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Andrew Doran
@andrewdoran.uk
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He/him. Husband, dad of two teenage boys, Technology person working in Financial Services, over-enthusiastic, geek.

🎶 Co-founder of Album Club (https://albumclub.info), meeting every month since 2011.

✍️ Blogging since 2004.

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Weeknotes #357 — We Whitchurch You a Merry Christmas: https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/12/30/weeknotes-357-we-whitchurch-you-a-merry-christmas/
The Whitchurch Clock Tower Information board beside the Whitchurch Clock Tower Singing Christmas songs with the neighbours The start of the Boxing Day hunt in Ross-on-Wye
December 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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📚 How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy: https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/12/23/how-to-do-nothing-resisting-the-attention-economy/
December 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Tools for discovering the IndieWeb: https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/12/20/tools-for-discovering-the-indieweb/
ooh.directory The ooh.directory page for this website. powrss.com blogroll.org
December 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Weeknotes #355 — Fly-tipped house: https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/12/19/weeknotes-355-fly-tipped-house/
Christmas tree near Chancery Lane station, London. Howdy. “Are you happy to be in that Christmas tree dress? You might want to let your face know.” Christmas tree in full flight. (Photo: Ian Biller)
December 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Niche. Spotted on my walk to the office this morning.
December 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Weeknotes #354 — Lighting up: https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/12/08/weeknotes-354-lighting-up/
December 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Weeknotes #353 — Right about now: https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/12/05/weeknotes-353-right-about-now/
December 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Weeknotes #352 — Doing thought work: https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/11/26/weeknotes-352-doing-thought-work/
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Solving a micro.blog and Cloudflare connectivity issue: https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/11/23/solving-a-microblog-and-cloudflare-connectivity-issue/
November 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Weeknotes #351 — Back in Barcelona: https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/11/22/weeknotes-351-back-in-barcelona/
Sunrise over the Mediterranean as seen on my morning run. The view from the 22nd floor of the Leonardo Royal Hotel Barcelona Forum. Dinner at El Nacional in Barcelona. The Gartner Xpo hall.
November 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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A small software change that delights: holding down a key on my iPad keyboard now brings up a menu of accented variations of that letter. This is a massive improvement over having to bring up the on-screen keyboard and doing a similar thing on the screen.
November 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Strava seem to have removed their activity map styles of ‘Black Lives Matter’, ‘Pride’ and ‘Support Ukraine’. Presumably this is part of getting ready for their IPO and not wanting to have a potentially damaging narrative about whether the... https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/11/13/12688/
November 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Finished reading The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Resistance Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979). An epic book in five parts, covering the mid-1950s, the early and late 1960s, and the early and late 1970s. This period is transformational for gay rights, ... https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/11/02/12662/
November 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Weeknotes #348 — Born ugly: https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/10/30/weeknotes-348-born-ugly/
October 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Weeknotes #347 — Another detached retina: https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/10/21/weeknotes-347-another-detached-retina/
Looks like we picked the wrong week to fly to a popper-fuelled party at Everest Base Camp. Grant-Lee Phillips at The Lower Third, London, 15 September 2025
October 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Weeknotes #346 — Hansen Sea-Cow: https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/10/17/weeknotes-346-hansen-sea-cow/
October 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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October 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Weeknotes #345 — Bath full of bricks: https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/10/09/weeknotes-345-bath-full-of-bricks/
“In July, just as it was disintegrating, the GLF pulled off a major coup with the first official Gay Pride march in the UK. The culmination of the group's ideal of an open and confident, indeed non-commercial, gay scene, it had been planned for a while. It began in London on Friday 23 June with a dance at Fulham Town Hall and culminated on International Gay Pride Day, Saturday 1 July, with a carnival parade from Trafalgar Square to Speakers' Corner, followed by a Gay Day in Hyde Park.” — from The Secret Public by Jon Savage
October 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Weeknotes #344 — Some jacket required: https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/10/02/weeknotes-344-some-jacket-required/
Stopping to fix a puncture on Saturday morning’s ride. Sadly our rider suffered a slow flat on the other wheel shortly after and decided to head home.
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Weeknotes #343 — En Seine: https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/09/27/weeknotes-343-en-seine/
Graffiti near the Moxy Hotel. The cellar at Château Kirwan. Various vintages in the cellar at Château Kirwan. The cellar at Château Kirwan. Presumably some very intensive wine-based rituals take place here.
September 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Weeknotes #342 — Out of breath: https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/09/16/weeknotes-342-out-of-breath/
A bicycle pedal and crank, sitting abandoned on the pavement. “During the week that followed, Andy Warhol had another breakthrough. On 23 November, he invited some friends over to dinner — including Muriel Latow, the owner of a small Manhattan art gallery — during the course of which he bemoaned the fact that his current work, in particular the cartoon paintings, was being trumped by his competitors Claes Oldenburg and Roy Lichtenstein. He begged his guests for ideas, offering $50 (around $430 in today's money) for the one that worked best. Latow wasn't terribly impressed with Warhol — she thought he was 'one of society's natural aliens' — but she came up with the goods once the cheque was offered. She told Warhol that he should paint 'something you see every day and something that everybody would recognize. Something like a can of Campbell's Soup? 'Oh that sounds fabulous,' Warhol replied, and rushed out the next day to the supermarket across the street to buy every single can of Campbell's in the store, an act that would launch him on his way to becoming the most famous artist in America.” — Jon Savage, The Secret Public
September 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Weeknotes #341 — Just the three of us: https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/09/10/weeknotes-341-just-the-three-of-us/
September 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Weeknotes #340 — Dusty songfield: https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/09/03/weeknotes-340-dusty-songfield/
September 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Weeknotes #339 — Lone Star: https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/08/27/weeknotes-339-lone-star/
Javelina Stadium at Texas A&M University–Kingsville. Photo: Katie Doran Inaccessible‽ The latest Javelina Found myself up a ladder in our beech tree. It’s not often I look at it like this. I hadn’t spotted the bird’s nest before.
August 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Hosting our online WB-40 Album Club. Snowpoet’s Thought You Knew was a big driver for me to invest in a turntable as I wanted to immerse myself in the music.
August 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM