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I have spent time during Music Week sitting with my dad as the Adult Choir rehearses. I may start bringing my laptop and getting some writing or grading done, the way I did the first year we came to Music Week as adults, back in 2022.But...
Junited is a blogging festival created by Robert Birming a couple of years back So here’s my suggestion for June: let’s show a little extra appreciation for this lovely digital space of ours. Junited is a love letter, from one blogger to...
July weather is unpredictable, from sweltering heatwaves to torrential rain. I take my chances where I can and step outside to enjoy my garden. At the moment my geraniums are glorious – shaded from the worst of the heat by the forsythia...
Pretty much spent the whole day sleeping. Glad I bookended with extra days off.100 words · 1 image
Originally posted on Mastodon Some knew in advance that Skynet was growing geometrically. The Cult of the Human Renaissance had spent years (and a lot of political capital) piggybacking Shuttle launches to build a lifeboat that could...
"Growin' Up" by Bruce Springsteen Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What's your favorite song about growing up? - Growing Up by Bruce Springsteen "I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd, but when...
I was chatting to fam the other day about how odd it is that we drive in a car up to the coldest part of a mountain just to stand in queues and ski down hills. I actually enjoy doing this, but there's an element of "what the frig is...
A few bits and pieces this time around. Lunch at an award-winning pub, some thoughts on the passing of Humphrey Smith, the owner of Samuel Smiths Brewery in Tadcaster, and a return to one of Halifax's most popular pubs a few months into...
Welcome to another Work in Progress Wednesday. We start this week with Eric who has been using the slap chop painting method to good affect on some Dreadball players. He has also used it on some fantasy human guards. Next up and Stephen...
I spotted this challenge on James' Coffee Blog and couldn't resist. I am perhaps not an obvious Swiftie but my Last.FM account will tell you exactly what I am: Screenshot of Last.fm profile showing 771 listens to Taylor Swift in the last...
1928 RouteNikon Df, 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6G AF Nikkor2026 In Indiana, the Lincoln Highway between Fort Wayne and Valparaiso has two major alignments: the original from 1913 that went northwesterly through South Bend and then southeasterly to...
Book title: I Cheerfully Refuse Author: Leif Enger Rating: 3.5/5 Slow plot. It took me a while to read this. Not a lot happens, and there is barely any world building. The characters shine, however. Especially Rainy and Lark. I...
Three years ago, I wrote a series of blogs trying to determine which EV would be the best fit for us. I spent far too much time evaluating just about every electric vehicle on the market. Our criteria, however, were a bit different from...
Requirement You are on a web page, using JavaScript, and have a reference to an element node. And you want to select the immediate children of that node using the general syntax used by querySelectorAll, maybe with some extra...
Our Lego Duplo blocks are in short supply meaning we’ll have to get creative to assemble, build, and rebuild new things. I want a house on wheels! is by far the most popular request here. No problem, we can do that, only to do that,...