After a long break we resumed our Thames Path walk on the early may bank holiday. The weather was a little damp with light rain throughout most of the trip, but we can heartily recommend this leg and it was one of the more varied routes since leaving London. Starting in Marlow the route is…
In February 2024 I challenged myself to a morning of black and white photography at Painswick Rocco Gardens and Gloucester Cathedral in an effort to improve my photography and have some fun with a different style. You can see the results below. I had a lot of fun experimenting with what does and doesn’t work.
In February 2024 we visited WWT Slimbridge for a day. Slimbridge is a wetlands reserve near the village of the same name in Gloucestershire. It has a mix of wild birds, including cranes and kingfishers and some that are permanently resident, such as flamingos! The highlight of the day was definitely seeing the Kingfisher, I…
Activitypub (or the Fediverse), as it is more commonly known, is now enabled on this site! You can follow me below: Over the past year, since a certain twit took over a particular site, I have slowly learned to love Mastodon as its replacement. It is full of interesting and knowledgeable people, although there is…
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Hounslow Methodist Church had a thriving live music project called Cafe Arts, inviting small professional and semi-professional Christian artists from around the country to perform in a series of concerts each year. This had to stop during the pandemic and since then we have only had a few concerts by the…
For many years, the school’s PTA has run a bingo night for the children, which always goes well. This year, however, we have retired the software that they used to use to track the numbers as they were called. I put together a simple script to do a similar job, as most of the app…
I haven’t posted much this month as it has been very busy!
These are some of the good things I’ve been up to in January.