Set off for a walk this morning and noticed 5 workmen clustered around a hole. Manhole cover was up, and I saw …

Seems that ridiculous parking along Winnats is hardly a new phenomenon! This photo (from Derbyshire Times) is from some time in the …

Finally managed to ditch Origin! Got through to complaints (South Africa, of course), and the woman said they’d been getting lots of …

The parcel from NB arrived yesterday. Just a smallish 20x10x10cm white box plus power cable and short ethernet cable. Very simple setup …

Decided to put in a call to Origin in order to fully understand my account with them. After being held in queue …

After successfully getting wifi to stay up, Microsoft kindly decide to force me to update to the dreaded WIndows 11 24H2. OK, …

No fucking comment…

This can be a pretty miserable time of year, but we were lucky to wake up to a rather impressive cloud inversion …

When I first got this new PC back in August, I never had any issue with my wi-fi connection. Then occasionally the …

Or didn’t until yesterday… Storm Darragh’s been wreaking havoc along the west coast (especially Wales), but we usually get off lightly with …

Just had a ‘delivery’ from Evri. Saw the bloke approaching so I was waiting, 1m from the door. Heard the side gate …

Was in for a repair filling today (LR8) and heard the dentist ask the assistant for the famous Fuji 9! Famous because …

Belatedly realised that I have free access to Proton Pass password manager, along with the ability to use a “fake” email address …

I suppose it had to happen sometime, but I’ve now had my first spam getting through Proton Mail – after over 4 …

… woke up to find my PC strangely silent… It refused to boot and so it was open-the-case time… It did initially …

Mel’s work for today was cancelled at last minute, so we decided to go off for lunch at the Ladybower Inn, seeing …

Don’t really use a VPN very often, and PIA has been quite good enough. But it’ll soon be time to renew the …

The last couple of times that I’ve been strimming the back lawn, a (young?) male blackbird has come to have a look. …

Blimey – 100 interactions to a TwitterX post! 97 Likes and 3 Retweets. We live in exciting times. There were other titles …

Much as I’ve enjoyed using Adobe Photoshop over these past 4 years, it’s now time to ditch it and return to Affinity. …

Great to catch sight of a pair of buzzards circling for ages over the west side of Greno this afternoon. Not rarities, …

Not sure which is the more surprising – that Easter pic of gridlock, or this pic of an open-topped doubledecker (Peak Sightseer) …

… some time… Had an e-mail from Openreach this morning to say that they’ve added our address “to our build plans”. I …

Weather this year has been atrocious so far. cold and rain almost every single day. But today looked promising, so an impromptu …