I haven’t heard this phrase for ages. Facebook has basically meant that every relationship destined to end peters out and dies awkwardly in the increasingly ubiquitous “friendship cull”.

I take great comfort in “nice to have known you”. Someone knows they’re not going to be around any more, and cares enough to tell you and pay a compliment. Goodbye has such a negative reputation, but it can easily be a compliment. We navigated some semblance of a relationship, and now it’s over; no ill will. With social skills such as mine, I can rationalise that as a win, and I’ll take it.

I’m not really a huge fan of fake filters and silly borders. If your photo isn’t nice to look at, a filter is only going to do so much. A border is going to make it worse. I don’t care for borders.

Yet, for some reason, I have become enamoured with Instagram this week. I feel encouraged to take a nice shot with a filter in mind, and you don’t have to use borders. Sharing and exploring are incredibly easy. The whole experience is just fun.

I don’t take back all I’ve ever said about Instagram – most of the photos I see come out of it are horrible, but there are some people on there producing amazing photographs, which I really enjoy looking at. Definitely a keeper for snappy iPhone photos, I think.

Dan farted.

Bonus points for repping the awesome Bored Seaside Special shirt.

Here’s the deal. If you say you’re going to allow yourself a lie-in, you’ll be up at 6am. Wide awake. So that’s what I do on weekends now. I’m pretty easy to trick like that.

I made this thing. It’s a Facebooks page for this here website. A friend brought it to my attention that RSS is too nerdy for some people, but Facebooks is OK. So I guess I’ll use that to syndicate this for people on the Facebooks. If you like what I’m doing here, it sure would make me happy if you liked me officially. Because I like you so much, I’ll make it real easy. Here’s a button for ya (not in your RSS reader):

And here’s a photo of some food I ate. What a morning.

If you have flesh tunnels and want the best jewellery, Onetribe is where you need to be shopping. If you’re even mildly interested in this, they are the most amazing craftsmen; imaginative, talented and incredibly friendly. Even if you’re not planning on buying, I’d definitely recommend following their Facebook because they post some amazing stuff there.

Against my better judgement, I went for an untracked, uninsured international shipping method. Luckily for me, they arrived quicker than I was expecting, in a lovely presentation case and in perfect condition. Thanks so much, Onetribe – these aren’t coming out until I buy my next set from you!