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Last updated on Sunday 1 February 2026.

It’s the end of the first week of Term I 2026, and a whole new year lies ahead. So let’s see what I’m up to now.

Life

The school holidays were great — they’re always great. I lost some weight, did more exercise and got a few big things done. I didn’t do all the schoolwork I planned to do, but it’s hard to get too upset about that. I’m doing it now instead.

School

My timetable this term is pretty good. The main thing I’m looking forward to is teaching Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata to Year 11 for the first time. This group of students have read more Latin than any other group I’ve taught over the the last 34 years, and I can’t wait to find out how well they handle the transition from (quite complex, very well-written) synthetic Latin to real Latin literature. I also have a massive Year 9 Classical Greek class of 18 students. A career record!

Podcasting

500 Year Diary Season 3 finished on 28 December 2025, and I’ve been taking a break from Doctor Who podcasting since then. Sort of. We will start recording Season 4, Unearthly Children, some time this month.

Untitled Star Trek Project hit a milestone just a couple of weeks ago: we have now covered 20% of the entire Star Trek franchise. In our most recent episode, we checked in on the pilot of Star Trek’s newest series, Starfleet Academy.

Just over two weeks ago, I launched yet another podcast: The Entirety of Flight Through Entirety. This one is an aggregation of all of the episodes of our four Doctor Who podcasts, Flight Through Entirety, 500 Year Diary, The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire, and Jodie into Terror. Our promise: “every single Doctor Who story discussed, analysed and lovingly mocked for your enjoyment”.

Websites

The website for The Entirety of Flight Through Entirety is different from all the others. During the build, it downloads the feeds from each of the other four podcasts, mashes them together, makes one or two minor changes, and then generates a single master podcast feed. It’s also a single-page site, which makes a nice change, with a different kind of home page from all the other sites. Check it out: I’m quite proud of how it looks.

In early January, I also released Version 2.0 of my Eleventy Podcaster plugin, including a much more detailed set of documentation. I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out. Perhaps my next project could be to create a podcast starter for Eleventy — the first step towards that might be to solicit some feedback from the community.

What I’m enjoying

I’m loving Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, even though it’s not at all what I expected. I’m also finally watching my way through Star Trek: Prodigy, Season 2, which I bought on Blu-ray before it disappeared from streaming altogether.