I borrowed an idea from Diamond Geezer who is on his 20th year of counting things during the month of February. I decided to count in five categories:1) Cups of Tea drunk2) 500ml bottles of coke zero drunk3) Cycle trips4) Meetings attended (in person and virtually)5) Number of Radios I repaired You may think that …
Author Archives: David
The Tonga Volcano
At around 04:15 UTC on 2022/1/15 the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai Volcano exploded in the Pacific Ocean. A devastating event for anyone close by, and the tsunami generated affected seal levels anywhere with a pacific coast line. The satellite videos of the eruption show a pressure wave spreading out ahead of the dust cloud. The Met …
17 Years
Just over 17 years ago I thought I’d start up a new website, LiveJournal was going though some strange times and I was using that for more locked down content anyway. I wanted somewhere I could post other stuff I found interesting. At the time, I was playing around learning PHP and started putting together …
10 Years
Ten years ago today, my aunt mentioned in the last post, died. Fuck Cancer.
30 years.
Thirty years and 7 hours ago I took 20p and went to a phone box that no longer exists to call an aunt who is no longer alive to tell her that her mother was very ill. My grandmother, Flo, died about an hour after my aunt, Michelle, arrived. The early 1990s were a strange …