Mat Waugh
@matwaugh.bsky.social
Children’s indie author. Fast walker. Slow cooker. Average dad. Tunbridge Wells.
Can anyone figure out this ‘motivational’ letter, arrived in post to my Year 13 daughter? It’s a year late. It’s from a mysterious Kemi. It’s full of URLs she won’t be typing in - “it’s just junk, Dad!” Weird boomer attempt at nudge theory? Maybe @samfr.bsky.social knows?
September 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Can anyone figure out this ‘motivational’ letter, arrived in post to my Year 13 daughter? It’s a year late. It’s from a mysterious Kemi. It’s full of URLs she won’t be typing in - “it’s just junk, Dad!” Weird boomer attempt at nudge theory? Maybe @samfr.bsky.social knows?
Yes, I can confirm this, as can the chancer in Romford who got a free tank of fuel this evening - ironically while I was having a miserable time trying to find things in the reorganised TW Sainsbury's. I'll call them in the morning, I've got nothing better to do.
March 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Yes, I can confirm this, as can the chancer in Romford who got a free tank of fuel this evening - ironically while I was having a miserable time trying to find things in the reorganised TW Sainsbury's. I'll call them in the morning, I've got nothing better to do.
Left 3 items outside my mum’s house this AM for anyone interested. A safe with no key for scrap. Working monitor. Brand new camping coolbox. Monitor went quickly. 20 mins more, safe had been thrown to pavement in vain effort to open - and flex had been cut off coolbox to trash it. Hard to fathom.
March 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Left 3 items outside my mum’s house this AM for anyone interested. A safe with no key for scrap. Working monitor. Brand new camping coolbox. Monitor went quickly. 20 mins more, safe had been thrown to pavement in vain effort to open - and flex had been cut off coolbox to trash it. Hard to fathom.
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winter on the river Thames
January 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
winter on the river Thames
Is this what they mean by trickle down?
December 23, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Is this what they mean by trickle down?
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Since the HS2 bat tunnel is back in the news (turns out it may actually kill the bats), time for one more story.
Which came first – HS2 or the bats?🚄🦇🧵
Which came first – HS2 or the bats?🚄🦇🧵
December 23, 2024 at 8:25 AM
Since the HS2 bat tunnel is back in the news (turns out it may actually kill the bats), time for one more story.
Which came first – HS2 or the bats?🚄🦇🧵
Which came first – HS2 or the bats?🚄🦇🧵
Three thoughts in rapid succession:
- that’s one *ugly* Oxford comma, and I say that as a fan
- are vapes and ecigs different then?
- Never considered cigarettes as little cigars before now
Then, happily, it was time to get off
- that’s one *ugly* Oxford comma, and I say that as a fan
- are vapes and ecigs different then?
- Never considered cigarettes as little cigars before now
Then, happily, it was time to get off
December 21, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Three thoughts in rapid succession:
- that’s one *ugly* Oxford comma, and I say that as a fan
- are vapes and ecigs different then?
- Never considered cigarettes as little cigars before now
Then, happily, it was time to get off
- that’s one *ugly* Oxford comma, and I say that as a fan
- are vapes and ecigs different then?
- Never considered cigarettes as little cigars before now
Then, happily, it was time to get off
See Tidal pays way more than Spotify to artists for same monthly cost, with bigger library. Download. Impressed. Sign up for family acc. Discover it won’t work with Alexa in the UK. Cancel. Uninstall. Boo.
December 18, 2024 at 8:29 PM
See Tidal pays way more than Spotify to artists for same monthly cost, with bigger library. Download. Impressed. Sign up for family acc. Discover it won’t work with Alexa in the UK. Cancel. Uninstall. Boo.
Pretty sure Peugeot have their own engineers, but tech is definitely cobbled together by an intern. Who else would put footnotes against a password? #UXFail
December 2, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Pretty sure Peugeot have their own engineers, but tech is definitely cobbled together by an intern. Who else would put footnotes against a password? #UXFail
I’m done crying for a bit tho. I want to see her smiley face and tease her, and that’s where I’m going now.
November 27, 2024 at 12:55 PM
I’m done crying for a bit tho. I want to see her smiley face and tease her, and that’s where I’m going now.
People I cried all over not long before I wrote my first Bluesky post:
* a woman in a side room
* the A&E doctor who bumped into me in a corridor later that day
* Mrs W.
* a woman in a side room
* the A&E doctor who bumped into me in a corridor later that day
* Mrs W.
November 27, 2024 at 12:53 PM
People I cried all over not long before I wrote my first Bluesky post:
* a woman in a side room
* the A&E doctor who bumped into me in a corridor later that day
* Mrs W.
* a woman in a side room
* the A&E doctor who bumped into me in a corridor later that day
* Mrs W.
“Look at my nose,” said the woman giving my 10yo an eye test today.
Test concludes.
“You have a nice nose,” says my daughter, thereby making the woman’s day - and mine.
This can be my first Bluesky post.
Test concludes.
“You have a nice nose,” says my daughter, thereby making the woman’s day - and mine.
This can be my first Bluesky post.
November 15, 2024 at 9:21 PM
“Look at my nose,” said the woman giving my 10yo an eye test today.
Test concludes.
“You have a nice nose,” says my daughter, thereby making the woman’s day - and mine.
This can be my first Bluesky post.
Test concludes.
“You have a nice nose,” says my daughter, thereby making the woman’s day - and mine.
This can be my first Bluesky post.