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In brief 🩲 * Journal: Fashionably early to see Dr B² * Practical: There is no spoon * Read: A brand-new framing, maximum clarity * Comment: The power is yours From the journal 📖 Recently I turned up to my Specsavers eye appointment at 10:31. The receptionist, teetering on the highest of heels, walked over

In brief 🩲 * Journal: Cutesy anachronisms are the best kind * Practical: Beware the attention quotient, and expectations of same-day delivery * Art: A less-psycho Blake or a normcore Steadman? From the journal 📖 It only takes a single word to transform one of my daughter Ida’s sentences into a cutesy anachronism, or

In brief 🩲 * Journal: The bathroom campaign to go electric * Practical: Not right now, or maybe ever * Art: Sketchy notes for advanced highlighting * Listen: Habits – the good, the bad, and the strange From the journal 📖 My kids (Neko, 10; Ida, 6) have been asking to upgrade their toothbrushes to electric ones,

In brief 🩲 * Journal: A completely nuts sleep routine * Art: Contrasting portraits of calm versus walking into doors * Read: The first ambulance was for someone else, but the second was for me * Listen: Habits – the good, the bad, and the strange From the journal 📖 My kids are thrashy sleepers. A few

In brief 🩲 * Journal: Apologising for an ambulance I never called * Practical: To attain an immaculate separation of work and personal life * Art: The simple truth is in the margins * Read: Should I throw all caution to the wind, or just... some of it? From the journal 📖 In the dark of

In brief 🩲 * Journal: I feel like a right mug because I know so little about vessels * Read: For some, “DIY” is naught but a spectrum of disasters * Art: Sewing together happy accidents and other people’s drawings From the journal 📖 My children are funny about drinking out of mugs. And

In brief 🩲 * Journal: Flowers and time travel * Art: Concept sketches to realised cattoo * Practical: A bonus nearly-serious flowchart for deciding to read later * Read: Kihap! like you mean it (deluxe edition) From the journal 📖 My kids (Neko, 10; Ida, 6) and I have been watching our way through some classic