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The real question is ‘What came first, the reptile or the egg?’

#questions #chicken #egg
It seems OpenAI is making their free tier of ChatGPT almost unusable by
• removing the ability to add to its memory
• appearing to cut the rate limit
• removing access to legacy ChatGPT models.

What’s next – abandoning the free tier completely?

#OpenAI #ChatGPT #money-grubbing
November 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Just heard my first Christmas song of the autumn on the radio. The sky is blazing blue; the sun is blazing bright. November has gone wrong.

The song was ‘Step into Christmas’ by Elton John, if you’re wondering.

#Christmas #Xmas #songs #autumn #November
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Last week: 3x30‘ easy runs.

This week:
• strides – target cadence of 199–209 spm (usually 180–185)
• progression run – easy pace then medium to hard pace
• easy run – 60 minutes

To think I complained about the previous strides having a target of 150–200; clearly a test.

#running #GarminCoach
November 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Three half-hour easy runs this week, and that’s it.

The first one is done, so only two more to go – and tomorrow is a blessèd rest day.

#running #CoachGreg #halfMarathonTraining
November 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The free electricity I get now and again from my supplier is bad for the waistline 😏

#baking #veganFood
October 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I was supposed to do strides repeats yesterday, but couldn’t fit them into my day, despite the extra hour, so I planned to do them today instead.

Alas, I forgot to tell Garmin coach until the stroke of midnight, which means I can’t reschedule, which means I don’t have to do them 😇

#running
October 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Today was an easy run. Because I didn’t pick a time goal, there’s no prescribed pace. I like it.

I’m glad it was an easy run because I ache in several places already. I’m not sure whether that’s from the benchmark run, Pilates or Fight Klub. Maybe all three.

#running #Pilates #FightKlub
October 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Yesterday was the benchmark run for my new target: a half marathon in February.

I have roped in a reluctant friend.

#running #halfMarathon #tooFar
October 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I crocheted a pumpkin!

#crochet #pumpkin
October 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I’m going to a crochet group at the weekend. I thought I should brush up on my crochet skills because it’s been a lifetime since I last crocheted. Wow, it’s hard.

I wonder if they’d mind if I knitted instead 😏

#crochet #crocheting #knitting
October 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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What they won't show you on the 'National Trail Hunting Day' on October 10th..
October 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM
It’s conker season.

As well as using them to play conkers, you can also use them to wash your clothes. Who knew?

#conkers #laundry #washing

www.instructables.com/How-to-Make-...
How to Make Laundry Detergent From Conkers (Horse Chestnuts)
How to Make Laundry Detergent From Conkers (Horse Chestnuts): Below are instructions on how to make soap from conkers, very easily found outside and near trees depending on your area. This is what the...
www.instructables.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Knocked out a 10k race yesterday despite not quite being recovered from the lurgy.

Kept the pace easy, and enjoyed getting some fresh, riparian air into my lungs.

#10k #running #race
October 6, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Has anyone else noticed that Strava’s Athlete Intelligence calls everything ‘solid’?

Examples:
• solid interval training
• solid mix of effort zones
• solid time in Z2 and Z3
• solid relative effort
• solid parkrun

‘Solid’ is now semantically saturated

#Strava #AthleteIntelligence #AI #running
July 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The real question is ‘What came first, the reptile or the egg?’

#questions #chicken #egg
July 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Is it time you switched to a less evil search engine?

DuckDuckGo is the one for me.

#Google #GoogleSearch #DuckDuckGo
Is Google about to destroy the web?
Google says adding more AI to its search engine will rejuvenate the internet. Others predict an apocalypse for websites. One thing is clear: this era of online history is closing.
www.bbc.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I restarted my latest training plan today – starting with a blessed rest day 😅

Tomorrow is an easy run. I looked to see what ungodly hour I must get up to run in the morning before it gets too hot.

The Met Office’s overnight low is 20°C 🥵

#running #heatwaves #UKHeatwave
June 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I bought a new houseplant today.

It’s a moss ball. Except it isn’t; it’s algae.

And it must live underwater.

I don’t know 🤷

#moss #algae #houseplants
June 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I took a picture of a caterpillar and used my phone to identify it. It got it bang on.

It’s the caterpillar of a toadflax moth on a toadflax plant that it has stripped most of the leaves off.

How satisfying.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calopha...

#toadflax #moths #caterpillars #toadflaxMoth
June 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
@spinerace.bsky.social How can I get in touch with Spine HQ if I think a participant has gone off-course? I’m not taking part.
June 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I’m watching this dot along the Summer Spine Sprint South.

#SummerSpine #SpineSprint

live.opentracking.co.uk/ssss2025/
June 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Does anybody actually store their ketchup in the fridge once they’ve opened it?

Mine lives in the cupboard.

#ketchup #storage
June 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I did it! I got my parkrun PB and got sub-30!

Silver target achieved; I’m chuffed to bits, especially given how hot it was.

Official time 29:13.

Many thanks to my pacer, my running buddy, Coach Greg and the fantastic people at my home parkrun.

#running #PB #parkrun #GarminCoach #CoachGreg
June 2, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Beautiful. Poetry in motion, and all that.

I’ll be wearing my stripes while running this week to celebrate. They’re not aerodynamic, but success builds on success, right?

#SAFC #running
This.
May 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Coach Greg has purple confidence in me again!

I messed up a few weeks ago, and it dropped into the green. But I’ve worked hard, and it’s back up in the purple.

All I have to do now is not mess up my last two training runs, then go for it at parkrun.

#running #parkrun #parkrunPB #Garmin #CoachGreg
May 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM