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Status updates for December 2025

Monday 1 December Rest day before week with a few things scheduled in it. Not feeling too bad after the bonfire. Hoping the restorative nature of being outdoors offsets any fatigue. Tuesday 2 December Chum Daz came over today for a long overdue catch-up. He's

Status updates for November 2025

Since October 2025 I have been daily blogging at notes.peteashton.com featuring a status update and a bunch of links I feel are worth sharing. A classic web log, in other words. After six months I thought I'd see how the status updates work as a monthly

Status updates for October 2025

Since October 2025 I have been daily blogging at notes.peteashton.com featuring a status update and a bunch of links I feel are worth sharing. A classic web log, in other words. After six months I thought I'd see how the status updates work as a monthly

The state of Pete

I've been unwell, and will continue to be unwell for a while. This is an account of where that unwellness is at.

Pete's zine timeline

The full-ish history of how I was involved in zines throughout the 1990s.

Pete's newsletter for the start of July

Got covid again, wrote some blog posts, watched some films, rabbit got ill, hedgehogs appeared in the garden, other stuff.

Reflections on the election

There was a general election in the UK. It was complicated.

Scanning the BugPowder zine archive

I have boxes containing thousands of zines. I've started scanning them. It's going to take a while. I have time.

Pete Ashton's new newsletter of news

Hello, The never ending task of figuring out how best to get my ideas onto the internet and send them to you continues, and this here is the first stab at the latest attempt. In short, it's a roundup of what I've put online in the

Thoughts on Furiosa

There's something nihilistic about George Miller's fifth Mad Max movie and it's got me thinking...

Peely, twenty years on

This autumn it'll be the twentieth anniversary of John Peel's death.

The Aerobic Digest 13: Stay out of the sun

A big move of the heaps into the shade begins, and a curious piece of plastic is found.

The Aerobic Digest 12: Thermo-messo-whatnow?

In this issue, understanding the thermic phases, recording the sounds made by the bugs in the compost heap, and three songs about worms.

Defining the weird

In which I revisit my obsession with the concept of Weird having found a useful working definition.

Blog posts I have not written

Given my burnout means I'm unable finish any writing I thought it might be useful to record the starts, if only to get them out of my head.