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Checking in...

I guess it's been a while since I updated here. Life has well and truly been getting in the way for the last couple of months, since I finished working at K and decided to go freelance for a while. So, a quick status update...

• I've moved to the north-east — myself and Kathryn are staying in Blyth (as above) while she searches for jobs and we look for a place in the area. Really excited about living around here — Newcastle is one of my favourite cities in the world, and there's a lot of great stuff going on here at the moment. Should certainly make a nice change of pace from Milton Keynes.
• Freelance has been going really well — lots of web stuff, which I'll be showing off on the site after it's all tested up and launched. I've also been lending a bit of web help to my old college friend Sarah, who's overhauling her portfolio site and her blog. Her site is still in progress at the time of writing, but her work is always well worth checking out.
• Talking of portfolios, I've started fresh on my own portfolio site, Generic Text. I liked the old one, but it was built entirely in Flash back when that was the only thing I knew about the web (a pretty common failing in degree-educated designers). I've got something (slightly) clever in progress with the new site, and I'm looking forward to launching it really soon.
• Exciting side projects too! I spent a weekend building wooden frames for screen-printing, but the recent snow held up the delivery of all my other equipment, so I haven't had a chance to do any printing yet. Took a lot of pictures in the process, which I'll be writing up once I've got some results (for anyone interested in learning to print on a marginal budget). Still attempting to learn photography too — although not as much as I'd like!

Hopefully I should be back to updating regularly again now, as I'll be finishing up various pieces of work soon. Hope everyone else is doing good — let me know!