I am going to be spending more time today chipping away at the Udemy course, which is turning out to be a far more intransigent creature than I had optimistically imagined. In my head, it was all going to be terribly straightforward: write a few clean explanations, add some examples, press upload, and stroll away feeling accomplished.

Naturally, reality had other ideas.

Mostly time has been spent wrestling with the bits no one ever talks about, deciding which examples actually help, trimming the ones that don’t, and trying not to sound like I’m speaking from the top of a windswept hill. It’s slow going, but it is going, and that’s the important part.

Still, there’s something oddly comforting about the process. You make a cup of tea, sit down, mutter something about “right then, let’s get on with it,” and eventually the work starts to take shape. Not glamorous, not heroic, but steady. Very English, really.

More progress tomorrow. Or at least another cup of tea.