Creativity, curiosity, and code
So, it’s been a long year. It’s been a hard year. I’ve been ill a lot. I’ve not achieved very much of what I thought I would. I enjoy physical activity and I’ve not managed to do much. On the up side we have bought a house and very much settled in Swindon, into our […]
[Note – the original idea for this was to include pictures of the logos mentioned but I decided this was probably not legal and so removed them and just did my own “representations”, in the hope that that’s allowed. Look them up on an image search if you want the real thing!] “Maaaarketing…” said an […]
Phew, I’m finally back in the land of the living. Where have I been? Here’s my excuses for not writing for a month… Moving House Well, the house exchange and completion went through. We got the keys to our new house on October 5th. Sally was away for the weekend and I’d been banned from […]
So after a long and complicated couple of days, which I won’t go into the details of here, we finally exchanged contracts on the house and will complete on Friday! Wow. We will own 5% of a house (and be borrowing the rest from the bank). After weeks of not very much happening this is […]
I have now climbed three mountains! What a weekend. We’ve had this trip to Snowdonia planned for ages. My sister and her boyfriend invited us to climb Snowdon the hard way (via Crib Goch) months ago and this weekend, it finally came about. Despite the forward planning, for Sally and I it was all a […]
It’s been nearly a month now since I was up all night being sick…the “flu-like virus” has mostly gone away but, as anyone who’s been watching my Facebook status will tell you, I still have the odd bad day. Tonight has been a particularly bad evening with me collapsing in bed and feeling like I’m […]
A while ago I mentioned that we’d had an offer accepted on a house! A quick update is due. The process has been moving along quite well. We stalled a bit while we chose a mortgage but that’s applied for, the legal stuff has all moved along as it should, the survey is now done, […]
I don’t remember being ill much as a kid, teenager, or even in my early working years. But that all seems to have changed lately. The last two weeks, since getting back from Greenbelt, have been one physical problem after another. Starting with what appeared to be food poisoning or a stomach bug of some […]
I like spiders! Which is just as well as there’s about a million in our garden. Probably mostly the grown up babies that I spotted back in the spring. I just liked this one because it used to be quite a skinny spider but she (we think it’s a she) has put her web in […]
I’d like to post a link to this article about Charity and Justice. Relevant Magazine doesn’t always hit the mark (more below) but this article explains an important difference between what the author calls “charity” (giving to help people in need) and “justice” (trying to fix the things that make charity needed). It’s worth reading, […]