No one told me XTC were so consistently good.

There are others. Maybe I’m finally a fridge magnet magnate. All are now on sale at Indie Makers in Leeds Corn Exchange.

When you’ve just taken delivery of a set of fridge magnets but can’t do any product shots because your fridge isn’t magnetic. 🧲

Wow, how time flies. One year today. Just a simple little email. Still amazed The Mission accepted and came back to the Bear Pit in Leeds to recreate the band’s first photoshoot in 1986. Read more: leedsnomad.com/mission-acco... #goth

My brother conducted an in-person walking tour of this today. His first, and a one-off. Brilliantly done and it went down really well. I’m very proud of him - and impressed. I did one of the bridges, but my role was more about holding the picture flip book.

You’ll be excited to know that 400 fridge magnets arrive tomorrow. I’d be more excited if my fridge was magnetic.

Poems should have a chorus as well.

Some people have suggested I’m a badge magnate. I have a range of fridge magnets arriving on Monday in the hope I become thought of as a fridge magnet magnate.

Among the many city centre outlets, you can now pick up a FREE map from Drie, one of our city’s Amsterdam water taxis - and Bridges of Leeds map and poster star.

Heritage Open Days is always an opportunity to try new things. Bridges of Leeds has been a lot of work, but so nice to collaborate with my brother, who researched and wrote all twelve bridge stories. Huge thanks to Leeds Civic Trust for the funding. Join in at LeedsNomad.com

Today, I launched my Heritage Open Days audio trail. Two people have already completed it. The key thing, though, is that I formed a band just so each of the 12 episodes has a consistent signature tune. I’m now in a Leeds band called Motorway City. leedsnomad.com/bridgesoflee...

Two. I have two good eyes.

It occurs to me that it’s like #Oasis, in the sense that I’m performing my brother’s words.

Simon Armitage!

Recording the dialogue for my forthcoming audio trail. My voice has a sort of Simon Armitageness to it.

The News. All episodes available now.

Google Street View is a rip-off of the game Myst.

The benefit of being up for seven hours is that I’ve got seven hours’ worth of stuff done for the new heritage audio trail. Maps and posters now in print, etc. And it’s still morning. None of that stuff includes the gym though. So I still feel guilty.

Pitch: pies cream. It’s ice cream pie.

I’ve got my “Bradford’s Bouncing Back” badge somewhere… It doesn’t have the same design investment (talent) and visibly hasn’t happened (though I must say the city centre is looking great these days). Anyway - boo to leeds.

New badge alert. The Leeds: Motorway City of the Seventies badge is available now. leedsnomad.com/product/leed...

Leeds was once known as the Motorway City of the Seventies. New badge available now, made in collaboration with my good friend Biroguy. Posting from Thursday. leedsnomad.com/product/leed...

Would it though?

The bar is playing the same Oasis song as the nearby busker. It’d be better if they were in sync.

You don’t like it do you

The new badges have arrived. Hope you like the design.

A new badge arrives today. It’s a biggie. Well, not that big. 20mm x 20mm.

If I liked ‘Point Break’ (I didn’t), I apparently might like coverage of a budget statement in the Scottish Parliament.

Hi-visigoths.

Out recording city sounds, so please don’t swear.

Not entirely sure what else you’d describe yourself as in this scenario.

The artwork for my upcoming @heritageopenday event has a boat sailing on a river made of candy floss clouds, and I really want to share it. So near to being ready, but not near enough to share. And I’m very tired.

As usual, I’m working on seven things. And, as usual, all seven will be ready at roughly the same time. And I don’t think that’s the best way of working.

I want more music that sounds like the theme tune to World in Action.

I’m not 50 yet again. It keeps happening. Every year the same. Maybe next year.

There aren’t many of these left.

I was going to go for a walk today for a change of scenery, but I sat on the other sofa instead. Same effect.

The Only One I Know (1990) by The Charlatans has just come on and I remember that I loved dancing to it as a ‘nostalgia’ track about four years later.

If I did grow a moustache, would it help?

Portrait mode should be banned.

About three days after sending a badge design off for production, I worry if it’s any good, or if it might be a mistake. It’s useful at those moments to remember the idiom ‘The die is cast’, mainly because when it comes to metal pin badges, it’s literally true.

A wasp keeps examining my pint, probably because of its wasp’s nest design.

Surely better to post this on the ‘What’s not on in Manchester’ page?

I dunno, I'd go on a topless cruise but not a bottomless one

Even though it’d sink, I’ll give anything a go.

Too young to have a moustache back then and too old this time round.

↖️↗️ ↙️ Coming soon. #LeedsMotorwayCity

There once was a Leeds dinosaur, and I asked people of Leeds what it should be called. Alan Bennett was the overwhelming response. It was a big thing on what was then Twitter. Probably too niche for a badge, but I do keep thinking about it.