Blog Archive — Page 14

Autumn, Year One

Written on Tuesday 3 Nov 2020

Autumn, Year One. The last of the barbecues gone, a wind from the west brings colder storms ashore. We wonder how the rest of the year will go; Halloween without trick-or-treaters, Christmas without family and friends?

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Summer, Year One

Written on Saturday 1 Aug 2020

Summer, Year One. The weeds keep on coming but the pumpkins are ‘roided up and ready to take them on. Astroturf is gone and the blackberry bush keeps on giving. Tomatoes are nearly done but beans are coming on strong. Lettuce and spring onion seeds going in today.

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Spring, Year One

Written on Thursday 21 May 2020

Spring, Year One. A new house, a new start, and our first ever garden of our own. We have survived the incredible stress of moving in the middle of a pandemic, and now at last I can put some of that time stuck at home to good use. The previous...

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A Journey into the World of Slimming

Written on Thursday 14 May 2020

While clearing out a decade of unnecessary junk from the kitchen today, we discovered this recipe book from the 80s… and it is INCREDIBLY CURSED. Here’s some of the recipe highlights you may like to enjoy. Or you may not, you know, it’s your call. We’ll start with “Tangy Grapefruit”....

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Another Shenzhen Special: 15 Minutes with the MAFAM M11

Written on Thursday 12 Apr 2018

Thanks to an excitingly mis-sold internet purchase, we are now in possession of the latest in exciting mobile technology - the MAFAM M11. (If you’re mentally incapacitated, you could have one of your very own for 24 whole US dollars!) Let’s jump in and see what this technological marvel has...

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SuccessWhale.com Discontinued as of Today

Written on Saturday 30 Dec 2017

As far as I know, SuccessWhale is not being actively used by anyone any more, so I have chosen not to renew the domain name successwhale.com when it expires today. Like most of my past web-based projects, it will continue to live on at an onlydreaming.net subdomain, in this case...

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Automating the Roast Dinner Timing Chart

Written on Thursday 21 Dec 2017

Against all my expectations, the most popular page on this website (at least, the most visited) turns out to be “The Great Roast Dinner Timing Chart”, which was my attempt to help newbies at the revered British art of the Roast Dinner get their timings right. I first posted it...

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Coolest Robot of the Day

Written on Thursday 26 Oct 2017

Today in Cool Robot News: A team at Harvard University have developed their tiny RoboBee so that it is equally at home in water and in air. No mean feat by itself, but check out the way it crosses that tricky barrier between water and air: it splits water into...

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Migrating from Jekyll to WordPress

Written on Wednesday 25 Oct 2017

Over the course of many years, I’ve changed blogging software several times, including WordPress to Jekyll and back again twice! One thing I’ve found is that while migrations from WordPress to Jekyll are well documented, with various scripts and plugins available, the reverse from Jekyll to WordPress seems to be...

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The Apocalypse comes to Weymouth

Written on Monday 16 Oct 2017

In the shadow of Hurricane Ophelia, Saharan dust and smoke from Iberian wildfires has been blown towards the UK, resulting in eerie orange skies across the country. I took this photo looking across Portland Harbour into the dim orange sunlight this morning. No filter required!

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