Ben Edwards

After 3 years I have finally got this orchid to flower again after our lockdown kitten ate all the old flowers. He’s now a 6.5kg monster, so clearly no ill effect there and happily has stopped eating plants. All sorts of garbage around the internet on how to look after these things, I wish I’d found this guide earlier.

Splash of yellow on a grey Devon day

Eastbourne seafront, rain approaching

#photography #weather #sussex

Bike: Rich text editing

Jesse Grosjean is one of the great artisans of Mac software development. Everyone should buy his stuff.

Hello lazy-micro-web! Does anyone have any positive experiences with project management software for mixed teams?

My own are all techie, and I basically live in Github, but company I work with is looking at Monday.com, ClickUp, Asana and the rest.

It’s a beautiful evening in Glasgow

I’ve always enjoyed stringing together my two favourite Mac apps, Drafts and Alfred, but Stephen Millard has taken them to a whole new level with Doctor Drafts!

Belatedly pouring one out for Rupert Neve, legend of the mixing desk, who died last month aged 94. He also founded Focusrite, which still makes excellent audio interfaces, not to mention synths and iOS apps from Novation and Ampify. Keeping the British Sound alive!

Old Steine

I Do Yoga T-shirt | Very British Problems Clothing

After a year of #ywa I am absolutely ready for one of these.

Watched the brilliant Daniel Kitson last night on his Tour Of Empty Theatres. As he promised in that blurb, it was “funnier than it sounds” but made me miss being at a live show so much.

Official Joy Division / New Order podcast on the way ft. mems Radiohead, Blur, Oasis, more

Actress Maxine Peake narrates the eight-part podcast which also features new interviews with Bono, Johnny Marr, Thurston Moore, Damon Albarn, Radiohead’s Johnny and Colin Greenwood, Liam Gallagher, Karen O, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, Pet Shop Boys, Stereolab, Hot Chip, Honey Dijon, Anna Calvi, Perry Farrell, and Virgil Abloh.

Can’t wait. Nice rundown of classic but overlooked songs in the piece as well.

The last swim

Sitting in the garden, listening to Loscil’s Faults, Coasts, Lines and posting to Micro.blog from IA Writer on the iPad, fantastic! 🎵

Take me away

Confined

The Talking Politics podcast spinoff series, History of Ideas is as good as you would expect. Listening to the one on Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan which I found really bizarre and impenetrable when I studied it at uni, but makes a lot more sense with a chunk of life under my belt.

Two great pieces on the virtue of adaptability. The current crisis is just one challenge to our ability to adapt, there will be many more. Adapting is hard and like all hard things you need to practice.

Adaptability: Change Your Relationship to Change - Key Step Media

Coping with change: teaching adaptability will help kids grow

One of my favourite Radiohead songs, beautifully rendered in multiple layered cellos.

Around this time of year Headphone Commute’s Best of … list drifts out like a slow, evolving chord. Lots of lovely ambience to discover, but so far Grønland by Glåsbird is a real standout for me.

No Alternative. Brighton

And while I’m wallowing in nostalgia, not much can beat the mesmerising Poolside FM, retro disco, 80s desktop & tourist video mashup. (via @kicks)

Watching this Patrick Vieira video comp brought a lump to my throat and a tear to my eye. Of all the Arsenal greats I miss, I miss him the most. ⚽️