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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…
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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…
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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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How to Train Your Cordon
And just like that, summer was over. We had a brief reprieve with sunny weather the last few weeks, but thunderstorms and torrential rain have made frequent appearances. The garden hasn’t suffered the weather particularly well – all of my tomato plants died off suddenly and unexpectedly following a particularly windy and damp spell. I…
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Build That (Garden) Wall and Back in the Workshop
I am an excellent procrastinator. I hold modesty as a virtue the majority of the time, but when it comes to procrastination, I’m up there with the greats. I can achieve anything as long as it’s unrelated to the thing I’m currently trying to achieve. Procrastination is the force that has been keeping me from…
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(re) Exploring Plymouth
It’s a Saturday, so how better to spend the day than getting up at the crack of dawn to get your car serviced and MOT’d. Yes, it was an early start today thanks to a general lack of choice in appointment times, but I shall not squander the opportunity to get out of the house…
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The Japanese Toilet (Toire)
No, stop thinking in French! It’s pronounced “toy-ray”, an informal way of saying toilet in Japan, and is quite the phenomenon. Starting in the 1980s, the automatic bidet toilet seat was invented and rapidly gained popularity. Travel to Japan (outside of pandemic times) and you’ll find a high-tech toilet in most homes and hotels. These…
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