There’s so much to do… and not enough time to do it
There is no possible way I could say I’m in a creative funk at the moment. No, I suffer from the opposite in that I’ve got so many ideas, so many things on the go, and so little time to […]
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 […]
Reflections on 2023
A Challenging Year Following on from last year’s post, unfortunately, 2023 wasn’t the best year ever. It was pretty challenging. We had major work done to the house at the start of the year that was supposed to be up […]
Time with a toddler
Was just saying to the missus:
“Remember at Christmas before she was born. We used to have time to watch the entire Harry Potter saga through in the run up to Christmas. Now we barely have time to…”
Her: “…take a shower”
🤣
Happy Winter Solstice 2023
The winter solstice is here. The shortest day. The longest night. I profoundly struggled with the darker, winter months in past years. These days I’m a lot better, but the winter solstice still holds a place in my heart. Not […]
Severe Clear
Reading the other day and came across the term “severe clear” – a totally cloudless sky of an intense blue. I love coming across new ways to describe things.
I added Marmite to scrambled egg
I added Marmite to scrambled egg this morning. Still trying to process this.
Hello Typora!
I was previously using InspireWriter to handle all my writing. I first discovered it it in 2020 and it worked quite well for me. But with well over a year of no developer activity, and recently not being able to […]
Reflections on 2022 and Looking Forward to 2023
2022 has passed in a flash. After being a first-time father for close to a year, I can’t believe I ever said “I don’t have time” before! I always get inspired in the period between Christmas and New Year. I […]
It’s Late August — But I’m in September.
It feels like an age ago I was in shorts and flip-flops, yet it’s only a week since we had a heatwave. Now at the tail-end of August with the rain falling and the darker mornings, mentally I’m finding myself […]