Autumn on the A484

I spent a few months living in Drefach Felindre — a lovely village nestled in the wilds of west Carmarthenshire, about half an hour from Carmarthen and Cardigan. To get there from Carmarthen you take A484 north west through the […]

Ubuntu on Lenovo X250

I bought a Lenovo X250 laptop, refurbished with Windows 11 off eBay last year. It all seemed fine. I added an internal battery, and a high capacity removable battery to give it as much life as possible from a single […]

Dawn Rain on Brecon Road

Right now it feels like summer has departed, and autumn is having a crack at the year early. Horse chestnut leaves are already on the turn, and that familiar morning chill is back. I noticed the sun trying to make […]

Dog walkers on a large, sandy Welsh beach on a rainy day

Cefn Sidan in March

It’s utterly insane what good results you can get from phone cameras now. The Sony Xperia 5 MkV can shoot RAW. This means you have what the sensor picks up, not the way the software wants to resolve that in […]