Today I did some high intensity interval training for the first time since 22 July. First there was some very minor surgery, then a wonderful couple of weeks in the countryside where I swam every day instead. So, after a gap of 46 days, it was time to get going again.
And it was tough.
I got thr...
Another relaxing month, with an arduous cat-sitting gig in Umbria enjoying a friend's beautiful house in the country. It played havoc with time-keeping and podcast-listening, but so what.
Just spent a fine few hours going through two large boxes of photographs. Some have not seen the light of day for four house moves and at least 12 years.
“But what if I want/need one of them?”
“You don't even know what there is, how could you possibly want/need anything specific.”
In best d...
I was a little surprised when a link to a recent (December 2020), eminently citable blog post led me straight to the Wayback Machine. I did a little searching, and easily found the current version. What seems to have happened is that the author changed their publishing system (I can see the chan...
I’ve been methodically importing older posts from a previous incarnation of this site, and a couple of days ago something odd happened. I forgot to fix the year of the post, so it appeared as new. In itself, that is not odd, it happens too often. The oddness was that despite having being written in...