I have not seen every film Hugh Grant has appeared in (not even the one where he was billed as ‘Hughie Grant’ which, I take
Category: Stuff
Blogathon 18/26: Minus 2c/hot
Last night was a night of sleep I can only categorise as ‘disastrous’. It was gone midnight before my body felt cool enough to sleep.
Blogathon 17/26: Out!
Stand by with your smelling salts, kids, last night I went out and yes, it was as much a traumatic experience for the rest of
Blogathon 16/26: Serviced
Today our central heating boiler was serviced. It’s just the annual thing, it’s still under warranty from when it was installed in January 2020. The
Blogathon 15/26: Stock
I’ve been playing around with a bunch of custom CSS and some newly-created database fields because I had a really good night’s sleep last night
Blogathon 14/26: Predictable
Well, it’s the 14th of February and you know what that means. Yes, that’s right. The world didn’t end on Friday 13th. So, and only
Blogathon 13/26: Superstition
Well, here we are. Friday the 13th (catchy title for a film or several, yes?). I’m not really superstitious (Morning Mr Magpie, how’s the wife
Blogathon 12/26: Parts
I’ve been working on a fantasy project for a while and when I say “a while” I mean I’ve been picking it up, playing with
Blogathon 11/26: Ryan?
The greatest anti-war film ever made is Saving Private Ryan and I will accept no arguments on this. The first 35 minutes which graphically show
Blogathon 10/26: Got wood
The doorbell did its thing. The dogs did their (very noisy) thing. I set aside the laptop, walked to the front door, opened it, and
Blogathon 09/26: Backing up
Yesterday evening I kicked off the weekly housekeeping back up processes. You know how it goes: It doesn’t take that long. Our download speed is
Blogathon 08/26: Writing
The desire was strong, though the flame of creativity dimly flickered, so I set aside the in-hand projects and decided to turn a page (haha!).
Blogathon 07/26: Radio Gaga
When I’m working, whether it’s campaign stuff (of which more at a later date), writing, reading, doing housework, or whatever else I get upto, I
Blogathon 06/26: Dreams
My stepfather had a rifle I didn’t know about. It was a proper, bullet shooting rifle, a bolt-action .303 which he kept at the back
Blogathon 05/26: Woofle
Pugsley is proper crook (as they say in the antipodes). Soon after tea yesterday he honked it all back up. Later, in the night, the
Blogathon 04/26: Fez
I have a Fez! It came back from Marrakesh with me. I seem to remember I wore it all the way home because I couldn’t
Blogathon 03/26: Busy?
Since I gave up work, I’ve never been so busy. I’ve tried explaining this oddness to those who care (nobody) and tried explaining it to
Blogathon 02/26: It’s Groundhog Day. Again
(It wouldn’t be Groundhog Day if I didn’t repeat this one again) I could write a detailed academic essay on the film Groundhog Day, but
Blogathon 01/26: Ah me, ah my
Well, here we are again. The Wunth of February. The second month of 2026 and it’s been a heck of a year already. And why
Tech update!
I have completed my quest for 2FA greatness. A little plugin called WP 2FA (with some settings turned off and and linked to Authenticator –
And while I’m…
Talking about cross-genre music, Oli Parker’s jazz-funk trumpet solo across the top of Rosé/Bruno Mars K-Pop song ‘Meet Me at the APT’ is a thing
Music, folk
One (of the many) lessons I learned later in life was that categories of music are, like the words of certain politicians, not to be
Plugged out
We have a couple of smart-ish plugs downstairs. They’ve been installed for approximately 3 years and they work pretty well. I’ve hooked them up to
Doggy dogz
You know how it is when strange things happen and then strange things happen and then strange things happen and something strange happens as a
Gym/no gym
I’m a member of Pure Gym. It’s a national chain. The nearest one is in Colwick which is 8 miles or 20 miles away. I’m
3rd time lucky?
I fitted a new dogflap into the kitchen door today. “New” because Robyn broke the old one. She broke the old-old one too. It’s not
It’s impossible
I’ve noticed a growing trend of the word ‘impossible’ being incorrectly used. It’s right up there with ‘decimated’, but the misuse of ‘impossible’ is actually
Spotifedup?
Spotify have been making a really big PR thing about finally shifting their streaming to lossless, but enquiring minds have been aware what Spotify are
Microsoft Madness
When a respected tech journal such as El Reg feels it has to inform its readers of 11 Registry hacks to make Win11 less annoying
Microsoft is takin’ the pee
Well, Windows 10 is out of support in a couple of weeks and those of us with laptops which (Microsoft tells us) won’t run Windows
Occasional cleaning
This morning I did a whole-system (data and databases) backup of the NAS. Then I did a safe powerdown, removed the disks and carefully vacuumed
Red Kite at day
I’ve been standing in the garden this afternoon, painting a fence panel and listening to the ‘kee, kee, kee‘ calls of the Red Kites which
Not being dead (still)
I missed this anniversary but what the heck. 9 years and 1 week ago today (as I said, I missed the anniversary) I was sitting
The Online Safety Act is awful (v2.0)
With the predictability that Summer follows Spring and idiots are plentiful in this country, there are now calls from people with all the IQ of
Not France!
The cross-channel motorcycle trip was booked and paid for. So was the return leg. The first two hotels were booked and paid for. The other
The Online Safety Act is awful
The Online Safety Act (a terrible piece of legislation which has been made law in the UK) brings into focus a group of people who
New cover spoiler
cross-posted from my writing blog because If you read my FB page you may have already seen last night’s announcement that the paperback, Kindle and
New arrival
A few days after the Superdream departed for the balmy shores of Birmingham, the good lady wife her indoors took delivery of her new two-wheeled
Road closed?
Cadent are digging up the lane which runs through the village. They’re laying in a new gas main right down the middle of the lane.