Edale?

Glorious sunny early autumn morning, so decided it was time to revisit Edale. Unfortunately, the plan came unstuck when we discovered that …

Elementory Ignorance

Been wondering why a Container is not showing up as an option in Elementor, even though others see and use Containers. Assumed …

WordPress Ignorance

Just discovered Softaculous’ WordPress Management over the weekend… Why did I not know this existed?! I’ve been fiddling about with a separate …

Gallery redone

jAlbum produces pretty output, but it’s so clunky and a slog to configure galleries and update albums. So, I’ve moved all the …

Move? Or maybe not…

Was thinking seriously about moving to a free hosting service (InfinityFree) and abandoning this paid-for setup. It seemed very straightforward until I …

ChatGPT At Work

Asked ChatGPT to “write the first two paragraphs of “The Colour Of Magic” in the style of Franz Kafka”. And this is …

Amazed by AI

It’s quite incredible how much AI has advanced since I first encountered it in the early 70s. Photoshop has introduced Filters that …

For Mastodon Verification

If you’re on Mastodon, you can find me at @Ivor@mastodon.online

There was this bang and crashing sound. Sat pondering for a while, trying to figure out whether it was inside or outside, …

Good Enough

My subscription to Outdoor Active ended last month, so I’m now just on the free version. The OS Maps app is perfectly …

How Did I End Up Here?!

Quite by accident, I discovered why I must have lost my fixed IP address – Origin are now part of Talktalk! And …

Network Upgrade

Had been considering moving away from Origin back to AAISP (in spite of the cost) as there seemed to have been funny …

Scorchio

I do get too lazy to blog about things that seem obvious and unforgettable, so I’d better say a bit about this …

Time for a VPN change

Had an alert from ExpressVPN that it was due to renew in 7 days. The renewal price was $99.99, which is totally …

Festivals

There was an article in Yorkshire Live about what we called the Halifax Festival back in 1970. I was there, and it …

WTAF?!

Walking up Greno Crescent, and a white van pulled up. “Do you live around here?”. Thinking they were going to ask for …

Backdoor Jackdaws

Had 3 jackdaws in the back garden this morning – a first. Not sure what they were after, but they were pecking …

Had To Chuckle

Posted on Twitter. Speaks for itself, really!

All Finished

The whole site is now under WordPress and the Elementor plugin (apart from some photo galleries, which I’ve left with Jalbum because …

Avian Activity

Been a bit of a flurry over the past few days. Had 6 collared doves taking advantage of next door’s feeder. Plus …

All Change!

Yet another major change in the website design… God knows how many incarnations it’s had now, but I was impressed by how …

Just able to relax in the midday sun…

Covid Lateral Flow Test

Seeing as they’re free, I ordered an LFT kit. Not sure what to make of the fact that the kit comes from …

Collared Doves Doing Well

Amazed to see a flock of 13 or more collared doves in a neighbouring tree this morning. They seemed to have almost …