Paul Robert Lloyd 🐢

Tonight I got to meet one of my design heroes, Margaret Calvert. Her work speaks for itself, which makes her modesty even more impressive. When I told her I use her typeface every day, she simply responded “oh dear, poor you”. Legend.

In yet another surprising turn of events, today I joined a library. And borrowed a book of fiction. To read.

Sun-kissed evenings in Porto never fail to impress.

Starting March much as I did February by trying something new. This morning I completed my first Aquathon (Tuff Fitty’s Frost Bite event in Littlehampton, a 400m swim followed by a 5km run), finishing with a time of 50:35. I’ll take that!

So ends a peaceful, relaxing and enjoyable Easter bank holiday doing mostly nothing, beyond watching some films and TV shows, spending time with my family, and going on short walks with this little old lady. Perfect.

Attempted to give blood for the first time today but failed the vein assessment. Gutted. Signing up was easy, and the team at the new donation centre in Brighton are really friendly, so go and give blood. https://www.blood.co.uk

@kyleford@hachyderm.io 😂

Almost 3 years since it was first proposed, today the summary card officially became part of the GOV.UK Design System.

Many thanks to @fofr@mastodon.social, who helped conceive the original design, and to Tim, Chris, Calvin, Owen and others at GDS for shepherding this contribution through the approval process.

Right then, what’s next?

I was tagged by @sally@mastodon.social in a chain letter-like blog post in which people answer questions about how and why they blog. Hope this is vaguely interesting!

https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2025/053/a1/blog_questions_challenge/

Today has been utterly barmy, and not only the weather.

This is a low.