The Morons Are Back

No fucking comment…

Cloud Inversion

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

Why-Fi?

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

We never have power cuts!

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

Evri Nevri

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

I’ve Been Fujied!

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

Yet more Proton

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

Shocked, I tell you!

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 …

VPN change

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

Quite charming, really

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

Ton up!

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

Bye Bye, Adobe

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

Rather wonderful

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 …

Brief Hint Of Summer?

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

Spam? What’s That?

Been using Proton Mail for a whole month now, and not a single bit of spam has managed to get through to …

F***K You, HP

I really should have done more checking on people’s experiences with the HP Instant Ink scheme. I don’t print often (use scanning …

Update on “things”

Maybe it’s time to do an update after the January post…

The Peak at Easter…

Pic from themanc.com. This was Easter Sunday or Monday, taken from the top of Winnats Pass, looking down to Castleton. Utterly mind-boggling. …

So I really did do that…

I think I’m entitled to a little self-indulgence… I came across the letter I got from Oxford letting me know the results …

Letting Gmail go…

Having been on Gmail/Googlemail since 2005, I decided it was time for a change to something more decent (and less nosey). I’ve …