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Since the neighbours hacked down all their bushes and replaced them with a stalag fence last year, bird visitors to the gardens have been scarce. But these past few days have brought regular visits from a mistle thrush and a collared dove. Seen the occasional song thrush around in the past, but a long time […]

Having used Piwigo for my gallery for some time and found it pretty good, I now need to replace it as it’s not responsive. But finding an alternative that looks decent has proved to be a bit of a nightmare for various reasons. However, today I’ve come across Koken and that looks like what I

Getting rid of Joomla has very much improved the look and feel of the whole site. The Editorial template provided free by html5up has been easy to work with and provides the basis for a fully-responsive HTML5 site – along with it actually looking decent. Impressed.

Amongst other items, Becky and Andy gave me a DNA-testing kit from ancestry.co.uk. Being dutifully-minded, I gozzed in the tube and posted it off. After 6 weeks and several e-mails saying “We’re processing it… honest…”, I finally got the results – and I haven’t a clue what light they’ve shed. It turns out that I’m

I’ve just installed Opera Neon out of curiosity. It does look rather weird, and I’m not sure whether I’ll find it useful. But it’s a completely different presentation method, so I’ll try to give it a go if I remember… I do like the standard Opera, even though it’s not my main browser but gave

… being bloody housebound! Apparently, back problems are the biggest issue for GPs nowadays, and I’ve added to the statistics… Had a mild lower-back pain 4 or 5 weeks ago, so did the exercises that the GP had recommended in the past, and that cleared it up, apart from a small niggle on the lower

Decided to scan (and read!) all my school reports from Brigg Grammar that have survived the years. Interesting reading! Didn’t realise I only came 7th in the first term there and shot up to 1st the next! Such acceleration never surpassed later, I guess… Interesting 6th Form comments about my lack of contribution to school

An attempt to recreate the 1968 Oxford matriculation photo outside the Sheffield Tap in October 2012…

Walked for half an hour or so from the Snake Road summit onto Bleaklow along the Pennine Way. Half expect these wilderness areas to remain untouched, but that’s not the reality of course. Not like it was in my day blah-blah-blah, squelching through peat mud, just easy, comfortable walking on a sandy path and paving

Poor old Ziggy: after all this time treating my tennis elbow, he’s been suffering from the same complaint for 2 months! It came on when he was testing another patient… And, yes, he is treating himself.