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Made something of an expensive mistake last night dropping a big pot on the induction hob. The cost of repair is about the same as a new unit so I’ve ordered one on AO with measurements from the old and new data sheets and I just hope that it can be swapped […]

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a glass ceramic induction hob with a big crack in it
October 25, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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After our life admin week, the live admin continues unrelenting. Scaffolding is up ready for our solar panels to be installed today

#solar #climate
September 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Had a perfect evening last night watching Anoushka Shankar perform with the London Contemporary Orchestra in the Royal Albert Hall from the corporate box my employer hires every year for the BBC proms. Sometimes working for big companies has its perks!

#Music #Travel #Sitar #Orchestra
a view of the royal Albert hall from a box in the Grand Tier
August 13, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Finally decided to go swimming this morning after signing up for my employee gym benefit. I haven’t been swimming in about 5 years so I was quite pleased with my performance. I didn’t realise that my Garmin venu2 was waterproof and a swim watch. I’ve got […]

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screenshot from Garmin app. I swam 1125m in 38 mins
July 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Happy Sunday, it’s a cider by the beach kind of afternoon for Mrs R and I. It’d be rude not to in this weather.

Visiting On the Water in Lee on the Solent.

#Travel #Trips
a view across a blue outdoor table towards the sea as seen through a glass windbreak screen. the sun is shining and the sky is blue
May 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Strawberries are starting to come in now 🥹🤤 🍓

#Gardening
a strawberry plant with a cluster of green unripe strawberries and one that is turning red
May 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Strawberries are starting to come in now 🥹🤤 🍓

#Gardening
a strawberry plant with a cluster of green unripe strawberries and one that is turning red
May 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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The lamy safari pen has arrived, exciting moment. I’m using the blue ink cartridge that came with the pen for now but I’m excited to try experimenting with the other colours.

#FountainPens #Journalling
a lamy pen on top of a star wars bb-8 design moleskine
May 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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New inks have arrived before the pen but I can always try them in my sheaffer

#FountainPens #Journalling
a row of fountain pen ink bottles of varying colours and a silver Sheaffer pen
May 10, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Restful final day of the 4 day weekend. Nipped out for some lunch at the nearby garden centre (as did the rest of Hampshire) and now messing about building synthwave style music in Garageband

#Music #Windsynth #MusicProduction
music production setup with two monitors and AKAI midi controller and a typing keyboard. The monitors are showing music software
April 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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A pretty start to the day on the London-bound train

#personal #nature
view from a train carriage window. the sun is in the sky and a gentle mist sits on a green field. there are sheep dotted in the mist
April 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Went for a walk this morning before work and took photos of some pretty tree blossoms

#Personal #Gardening #Nature
tree with white blossoms and flowering daffodils planted at its base a tree with pink blossoms a bit pretty tree with white blossoms on the other side of the road from the photographe
April 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Enjoying two of my favourites Canadian exports at breakfast today. Rush at 50 book and music anthology and maple syrup on my granola and yogurt. Bonus cat tax content.

#Music #Food #Canada #Cats
a photo from a person's point of view looking down at their lap. The rush at 50 book is resting on their lap and they are holding a bowl of granola, yoghurt and fruit. a cat has walked into view
March 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Having a go at setting up home assistant with ESPHome since it’s high time I chucked Alexa out

#HomeAssistant #ESPHome
an atom echo device being held up in front of the esp home flashing utility displayed on a dell laptop
March 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Yesterday my new manager who was visiting from Switzerland took the team out for lunch. I was expecting a pasty or a sandwich but he took us for sushi at a fancy place in Canary Wharf called Roka. It was a nice surprise

#personal #trips #food
a mostly eaten plate of sushi with a large chunk of ice and some chopped fish in the middle of the table
March 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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I noticed my domain has been getting a huge amount of traffic recently and I was curious about why. Drilling into the logs, I’m getting absolutely hammered by AI scraper bots from Amazon, Baidu, Meta and others. 200k+ requests a day to my home server. I […]

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A graph showing 211K requests to my server over 24h with spikes up to 5k requests in 15 minute periods
March 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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As something of an early bird/morning park it was actually super nice to wake up to light outside for the first time in a little while this morning.

#Personal #gratitude
photo of James' back garden. a frosty lawn and some barren looking planters set against blue sky
March 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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My new Anerbic handheld (or has Mrs R already calls it my “not-a-gameboy” has arrived). I’m about to have a bunch of time to fill so I’m pretty excited to have this new addition in my collection

#emulators #gaming #handheld
November 25, 2024 at 7:19 PM