Blogathon 19/23: Publicity
Marketing your novel isn’t a thing that happens by itself. Large publishing houses have marketing teams and massive budgets. They take out full-page adverts in
Blogathon 18/23: Tech services
Yesterday I got an email from Fitbit telling me about their exciting new developments! I’ve had Fitbit wearable devices for about five years (but it
Blogathon 17/23: Village industry
Continuing yesterday’s briefish look at the history of the village, and also how the centre of the village has shifted by a couple of miles
Blogathon 16/23: The village
No, not Sir Clough Williams-Ellis’ Italianate architectural bonkersness on the North Welsh coast. I mean this little village. After talking about the pet shop of
Blogathon 15/23: Ear ear!
We are tremendously fortunate to have a very good pet shop in the village. A proper pet shop. An independent one and not part of
Blogathon 14/23: More maps!
Hot on the heels (in a kind of way) of yesterday’s chart/map conversation, I thought I’d reveal that I like maps. My favourite kind of
Blogathon 13/23: It’s early!
Only just gone 09.30 and I’m fairly knackered. Been awake since 04.00 though, so there’s that. Anyway. I have been reading marine charts this morning.
Blogathon 12/23: Sunday bloody Sunday
It’s an odd day, Sunday. Squeezed onto the end of a hectic week and hard on the heels of a Saturday that has usually been
Blogathon 11/23: Tales of Future Past
(one for the Moody Blues fans there) Ahem. One hundred years ago a bunch of creative minds were asked what they thought the year 2023
Blogathon 10/23: Shredding
Yesterday at around 19.45 Mavis and I sat here (Mavis and her sibling Pugsley, by the way, were seven months old a few days ago)
Blogathon 09/23: Pocket activity
In days of yore when men were sore and chickens weren’t invent… no. I’ll start that again. In days of old, when Knights were bold
Blogathon 08/23: Offer
During the dogwalk a few mornings ago I walked some of the way with a fellow dogwalker. He’s a functional HR consultant and helps large
Blogathon 07/23: High and dry
I’m studying for my Yachtmaster exams. This involves a lot of reading because, believe it or not, there’s a big bucketload of very serious information
Blogathon 06/23: Unexpected DIY
It is a truth universally acknowledged that there are two types of DIY household jobs. There are the fully designed, planned, costed, and workpackage-estimated and
Blogathon 05/23: Blogging
It’s early days, here in Young Masher’s Annual Blogathon Challenge, but the struggle is real. We strive to post one blogpost a day for the
Blogathon 04/23: Going underground
One way or another The Blorenge (rhymes with Orange, so there) mountain has been a monumental erm monument in my life for so many years.
Blogathon 03/23: Books!
I have become an avid reader of books. Both types, Kindle, and the old-fashioned sort. I’ve always enjoyed reading, and have never strayed much, despite
Blogathon 02/23: It’s Groundhog Day. Again
I could write a detailed academic essay on the film Groundhog Day, but I will make every effort to avoid that level of analysis here.
Blogathon 01/23: It’s out!
[gratuitous self-promotion klaxon] I’m incredibly pleased to announce that – finally! – my second novel ‘Tempest’ is finished and is widely available in paperback. Plus,
Blogathon 00/23: Buckle up
Every year Young Masher sets the Internet ablaze with a large box of matches, a packet of firelighters, and the crazy craze that is his
Ding dong!
Not ‘Merrily On High’. And also not to be said in a Leslie Philips cadish kind of way. It’s the bells, the bells (you can
The thing is…
I was on a Teams call with someone today. They kept saying ‘The thing is…’ It was OK for the first 20 minutes, but after
When old tech goes good
RSS readers were introduced in 1999 (that’s 23 years ago at today’s prices). My RSS reader burst into life the other day and told me
Tomorrow’s World
A couple of million years ago there used to be a programme on BBC (because there was only the one BBC channel back then) called
Time is an illusion
In a conversation on a sailing forum recently, someone told me that ‘DIY boat time’ is unrelated to ‘DIY time at home’. On Saturday I
The death of another part of social media!
Note the use of the exclamation mark? 🙂 Because we are all young and trendy folk hereabouts, ma famille has branched out into another corner
Clean jacket
I had some work done on the Ninja on Saturday. A bunch of years ago on a less modern bike, I would have done it
The death of another part of social media?
These early days of the 21st Century are odd times. We last quarter of the previous century saw an explosion of social media. They’ve all
The ivy (not the restaurant)
Yesterday, and again this morning, I spent a bunch of hours rescuing the cherry tree from being strangled by ivy. What I thought would be
World tour of Cheshire
I spent the day on the boat. The list of priority jobs were largely outside tasks. Today was the third attempt to get up there
DIYing (again)
Logs. Long overdue, and by a significant number of years, I decided to provide the house with a log store. But instead of going to
Naked Ambition
You don’t get anywhere if you don’t have ambition. Competitive equestrians tend to focus on the next step up the ladder: Intro to PreNovice to
Dragon’s Den
Hello Dragons. Thank you for allowing me to share this concept with you. The problem statement:On 12th September 2022 at 15.15 I took a brief
Good Mood: the joblist
Way back in June 2021 I put together the original list of jobs that I felt (at the time) Good Mood needed. Over the following
It’s a sign!
I have recently undertaken a road trip! I drove from Nottingham to Torquay and then, a day later, drove from Torquay back to Nottingham. While
Good Mood #9/22
Friday 13th August. The purpose of today’s trip was a shakedown for the newly-fitted Raymarine ‘B’ class AIS transceiver, and the equally newly-fitted Raymarine Axiom
Good Mood #8/22 More firsts
On the evening of Thursday 6th July I attended the LaLa Rally Briefing, in the headquarters of the North Wales Cruising Club, Conwy. The LaLa
Technology
The Gutenberg printing press really took off as a mainstream device around 1480 (542 years ago!), by which time there were 110 presses active in
Not sailing again
The plan was a really early start from home this morning. Get onto the boat. Leave the marina about 10.00. Get out into the bay
The blame game (2)
I was recently on a course. It was a fairly detailed, low-level geekery course run by the Open Software Foundation/XOpen/The Open Group (you can take
Phew wot a scorcher
It is the hottest day of the year (so far). A balmy 30-degrees in these parts as I type these very words. We knew it
Prevaricating about the bush
My Samsung S9 is end of life. Four years old and end of life. There’s something sad about that. It still works nicely. Makes and
The blame game (1)
The main road (not actually a road but I’ll come to that) through this village connects with another lane that runs to another village. The
Good Mood #7/22 A night of firsts
The four-day Bank Holiday weekend and the sailing club combined to offer me a four-day singlehanded passage to/from the Isle of Man. This didn’t happen,
Luvly Jubbly
It’s an odd, odd week. The Good Lady Wife Her Indoors is at home all week* because it is half term. The step-offspring are also