This week I had to chase a badger out of the garden because it was trying to break into my food waste bin, and break up a fight between some robins and goldfinches. Spring on the edge of the city is literally wild. I made it more obvious on /bins which bin needs to be collected next (I mostly look at this on my phone so BIG LETTERS ...

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After finishing a year-long stint working for the Government Digital Service to deliver support to people during the worst of the pandemic, I took a month off.

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The most important thing that has happened in weeks occurred! I found my cat-themed washi tape! This means the work todo lists in my Hobonichi Techo are now much prettier, and if it’s ever getting too long I can insert some paws or fish to break it up into chunks. Much better; good light-hearted stress relief. Euro 2020 has started in 2021 and England have played their first game...

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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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