Creativity, curiosity, and code
Last weekend was my first outing to the festival known as “Greenbelt”. In fact, it was my first real festival outing anywhere. Greenbelt is a music and arts festival. But it needs a little bit more categorisation than that. I shall explain. A note on sub-cultures Now, I’m always careful about talking about “Christian” stuff […]
Back in this post at the end of June I mentioned that “[our car’s] engine has developed a nasty rattle which the garage want £200 just to take apart and diagnose (and then another £200 to put it back together).” I wanted to reflect on the process we went through to get this fixed. The […]
We’ve done it! We’ve had an offer accepted on a house! Actually, it happened a lot more quickly than I thought it would. So quickly that I didn’t get to write anything about the house-hunting process. You build it up in your head as being this huge thing that’s really hard and takes ages to […]
For a while now we’ve had cockroaches in our house! And I wanted to write up my experiences in case we ever get them again. The Wikipedia article is pretty good and has been very helpful. My experiences are given below. Finding them It started ages ago when I found one in the bath. I […]
“Ride the Calorie Killer” says the wall of a small, bicycle-packed room at our local sports centre. This room is the home of an exercise class called “RPM” (TM), which is what most people would call a “spinning” class. I’ve been to this class once before a few months ago – but Sally and I […]
Something else that’s new to me this year is owning a half-decent car. We bought a 6-year old Peugeot 206 when we moved to Swindon. It’s actually the second car I’ve owned but the first one was old enough and small enough to be easily repairable and this second purchase has entered me into the […]
At one of our friend’s weddings we were fortunate enough to win the Bonsai tree that was used as a table decoration. This is my latest nature fascination. Sadly, as we went on holiday for a week it got a bit neglected and dropped lots of leaves. With some TLC, lots of water and the […]
It’s Bike week! To celebrate I did 13.75 miles round the hills of Wroughton and Chiseldon. A good hilly ride that I did with a really fit friend and actually managed to keep up! This week I’ve discovered a funky kettle that heats water on demand in a few seconds. Genius. I’m forever switching the […]
Been away on holiday somewhere where there was no internet – we didn’t even take the laptop with us! I have lots to write about so hopefully I’ll catch up soon. Notes from while I’m away will probably be backdated to when I wanted to write them so you may already have read some of […]
Saturday – the end of our week in Cornwall. And what a lovely time we’ve had. We’re travelling back via Devon to visit Sally’s folks and we are staying over with them. This holiday marks an important change for me. I normally think of myself as not being very good at holidays. I normally find […]