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Retro programmer. Bug archaeologist. Biscuit muncher (pro). SAP HANA performance guy. No-AI here - only real stupidity. Nothing I say concerns my day job or employer. Preemptive explicit refusal for anything I post to be used to train AI models 20241230
Traumatised I tell you.

She’ll never recover

Admittedly it took me a while, but
November 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
You know what the best things about white laminate countertops is? When your curry boils over all over everywhere, you get to appreciate that curry for years to come
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Attempting bread. Again. With fresh yeast. Or rather fresh dried, non-expired yeast.

If it is a flop this time my reconversion as artisan baker is severely compromised, and I might have to look at goat-rearing again
November 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Coming soon to a marketing “guru”’s “brain”. Black Easter! Black Summer! Black Christmas! Black Next Year! Black Forever!

🤦‍♂️
November 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Your parcel will be delivered on November 15th

Honest

No, really

Ok, so in fact maybe it won’t. But we’re not going to tell you this.

In fact we are going to turn off all tracking for this parcel for a couple of days, just for laughs

Then dump it in your garden, sometime next week.
November 18, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Some pictures I took on my Sunday-morning walk this morning, in a Japanese-style park

It was actually quite a lot darker out than the pictures show, and the phone was very good at hiding the thick fog, too
November 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Yesterday I totally messed up making some bread. So to celebrate I’m trying again today
November 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
As much as I miss the contact with family and old friends from back when i was young, slim and beautiful (well, young at least), closing my Facebook account was about the best decision I have made in the last few years
November 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Yesterday I made idiot-proof (me-proof?) vegetable curry

Yesterday I ate way too much vegetable curry

The two are not linked
November 14, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Just looked up a recipe online.

First, I recognised *all* the ingredients

Then I went to the directions part

Step 1, Step 2

For a while I was looking for the rest

Now *this* is something I can attempt, and might even be lunch
November 13, 2025 at 6:52 AM
A girl in a sports shop this weekend suggested I donate my hair (laughing, after discussing hair or lack thereof)

My deadpan reply : “Already done that one. Got no more to give”
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Went out for a walk on a day off.

Stopped for a Pain au Chocolat (*) and a coffee in a Boulanger en route, and walked nearly 16 kilometres in a bit over three hours

That’s not a bad morning’s work

* chocolatine, if you’re in the south of France, like wot I’m not
November 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
“It’s freaky just how much paranormal content there is on Discovery Plus”

If ever there were a statement more designed to make me not subscribe, I’ve never seen one
November 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Sandwich toasters are really - really - good at showing you just how much fat there is in that little ham and cheese sandwich

I regret nothing
November 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
My ressue cat that wouldn’t even come out from under the bath for two months and wouldn’t let us approach her for over a year. At least I’m doing something right
November 4, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Note to myself. Setting up an automation to turn on the hot water tank at start of off-peak in the afternoon and turn it off at “sunset -2 hours” is really clever

In summer

In other news, guess who had a cold shower this morning 🤦‍♂️
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Well since these plants have been made illegal in France, and after breaking one fork trying to uproot the bigger, I have very nearly overstrained my farting strings getting this out of the ground. But it is out. I’ll leave it to dry off wit a while and take it to the tip next Saturday
November 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Ever tried to move an app into a folder on iOS where the folder is in the very bottom right spot? And the app was on a different page?

You can’t

You have to move the folder first, then move the app into it, then move the folder back

UX FTW
October 29, 2025 at 6:46 AM
A drive right down France nearly to Spain tomorrow. May the gods of lettherebenobodyonthemotorway favour me
October 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Eight-hour drive tomorrow. More or less

Fun
October 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I must have watched that hundreds of times. Literally

And by god I was shite
A ZX Spectrum loading gets you right in the feels.
October 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I even warned it before opening the app, but I STILL didn’t win Euromillions last night.

Pfft
October 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Maybe watching For Dog’s Sake when my cat is around wasn’t my best idea this evening
October 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM