Mike Stevens

Illustrator, designer, writer

Category: the world

  • Making a Sky Change

    Making a Sky Change

    Threads is like Twitter on steroids, with an algorithm constantly throwing more and more new content at me – so I’m making a ‘sky change’. I’m leaving the big smoke of Threads and heading for the calm Bluesky.

  • Moving to Germany: We’re doing it!

    Moving to Germany: We’re doing it!

    An evolving checklist for moving from Australia to Germany.

  • Compelling, exciting, horrifying

    So, meine Liebe, after watching Eurovision this past weekend (long-time fan of course, like most Aussies), is back on her “should we move to Germany?” dreaming.

  • A note of thanks to a proper hero

    A note of thanks to a proper hero

    I couldn’t help it. When I’d first caught wind of the news that Jacinda Ardern will resign in February as leader of the NZ Labour Party and Prime Minister of New Zealand, I assumed – only briefly – that she’d been caught out for something naughty. After all, isn’t that how most politicians end up leaving…