This week I have learned: for me the Covid jab was distinctly less irritating than the flu jab, and the flu jab was mainly just a bit of a bruise.that sometimes the insightful stuff just appears, but on other occasions you have to work hard to find it.3 hours is a long old time for … Continue reading Weeknote 526 – Jabbed
To celebrate my 2000th blogpost, I asked Twitter what I should write about. This series of posts are inspired by those requests. Mr Gee suggested this one. He writes: I did a workshop with a group of 14 year olds. I was talking about comic book heroes being like Greek gods (it's a standard analogy … Continue reading Blogpost 2000: You’re trying to shape my nostalgia with your own
This week I have learned: how quiet it is without the kids in the house.how to do a lateral flow test.how much more flavour you get from cooking on the bone.that maybe we should start with The Home and then work backwards.the power of spending some time talking about things.that the end of lockdown still … Continue reading Weeknote 525 – user needs
To celebrate my 2000th blogpost, I asked Twitter what I should write about. This series of posts are inspired by those requests. A reader suggested this one. The wellbeing industry is a reaction to, from where I see it, the second coming of Taylorism that has haunted the corridors of offices across the planet in … Continue reading Blogpost 2000: Forced Fun
To celebrate my 2000th blogpost, I asked Twitter what I should write about. This series of posts are inspired by those requests. Adam Learning suggested this one. Like many things that I do, I didn't really know why I started blogging. I had bought the mattballantine.com domain in a moment of digital vanity, and the … Continue reading Blogpost 2000: Your First Post
To celebrate my 2000th blogpost, I asked Twitter what I should write about. This series of posts are inspired by those requests. Hilary Gallo suggested this one. Looking back, I’m not sure that people who didn’t live through it can quite understand the pressure that there was on the New Year’s Eve party of 1999. … Continue reading Blogpost 2000: The party you had in 1999
To celebrate my 2000th blogpost, I asked Twitter what I should write about. This series of posts are inspired by those requests.Peter O'Rourke asked me these questions: The one blog your proudest of, and why? There are two, one sensible, one silly. Plus a short series of four posts that are really one long post … Continue reading Blogpost 2000: Some questions
This is my 2000th blogpost. Rather than simply write a normal post, or indeed write a post about it being my 2000th blogpost, I decided to ask the question on Twitter of what it should be about. I didn't really know what to expect, but as a result of the query I've now got the … Continue reading Blogpost 2000
This marks the last day of our kids being at home and balancing off school, work and all the other bits, all at the same time. Hopefully for a long while. For all that I might joke about the kids going back to school being a relief to me, it's much more about it being … Continue reading Weeknote 524 – schooling
Through the month of February, the wonderful Steve Chapman has been running a daily artistic event #WTFeb. On February 18th the challenge was this: Today’s challenge is to create a minimalist three line poem to express your own instructions for living a life inspired by the wonderful Mary Oliver poem “Instructions for Living a Life” … Continue reading #SAE March – A short poem about life
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