Dave Field | Self-Doubt Club

A line of sea-weathered wooden pilings on a sandy beach. The pings stand in pairs which recede into the distance where they meet a blue-green sea under a blue sky with white and grey clouds.

Alnmouth beach, Northumberland, UK

If Poll Tax was introduced now, there wouldn't be any riots. People would moan online but ultimately do nothing. The internet is a pressure valve that lets off just enough steam to sap our will to physically do something about a problem.

Or, looked at perhaps more cynically, an indicator of succes for politicians and nedia who are achieving exactly what they set out to do.

Keir Starmer: you are actually the leader of the Labour Party, so stop letting your every utterance and decision to be influenced by what Reform voters think. I don't give a fuck what Reform voters think. Deliver Labour policies, you fanny.

I am so heartened to read the unanimously negative responses to this incredibly dim-witted and tone-deaf "idea".

Looking along the barrel of a 24-pounder cannon. The cannon is on a castle wall, aimed out into the North Sea.

Ready, aim... #weekFforFire!

Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, UK

#alphabetChallenge

Glad it's not just me...

Proper whisky needs a cork. None of this screw top shit, that's for alcoholics.

B&W photo. Pile of brash surrounded by small conifer saplings. Trunk of a standing deadwood looming in the mist beyond.

B&W photo. Trunk of a standing deadwood - line of still standing trees just visible in the fog behind.

Line of exposed roots of fallen conifers with two standing deadwood trees above.

Two small deciduous trees in a wide clearing in the forest - conifers just visible both sides. The summit of Bellever tor rises into the mist in the background.

There's few more unsettling places to be alone than a clear-felled forestry plantation in fog, but it's an odd paradox that despite their apocalyptic look, these deadzones are far more richly alive in wildlife and plants than the dense and darkly regimented rows of conifers which stood there before.

Today we just bimbled around bookshops and charity shops and avoided the wind. Power went off for a bit which prompted much fruitless hunting around our holiday rental house for the circuit breakers but it all came back on by itself before we had to resort to eating the weakest so that was nice.

I'm not going to name the place where I've been perusing 2nd hand vinyl this morning, but...

Fifteen quid for a copy of "Breakfast in America" THAT YOUVE LABELLED "SCRATCHED"?

Fuck, sincerely, right and fully off.

On family holiday. Someone asked the question "what's your favourite thing about Dave?" and the unanimous answer was "he's so calm".

Reader, I carry within me an incandescent rage equivalent in energy to the collision of neutron stars.

Are they blind? Or am I that good an actor?

A (responsible) camp fire at a wild camp location on the Great Glen Way, near Inverness, Scotland. A small but lively fire in a stone firepit. Spruce trees provide the background, with a green tent just visible.

#alphabetChallenge #weekFforFire At the end of a long hike.

Lindisfarne Castle, against a blue sky with white clouds.

Lindisfarne Castle, Northumberland, UK

An electricity high-tension transmission tower ("pylon") silhouetted against a grey sky.

#alphabetChallenge #weekEforEasyE

I think we're going to Lindisfarne tomorrow. Kinda depends on the weather.

A fountain in a circular pool. Beyond, wide stone steps rise to the arched entrance into a formal garden. A clear blue sky lies beyond.

A pathway through a tunnel of tall grasses.

Spent the day at Alnwick Gardens

There'll undoubtedly be plenty of photos 😊

Just four days of work to get through and then I'm off to Northumberland for a holiday (a part of the UK that, oddly, I've never visited before).
Then, back for a week, before heading off to the Suffolk Coast for a week-long stroll.

Without saying "We Didn't Start the Fire", fav Billy Joel song?
youtu.be/Iyv905Q2omU?...

Happy Day, folks.

This gets an annual binge-watch. Creepy AF.

My phone lock screen; video of a campfire

AND...
Come the revolution, using placeholder attributes to label your input fields will become a hanging offence. Fuck you and the low-contrast horse you rode in on.

I shouldn't have to switch on a layer of assistive tech just to order trousers from a website, you fucking idiots

I've got some eyesight problems at the moment that are making it very hard for me to see fine contrast and muted-colour text and BLOODY HELL YOU WEB DESIGNERS/DEVS NEED TO DO BETTER FFS

They were forewarned by a series of traumatic (yet fondly-remembered) Public Information Films of the 60s and 70s; if anything, they're better-equipped than anyone, thanks to "Say No to Sine!", "Sequencer Danger" and the classic horror "Dark Waveforms"

It's OK, everyone already knows that people with synthesizers aren't trustworthy

IFEA: terrifying Scandinavian furniture

I've still not gotten used to the world being post-Bowie and now we've all got to deal with it being post-Ozzy, too.

Dunno 'bout you, but I don't like it.