The coffee has gone cold again. It sits on the edge of the desk, a dark, still pool next to a mountain of open tabs, sticky notes and proof sheets. Outside, the world is moving at its usual, loud pace. Cars hum down the street, neighbours argue about the fence line, and the day marches…
Babette’s family holiday has not started yet, but the adventure already has: expired passports, four-train journeys, three essential blankets and the promise of a piña colada beside the pool. There are 18 days until Babette goes to Egypt. Not approximately 18 days. Babette has done the calculation properly. She knows the days, the hours and…
Sometimes we return because we miss something. Sometimes we return and discover it has changed. And sometimes the past comes looking for us through a volleyball, a bowl of beetroot, a song—or a very suspicious fridge. The question sounded simple enough. “What is something you keep coming back to, even though nobody is making you?”…
AI can make it easier to stop thinking. Bruce and I found ourselves wondering whether its greater possibility is exactly the opposite: giving us the freedom to think much further than we could before. I had been reading three of Bruce’s recent pieces. One was about social care, another asked what might happen if artificial…
There are worlds I know reasonably well, and there are worlds where I am completely lost. Technology belongs firmly in the second category. Put a microcontroller in front of me and I see a small piece of plastic with some metal sticking out of it. An engineer sees processors, interfaces, protocols, functional safety and possibilities….
Orange, lime, garlic, cumin and paprika barbecue chicken Ingredients Chicken Marinade Method Ralf Note This one is more Argentina-style. You stand there like a small soldier of the chicken. Turn it round, turn it round, baste it all the time. Baste: a very important word for civilisation.
This week’s Pineapple Postcard comes from Lyme Regis in Dorset, one of those small English seaside towns that seems to have accumulated far more stories than it has any reasonable right to. It sits on the Jurassic Coast, where the cliffs and beaches expose an extraordinary geological record and the area around Lyme is particularly…
Ralf has bought the mobile home, Manfred has twenty years of camping behind him, and Martin is beginning to wonder whether he should start playing the lottery. Ralf and his wife have bought a mobile home. Not because they want to park it somewhere and create a smaller version of the life they already have,…
What happens to our wonder when the answer to every question is just a click away? Next week at Brida, we are exploring the spaces where certainty ends and real discovery begins. In a world that demands instant answers, we are taking a step back to look at the beauty of the unanswered, the unsaid,…
From the cab of a 26-ton truck, Fabrice sees ordinary streets from a different height. The view is better. The responsibility is heavier. And what looks easy from outside is often anything but. A Different View. Janita asked me what would surprise her first if she climbed into my truck tomorrow morning. She has been…
