Bicester Village has a couple of bears keeping watch over all the shoppers. Not going to argue with them!

Checked Paddington off the list of fictional things to photograph in London railway stations. Next up, Platform 9 and 3 / 4.

Been flitting around here and there on the South West Coast Path, and whilst you can't deny the beauty of the Jurassic Coast, there's something very special about Cornish shorelines as well.

Actually, not an elephant, but the unique selling point of Dudley Zoo is that it's also a castle. The animals are milling around the ruin walls and you get the experience of visiting a zoo but also visiting a castle. There's a variety of animals in the castle grounds, and the zoo does a good job of offering up some good views and some things I'd not seen before - …

Some of the recent Marvel news that has been filtering out of Hollywood has made me feel like this is a film series I just don't want to follow anymore. Combine that with how much I didn't enjoy the two-part Infinity War and Endgame story, and I was losing interest by the second. I was confident that every single film that went by was getting lower and lower scores from …

Stumbled across this beauty on my Jurassic Coast travels. The Geoneedle features many different types of rock to commemorate just how much history is on display in the area. From the National Trust page: The Geoneedle at Orcombe Point is an impressive landmark constructed of the various rock types found along the World Heritage coastline. It was commissioned from public artist, sculptor and designer Michael Fairfax to commemorate the opening …

Had to get the National Parks badge on my Apple Watch, so where better to go for a bit-more-than-a-stroll than the Jurassic Coast?

So the new trailer for Apple TV+ series The Morning Show looks gooood. I didn’t want it to be good because I have too much TV to watch as it is, but trust Apple to dive in with some quality TV straight from the off. It’s some of my favourite people and it looks dramatic and interesting and dammit… gonna have to clear some time in my schedule.

I recently decided I wanted slightly more control over my news intake than occasionally looking at a news site, randomly perusing Apple News, or constantly being a day behind on Twitter. I thought, ah remember the good old days when you could subscribe to whatever RSS feeds you liked and follow the news straight to your RSS inbox? Why not try that again? Turns out, it’s really difficult. People don’t …

A visit by the Thames, and good use of the Spectre app.

Add this app to the pile of really useful things that I didn’t know I needed. Hindsight app’s sole goal is to give you a countback timer from the last time you did something. So it might be that you are trying to break a habit – the last time I smoked a cigarette – or that you are trying to keep to a goal – visit my friend every …

If I’m being honest with myself, I’ve already drifted away from Strictly Come Dancing. There was a time where I would blog about my thoughts several times through each series – at one point the BBC included a link to one of my posts on their website. That saw views skyrocketing, let me tell you. But last year, I didn’t watch the show at all. None of the celebrities particularly …

Dark Mode has been available on macOS for a while now but Apple are bringing it to mobile devices when iOS 13 is released in September. In preparation for this, I've added support for Dark Mode on this blog, and it's soooooo pretty! This is a huge step for the site, not just because Dark Mode is a nice feature, easier on the eyes, and a great option to have …