Simon Morgan-Wilson

Hi. 👋🏼 If you’re here looking for the Simon Wilson who is * the BBC journalist * the video blogger * the chap from New Zealand, writes for the New Zealand Herald …none of them are me. 🫡

“Saving 40p a week / £21 a year”. If your diet includes weekly buys of Garlic Gherkins Chocolate-coated wafers and waffles Boiled sweets Toffees, caramels and similar sweets Citrus jams, marmalades and pastes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not that sharing it here will help sell it but I’m pleased to share Badger has mucked in to sell the house in Idle. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...

Didn’t think I’d wake to find the Ballon D’Or winner thanking an ex-Grimsby manager - Russell Slade - but here we are. #StrangeDays

How did we get to the point Robert Jenrick gets so much airtime?

🎶 Man sneeze, man sneeze, Apollo Creed, Apollo Creed 🎶

Spotted a special postbox today* on Kingsway, Holburn. - Edward VII, so rare - two posting slots type - still in use * well, @texmac.bsky.social did the spotting, I just modelled

My designated/local pharmacy going hard on the “get your flu jab with us!” the last two weeks, sending me two texts to book with them — just after my GP surgery facilitated my jab with one of their Sunday conveyor belt days. (Yeah, I know how it all works and also doesn’t work.)

Nice little 3km in the sun round the edge of West Brompton, Fulham and Chelsea. lol at all the World Champions livery at a certain football club

Ole ole, to win 4-1 at Gillingham away. #GTFC

Thoughts and prayers with all the NY Yankees and LA Dodgers fans I see around the UK. Must be tough at the moment knowing your team hasn’t made the World Series. 💁‍♂️

Nice 10km run* from West Brompton across to Putney and back. And ticked off three more Thames bridges.

Brompton cemetery and cacio e pepe. Not a bad end of Friday.

Testing the legs after a hectic week. Leeds-Liverpool anal looking autumnal. Looking forward to 10k Chelsea/Fulham way tomorrow morning.

My mate @lloydgriffith.bsky.social suddenly lost hearing in one of his ears a couple of years ago. He’s openly talking about the experience and asking people to not take hearing loss so casually. Get it checked. www.instagram.com/reel/Dezg5p5...

Had a lot of chats about roles lately where someone says we need product thinking. Or product management. Rarely what they mean. So here's my go at both, plus product operating models, and some questions to ask whether you're hiring or looking. www.officeofwilson.com/bizarre-love...

Shout out to the Man U fan at the canal at the weekend being all billy big bollocks when he saw my Grimsby top. “Don’t need to worry about you little clubs this year, mate! Back in the big time, mate!” he shouted at me. Good to see, mate.

I was on @codalmighty.bsky.social match report duties for last night's Grimsby game at Rochdale. Somebody's changed my GREAT title - which was a GREAT nod to the GREAT Autechre - gah. Editors, eh. But anyway... #GTFC www.codalmighty.com/site/ca.php?...

Tuesday night under the lights at Rochdale for the #GTFC game. Enjoyed that. Much better. Much much better. 💪🏼

A Tuesday night in Rochdale for the #GTFC game. Better be worth putting off more episodes of Slow Horses. 🤞🏼

Still space for more to come to this Thursday evening’s Bradford Digital get-together, at Assembly on North Parade. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bradford-d...

Spent my morning at Wickes. My evening watching Wicker. 12 hours and I’ll be Wickeq.

Week note for last week: www.officeofwilson.com/week-note-we...

I’ve spent four hours today stripping (steady…) and sanding doorframes. Tim however has spent four hours running round York to raise money. Another £125 and he’s hit his £1500 target. G’orn. Even a fiver helps. www.justgiving.com/page/tim-p-m...

AI generated websites that are one massive long page 🥴

Hands down one of the top ten moments in the Goonies. So early, such a good mood setter.

This is the kind of aggressive intelligence we need more of.

Here’s one of *a few* pictures of boats from my collection. Grand Union canal, St Pancs, London — December 2025

Street Fighter. Very fun! Very Simpson and Bruckheimer as its starting point. Feels there was a lot cut to keep it brisk. I really don’t care it was daft. It made me laugh and forget about outside the cinema for a couple of hours. That can be a good thing. Oh, and also — let’s be honest — kinky.

Loads of football clubs around the world try to intimidate the visiting team with reminders of how good the home team are. Details of past trophies or past players etc. Everton’s approach is a bit more cryptic. “Accessible toilet”

If you’re local to Saltaire — or want an excuse to visit — it’s Saltaire Christmas on Sunday 29th November, 10am to 10pm, at Victoria Hall. There’s a lights switch on too. And, of course, you’re welcome to pop by ours any time for a coffee or tea. 😘 www.instagram.com/saltairechri...

Autumn is here

Beetroot tart dinner at night, Next morning toilet trip fright.

This video - on Instagram, sorry, can’t find it anywhere else - comparing Burt’s Bees lip balm from 2022 to one bought today is the most excellent example of product design and product manufacturing I’ve seen in a long time. Bravo, Kent Brantlenite! www.instagram.com/reel/DefOseQ...

Phone photo galleries are great. Three years ago today I was walking a dry riverbed in Texas looking for dinosaur paw prints. Four years, walking Rozzles through Saltaire. What a babe. ❤️ Six years ago, taking shots of the the sky from the house in Idle, a view I saw a lot that year. Time, eh. 💨

Beth Orton - along with a great band who I’ve managed to not capture any of 🫠 - at the Howard Assembly Rooms last night. Five star performance.

And Bully's special prize... www.officeofwilson.com/cosplay/

Closing things off is as valuable as starting. My team at NHS England got "stood down" recently. Used some time this week to reflect for an unofficial follow-up to our first design history. Not exhaustive. Good to acknowledge the team's hard work. www.officeofwilson.com/getting-all-...

First single you bought with your own money. No lying! Mine: "Red Box - Lean on Me (Ah-Li-Ayo)", 1985. Still know every word.

“Sees it as it is and speaks common sense” instantly brings up my fave example of _common sense_ from my youth: “Eat your carrots. Carrots help you see in the dark.” Fact: Carrots won’t give you better-than-normal night vision.

Yes. (Not my work. Someone else sent it to me.)

Whenever they say someone is remanded in custody on the news. I think of 1980s kids TV show.

New tunes from Orbital and Sleaford Mods on the same day. Jackpot! youtu.be/RChplJsbtuU?...

Tim’s £350 off his target. If you’ve some spare cash - and I know money is *tight* - please give a little the way of Tim’s cause. Every bit helps. 🙇‍♂️

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Happy 35th birthday Foxbase Alpha! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxbase...

“Please listen to music and videos through headphones.” Cue noise seep from the headphones and earphones.