It’s true. All desks I use are messy.

Writing a blog seems to be the height of arrogance. Do I really expect anybody to care even slightly about the minutiae of my everyday life? And do I look like a twat when I use the word “minutiae” in my first post? ‘No’ and ‘Yes’, I think.

I’ve never considered myself arrogant, so then logically I must have some other reason for writing (or at least that’s what I pretend to myself). And I do! My wife and I have recently started cooking and I need somewhere to store recipes and all that slowly accumulating and hard-won knowledge, and this actually seems like quite a nice way to do it. It’s like having a conversation with a piece of database software. Also, my main interest outside of work is photography, and this format will let me post pictures and discuss them with a view to self-improvement.

So there you go; I’m writing for myself. Not arrogant maybe but certainly selfish. I don’t mind if nobody else reads it; in fact I think I might even prefer it if they don’t, but then I can’t really say that can I – I’m putting it on the internet!

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