I am a dad, a husband, a web geek, a government web manager, a gardener, a keeper of hens, a comedy writer and a music fan, roughly in that order.

This is a blog about being all of those things at once, and trying to do too much. As is frequently said in my house: “Neil’s on one”.

Work I manage the website and intranet for one of the central UK government departments. I launched the first ever blog by a UK Cabinet Minister, and spend much of my day evangelising about how the social web, digital media, web2.0 or whateveritis can make government as a whole engage and communicate better with its audiences. I may blog around the edges of this stuff, but carefully - note this disclaimer. Prior to that, I have been a comms strategist and led a team of web developers in the private sector and a bunch of other stuff. I’ll put the whole story on linkedin soon.

Life I am married (in Vegas) to a TV/radio/theatre writer and have a son. I live in London. Well, Streatham. Ok… Croydon. I share my garden with two hens, Rosie and Betty. I grow fruit and veg, cook it and eat it. I watch good TV. I love dance music but I hate dancing. Or going out much at all to be honest.

Balance I used to run this comedy website with 2 friends. It was fairly successful for the short time that we were obsessed with it enough to update regularly, and even managed to attract two threatened lawsuits. These days, it’s hard to see why for cobwebs, but good ol’ Log has dusted off some of the hidden gems and made them into something even better.

This blog

I’m going to blog about government webbery, tech geekery, gadgets, veg growing, hen keeping, music, film, TV, stationery, productivity and, if it’s interesting, whatever else I’m up to. Beyond what’s on this page I am not going to blog about my family, who didn’t sign up for this. Edit: this, clearly, turned out to be an untruth.

In any case I hope not to bore you too much, and will thank you to tell me if (or when) I do.

More about why I’m blogging here.