http://www.smallritual.org Smallritual blog Design Steve Collins smallritual.org. All rights reserved. en-gb http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_27.04.26_1 So dull that people tried not to take photos of it. But a well-known 1990s skate spot. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_04_2026.html#date_27.04.26_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_26.02.26_1 Too expensive for the use I was making of it. No need for third party platforms to show videos nowadays. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_02_2026.html#date_26.02.26_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_17.01.26_1 Tonight I'm sad, because I put away my parents' Christmas decorations for the last time in their house. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_01_2026.html#date_17.01.26_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_04.01.26_1 I turned my Filofax diaries into blog archive pages, all the way back to 1988. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_01_2026.html#date_04.01.26_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_06.12.25_1 Researching your wider family can change your personal narrative and sense of place in the world. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_12_2025.html#date_06.12.25_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_05.12.25_1 Tracing my family tree, to find missing branches, identify people in old photos and confirm family stories. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_12_2025.html#date_05.12.25_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_03.12.25_1 I used a Filofax for 25 years. I kept most of the inserts, until now. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_12_2025.html#date_03.12.25_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_06.11.25_1 Collecting things together to take or give away, starting to dismantle my parents' home. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_11_2025.html#date_06.11.25_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_06.10.25_1 Remarkable sci-fi comic strip that's half-forgotten, except in Italy! http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_10_2025.html#date_06.10.25_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_05.10.25_1 I don't know whether to hyphenate or not in this context. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_10_2025.html#date_05.10.25_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_04.10.25_3 Colour was integral to postmodern architecture, but it's vulnerable to time and fashion. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_10_2025.html#date_04.10.25_3 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_04.10.25_2 1980s and 90s buildings in London are being demolished en masse at the moment to build much taller towers. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_10_2025.html#date_04.10.25_2 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_04.10.25_1 Taking a look at some of postmodern architect Terry Farrell's work. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_10_2025.html#date_04.10.25_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_01.10.25_1 Blitz Kids aka New Romantics at the Design Museum - more parts of my life as social history. I am old. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_10_2025.html#date_01.10.25_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_21.07.25_1 The air in London is a lot cleaner. The latest photos show the difference - no more brown haze. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_07_2025.html#date_21.07.25_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_29.06.25_1 Rave-hunting in 1989 simulated in virtual reality. 1989 wasn't quite like this. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_06_2025.html#date_29.06.25_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_29.05.25_2 Strong fresh colours return after a decade of dark pastels. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_05_2025.html#date_29.05.25_2 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_29.05.25_1 One of my drawings unwittingly realised in St Bartholomew's church. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_05_2025.html#date_29.05.25_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_06.05.25_2 Now that I can talk about it, I've added blog entries for the first months of this year in the archive. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_05_2025.html#date_06.05.25_2 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_06.05.25_1 Using odd words, not making sense. Saying entirely the wrong thing, because she can't find the right thing. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_05_2025.html#date_06.05.25_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_05.05.25_1 A death from Alzheimers is not a sudden blow. You suffer bereavement many times by degrees as you lose things. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_05_2025.html#date_05.05.25_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_02.05.25_1 What's actually been going on behind the blog. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_05_2025.html#date_02.05.25_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_09.02.25_2 Updating one of the most beautiful cars ever made - how to do it, and how not to. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_02_2025.html#date_09.02.25_2 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_09.02.25_1 A 1968 tea card collection that now seems oddly skewed and patchy. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_02_2025.html#date_09.02.25_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_30.01.25_1 The bus routes have changed, but I miss the old journey that I knew since childhood. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_01_2025.html#date_30.01.25_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_20.01.25_1 I usually do number 3. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_01_2025.html#date_20.01.25_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_15.01.25_1 Messing about with pumpkin colours. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_01_2025.html#date_15.01.25_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_02.01.25_2 When the Christmas lights stayed on longer. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_01_2025.html#date_02.01.25_2 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_02.01.25_1 Please don't take down the decorations on the 26th! http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_01_2025.html#date_02.01.25_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_31.12.24_1 Carry small things that are nice to touch. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_12_2024.html#date_31.12.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_21.12.24_2 The famous British Rail symbol redrawn and relaunched for the digital age. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_12_2024.html#date_21.12.24_2 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_21.12.24_1 An update on a 2011 blog entry - the new Network Rail signage. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_12_2024.html#date_21.12.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_20.12.24_1 The gentleness of neo-Coptic iconography. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_12_2024.html#date_20.12.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_14.12.24_1 Christ was born in a world like ours. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_12_2024.html#date_14.12.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_03.11.24_1 Filling in the post-Facebook hole 2016-2018. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_11_2024.html#date_03.11.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_29.10.24_1 Workplaces need curators, as part of their sustainability framework. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_10_2024.html#date_29.10.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_28.10.24_2 Every great disaster is unique. The iceberg never strikes twice. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_10_2024.html#date_28.10.24_2 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_28.10.24_1 Situationist quotes relevant to alt worship http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_10_2024.html#date_28.10.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_19.10.24_2 Why don't my things pack like the nice packing movies? http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_10_2024.html#date_19.10.24_2 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_19.10.24_1 What happens when everything in the record shop is a simulacrum? http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_10_2024.html#date_19.10.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_04.08.24_3 In the end you will obey me. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_08_2024.html#date_04.08.24_3 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_04.08.24_2 More audiophile stuff. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_08_2024.html#date_04.08.24_2 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_04.08.24_1 A hand-built sound system for the church of vinyl. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_08_2024.html#date_04.08.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_21.06.24_1 The chaos and egalitarianism of 1960s-70s office landscapes. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_06_2024.html#date_21.06.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_11.06.24_1 From organisationally determined layouts to technologically determined layouts, and almost back again. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_06_2024.html#date_11.06.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_05.06.24_1 Some of my New Wave albums lost in a wardrobe for 40 years. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_06_2024.html#date_05.06.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_02.06.24_1 What I wanted to achieve in alt worship - a roadmap for the future. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_06_2024.html#date_02.06.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_27.05.24_1 Longevity beats recycling. Give people stuff that they will love for a long time. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_05_2024.html#date_27.05.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_07.05.24_2 He closed the show and owned the room. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_05_2024.html#date_07.05.24_2 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_07.05.24_1 Make your own furniture to reduce alienation. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_05_2024.html#date_07.05.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_15.04.24_2 The landline only did one thing, and that use has evaporated. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_04_2024.html#date_15.04.24_2 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_15.04.24_1 I wish coffee shops stayed open for my late afternoon break. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_04_2024.html#date_15.04.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_10.04.24_2 Why do people get bicycles and leave them to rust? http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_04_2024.html#date_10.04.24_2 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_10.04.24_1 First movies of Grace services, as my phone and camera got good enough. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_04_2024.html#date_10.04.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_25.03.24_1 A workplace that speaks to the imagination and the emotions. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_03_2024.html#date_25.03.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_24.03.24_1 Quadrupled subscription prices? No way. I've reverted to basic web fonts. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_03_2024.html#date_24.03.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_12.03.24_1 Natural ageing and a maladjusted drum machine. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_03_2024.html#date_12.03.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_11.03.24_1 Multimedia exhibition by masters of the art. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_03_2024.html#date_11.03.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_17.02.24_1 Barbara Kruger exhibition and Palestine demo in Kensington Gardens. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_02_2024.html#date_17.02.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_15.02.24_1 Hong Kong Cultural Centre roof option models. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_02_2024.html#date_15.02.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_28.01.24_1 Learning from Frei Otto and Buro Happold. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_01_2024.html#date_28.01.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_25.01.24_1 Site designs for Grace (2015), alternativeworship.org (2002-14), smallfire.org (2003-10). http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_01_2024.html#date_25.01.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_11.01.24_1 It's not sustainable to rip them out to look like a hipster startup. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_01_2024.html#date_11.01.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_10.01.24_1 I'm uncomfortable with being called an archivist. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_01_2024.html#date_10.01.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_09.01.24_1 Archive photos added and first format upgrade since 2015. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_01_2024.html#date_09.01.24_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_30.11.23_1 My first website and other graphics for an aborted series of events in 1999. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_11_2023.html#date_30.11.23_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_29.11.23_3 I had a lot of it in the early 70s. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_11_2023.html#date_29.11.23_3 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_29.11.23_2 1969 spinning top with inspiring colours. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_11_2023.html#date_29.11.23_2 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_29.11.23_1 Stripy 2017-18 smallritual.org designs, recovered from Wayback. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_11_2023.html#date_29.11.23_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_25.11.23_1 Typepad blog designs 2004-2016, recovered from Wayback. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_11_2023.html#date_25.11.23_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_23.11.23_1 Redesigning the site again - going back to go forward. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_11_2023.html#date_23.11.23_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_19.11.23_1 I needed to finish the books in order to blog again. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_11_2023.html#date_19.11.23_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_18.11.23_1 I keep stuff a long time, but... http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_11_2023.html#date_18.11.23_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_21.06.23_1 Immersive installation art that's been important to me. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_06_2023.html#date_21.06.23_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_12.06.23_1 Goodbye impractical 20th century clothes! http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_06_2023.html#date_12.06.23_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_18.05.23_1 New blog entries to fill out the archive, 2018-2021. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_05_2023.html#date_18.05.23_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_21.04.23_1 Bowie never wore the lightning bolt again, but they had defined him for ever. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_04_2023.html#date_21.04.23_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_16.04.23_1 My suitcase went away for Christmas and finally made it back home after Easter. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_04_2023.html#date_16.04.23_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_10.01.23_2 Cute delivery robots roam the streets of Cambridge. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_01_2023.html#date_10.01.23_2 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_10.01.23_1 Overwork and a holiday. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_01_2023.html#date_10.01.23_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_08.09.22_1 I went to Buckingham Palace to see the scene. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_09_2022.html#date_08.09.22_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_05.09.22_1 After six years, a new Macbook Air M2. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_09_2022.html#date_05.09.22_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_30.06.22_1 Two weeks of illness, after not getting it for more than two years of pandemic. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_06_2022.html#date_30.06.22_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_18.06.22_1 Opened, after about a year of work. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_06_2022.html#date_18.06.22_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_16.06.22_1 Two superbly edited clips of Ziggy live in 1972. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_06_2022.html#date_16.06.22_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_07.06.22_1 It appears the release date was 16th June, not 6th as formerly thought. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_06_2022.html#date_07.06.22_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_06.06.22_1 50 years since the Ziggy Stardust album and a cultural change. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_06_2022.html#date_06.06.22_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_04.06.22_1 40 or 50 years to the next Silver Jubilee, Diamond centuries, Platinum maybe never. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_06_2022.html#date_04.06.22_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_02.06.22_1 I have to give up a favourite fruit. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_06_2022.html#date_02.06.22_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_31.05.22_1 What years of overwork and stress will do. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_05_2022.html#date_31.05.22_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_22.05.22_2 Now archived for the historical record. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_05_2022.html#date_22.05.22_2 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_22.05.22_1 You only meet your neighbours in a crisis. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_05_2022.html#date_22.05.22_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_10.04.22_1 This weekend was 25 years since my first visit to Grace. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_04_2022.html#date_10.04.22_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_28.03.22_1 Started a new job today, a year since I resigned from the old one. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_03_2022.html#date_28.03.22_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_26.03.22_1 Finishing the staking out. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_03_2022.html#date_26.03.22_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_25.03.22_1 Canary Wharf is the fulfilment of the Painted Hall. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_03_2022.html#date_25.03.22_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_25.02.22_2 Remove other things. Make room. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_02_2022.html#date_25.02.22_2 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_25.02.22_1 To find better solutions, ask how it might be done without technology. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_02_2022.html#date_25.02.22_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_16.02.22_1 Now everyone needs the same quality of space to work. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_02_2022.html#date_16.02.22_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_04.02.22_1 If you don't need a desk to put your paperwork and tech on, why have a desk? http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_02_2022.html#date_04.02.22_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_25.12.21_1 A new gift category, or an old one redirected. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_12_2021.html#date_25.12.21_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_20.12.21_1 Perhaps the most complete statement I've ever made about alt worship, art and design. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_12_2021.html#date_20.12.21_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_03.12.21_1 Peter Kapos thoughts about Braun. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_12_2021.html#date_03.12.21_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_30.11.21_1 It does its job, nobody notices it. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_11_2021.html#date_30.11.21_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_27.11.21_1 The return of a single British railway operator with a single [familiar] identity! Just don't call it 'British Rail' [yet!]. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_11_2021.html#date_27.11.21_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_26.11.21_1 Now in the Grafix section. Certain things run through. I have always liked to obscure the menu. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_11_2021.html#date_26.11.21_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_18.11.21_1 Making a new labyrinth in Southall. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_11_2021.html#date_18.11.21_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_16.11.21_1 Inspiring quotes from artist Shantell Martin. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_11_2021.html#date_16.11.21_1 http://www.smallritual.org/blog.html#date_12.11.21_1 The blog has moved from the home page - please adjust your browsers. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_11_2021.html#date_12.11.21_1 http://www.smallritual.org/index.html#date_27.10.21_1 What happens when you have been in the same pot for too long. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_10_2021.html#date_27.10.21_1 http://www.smallritual.org/index.html#date_21.10.21_1 Smallritual.org is 20 years old round about now. Here's how it looked. http://www.smallritual.org/section10/blog_10_2021.html#date_21.10.21_1 http://www.smallritual.org/index.html#date_19.10.21_1 Church as a toolbox, with modules for learning such as half-pipe, Twister and rant. 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