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 …
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The DG effect
Today, Diamond Geezer posted his round-up of things open in the month ahead – always a good, useful read. One of the entries he highlighted was the opening of the British Vintage Wireless & Television Museum for open house 2021. I left a comment to the effect that I’d visited a decode or so back, …
The Magic Sweets
I’ve been tidying up. I found an old work book from my last year at primary school. On the 7th September I wrote a story called The Magic Sweets. I have no memory of writing this, but I present it here. The Magic Sweets One day I went into a shop I had never been …
2020
Well, that didn’t go as planned. One trip out of the country, to Iceland in January, followed by lockdown travel restrictions and an opportunistic infection trying to eat my right arm off at the elbow. The enforced home-staying did mean I got to do a lost more astronomy than I otherwise would have, but this …
Quarantine – Week twelve
History in real-time. Monday 2020/6/01 I’ve been in my current job 11 years today. I’ve mostly worked on the REF case study today. Spent the day blocking adverts on Twitter and processed images of the moon taken a few days ago. Probably the last of the astro images for a while, as the nights are …