Category: Diary
General posts about my life and the things I am doing
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Bring it down!
It is 6:58am Monday morning and I have a few thoughts about yesterday and today. My first is the new heating system is due to be delivered sometime today and that’s really exciting. That’s going to consist of an air source heat pump, 5 or 6 wall-mounted heater and cooler units and then a bunch…
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Kitchen walls
Last night I played a few turns of Total War: Warhammer 3 with R. Often there are three of us, with M rounding out the set, but it was just the two of us last night so I loaded the game we started a few months back and we played through about ten turns. My…
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Forever Autumn
One of the songs in the Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds I like the most is called Forever Autumn. It’s about loved ones who aren’t here anymore and works well for any kind of relationship, which is perhaps a large part of why it appeals to me so much. The whole song is…
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After the hack
For years Gareth ran a handful of quiet, low-traffic WordPress sites for friends and community groups. Then a worm got in, and by 2024 he’d lost control of all of them. Two years on, he finally sits down to clear the wreckage and start again, smaller and simpler this time.
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Probably healthy
It is late, I need to get to bed and get to the very serious business of sleeping, and yet I have not written a few hundred words, or studied much Chinese today. These are important goals and somehow they slip away unless I hold on very tight to them. I found time to play…
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In the office
Good morning. I have come into the office and wanted to get a few hundred words written for myself before I make a start of writing the words other people need from me. In this case the script and slides for a presentation on Monday. I have left finishing that a bit late. One of…