Steve Hodgson
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  • I’m very pleased after replacing the little rubber feet on my beloved and venerable 1980s Voyager calculator.

    4 August 2025
  • The coffee roaster.

    3 August 2025
  • 2 August 2025
  • Today in stationery corner. New scissors from Ernest Wright in Sheffield.

    A high contrast black and white photograph of scissors on a stone surface.

    2 August 2025
  • It’s been a while — ‘Now’ page updated.

    31 July 2025
  • I love tinned seafood packaging.

    29 July 2025
  • I’ve just had to order a new stapler and, due to an error in Amazonia, I now have 30,000 staples to work through! The offspring will be inheriting this stationery!

    25 July 2025
  • A few years ago I regularly switched over between different task managers (to-do) and notes apps. I now seem to have settled into a happy equilibrium with OmniFocus and Bear respectively.

    24 July 2025
  • Bumped into this elegant young cat while out for a wee stroll this evening.

    23 July 2025
  • I am re-reading J.G Ballard’s ‘High Rise’ and enjoying it. I think, without being too specific, he describes a form of social media in how residents relate to each other and the wider society around them.

    22 July 2025
  • There was a woman walked into the café I was just leaving wearing a tee-shirt saying “it’s weird being the same age as old people”

    I like this a feel the same thing every day.

    19 July 2025
  • When I saw this I just thought of onomatopoeia.

    19 July 2025
  • One final visit to the Systembolaget yields a very fine Porter.

    18 July 2025
  • Me. According to a very quick sketch by the Master Animator.

    14 July 2025
  • I enjoyed reading Johan Theorin’s crime novel Echoes From the Dead (Skumtimmen in Swedish) set on the island of Öland while visiting the Island.

    14 July 2025
  • Stockholm viking museum

    14 July 2025
  • I visited my first Systembolaget in Sweden. I was presently surprised because I was expecting some Orwellian state-run store only selling Victory Gin! 😂

    14 July 2025
  • Today’s travel adventure…

    11 July 2025
  • New city, new stickers.

    10 July 2025
  • What movie could this possibly be?

    “But what is the point of a film so stymied in its digitally encoded and generically prescribed world that it can’t even go through the motions, as that would imply some level of activity and signs of life?”

    8 July 2025
  • Can any UK-based travellers recommend a good European to UK mains converter. I’d like something well-designed rather than an airport blister pack solution.

    7 July 2025
  • My Apple iOS focus modes are currently switch automatically just as they should. I have learned these are like a ticking time bomb to manage. I should touch nothing at this point!

    4 July 2025
  • Purely for research purposes before a holiday there, some Swedish beers to try.

    4 July 2025
  • We have hung onto this suitcase from our extended family so long. It feels wrong to just hand it in to a charity shop but it’s sat empty for so many years.

    29 June 2025
  • Got my pendant back from repair after the loop at the top snapped off. They have made it more reinforced as it was originally just soldered.

    The stone is a garnet mudlarked from the banks of the Thames.

    29 June 2025

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