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Reaching New Heights (Climbing that Ladder?)
A few short weeks ago I was looking out at a rain-drenched hodge-podge. Things have changed a tad. It has been weeks in the making and there’s still some landscaping work to do on the patio, but the frame is finally ready to use. The woodchips are laid to a depth of about 20cm providing…
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Building Frames, Breaking Earth, and Barbecue
The last couple of weeks have been dominated by the delivery of our Growplay climbing frame. Building it was easy. Sorting the play area is another matter… My plan to have all the ground work done before building the frame didn’t quite happen. The frame components arrived last Friday, but the sleepers and stones were…
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Garden Clearing and Good Food
The weather has been…interesting, as of late. Getting stuff done outside has been a challenge but thankfully the weekend brought sunshine. The latest project involves building a big play area which will replace most of the old patio. If you remember from last year, I lifted a lot of the slabs to build the base…
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Gardening and Virtual Reality
This year I end up doing so much outside that I barely leave myself any time to write about it. I’m going to cover everything from the great outdoors to the confines of a headset… Gardening One job that has been on the cards since shed clearing last year was manhole cover replacement. The old…
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Sun, Bagels, and Soil
Plymouth has had some stunning weather recently, almost making up for the wet week in Barcelona. That means plenty of time to get the garden organised. No Knead Bagels (Again!) I’ve cracked the no-knead bagel approach which is fairly hands off, adapting a recipe from Sally’s Baking Addiction. The only slightly fiddly bit is the…
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The Rain in Spain (Barcelona Edition)
Want to see some photos of food? I’ve got plenty. I can confirm, in fact, that the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plains in and around Barcelona. People have drowned in less. Barcelona is not really designed to cope with this amount of rain. There are a serious amount of impermeable surfaces and…
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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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