Phil Bowell

There are bloggers who I admire a great deal. I have been reading or following them in some form for years. They manage to post interesting things day after day, their posts are well written and thoughtful. They are the ones who, in my mind, make blogging cool.

They inspire me.

When I read their posts, they make me want to post. They make me want to write. They make me wish I had interesting things to share. Yet, there is a barrier I create for myself. I don’t feel like I can do it. My days are full of my day job, I do a lot of thinking in the day, but it is specific to the work. I would share some of it if I could, but I can’t because what I’m starting work on now won’t be visible to the public until 2028 at the earliest.

How I get around this is a constant challenge that I do not know an answer to at the moment. It is frustrating.

It’s been such a busy week that sitting in a quiet café on a Saturday morning reading my book and I keep feeling myself nodding off. I think it’s a combination of the ambiance in here, the busyness of my week, and the poor sleep I’ve had thanks to the heat at the start of the week.

Gosh, I’m really struggling to focus this afternoon. It may have been a short week thanks to the bank holiday on Monday but it’s felt longer than a normal one thanks to the heat. It’s cooler today, but I think my brain is cooked.

Managed to successfully dismantle and clean my tower fan after realising it was barely blowing anything. Nothing like a heatwave to successfully spur a man in to action, it’s blowing like a gale now. 🥳

Figtree is a lovely sans-serif I've just come across. Definitely going to be using it on the personal project I'm working on right now.

At what point did it become acceptable to bring food from another place to a café and sit down to eat it? That’s just disrespectful.

Reading government documents about careers education really is very dry. Interesting, but hard going, a bit like reading some of the old classics.

A disastrous performance from Forest last night. Villa played well and deserved the result, but I’m sad that our European adventure is over. Hopefully it won’t be another 30 years before we’re back in the competition.

The new Google Fitbit Air looks exactly like the kind of fitness tracker I would like. Except it's not made by Apple.

I finished my notebook yesterday, now I’m in that awkward couple of weeks where I need to carry the finished one and the new one because there is thinking across both I still need access too. The plus side is new notebook day!