cluedo How to play @cluedo 🙋Note from Feb '25: I had forgotten we did this. I'm not sure how many games we got before someone took the keys and did nothing. It would be fun to work out who killed the game. It would be interesting to try it again on Blueksky
food Done my Christmas baking, four weeks late 🙋Edit, Feb 2025: the last few years I've seen something like these in the shops which is pretty cool. I actually didn't get around to making these the past few years but they will always take me back to my childhood Christmas memories. Mum hasn'
bcu a three hour walking tour of Brum, thinking about art, design and creativity in the city I took two groups of our BA students around Birmingham this week. Our mission: to find where the creative industries hang out, and to think about how design lives and breathes in the real world. We spent three hours and covered a lot of ground. Unfortunately we didn’t get
food Jon’s 5-bean chilli 💡Update, Feb 2025: obviously I didn't realise in 2008 that I needed to start this post with a 3,000 autobiographical essay. No wonder I never got a blog to book publishing deal, eh? Since I wrote this I became a vegetarian. My go to chilli these days
10 rules of broadband ⚠️Not being aware of these rules means that a 5 minute job will take you 7 hours. 1. When offering to help family members set up broadband, don’t assume that the previous owner of their new house had a normal telephone set up. 2. Consider the fact that they
What my mate Gary did on his holiday: created a media storm by photographing his own children in a park Met up with my mate Gary the other day and he told me he’s had an eventful summer. He’s been on TV, and in the national press, plus around the world on the interwebs for taking this picture of his own kids: He used a zoom lens so
I think this kind of sums up what we do in the treehouse all day 🙋Explainer: 'The Treehouse' was a nickname given to the BCU School of Media research office, which was starting to get established in 2008, and hired me as a temp in June 2008. I didn't leave for a decade. (Feb 2025) Found this completely randomly (here: http:
