A Shepherds Hut was in an auction In 2021 I read an online article online in a daily newspaper where a sheep farmer had been outbid at an auction for an old Shepherds Hut by someone from London. The point of the article was a moral outrage thought piece complaining that a townie was able to outbid someone for an old...

I have had some difficulties working out how to do draft posts in 11ty and went with a standard solution that has worked well over the past few years. However there was one big drawback for me. Last year I decided to reduce deployment times to the various hosts that I use. This was reasonably easy to do by dropping...

I have had the disks from my Drobo 5N sitting in protective cases for five years. We had a power cut while it was doing something and from that point I was unable to connect to it despite everything I tried. I did get in contact with a specialist Drobo recovery business who quoted over £1k to restore the files, plus...

I have received a 009 Society Kerr Stuart Sirdar, a new 009 narrow Gauge loco produced by Rapido Trains UK. The next day I received a package with two more from elsewhere. I had pre-ordered one when they were initially announced, then the 009 Society Exclusive version was announced and then I also received one as a...

In a bout of inspiration this week I changed some of the framework on this site. It started by realising that the additional content below an article was wrapped up in the article tag. I found this when I tested SEOTesting’s new Content Evaluator tool and it suggested that there were parts of the page that were...

Spent the weekend visiting family on the East Kent Coast and decided we would pop over to St Margarets Bay as we had not been for some time. As a kid I was over here often and my dad used to run the GPO Repeater Station on the top of the hill - great views over the channel from there and there are secret tunnels...

What is OKF Google Cloud's Open Knowledge Format (OKF v0.1) was released on 12 June 2026 by Google Cloud and is essentially a formalisation of something developers and SEOs have been doing informally for a while — maintaining markdown knowledge bases. If you've used llms.txt, agents.md, or Obsidian-style vaults,...

When I work on a site migration I like to redirect everything I possibly can find, very much in a 'no one gets left behind' sort of way. Most migration projects don't do this, for a multitude of reasons, but years ago I was told to only redirect the top 200 pages of a site, which was about 10% of the live pages,...

I use Fathom Analytics for measuring my sites as it is privacy based and has a great dashboard. One of the features of the dashboards is that it has keyboard shortcuts to switch between the sites being tracked. They are 1-9 and 0. 0 actually takes you back to the overall display showing all sites - except that it...

11ty templates set up In my 11ty templates I generally use the same content for the title and the h1 tags. In the frontmatter I always have a title field as the title tag is actually the only required html tag in a html document, did you know that? So it makes sense to have the title tag as a requirement in my...

We are life members of the National Trust so try and get out to see as many locations in a year as possible. One of the highlights that always brings us back to make repeat visits is the Christmas decorations - different in every house each year but also different between each of the great houses and often reflect...

Here is the recipe! Ingredients Filling 275g breadcrumbs from a gluten free loaf – Shär Vitality Loaf 225g grated mature Cheddar cheese 1 large onion grated 3 tablespoons of The Coconut Collab Double Cream 3 tablespoons chopped sage 1.5 teaspoons mustard powder 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper Pastry Two 280g packs of...