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Smart? Meter?

30 August 202430 August 2024

Our energy supplier (Ovo) has been writing letters and calling me, telling me that we need to get a smart meter installed because the radio

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The results are in!

16 August 202416 August 2024

Yesterday morning the 18yo was at her sixth-form place of education bright and early to collect her A-Level results. I’m so pleased to be able

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Safety thirst

15 August 202414 August 2024

While I sit here sipping a delicious hot chocolate (I don’t know how she does it, but my good lady wife her indoors makes better

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You know you should reboot your router when…

14 August 202414 August 2024

Before: After:

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Busy

31 July 20245 August 2024

Stuff seems to fall into two categories. I’m either working on writing (or things related to writing which is the same thing really), or I’m

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A big day out

15 July 202415 July 2024

Yesterday we went to Newark Book Festival.

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Independence Day

4 July 20244 July 2024

Today is the 4th of July so I thought I’d take a few moments to have a little trip through some of the more notable

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Comments test

11 June 202411 June 2024

To determine how long the comments remain open when actually set to close 22 days after 11th June 2024

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Golden people!

15 May 202415 May 2024

‘Just a pile of old gold I haven’t used in ages.’ These were the words of a woman featured in an advert on commercial radio.

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Exciting day!

12 May 202412 May 2024

Keep reading, you may think this is dull, but it gets very exciting! But be warned, I mean this gets very exciting. Saturday’s forecast promised

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Shooboots/Shoets/whatever

8 May 202410 May 2024

I’m aware that walking boots have been through a significant amount of change over the last few decades. When I was a whippersnapper, walking boots

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Pets At Home (again)

23 April 202423 April 2024

I’m determined to give Pets At Home my money. They have a product that we buy a lot of. They have a good price for

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Marathon

22 April 202421 April 2024

I’ve been in training for a year. It’s been relentless even though I started slowly. I experimented with interval training but I couldn’t get the

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Caravan plumbing (again)

15 April 202413 April 2024

Well, the bathroom mixer tap failed again. I say again, but the last time it failed was last year. I bought a new one after

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Dun a runner

13 April 202413 April 2024

One of the lovely things about the place we stayed in the Mysterious East is it’s tremendously dog friendly. The caravan CL (certified location) is

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Bin away

10 April 202411 April 2024

We have been on our travels to the exotic east. Vietnam is lovely at this time of year. Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi have

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Battery=flat

28 March 202428 March 2024

The NWCC sailing club has it’s annual shakedown cruise on Easter Saturday (that’s the day after Good Friday and before Easter Sunday. The shakedown is

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Connections

26 March 2024

I’m not normally given to big introspections (is that the right word), but lately I’ve been thinking about what I’ve lost, rather than what I’ve

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Insurance Ninja

16 March 202415 March 2024

0344 381 7540 Insurance Nina For the last two years I’ve had the Ninja insured with Kawasaki Insurance. They were (two years ago) the cheapest

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Just a light trim?

15 March 2024

On yesterday afternoon’s dogwalk, we came across one of the local arboralicologists arborolists tree-cutters doing their thing. The pair of large fir trees that stand

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Sent off

12 March 202412 March 2024

This is a big thing for me. I’ve just sent Hurricane, book three in the Tempest series, to the editor. I have tried a new

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The Doctor is out

11 March 202411 March 2024

I had a cold, did I mention this? Oh yes, I see I did, about five and a bit weeks ago. Well, anyway. The cold

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Filthy rich and dogflap*

8 March 20247 March 2024

I’ve just ordered a dogflap. This is the third one I’ve ordered (and will have fitted) in three and a half years. The dogs keep

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It’s a sign!

7 March 20247 March 2024

I hang around in some of the dustier, less fashionable corners of the Internet because it’s there that one occasionally finds gold. That’s a great

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Beware of the Leopard

6 March 20245 March 2024

There are words and phrases that my mind (and maybe yours too) just sucks up and stores in a special place for future use. That

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New toy!

5 March 20241 March 2024

For various reasons too dull to go into, I have procured a new device. I shall be RTFMing and then setting it up and then

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Friends?

4 March 20241 March 2024

I’ve just had a FB friend request from a young lady of no previous acquaintance. She lives in Phenix City in Alabama (it’s an actual

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Dad music?

3 March 20241 March 2024

Dire Straits (not dire straits, that’s something else). They seem to have been around for a hundred years or thereabouts. I can’t remember what the

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Guilty pleasure

2 March 202428 February 2024

I subscribe to a couple of YouTube driving channels. Exposed UK Dash Cams Compilation 12 is the latest to roll into my inbox. I particularly

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Robbing barstewards

1 March 202428 February 2024

Pet insurance. It’s one of those things you’ve just got to have. Mavis recently had treatment from our regular vet followed by a night in

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Blogathon 29/24: Last one

29 February 202428 February 2024

And now the end is here, and so I face that final curtain. My friend I’ll make it clear, I’ll state my case, of which

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Blogathon 28/24: Not going blind!

28 February 202429 February 2024

On Sunday I had my two-yearly eye test. I went to the Boots optician in West Bridgford because I used to work for Boots and

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Blogathon 27/24: Stats!

27 February 202423 February 2024

Well, the period of advertising is over and the count is in. FB provides some good stats and can convert advertising stats into a variety

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Blogathon 26/24: Uncertainty!

26 February 202423 February 2024

Sometimes I have left-over meals for lunch. Chickenish leftovers, for example. It might be a bowl of (formerly) fried chicken, herbs, spices, and pasta waiting

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Blogathon 25/24: Fencing!

25 February 202425 February 2024

Our neighbours are preparing their house ‘for the market’. They’ve had work done inside and are almost complete on having work done outside. The outside

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Blogathon 24/24: How many?

24 February 202423 February 2024

Yesterday morning Ken Bruce spoke to a listener on Greatest Tits Radio who had been to see Mamma Mia The Musical fifty-six times. That stopped

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Blogathon 23/24: TIL/on ice

23 February 202422 February 2024

Today I learned that (one of) the local estate agents will accept a commission to sell your house, pop round, take internal and external photos

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Blogathon 22/24: Break

22 February 202422 February 2024

I have been doing a lot of thinking recently. I do a lot of thinking normally, but recently I have been doing a lot more

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Blogathon 21/24: Spam fritters

21 February 202419 February 2024

Although the Internet is full of spam, Facebook seems to be fuller. I have an author profile on FB which is there solely to talk

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Blogathon 20/24: Book find!

20 February 202419 February 2024

I meant to blog about this one a few months ago but, you know… We went to Hay-on-Wye (not Hay-oh-Why, that’s a place that doesn’t

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Blogathon 19/24: Awayish

19 February 202417 February 2024

We want to return to the far east. Back to China, and Vietnam. Particularly Vietnam, I’d love to see so much more of the country,

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Blogathon 18/24: Ads!

18 February 202417 February 2024

We play the lottery. We vary where our weekly tipple goes. Maybe £2.50 on the Euros, or perhaps three Thunderballs, or maybe a couple of

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Blogathon 17/24: SMRs everywhere!

17 February 202415 February 2024

This morning I read an interesting article on the electrical power demands of datacentres, and how those demands have massively increased (and is continuing to

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Blogathon 16/24: Car

16 February 202415 February 2024

I have had my Insignia from new; it is now six years old. The websites that know these things tell me how much it’s worth

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Blogathon 15/24: Rooting tooting

15 February 202411 February 2024

A few months ago, over on the Geekblog, I rambled on about how I had to change the name of the 2.4Ghz Band on our

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Blogathon 14/24: VD

14 February 202411 February 2024

We don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day, it being a DolManSaxLil-esque* conspiracy of shoe-buying proportions, but for gift-card-buying not shoe-buying. Obviously. Anyway. Today is Valentine’s Day, the

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Blogathon 13/24: Overreacting much?

13 February 202411 February 2024

There are lots of memes going strong over on TikTok, in fact that app is where a lot of new stuff (features, functions, memes, etc)

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Blogathon 12/24: Ham on the moon

12 February 202410 February 2024

On 24th January 2024, Japan successfully landed ‘SLIM’ on the moon. SLIM is the Japanese small lunar landing demonstration vehicle. This made Japan the fifth

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Blogathon 11/24: FMP for infrastructure?

11 February 202410 February 2024

I have a Find My Past account; my sister and I have been burrowing away from different directions; her using Ancestry, me using FMP. It

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Blogathon 10/24: Changing numbers

10 February 202410 February 2024

I’m going to point participants of a writer’s group on FB at this post because the subject recently came up. Hardcopy books (paperback or hardback)

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