorded keys round the back, and is that possibly a new idea?

Hence searching around and finding it mentioned in a promo video. Boo.

Hence wondering if what I was doing was yak shaving or procrastination.

I was looking up the difference between ‘yak shaving’ and procrastination when I found that ‘cat waxing’ is also a thing.