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2026

• Moving logistics and customs headaches - 18 June in france
• Applying for our visas - 18 June in france
• We got the keys! - 9 June in france
• Show me the money! - 23 May in france
• Weeks not months - 15 May in france
• We have a property! - 9 May in france
• 0 to 60 in 3 seconds - 22 April in france
• In limbo - 12 April in france
• It's getting real! - 2 April in france
• Location scouting - 21 March in france
• Selling the house - 5 March in france
• Update - February 2026 - 20 February in france
• Building a personal Soundcloud - 8 February in projects
• Photo Portfolio v2 - 7 February in projects
• Update - January 2026 pt 2 - 31 January in france
• Update - January 2026 - 14 January in france

2025

• Setting out the plan - 25 October in france
• Building a French Vocab Flashcards web app - 21 September in projects
• In the beginning... - 25 March in france
• Weeknotes: S03 E02 - UKGovCamp: Home Again - 18 January in weeknotes

2024

• Weeknotes: S03 E01 - Product for the People - 28 November in weeknotes
• Personal website restructure - 17 June in projects
• Weeknotes: S02 E22 - Closing chapter - 14 June in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: S02 E21 - UKGovCamp XtraLoud - 22 January in weeknotes

2023

• What makes a great council-supplier relationship? - 18 December in placecube
• Weeknotes: S02 E20 - What kind of day has it been? - 9 December in weeknotes
• Building an academic research website - 20 August in projects
• Weeknotes: S02 E19 - Reflections On A Year (Almost) - 12 August in weeknotes
• Death by Digital - 28 June in personal
• Weeknotes: S02 E18 — Stop And Think - 10 June in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: S02 E17 — Don’t Have the Vegan Morning Roll - 20 May in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: S02 E16 — Everything Everywhere All at Once - 14 May in weeknotes
• 9 Features to get your Council Website Live Quickly - 10 May in placecube
• Weeknotes: S02 E15 - It’s not all about delivery - 7 May in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: S02 E14 - Sparking Joy - 30 April in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: S02 E13 - Blog Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc - 22 April in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: S02 E12 - What A Difference A Week Makes - 15 April in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: S02 E11 - More Downs Than Ups - 7 April in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: S02 E10 - A Game Of Two Halves - 25 March in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: S02 E09 - Working Together - 18 March in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: S02 E08 - Seeing The Light - 11 March in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: S02 E07 - There And Back Again - 11 February in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: S02 E06 - Tell Me More - 4 February in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: S02 E05 - Taking Shape - 28 January in weeknotes
• Ron's 101st birthday - 23 January in personal
• Weeknotes: S02 E04 - Be Generous - 21 January in weeknotes
• Weeknotes S02 E03 - Listening More - 14 January in weeknotes
• Weeknotes S02 E02 - Turning The Corner - 7 January in weeknotes

2022

• Weeknotes S02 E01 - Seeing The Big Picture - 22 December in weeknotes
• Ron's Xmas - 19 December in personal
• What’s stopping us from collaborating? - 12 October in placecube
• Creating a photo gallery - 16 September in projects

2021

• Weeknotes: week 37 - An Education - 18 July in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 36 - I Wish... - 10 July in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 35 - Running The Content-A-Thon - 3 July in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 34 - Respecting Others - 25 June in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 33 - Doin’ The South-Western Freeze - 19 June in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 32 - Talking, Not Shouting - 12 June in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 30/31 - Coming To The Crunch - 5 June in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 29 - Shortnotes - 20 May in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 28 - The Calm During The Storm - 16 May in weeknotes
• EnergyNotes: filling the gap - 2 May in personal
• Weeknotes: week 26 - A Shorter Week - 1 May in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 24 - Quality Checks - 24 April in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 23 - Services Not Solutions - 2 April in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 22 - People Need People - 28 March in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 21 - Catching Up - 20 March in weeknotes
• EnergyNotes: first week - 13 March in personal
• Good bye oil, hello air source - 6 March in personal
• Weeknotes: week 19 - Do Not Think About The Event - 27 February in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 18 - Blast From The Past - 20 February in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 16 - Getting Ready To Migrate - 6 February in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 15 - Fixing Problems - 31 January in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 14 - Accessibility Revisited - 23 January in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 13 - The Late One - 18 January in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 12 - There’s No Place Like Home - 10 January in weeknotes

2020

• Weeknotes: week 10 - Drowning Not Waving - 19 December in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 9 - Knowing Your Numbers - 12 December in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 8 - That Leadership Thing - 4 December in weeknotes
• Goodbye Oxford - 2 December in personal
• Weeknotes: week 7 - A Bit Overdeveloped - 28 November in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 6 - A Tale of two Trellos - 21 November in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 5 - The Week the Earth Shifted on its Axis - 13 November in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 4 - Adventures with Cubes - 6 November in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 3 - The Difficult Third Album - 31 October in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 2 - Some Things Change, Some Stay the Same - 24 October in weeknotes
• Weeknotes: week 1 - A New Career in a New Town - 18 October in weeknotes
• Learning to live with my inner nerd - 28 January in personal

2019

• Creating a new intranet - 17 October in oxford, projects
• Exercising my demons - 18 July in personal
• Making content part of service design - 15 July in oxford
• Making our bin collection day lookup less 'rubbish' - 4 July in oxford
• Chatbots project completion - looking at what we've done - 22 April in chatbots, projects
• Sprint #4: Highways - 7 April in chatbots
• Sprint #3: Revenues and Benefits - 29 March in chatbots
• Sprint #2: Waste and Recycling - 22 March in chatbots
• Sprint #1: Planning services - 15 March in chatbots
• Week 3: User research training - 8 March in chatbots
• Project Kick-Off Day - 18 February in chatbots
• Announcing our delivery partner - Torchbox - 1 February in chatbots
• Getting Agile! - 30 January in chatbots
• Shortlisting progress and research areas - 2 January in chatbots

2018

• Running a supplier Q&A Session - 14 December in chatbots
• Local Digital Kick-Off Workshop - 13 December in chatbots
• Digital Outcomes opportunity is live - 11 December in chatbots
• Application success - 7 December in chatbots
• Local Digital Fund Success - 7 December in oxford
• Collaboration is everywhere - Local Digital Fund application - 15 November in oxford
• Using JKAN - 13 March in projects

2017

• Using digital tools to support events - 30 November in oxford
• What we learned from Get Online Week - 6 October in oxford, projects
• Working in the open makes things better - 16 August in oxford
• Oxford's Hidden Histories - 31 July in oxford
• Homelesshack Oxford: why we’ve cancelled it (for now at least) - 9 July in personal
• LocalGov Digital South Peer Group - 29 June 2017 - 29 June in oxford
• Collaboration not reinvention - 17 May in oxford
• Using data to improve our services - 13 April in oxford
• LocalGov Digital South Peer Group - 10 March 2017 - 10 March in oxford
• Repair My House - 4 February in oxford, projects
• As a conference attendee I need to… - User Stories to test the conference format - 26 January in personal
• Between then and now - Personal reflections on UKGovCampX - 24 January in personal

2016

• LocalGov Digital South Peer Group - 25 November in oxford
• Digital Strategy launched - 20 November in oxford
• Using GitHub Pages - 26 August in projects
• The Rules of Judging Photography - 18 June in personal
• Learning Points from LocalGovCamp - 5 June in personal
• Site Launched - 4 June in personal