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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

In brief 🩲 * Journal: The colour Gary * Practical: LOL no, we are 100% not going to read that later * Art: Sketches trump words for memorability From the journal 📖 “What?” said Neko. He was getting to grips with the notion that a single word can take multiple spellings. We were talking about

In brief 🩲 * Journal: There is hope for margarine * Art: From in-jokes to cartoon compendium * Practical: Tetris your fortnight by using the gaps * Advice: The secret to keeping your chickens enthusiastic about life * Podcast: Perfectly reasonable to one; anathema to another From the journal 📖 A housesitter from long ago left some

In brief 🩲 * Journal: Is it a rocket, a rolling pin, a marrow, or...? * Art: Metaphors for aimlessness * Practical: Get a loft bed (or – preferably – don’t get one) * Advice: Making a loft bed need not be entirely impossible From the journal 📖 My kids Ida (6) and Neko (10) are going