Watching that Jonas brothers Xmas movie on Disney+ and they go to St Pancs, except it’s clearly not St Pancs — and I’ve learned there’s clearly a line for the suspension of disbelief I can’t cross.

Take Courage on my morning run through Camden this morning feeling particularly pertinent as we hit the downhill slope of 2025. (The power of an ad slogan from the 50s.)

Here’s a lovely cat, who happened to be waiting at the side of the canal towpath at the turnaround point of my run this morning. Good kitty.

Up early to get back home after a midweek trip to Newcastle/Gateshead to see/hear/feel Caribou at the Glasshouse. A refreshing change from getting up early to hurtle around the country for work. There’s been a lot of that this year again, the new normal etc etc. 10/10 gig. One for the soul. 🙌🏼

Expect The Fall T-shirts in Primark any time soon. (Yes, watched Stranger Things s5 chunk 1.)

A big thumbs up for I’ve turned 50, “the NHS” sends me a cancer test through the post, do it, etc. On the other hand moving house 18 months ago has completely fucked whoever looks after my diabetes eye tests for “the NHS”, despite me being told “we’ll sort that automatically” two years ago. 🙄

Rarity these days: Went to work gig in Leeds, Product Tank Leeds. Another rarity: Time for notes, think about takeaways, could translate to healthcare. Another: Sharing. (Trying, again.) lol'd when John said "we're hiring", cross gov meet blast from the past. www.officeofwilson.com/product-tank...

Sample collected, packed and posted. Easy peasy. (Or should that be easy poo-sy. Am I right.)

Nothing says you’ve hit 50 like receiving your bowel cancer screening kit from the NHS through post. (And nothing says neat modern service like getting a kit like this days after your birthday because some groovy automated service chugs away in the background to make this happen.) #LiftFlapToOpen

Last day being 49. Still in this world, just maybe not anywhere near as much on the socials. Spread ideas, eh, not an image.

Yet another Grimsby game, yet another away Grimsby game, yet another underwhelming away Grimsby performance and — most bizarrely of all — I think after Bradford, Crewe might be the Grimsby away fixture I’ve done the most over the years. It wasn’t anywhere near as bad as Barnet a few weeks ago tho.

This morning my phone told me: > Excellent Sleep Score > You scored a 93 last night! Getting to bed on time definitely helped. I feel it was a bad night of sleep. I woke 8, 9, maybe 10 times. Today is one of those _just keep going_ days. How I feel versus how some algo interprets data, hey.

Big Sky ✅ Big Sky reflecting in a river ✅ Bridge in between ✅ *Fresh* ✅

Lunchtime. Made myself go out and see that new clock at London Bridge station, walked along the south bank past Tate Modern. Decent midday midweek freshener.

AWS has been down.

The sell of Apple’s Siri and AI versus… Recording my run using the Apple watch’s activity tracker, asking Siri how long I’ve been running for or asking how far I’ve traveled so far on this current run: “Sorry, I can’t help with that. You can learn more about logging your health data with Siri…” 🙄

This week I had a chat with my asthma nurse. My asthma management plan is a simple doc that details my routine, what to do if the asthma gets worse. It’s usually a Word doc you and/or an asthma professional fill in. You can view one here: www.asthmaandlung.org.uk/conditions/a...

First read this a card for digital veterans etc etc www.gov.uk/veteran-card...

Sure sure London Kings Cross Five Guys your standard _shake_ size is this and we up north have weird rules about getting the bigger cup. (This is a _Little Shake_ cup.)

Getting into London NFL game at Tottenham’s stadium an experience. Website and signs round ground: “small clutch bag with or without a strap” allowed in. Just about every woman we saw told “that looks like a bumbag”, needed to check bag in. Contradictory, maybe sexist. www.nfl.com/news/nfl-uk-...

On my way to do the Royal Parks half marathon. Not doing a fundraiser myself. Just asking you do an act of kindness today you wouldn’t normally do. ✊🏼

I’ve watched Tron Ares so you don’t have to. (And at the same cinema the new PTA film is showing in VistaV, the only one in the country, and well time for noodles I guess.)

Random bits of art springing up around your neighbourhood — in this case because of Bradford City of Culture — is GREAT. Better than flags too.

Saturday aft trip from Saltaire to Salford via Manchester and back on trains for the Grimsby game. First away win I’ve seen since Crewe away in something like April 2023. And I have seen *a lot* of away games since then. The Tap at Manchester Victoria is a splendid boozer too. Thanks weather gods

Heading onto the train with the spectre of postponement hanging above the football game you’re heading to. That’s living alright.

Guy on train, 10 mins in: * got two 4 packs of Stella * offered some to guy across from him * “already had a couple in Wetherspoons” * “should be at work today but…” * “mental health isn’t a thing, waste of money” * missed his booked train * “I’ll just say I’ve got dyslexia, works every time”

I’m endlessly torn between trying to stay online and active in my industry, and hiding, disconnected from the world in the wilderness. On that note, I’ve spent the past week in rural Spain taking pictures of wildlife. Here’s my favourite, of a Golden Eagle in Adamuz. ❤️ #wildlifephotography

Said at the start of June let’s kick on harder at everything, including running, yup. Lovely morning for an end of September 10km, nudged me over 1200km ran this year. Now 2025 has the third highest annual amount of running since I started back running in 2017. 2020’s record 1462km is passable. 🙏🏼

Inconvenient truth for far too many people: Not all strategy is off the back of one on one user research sessions. In fact…

booking/hotels.com feature idea: show me hotels with rooms where they don’t have those cubicle bathrooms, so I won’t see my partner sit on the toilet and won’t hear them break wind and “drop bombs”

It’s easy to type “Tron: Arse” rather than “Tron: Ares”.

Running* 7km along Regent’s Canal from the top end of Shoreditch down to end of the canal at Limehouse Basin, done. ✅ (Just a couple more chunks of the canal and I’ll have done it all, when I’ve had chances.)

One person’s Confluence hatred is another person’s Notion hatred. And so it all loops round and round.

I do keep seeing long papers and blogposts with shiny ideas and bright solutions for NHS (test and learn all the things! single patent records! SOLID pods!) Personally I'd prefer some more human-level stuff that gets under skin of why some basic service stuff seems to be going so wrong & fixes it

🙌🏼 🙌🏼 🙌🏼 youtu.be/AoedK3XcoBE?...

The Ruby community has a DHH problem tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-...

That * “Half” * My runner number, 8902 * The space to write _something_ on my Royal Parks half marathon bib sheet looks more like a maths question.

The emails from Companies House about having to verify my identity as a business owner feel they’re more soft nudges that they’ve done something to their verification service so it might actually work if I try now.

It was nice to what looked like a pristine @codalmighty.bsky.social Ivano T-shirt in the wild at Barnet yesterday — even if I *still* see a few things that need fixing with the design. Maybe it’s time for some redux designs

Every time I am at King’s Cross — which is a lot — I see the masses outside the Harry Potter shop and the platform 9¾ thing — because I need the toilet and that’s where it is — and something something JK Rowling won’t ever worry if we think she’s anti trans something something.

Seeing out the running week with my regular 5km loop from KX to Camden and back. Trotting past the British Library, a month until their exciting looking Secret Maps exhibition: events.bl.uk/exhibitions/...

Still, had a good look at the Tottenham stadium today on my morning 10km, rinsing that they’ve actually won something. And Arsenal’s place too. ⚖️

My football team does that thing on social media when they do well they post stuff like “THIS TEAM!” Feel they should balance that with stuff like “THAT TEAM.” when they’re the exact opposite. Is it positivity? But is it more balanced? ⚖️ (Yes, Grimsby were terrible at Barney.)

This week had a mega head scratching chat with some v smart people on the differences, similarities, overlaps between a product, delivery and project manager. tldr it's obvs not as simple as: the product manager does the "what" and "why"; "how" and "when" is for a delivery/project manager. Anyway.

18 September. Happy birthday “that’s a magnificent piece of football”. The third goal is 😙👌. 35 years ago though. 😩 #GTFC youtu.be/JMMLnLoVcB8?...

Just logged into LinkedIn (busy day/life OK…) and it served up an unboxing video from someone I, as a peer, have time for. I get marketing and reach but…

A trip to Sheffield tonight, Hillsborough stadium to be exact. April 2003 I was last there, when Town drew 0-0 with Sheff Weds and sent us both down. Time flies… Not a meaningless goalless affair tonight. Up the Mariners! #UTM #GTFC

“Europe is in the midst of almost completely deindustrialising the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.” By “industrial” does Wright mean factories with smoke spewing chimneys?

They say what about the meek? I say they've got a bloody cheek, vanity and presumption, living in the hard porn shop lately