Simon
@hangry.horse
🇸🇪🇬🇧🏳️🌈🇪🇺 Infosec database toucher.
🚣♂️🪚 rowing, gardening, learn-it-once-and-move-on DIY
📍Cambridge (but sometimes also Värmland 🦅)
🚣♂️🪚 rowing, gardening, learn-it-once-and-move-on DIY
📍Cambridge (but sometimes also Värmland 🦅)
Ah yes we’re now in the season of my least favourite Apple Watch feature - let’s randomly just pause a long bike ride because the cold weather makes heart rate sensing unreliable
December 5, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Ah yes we’re now in the season of my least favourite Apple Watch feature - let’s randomly just pause a long bike ride because the cold weather makes heart rate sensing unreliable
So that’s our gas pipe right there.
Apparently gas engineers don’t like this?? ? 🤷♂️
Apparently gas engineers don’t like this?? ? 🤷♂️
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
So that’s our gas pipe right there.
Apparently gas engineers don’t like this?? ? 🤷♂️
Apparently gas engineers don’t like this?? ? 🤷♂️
Some more iffy electrics left for us by the previous owner. I genuinely have no idea what’s going on here.
September 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Some more iffy electrics left for us by the previous owner. I genuinely have no idea what’s going on here.
My ”a mugs guide to Geordie dialect” mug has finally been through the dishwasher so many times that the red text supposed to show the Georgie words has faded, leaving only a confusing patchwork of random English words
August 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
My ”a mugs guide to Geordie dialect” mug has finally been through the dishwasher so many times that the red text supposed to show the Georgie words has faded, leaving only a confusing patchwork of random English words
I could definitely be a brickie. Just look at this replacement half brick I just did?
August 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I could definitely be a brickie. Just look at this replacement half brick I just did?
A signup form allowed me to provide no gender, so I selected that option.
I guess this is my title now?
I guess this is my title now?
August 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
A signup form allowed me to provide no gender, so I selected that option.
I guess this is my title now?
I guess this is my title now?
Right. Let’s see if we can work out what this pictogram is telling us.
Left: red background, easily recognised ’forbidden sign’. Don’t do the thing depicted. Don’t litter.
Right: blue background, nothing is forbidden. I’m encouraged to do something?
Use this cup to murder some turtles?
Left: red background, easily recognised ’forbidden sign’. Don’t do the thing depicted. Don’t litter.
Right: blue background, nothing is forbidden. I’m encouraged to do something?
Use this cup to murder some turtles?
July 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Right. Let’s see if we can work out what this pictogram is telling us.
Left: red background, easily recognised ’forbidden sign’. Don’t do the thing depicted. Don’t litter.
Right: blue background, nothing is forbidden. I’m encouraged to do something?
Use this cup to murder some turtles?
Left: red background, easily recognised ’forbidden sign’. Don’t do the thing depicted. Don’t litter.
Right: blue background, nothing is forbidden. I’m encouraged to do something?
Use this cup to murder some turtles?
Spotted next to two recently dug ponds/mini lakes in Cambridge. Feels like the city council may have listened to @davegoulson.bsky.social 🙂
June 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Spotted next to two recently dug ponds/mini lakes in Cambridge. Feels like the city council may have listened to @davegoulson.bsky.social 🙂
That’s a crazy amount of oil just for frying onions. Are you trying to kill me, bbc good food?
June 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
That’s a crazy amount of oil just for frying onions. Are you trying to kill me, bbc good food?
My unhinged opinion: these shouldn’t be painted
June 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
My unhinged opinion: these shouldn’t be painted
This was the original colour of our bathroom, apparently. Drugs as an explanation for a lot of things in this house makes a lot of sense now
June 8, 2025 at 6:51 AM
This was the original colour of our bathroom, apparently. Drugs as an explanation for a lot of things in this house makes a lot of sense now
One of the tasks for this tool is not like the others 🤔
I'll keep an open mind, though
I'll keep an open mind, though
June 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
One of the tasks for this tool is not like the others 🤔
I'll keep an open mind, though
I'll keep an open mind, though
Every screw can be a flathead screw when you own an angle grinder
May 31, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Every screw can be a flathead screw when you own an angle grinder
These airbricks I thought were just a bit cobwebby were upon closer inspection actually siliconed-up. Spent a good hour pulling it out, and hopefully my cavity walls will thank me later
May 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
These airbricks I thought were just a bit cobwebby were upon closer inspection actually siliconed-up. Spent a good hour pulling it out, and hopefully my cavity walls will thank me later
Previous owner was definitely not a floor layer. In fact, not even pretending to be one
May 28, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Previous owner was definitely not a floor layer. In fact, not even pretending to be one
My fave cygnet photo from this time last year, river Cam
May 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
My fave cygnet photo from this time last year, river Cam
Adventures in home ownership, part 1 of ??
The previous owner left us this absolute masterpiece - a mortared-in plastic socket box
The previous owner left us this absolute masterpiece - a mortared-in plastic socket box
May 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Adventures in home ownership, part 1 of ??
The previous owner left us this absolute masterpiece - a mortared-in plastic socket box
The previous owner left us this absolute masterpiece - a mortared-in plastic socket box
I can't even tell if this is an intentional pun on Stanley Kubrick's name or not, but I laughed
April 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I can't even tell if this is an intentional pun on Stanley Kubrick's name or not, but I laughed
Apple logic: the button that makes your phone make a loud noise (startling your sleeping partner awake) needs to be next to the button you press when you go to sleep
April 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Apple logic: the button that makes your phone make a loud noise (startling your sleeping partner awake) needs to be next to the button you press when you go to sleep
Stocking up on silly mugs, because our dishwasher is now huge and we keep running out
March 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Stocking up on silly mugs, because our dishwasher is now huge and we keep running out
The bird nest box I put up years ago is finally being used!
Well, sort of
Well, sort of
March 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The bird nest box I put up years ago is finally being used!
Well, sort of
Well, sort of
Because images are blocked in emails, especially when in the spam folder, I've seen a lot of my messages there try to render something resembling branding using only unicide and font colouring. It's kind of cute, but still oh, so unconvincing
March 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Because images are blocked in emails, especially when in the spam folder, I've seen a lot of my messages there try to render something resembling branding using only unicide and font colouring. It's kind of cute, but still oh, so unconvincing
New worst front garden just dropped
March 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
New worst front garden just dropped
Broke my French press, so I’m doing it the old fashioned way
February 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Broke my French press, so I’m doing it the old fashioned way