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Author Archives: rpg
Communication breakdown
Twitter is dead. Long live … whatever comes next. Twitter actually died a few years back. It was around about the time when your timeline began to fill up with images. About the same time that The Algorithm started showing … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Ill-considered rants, internet, social media, twitter
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On postnatal depression
I’m going to file this under “Better late than never”, cross-indexed to “No shit, Sherlock”. Discussion of mental health has over the last several years become less taboo than it was. It doesn’t seem that long ago (it was 14 … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in depression, fatherhood, Me, personal, science
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Girls on film
You will remember, in the Before Times, how Professor Robert Kelly’s interview with the BBC was photobombed by his children (and how ninja-ly his wife, Jung-a Kim, rounded them up). Even then I thought how very humanizing was this little … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in children, chime, Ill-considered rants, Office life, People, teams, webcam, you, Zoom
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On occupational hazards
(First posted over at the day job.) On Christmas Day I received an email. It was addressed to my 7-year-old son, and it told him that his coronavirus test was positive. There were mixed emotions.
Posted in covid, covid19, Friday afternoon, Nonsense, science, Silliness, teachers, vaccination
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Sounds of the suburbs
I’m sitting outside our apartment at Podere Castellaccia, the evening sun still quite high as the maestrale warms the porch. Our apartment is Grecale, the colder, northeast wind. Castellaccia is a fattoria and azienda vinicola; their olive oil is superb … Continue reading
Clampdown
“ Hey Mike. Mike? Mike. Mike, can you hear me? Cannn youu hearrrr meee.
Posted in covid19, Nonsense, Office life, personal
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The Twelfth of Never
I may have mentioned once or twice the collaborative webstory that germinated a decade ago and half a world away (quite [lab-]literally). In fact, I’ve just found on my Mac a file from December 2006, with some notes on how … Continue reading
Posted in A momentary lapse of reason, Writing
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My blue heaven
Wordsworth lost it when he saw fields of daffodils. I wonder what he thought of bluebells. It’s been a busy 2 weeks—a long-awaited holiday from work, with my birthday in the middle. Staycations around here always end up with a … Continue reading
Alice’s Restaurant Massacree
I fell a bit behind with the shopping lists, which is a shame because I really wanted to show you this one before Christmas. It’s a full-blown pre-Christmas shop. Right at the top we’ve got mistletoe and greenery—both queried though: … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Shopping lists, turkey
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Twelve days of Christmas
View this post on Instagram On the seventh day of Christmas. #Whitstable A post shared by Richard & Jenny (@rpgjlr) on Dec 31, 2018 at 2:11am PST So that was Christmas. And what I did was a little project that … Continue reading
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There are worse things I could do
Hastily snapped this, as we went into the shop. But to be clear, the mystery shopper wanted the same number of fillets as en croute. Perhaps they were having coeliacs around? An engineer’s or a computer programmer’s brain behind this … Continue reading
Posted in accents, plastic, salmon, Shopping lists, water
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Town Called Malice
I went to a gig on Friday night. That in itself is probably worth a blog post, but this gig was a bit special because the Younger Pawn was playing bass in a band called Charles and the Big Boys, … Continue reading
Rock Lobster
This list is written on a crumpled Post-It note. I like it. Crisp, business-like, no nonsense. Actually scrunched up to be discarded when it had served its purpose.