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 […]

Stormy rain and sunlight over the Brecon Beacons.

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”

🤣

Winter sun sinks behind the silhouettes of a forest

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.

Screenshot of Typora markdown software

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 […]