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Dan Q
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Blogs at https://danq.me. Founded https://threerings.org.uk. Based between Oxford and Witney, UK. Queerer than the average bear.

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Tintern Abbey's looking especially beautiful in the fresh snow, this morning.

#note #history #Wales #photo #photos #archeology #snow #winter #weather

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/05/tintern-abbey/
January 5, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Our dog has decided that the perfect place to lie down at our holiday accommodation is... on a staircase whose carpet is the same colour as her!

I'm grateful for her very-visible blep... or I'd have tripped over this camouflaged pupper several times already!

#note […]

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January 4, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Back at the Rollright Stones fire New Year's Dsy, per family tradition. This year the younger child counted 74, the elder 59. The curse that prevents you counting the same number twice continues!

#note #archeology #family #parenting #children

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/01/01/27831/
January 1, 2026 at 2:03 PM
I think the dog's back paws were cold this evening. The giveaway was when she tucked them into a convenient nearby trouser pocket.

#note #dog #dogs

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/30/27826/
December 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Went to a West End theatre wearing my "Slamilton" t-shirt.

In this corridor, during the act break, a stranger spotted it and did a double-take.

"Is that...? wait... that's not Hamilton!", they said.

I seized my chance.

"It's Slamilton," I replied. "You know: 'Who […]

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December 27, 2025 at 11:25 PM
[Food (festive)]

Boxing Day breakfast (of champions (of leftovers)).

#note #christmas #food #breakfast #meat

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/26/boxing-day-breakfast/
December 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
[Food (leftovers, now for a dog)]

Unusually, we had no guests this Christmas Day. This meant that my usual level of overcatering went even further than normal.

A side effect of this is that a certain little doggo was delighted and surprised by her Boxing Day […]

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December 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
[Food (preparation)]

I asked the younger child to "help" me calculate how much Yorkshire pudding batter to make for this Christmas dinner.

"Well," he began, "I'm going to want FIVE Yorkshire puddings, soo..."

#note #christmas #xmas #cooking #food #parenting […]

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December 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I'm not sure which of our children was last in this bath, but the configuration in which they've left their toys makes me feel as though I'm the subject of some kind of waterfowl-related shunning.

Perhaps they finally got wind or my heretical opinions on the God of […]

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December 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A few pockets of the morning's freezing fog still cling to the hedgerows as the dog and I set out on a chilly West Oxfordshire morning walk.

#note #oxford #weather #walking #dogs #dog

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/13/27761/
December 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Not sure I’m a fan of this new ultra-minimalist #christmastree trend.

🔗 Via: https://danq.me/minimalist-trees

#christmas #tree #trees #photo #funny
December 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
We got our dog a Christmas jumper.
My favourite thing about it is that its coat hanger contains instructions for use:
"Please insert dog" 🤣

#note #dog #dogs #christmas #xmas #clothes

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/12/03/please-insert-dog/
December 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A friend of mine spotted another British street sign that lends itself to #sexuality #activism - this time, for us #bisexual folks - and I couldn't help but draw it:
December 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I find a lot of these "this company is tried to usurp your brand with Chinese domain name purchases" emails in my spam folder, corresponding to my (many) domains. They're a scam, of course: the scammer is trying to goad me into saying "No, please help protect my […]

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December 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Fellow folks at the interest-intersection of "public transport" and "queer activism" (I know you're out there!): I had an idea for a t-shirt.

Do I print it? Or give up on graphic design and go back to backend programming where I belong?

#note #trans #trams […]

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December 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
This form dynamically changes the labels for the Surname and Forename field based on the value of the Gender field. Wut?

Because a Male Surname is totally distinct and nothing like a Female Surname, I guess?!?

#note #gender #webdesign #names

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/24/male-surname/
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This telegraph pole in the centre of Eynsham carries the scars of hosting countless community announcements, notices, and flyers over the last 30 years.

#note #photo #photos #photography #oxford #uk #telephone #telephones

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/18/30-years-of-notices/
November 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Gorgeous autumn dawn this morning with a razor-sharp moon hanging above the shifting hues of the South-East.

It's going to be a cold one. (At last; it's been an unseasonably-warm November so far!)

#note #weather #photo #photos #autumn

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/11/17/autumn-sunrise/
November 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
[Food (packaged)]

Second "surprising Finnish confectionary" is Vihreät Kuulat Jaffa Cakes. I ran vihreät kuulat through a translation tool and apparently it means "green balls", which doesn't tell me much.

Knowing it was neither lime nor apple (which were also […]

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October 28, 2025 at 6:17 AM
[Food (packaged sweets)]

Buying a bag of Haribo in Finland, I shouldn't have been surprised (given the country's love of salmiakki) that the black ones were liquorice flavoured.

And yet somehow, when I chucked a handful onto my mouth, I was.

(Not in a bad way. But […]

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October 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
October 26, 2025 at 6:25 AM
This was meant to be a joke, but an hour later they accidentally cut through our sewage outflow pipe...
October 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
You know those old "best at: some resolution]" [<a href="/hashtag/88x31" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#88x31 buttons you used to see?

What if you could dynamically generate them so that the resolution shown was the one the visitor was actually using? Like... a fun #easteregg version of a "best at any resolution" […]

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October 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
October 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
[Food (meat)]

I'd never put much thought into it before but a slow cooker is basically the opposite of an air frier.

They're both relatively small (compared to an oven) hot boxes for cooking food. But an air frier uses the small space to contain as much energy as […]

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October 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM