It has been hot and sunny! Hurrah! At last a break from the rain and cold and a chance to get outside, take a deep breath and relax. My son no longer has time/energy to go to Scouts in the evening but before we quit officially I want to go back through his Beavers, Cubs and Scouts Facebook group and download the photos with him in (the kids aren’t tagged). It seems t...

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I learned this week that there is such a thing as astronomical twilight and astronomical night, and that during the peak of summer because of the tilt of the earth, we only get to the twilight in the UK. There is an awesome visualisation of t...

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I moved house. That’s it, that’s the update. The good thing is that I now have a fiber-to-the-premises internet connection, which means it is nice and fast, and wasn’t an option at my last house. It does mean I had to hand back my TiVo box (because we can’t get Virgin Media), so I am PVR-less for the first time in a couple of d...

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These are the birds I regularly see in my garden: blackbirds goldfinches pigeons collared doves sparrows robins blue tits great tits Very very occassionally we get a jay and a greenfinch. This all feels quite varied until you read the RSPB list of common garden birds: The most likely vi...

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Our apple tree is in full bloom and full of industrious bees, and so when I’ve needed a brief respite from home working I have been able to walk out into the garden, and sit under the tree with blossom falling down around me – absolutely blissful! I learned more than I wanted to this week about the Windows Subsystem for Linux and how it mounts filesystems. A separate post about t...

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You’d think that having missed the previous two weeks of weeknotes, I’d have a lot to add. This is not true – it was Easter half term and so we were taking it easy, and this included dropping the weeknote schedule. I am reading The Manningtree Witches about the witch hunts and trials of th...

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Whatever else was going on this week was completely overshadowed by having to rush my daughter to hospital at 1am in an ambulance because she was having trouble breathing and her blood oxygen levels were dropping quickly. Three days later and we were back home. It was a stressful experience, and one I do not recommend. The facilities of the Children’s Hostpital which we were in we...

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We are at 12 months since the first Coronavirus Lockdown in the UK. What an absolute joy. I have started reading Doomsday Book by Connie Willis on my Kindle. It is about pandemics. It is rattling along very nicely thank you (later addition: finished it! Really liked it). I have again been searching for a...

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I am still playing Lego Super Marvel Heroes 2. I’d like to save all the incarnations of Stan Lee and unlock all the characters. Since I bought the DLC Season Pass this means that there are 279 of the buggers to get, and loads of them are incredibly minor characters in the Marvel Universe, but also included are Blade and Spider-Ham. Both are a welcome break from the normal Iron-Man and Tho...

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The family went back to school this week and so my working days were once again quiet, which is very nice (although it does also mean I’m going to have to start buying petrol for the car again, in order to do the school run, which I haven’t had to do for months on end) I don’t care about cookies. Not any more. Or at least, I...

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