Thursday, August 27

The weather has more or less stopped pretending to represent summer, while leaving enough hope to continue to believe it might prove possible to cycle for pleasure at the weekend.

I notice with approval that other people still wear shorts or lycra as they walk or jog, although I also notice with a weary dismay that others have begun to add layers of autumn or winter clothing.

I walk through the woods listening to All in the Mind, another podcast from the BBC’s Radio 4. I listen to people discussing imposter syndrome, and food allergies in pre-adolescent children until eventually I cave in and switch to listening to Afrika Bambaataa for the first time in a decade or so. Planet Rock still sounds as good as I first did when I first heard it in Brixton in 1982.

I will arrive home ready to leap into the work I laid out yesterday. I will dive deep into blocks and block design in WordPress, using the new Miaaw site as a working example. I will have an hour of Zoom talk with Sahan, in which I will demonstrate Minecraft to him.

If this all comes together, I will not know whether to feel happy or surprised.