100 things that made my year
- Seeing in the new year in Barcelona
- This gift from my parents: a book telling the story we were told as kids, written by my dad and illustruated by my mum
- This gift from my wife: a watercolour painting that hangs in the home office
- Veganuary and Dry January
- Getting a puppy
- Finally getting a full nights sleep after getting said puppy
- Zoom quizzes with family and friends
- Having a year theme (mine was the year of calm)
- The Waking Up meditation app
- Making carrot cake for the wife’s lockdown birthday
- My mastermind buddies Andy and Blair
- The Bosh cookbooks
- Celebrating my sister’s 30th with family
- Formula 1 putting on a fantastic season despite everything
- Not doomscrolling
- The inline-block community
- Playing Overcooked 2 with the wife
- Making jalapeno poppers with fresh allotment chillies
- The Mandalorian
- Hot summer days
- Cutting my own hair for the first time
- Islay whisky masterclass at HTFW with Tommy and Jonny
- Discovering Beck’s back catalogue
- The wife’s new Alfa Romeo Giulietta
- Listening to nerdy discussions on Accidental Tech Podcast
- Tommy Bank’s Food Box
- Switching to Nova, Panic’s new code editor
- The Economist’s Daily Espresso
- Upgrading to a Kindle Oasis
- Reading Search For A Whisky Bothie with a dram
- Watching James Acaster: Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999
- Rediscovering Metallica’s S&M
- Receiving an email from Derek Sivers about his new book and insta-buying
- Watching Formula 1 Esports
- Journalling in the Theme System Journal
- Spontaneous trips to our local bakery to buy bagels and donuts
- Long walks without headphones
- Book club calls with Andy, Matthew and Eddie
- The Off Menu Podcast
- Making a video of birthday messages from friends and family for the wife’s lockdown birthday
- Messing around on this website
- Dave Grohl and Nandi’s drum battle
- Eating fish and chips by the sea
- Watching SpaceX launch astronauts into space
- Using good quality tools
- Cotswold Cream Liqueur
- Last of Us 2
- Watching Great British Menu
- Working on my 16by9 rebrand with Jordan
- iOS 14’s widgets
- Long phone calls with family and friends
- Devin Townsend
- Putting up new wall art in the office
- Learning about zettlekasten
- Making great coffee with a V60
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Reading Monevator’s weekly commentary over a cuppa every Saturday morning
- Getting a dishwasher for the first time
- Playing online chess with Dad
- Michael McIntyre’s Netflix special
- Making and eating a Friday night curry
- Boris Johnson memes
- Lazy weekends
- Getting into rum
- Holidaying in St. Ives
- Dogs walk on the beach
- Dining at the Oyster Club
- Watching the Silverstone Grand Prix at Caffeine and Machine
- Being offered a well paid full-time position and turning it down due being happy where I am
- Reading How to be an Antiracist and trying to be more antiracist
- Afterlife Season 2
- Playing Firewatch for the first time
- The wife’s apple crumble made with apples from the garden
- Not doing much DIY
- Taking photos on my iPhone
- Making home-made pizza
- Lockdown beer box from local brewery Purity
- CGP Grey’s Spaceship You video
- Sum by David Eagleman
- Boarding the Tesla investing train
- Coconut milk chai latte’s
- Working from my home office
- Matt Berninger’s Serpentine Prison
- Watching modern F1 cars race on old circuits such as Mugello and Imola
- Philps cornish pasties
- Sam Harris’ voice of reason in an often unreasonable world
- MKBHD’s tech reviews
- Making my mum’s potato and leek soup recipe that was my favourite as a kid
- Nailing this years vegetarian christmas dinner
- My carrot and orange birthday cake
- Dog cuddles
- The Dithering podcast
- Biffy Clyro’s live performance of ‘A Celebration Of Endings’
- Binge watching Ben Fogle: New Lives In The Wild
- Weekend morning’s spent drinking coffee and reading RSS feeds
- Dog walks in the woods
- The sound of paired HomePods in the home office
- Mum’s curry
- Watching birds on the newly installed bird feeder in the garden
- Seeing the back of 2020
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