Playing with children can be pretty exhausting. My daughter loved her Lego pirate ship set and had me narrating the lives of ten swashbuckling sailors on the high seas every day. I needed to be on top form or she would catch my day to day continuity errors 😅

I also wear a hardhat to write software.

Maybe we become more extreme in our existing beliefs. My political compass position drifted right from bottom left as I hit my thirties. After the Iraq invasion of 2003 and recessions following 2008 it swung back towards Ghandi. I became convinced that conservative politics isn’t working in my late forties and that has only been reinforced as I try to access the creaking UK healthcare system.

An extinct civilisation called Heetzah Putt, rumoured to be near the lost city of Atlantis.

Which is exactly what an NPC would say.

If only the British were willing to share their culinary secrets and dental technology, many of the world’s problems could be solved decisively.