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  • Split Slate and Fiction

    A little bit of gaming, and a little bit of DIY. The dry stone walling workshop at Quince Honey Farm was fun, and though the stones were heavy, the detail was light. The most important messages I took away were to just give it a try. And backfill. Lots of backfill. In this context it’s…

  • Reading on a Deadline

    Because what better way is there to relax than a threat of impending confiscation… The Library No, I’m not talking about your Steam Library. Or your PlayStation catalogue. We are discussing brick-and-mortar (and sometimes chassis in the case of vans) libraries. I have an on-again, off-again relationship with the library system. It was a convenient…

  • Travels and (Almost) Total Solar Eclipse

    There are plenty of reasons to holiday in the Catalan capital. Sangria. Tapas. Gaudi. Xocolate. Our summer holiday was a re-do of last years washed out trip to Barcelona. Surely it couldn’t rain the entire time in August? Thankfully this time we only got an hour or so over the duration of the holiday. X…

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  • Shed Loads of Work

    It starts with a mess. The workshop shed has been up since late August/early September last year. After the monumental effort preparing for and building said shed, I didn’t have a lot of energy left to do much else. Time went by, and other more pressing concerns arose (including a leaking pipe leading to some…

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  • Weird Al (Both Kinds)

    I’ve only gone and done it. The thing I was sucessfully avoided so far. Let’s talk about Weird Al. and AI. (This post contains AI-generated images, but trust me, they’re quite funny) Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Tremendously weird and funny, Weird: The Al Yankovic story is a pseudo-biopic loosely inspired by Weird Al’s life…

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  • Saws, Coffee, and Lego

    We squeezed in a trip to Reading and LEGOLAND over the weekend. Here’s a quick recap of what’s going on. Mobile Dimension Saw My brother and his wife have spent the last three years working with a rather niche product. They bought a company that manufactures portable saw mills in Oregon, USA. The embedded video…

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  • In Too Deep?

    I have a very particular set of skills… Part of my job is to carry out post mortems on people who have died whilst diving. It is a fascinating area of medicine and requires knowledge of both traditional pathology and pathophysiology, and the physics and physiology of diving. It isn’t what I expected to develop…

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