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The Bliss Canoe Trail
862 mile circumnavigation of the inland waterways if Britain
14/09/2021 · Read article
Why are hyperlinks blue?
I've never really thought about the colour choice, but it's so entrenched now. And a good reminder that linking between documents pre-dates Tim Berners-Lee and his magical world wide web by 23 years.
08/09/2021 · Read article
Crowds. What crowds?
Half-term with COVID travel restrictions in place. It feels like everyone is trying to find somewhere quiet to get away from it all. At the same time. There's ways to avoid the crowds and still enjoy the best the UK can offer at the end of May. Which for us means a 3am start, …
18/06/2021 · Read article
Messing about in boats.
I've always been interested in boats without actually spending much time on the water. Born by the seaside, my dad had worked in the customs on the Humber. I had plenty of childhood stories of jumping from ship to ship on rummage crews. As a child I devoured Swallows & Amazons…
28/10/2020 · Read article
Nights Under Canvas.
At the moment it’s not possible to get away so we’ve reverted to make believe adventures and camping in the garden. And somehow it works. Not a substitute for a real night under canvas, but it turns out some of the effects are the same. As night falls and we hunker down in the…
04/05/2020 · Read article
Local roads.
A late autumn day, and despite the bright sun, the temperature is only a few degrees above freezing. A day for full winter cycling kit. Belgian style merino hat, long bib tights, windstopper jacket. It's a Monday and I've got a few hours free. Plodding along the quiet back roa…
12/11/2019 · Read article
Barra
Heading north again, as we do every summer. Mirroring the paths of the migrating birds who also head for the islands. They travel far more efficiently than we do, laden as we are with tents, stoves and a collection of coats and hats. They soar on the wing, using the motorway t…
03/09/2019 · Read article
Dad, can we go on a bike ride
That moment when you let go of the saddle and instead of swerving off to the left or right they glide forwards, feet whirring almost in a blur. When our eldest Vi learned to ride her bike, it was a slow and painful process. I’d bought a heavy old bike off eBay. At that the tim…
07/05/2019 · Read article
Team is your unit of awesome.
It's taken me a while to come to this realisation, but I've spent a huge chunk of my life trying to achieve things with teams. Sports teams, software teams, bands, orchestras, actors and product teams. To be fair not all of these notional teams have been successful - but when …
25/02/2019 · Read article
Many small teams.
It often starts with a sigh. Away from work you hear the obvious sound of frustration when an app or service doesn’t work as expected or crashes at a critical moment. As more and more of our lives are mediated through different glass rectangles, the expectations and importance…
10/11/2018 · Read article