I do like to download videos to the PC and then watch them on the big-screen TV. Which works fine using Windows

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