weeknotes

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2026 weeknotes

Week note — week commencing Monday 13 April 2026

What is this? Every week I look back at the previous seven days and forwards to the next. Work and adjacent things, running and health, culture, home improvements, and personal stuff. Read none, some or all – sharing in case it helps someone else out there. Last week's note.

2026 weeknotes

Week note — week commencing Monday 6 April 2026

What is this? Every week I look back at the previous seven days and forwards to the next. Work and adjacent things, running and health, culture, home improvements, and personal stuff. Read none, some or all – sharing in case it helps someone else out there. Previous week: Week commencing Monday

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Week note — week commencing Monday 30 March 2026

Previous week note: Week note — week commencing Monday 23 March 2026 The week where March turned to April and the long Easter weekend took me to Cleethorpes, Brighton, and Billinghurst. Health, body – and running Didn't do the end of week weigh-in as I was away. Expect I'

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Week note — week commencing Monday 23 March 2026

Back to the grind after a fabulous time in wonderful Seville — arriving home on the Sunday, straight into it on Monday. Health and body Face-to-face diabetes appointment on Monday at Saltaire Medical Practice. Blood sugar at 51mmol/mol — just above the threshold of "well managed", 48, but not

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Week note — week commencing Monday 16 March 2026

A week that split cleanly in two: three working days, Bradford Digital's Tech Tuesday among them, then a long weekend in wonderful Seville with Kristin. More on Seville separately. Health and body Keeping an eye on blood pressure, which is now a regular part of the routine. Yet

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Week note — week commencing Monday 9 March 2026

A lot packed in. Blood donation, three days away in London, Oldham away, Gorillaz at Bradford Live, and a good run of running to boot. Health Monday started with a blood pressure check, now a regular part of the routine. Tuesday was blood donation day at the Bradford centre — it

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Week note — week commencing Monday 2 March 2026

Running Six runs, 42.64km. Monday was an early train to London - no run. The rest of the week had a good shape to it. Tuesday a run round Shoreditch spotting Gorillaz art [Instagram]. Two canal-and-local days mid-week. Friday out to Three Rise Locks. Saturday further, Five Rise Locks

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Weeknote, Monday 14 to Friday 18 June 2021

I'm just looking through my references for the week of work. My notebook shows two spreads at least for each day of the week. 16 spreads for the week in total, full of lists, notes, scribbles, sketches. But the board we use for work has just one thing

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Weeknote, Monday 7 to Friday 11 June 2021

The development of the service map prototype trundles along: Some fixes; Pulling through some new types of data the team has put into our database; A little tidying up some messy code and files to make it easier to update latest info in the future. I want to get this

Grimsby Town

Weeknote, Sunday 9 May 2021

Grimsby Town And so the season is over for Grimsby Town. Competition-wise it was over a couple of weeks back with the 2-3 defeat to Exeter, meaning the maths said Town couldn’t stay in the fourth division, relegation confirmed. The last two games have been devoid of competition meaning

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Weeknote, Saturday 1 May 2021

I was in the Rec this morning and all the dandelions are out in FULL FORCE. One of the best times of the year. Also means all the knot- and bind-weed will be out on the veg patch. One of the worst times of the year. Last weekend I made

MHCLG

2021 note number 2 — week commencing 8 February 2021

After last week’s weeknote, Katy shared the note on Twitter: > I think this is the first that anyone's said publicly about some really cool cool work we're doing trying to answer the big question: what is MHCLG for, and how can we do it

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Weeknote, Monday 23 to Friday 27 November 2020

Project stuff Project MT was steady away this week then had some reprioritisation. Which is fine, but not so straightforward if that needs some of your time and you’ve only two days a week planned/budgeted for the project and you’ve used them by that point aaarrggghhh. I

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Weeknote, Monday 16 to Friday 20 November 2020

Projects I spent the most time on Project MT (I think a few people know I am working with/for Pilot Works, Placecube and Kit at the Royal Borough of Greenwich council), doing service design work for two days overall. We ended the week having a chat about a couple

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Weeknote, Monday 9 to Friday 13 November 2020

Projects It was project MT for the first three days of the week. The service design side is going along fine, there’s an understanding of what the structure is and could be, there’s abstract possibilities for service improvements, but there’s a reliance on a few things shifting

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Weeknote, Monday 2 to Friday 6 November 2020

A very busy, at times hectic week. In a way a perfect week for some reflection. And, no, I’m not going to mention The Other Thing going on. It’s the first week for a long time (like maybe 6 years) where I’ve been split over two clients

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Weeknote, week Monday 26 October to Friday 30 October 2020

Two days off this week, three days working. Funny how we use the word "off". How work focused are our lives, eh. Two days not doing work Two days off for the kids’ half term and My Birthday. I am now 45 years old and in these times

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Tone

Weeknote for week commencing Monday 21 September 2020 Talking to someone this week they mentioned how at the moment they find it — and I quote — “nerve wracking” getting feedback to their work. Here’s a chat between two “senior”, “experienced” people. Hey, with all that experience you’d think they’

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Weeknote, week commencing Monday 14 September 2020

I’ve been using a new pad to help me with my working days. For as long as I remember I’ve started the work day taking my notebook and writing a list of times for the day and carrying over my day from my various calendars, any other tasks

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Weeknote, week commencing Monday 7 September 2020

Coffee: I’ve been limiting my drinking to no more than two mugs a day, none after lunchtime. Knock on effect: I’ve been drinking more tea. I went right off black tea a few years ago and went right on to green tea. But green tea after green tea

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Weeknote, Monday 29 June to Friday 3 July 2020

Maps or models, eh. Is there a difference? What is the difference? Does it matter? Early in the week I rejigged the layout of the desk in the shed, swapping the MacBook from being in the centre and the monitor to the side. Now the monitor is front and centre.

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Weeknote, Monday 22 June to Friday 26 June 2020

How’s your hair doing? * Fathers’ day last Sunday. The kids wanted to get me a coffee machine but I’ve got a good kettle, a V60 dripper, a coffee grinder and a handsome glass decanter. That works for me, well enough I can make a coffee and feel involved

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Weeknote, Monday 15 June to Friday 19 June 2020

Not sure where that week went. * Had some fun hacking an inbox-browser prototype together. * Had less fun breaking another one and spending more time than I really have to fix it. * Giving new starters to the NHS Jobs team an overview of the service. Realising some of the stuff I’

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Weeknote, Monday 8 to Friday 12 June 2020

* I had some unexpected but welcome thinking this week. I had a look through my guiding principles for work and was reminded I try to and I have tried to work as openly as possible over the last six years or so. So, why haven't I been recently?

Weeknote, from Monday 20 to Sunday 26 April 2020

Where did that week go? I’d got back to reading a book a week again, but last week? A chapter, maybe two and that was it. Every day I went to the shed to work, I put out a copy of Wired and The Pursuit of Endurance (because I