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Once a year, given the chance, my family uses to do a summer trip away from home. This year we decided to move to Spain, visiting another piece of the Country. Having been in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia (many times) the initial idea...
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Through the years, I've tried many different creative and personal outlets. I've tried graphic design, songwriting, crochet, and video editing. But the one constant thing has always been writing. The earliest I can remember was writing...
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herdr is actually worth the hype The Green Mile meme “I’m tired boss” is how I feel about most multiplexer apps these days. I am a zellij mam after years of futzying around in tmux configs i settled on zellij brcause its 80% works out of...
Literature is a hobby, and not. It is an academic discipline, and not. It is a diversion, a distraction, an escape. But some of us can’t imagine a well-lived life without it. There’s a lot of talk about books being good for us, making us...
Resolve is doing the thing anyway.Not because it is easy. Not because it is fun. Not because anyone is going to thank you for it. Sometimes resolve means standing there when every sane instinct says to walk away, go home, lock the door,...
Every week, I share something I learned in the previous seven days. I usually find these while I'm putting my weekly newsletter together but somehow, they don't quite fit! This week I learned exactly how to watch the upcoming Solar...
It’s that time again, when the Dawes brothers descend on the Isle of Man (literally this time, as they flew over), I have to think up a different snappy title, and they both send me lots of photos. Just a few today, and a torrent...
If you play guitar or have ever shopped for one somewhat thoroughly, you know that there’s a huge market for cosmetically aged guitars. That is, you can go to the guitar store and buy one that looks like it’s from the ‘60s. That looks...
Saturday 8th August 2026 Readers may recall a blog last November featuring a grassroots campaign in Glastonbury calling for a dedicated direct bus route linking the Somerset town to and from Castle Cary railway station to alleviate the...
I'm not sure why I haven't seen a locomotive point of view trip around Bekonscot's extensive Gauge 1 railway system before, but here we go.
A couple of hours wandering around The Puddle - and two carp stalked off the top on floating crust. Including double #17 - a (very nearly) leather carp at 10lb 15oz. Wonder what else is in there?
It's 11:15 p.m. and I'm just starting to write this weekly summary that publishes at midnight so sit tight and get ready to read some of the best words put together you've ever seen. A Tale of Two Tails There was not one but two poodle...
The annoying thing about studying the Black Death (besides having to read about lots of horrific things of course) is that new discoveries are being made all the time.Thanks to new scientific possibilities and archaeological finds much...