Photos of parched ground. A note to my future self. | Continue reading
A new little project: How to write a letter is a new thing from Haudoo, but it's not the same as all the previous things from Haudoo. It's a different thing. And it's free. | Continue reading
Catching up with some highlights and some links | Continue reading
A brief tribute to my aunt, Dr Margaret Turnbull, who died recently. | Continue reading
Not much about work - in fact, nothing at all about work - but quite a lot of links, for those of you who are link-leaning. | Continue reading
3 is the best number of list items, as Russell Davies explained in his PowerPoint book. Other good numbers are 5, 6 and 10. The worst number is 9. There you go, I've summarised the blog post in the RSS feed update so you don't even need to go and read it now. MEETING USER NEE … | Continue reading
A shortish Friday note with some shortish Friday thoughts from a shortish Friday writer, who also sometimes writes on other days. | Continue reading
Quite a long weeknote, with quite a lot of links. | Continue reading
Two approaches to institutional openness; each has a different purpose, and will bring about different outcomes. | Continue reading
A few thoughts about a good sticker and a good catchphrase: For the NHS, by the NHS. | Continue reading
I'm a wee bit fascinated by the structures people build on their allotments. Let me show you what I mean. | Continue reading
Mostly about my thoughts after visiting the V&A East Storehouse; but also some other things. Please sponsor my mum on her sponsored walk. | Continue reading
How I'm messing about with my own spud routine this year. Skip this one if you're only interested in the stuff with links and ranting about writing. | Continue reading
Links at the start. Some of the usual nonsense. A small moan about macOS. | Continue reading
Some - admittedly biased - opinions about using AI to write prose. And the poetry that makes prose better. | Continue reading
Backups, bad slides, quite a lot of links, couple of pictures, what more do you need? | Continue reading
A new OS website; how should gov experiment on the web? some links, pics, the usual gubbins in many respects etc | Continue reading
WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO SING THIS SONG SO THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS KNOW WHAT WE MEAN AND WHY WE MEAN IT | Continue reading
A surprise quiz / A planned quiz / A Marmite ghost | Continue reading
I wrote a rant about shitty AI tools this week, and you'll be delighted to know that I've spared you the pain of reading it. | Continue reading
This week's update, with musings on the GOV AI Studio notes, a nice green photo, and more | Continue reading
A weeknote? Yes, I think I'd say so. Certainly a note. Certainly about a week. Should qualify. The omelette really was very good. | Continue reading
Some moody bw photos in a new sideways scrolling format wooooo | Continue reading
TL;DR: put postcards near where you often sit | Continue reading
A list of the things I often pester people about when I start a new piece of commsy sort of work. Hi! How's your Thursday going? Or whatever day you're reading this | Continue reading
Tis the season for little brown bargain booklets | Continue reading
How to use Pooh case when you're Writing Important Things. It looks like Title Case you see, but it's really not the same. | Continue reading
Like, and subscriiiiiiiiiii-i-i-i-i-i-iii i i ii i | Continue reading
Hello Russell! I got your message. This post is mostly about Julián Orihuela translating Doing Presentations into Spanish, but it also mentions that I've fixed those broken links now. It was on my list, I've just been quite busy. You know how it is. I like it when you send me mes … | Continue reading
I spend half an hour clicking gov.uk/random, and seeing what I find. All sorts! | Continue reading
I bumped into my younger self and we had a brief chat. | Continue reading
In which I grumble about government strategies stuffed with "We will" statements, and propose an alternative. | Continue reading
High time I collated all this stuff in one place. | Continue reading
I found some copies of _The agile comms handbook_ first edition lurking in a box, so if you want one, lemme know and you can have it for nowt. | Continue reading
Some words and photos from my recent trip to Iceland, which I enjoyed very much. Some of the photos are moderately ok. | Continue reading
I put together a page of _working in the open_ examples. Teams and people who are actually doing open. | Continue reading
Finally, a proper blog post. First one for ages. This one is about the *institutional capability* of working in the open, and resolving a tension I see between that and the "test and learn" delivery approach. | Continue reading
Mostly raving about the excellent printing museum in Antwerp. Rob Kendrew, Ben Terrett: if you read this RSS feed, you'd love this museum, you should go if you haven't been. | Continue reading
Some photos, mostly taken from train windows | Continue reading
Moaning about dirty trains | Continue reading
A trip to Prague, which was obviously lovely. | Continue reading
gilest.org is in the Internet Phone Book, this makes me very happy | Continue reading
Hello, it's been a while. There's a new links page on gilest.org, where I shall be posting links for the time being. Bluesky's nice and all that, but an archive with some attached RSS (like wot you're reading now) will be a better choice. Since I last troubled your RSS reader, th … | Continue reading