Hello again!

We are still living in and out of campervans, and still travelling full time. Since late 2025 that has been in New Zealand, in a little yellow van that we loved so much we put it into storage when we ran out of time in NZ, with plans to return in late 2027. Right now, we have just arrived back in the UK after a month-long stopover in South Korea on the way back from the Antipodes.

Having relied on social media for keeping in touch ever since we were trekking in Nepal two years ago, even that very basic summary of recent life will be news to many/most of you. I am finding that the Meta algorithm's preference for promoted content and posts from outside my circle means I spend less and less time on Facebook and Instagram. In turn, I have wholly failed to keep my New Year's promise to be a better correspondent, and begun to doubt whether simply posting more would actually reach anyone I care about anyway.

So I'm changing it up. I have a plan to focus an old fashioned email update, which I'll also publish as a blog and on social links for those whose inboxes are already unmanageable. My goal is to write weekly, and to circulate at the start of the following week - 'Mail on Monday'. The title is aspirational rather than promissory; timing will probably continue to be random; but I'll appraoch my updates with a sense of structure (and a deadline, which always helps).

If the plan works, you'll be able to find this in your inbox, in your social feed, or on the web as suits you best. If you would like to get the occasional email then please sign up! I've decided against an initial all-contacts blast as I know inboxes are already busy, and I've probably got a lot of work emails where something else might be preferred.

If you'd like to sign up, change address or unsubscribe at any time then you can do all that here: Update Settings.

If you do sign up, it'll be for a weekly-ish summary of anything I've published lately.

Lots of love,
Martyn