Hammersmith Bridge by Victor Cudjoe - Unsplash

Personal Posts from the Little Fire Digital Team

Personal items from the Little Fire Digital team. It’s not all about business. We try to work to live far more than we live for work.

And sometimes we try to write about it.



Military graves at Kensal Rise cemetery, London

Dear John

Lest we forget. Today is armistice day. Here’s a personal story from one of the Little Fire team.

December 2024

December 2024

It’s December 2024 … STREWTH! How did that happen?! Sometimes you get to the end of the year, and you worry you have achieved nothing … There is no doubt that this year has been tough. Personally, I wish I hadn’t…

Cork City at dusk. © Jamie O’Sullivan https://unsplash.com/photos/white-and-black-boat-on-dock-during-sunset-WAh9lIRcVaU

Cork City 2

We chose not to hurry to sadness and so took the old road yesterday. The one which was the only one when we were new. The island may never have looked better, long shadows and trees ablaze in the seasons’s…

A short meditation on the letter g

A Short Meditation on the Letter ‘g’

This has been rattling around my head for some time – it’s probably best if it were let loose. It’s just a short meditation, so please bear with me. Here it is. The letter ‘g’, lower case, Times New Roman.…

Happy Birthday to me the Langdale Pikes from Ling Moor Fell

Happy Birthday

As widely publicised as I could manage, six months and eleven days ago I signed a waiver granting a surgeon the permission to amputate my leg. Yesterday was a better day. I managed to climb Ling Moor Fell (469m), Great…

A wooden pole in the snow

A Big, Personal Thank You

This is a big personal thank you from Simon Norris, Gaffer at Little Fire Digital. I owe a lot of people a lot. So please bear with me and pardon the French. So it has been a week since I…

Whose Mum? Why domain names matter.

Whose Mum? Domain Names, FQDNs and why it Matters

The Internet is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think that encyclopaedia is big, but that’s just peanuts to the Internet. With grovelling apologies to Douglas Adams, the…

A dragonfly

Blackburn Meadows

There’s a joke around here: father and son are sitting on a hillside looking over rolling fields. Father turns to son and says "Of course, son, when I were a lad, all this were factories"

Hammersmith Bridge by Victor Cudjoe - Unsplash

Fathers’ Day

A short personal piece which has very little to do with wheelbarrows.