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  • After a night that alternated between raining and freezing winds here, at the edge of Storm ร‰owyn, this morning my skylight has ice patterns on it that look beautiful and almost organic.

    Full image of Skylight window viewed from the inside. The outside has a layer of ice punctuated by thinner patches of whirling, seaweed-like patterns that crisscross around it as if formed by a living thing.
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    Skylight window viewed from the inside. The outside has a layer of ice punctuated by thinner patches of whirling, seaweed-like patterns that crisscross around it as if formed by a living thing.

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    • posted 25 January, 2025
  • Christmas Jumper Day at school, and I'm continuing my never-ending effort never to rest on my laurels, proving myself time and again worthy of my title of Most Embarrassing Parent.

    Full image of Three people in a decorated hallway, wearing Christmas jumpers and headgear. Dan, in the centre, is wearing a jumper designed to make him look like a tiny elf, and a matching hat. To his right, a girl wears a jumper showing Rudolf, and a pair of spring-mounted reindeer deely-boppers. To his left, a boy with his eyes closed throws a thumbs-up: he's wearing a jumper with a pixel-art picture of Santa, and a wooly Santa hat.
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    Three people in a decorated hallway, wearing Christmas jumpers and headgear. Dan, in the centre, is wearing a jumper designed to make him look like a tiny elf, and a matching hat. To his right, a girl wears a jumper showing Rudolf, and a pair of spring-mounted reindeer deely-boppers. To his left, a boy with his eyes closed throws a thumbs-up: he's wearing a jumper with a pixel-art picture of Santa, and a wooly Santa hat.

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    • 2 comments
    • posted 18 December, 2024
  • At first I thought "Christmas post" had something to do with letters and parcels, but then I found one in the wild.

    Full image of Finger post footpath sign adorned with a toy snowman and wrapped in a spiral of red and silver tinsel.
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    Finger post footpath sign adorned with a toy snowman and wrapped in a spiral of red and silver tinsel.

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    • posted 16 December, 2024
  • Not quite ready for wintering indoors, our village's hardy sheep are enjoying pasturing in the large field near the school this beautiful but chilly morning.

    Full image of Warm colours break through scattered clouds from a winter sunrise over sheep grazing in a scrubby pasture.
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    Warm colours break through scattered clouds from a winter sunrise over sheep grazing in a scrubby pasture.

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    • posted 2 December, 2024
  • Gorgeous view of Slievenamon towering over Kilsheelan, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, as seen from Gurteen Wood, where my mother and I are just on our way back from our successful expedition to the 2024-11-24 52 -7 geohashpoint.

    Full image of Under a blue-white sky, a rounded hill towers over a fertile green valley dotted with little white houses, as seen from between the trees of an ancient forest.
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    Under a blue-white sky, a rounded hill towers over a fertile green valley dotted with little white houses, as seen from between the trees of an ancient forest.

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    • posted 24 November, 2024
  • Full image of First-person view down a hammock in a rural garden. The hammock's occupier (Dan) is holding a novel and a can of premixed Pimms & lemonade.
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    First-person view down a hammock in a rural garden. The hammock's occupier (Dan) is holding a novel and a can of premixed Pimms & lemonade.

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    • posted 11 August, 2024
  • If you enjoy a bit of "cable gore", let me introduce you to the fusebox cupboard at my house, with its plethora of junctions, fuses, breakers, switches, timers, and cabling everywhere! Banana for scale.

    Full image of A cupboard the height of a fully-grown adult containing several fuseboxes (two large, one medium, and a handful of single-fuse ones, with a mixture of traditional fuses and RCD breakers), a large switch toggling between mains and a generator, a mains timer, and copious wiring. There's a banana in there too.
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    A cupboard the height of a fully-grown adult containing several fuseboxes (two large, one medium, and a handful of single-fuse ones, with a mixture of traditional fuses and RCD breakers), a large switch toggling between mains and a generator, a mains timer, and copious wiring. There's a banana in there too.

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    • posted 6 March, 2024
  • Composite image showing (1) a woman at an alpine terrace bar wearing a red-and-white striped jumper, and (2) a skiier wearing a yellow-and-black striped snowsuit. They look somewhat like Wilma and Odlaw from the Where's Wally?/Where's Waldo? series of books.

    Where?

    I'm pretty sure that Wally/Waldo, Woof, and Wizard Whitebeard must be out on this mountain somewhere, too.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (18 words)

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    • posted 16 February, 2024
  • A young white man with platinum blonde hair holds up a large, boxy digital camera.

    Oldest Digital Photo... of Me

    The oldest photo I own of myself was taken in 1982, when I was almost 2 years old. But how old is the oldest DIGITAL photo of me? Let's try to find it...

    Read more - about 3 minutes (478 words)

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    • posted 3 February, 2024
  • A pile of window frames, factory-fresh and covered with tape. propped against the side of a white house, on a gravel driveway.

    Installation of Windows has Stalled

    I was told Windows installation should take less than 20 minutes, but these ones have been sitting outside my house all day while the builders sit on the roof and listen to the radio. Do I need a faster processor?

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    • posted 30 January, 2024
  • Letter from British Gas opening with "Hello Mr Q (it Is Only Q)".

    It Is Only Q

    The programmers at British Gas are among the many who don't believe that a surname can be only a single character, and their customer service agents have clearly worked around their validations (or just left a note for themselves in the problematic field!)... leading to hilarious postal mail.

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    • 61 comments
    • posted 18 December, 2023
  • Selfie of Dan wearing an "elf costume" Christmas jumper and matching hat with bell.

    Mental Elf Day

    Christmas Jumper Day at the kids' school. Because I'm the "embarrassing parent", I joined in for the school run too.
    (Also for my meetings today, obviously.)

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    • posted 8 December, 2023
  • Frosty meadow with frozen fog, with low sunrise barely cutting through, with beginnings of a blue sky barely peeking through.

    Freezing Fog

    Gorgeous freezing fog over the fields on the school run this morning.

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    • posted 6 December, 2023
  • Thich white sandwich on a blue-and-white china plate, with the distinctive shape of an organge-coloured Monster Munch crisp poking out.

    Monster Munch Sandwich

    Experimenting with some unusual combinations in anticipation of International Crisp Sandwich Day. Today's is Roast Beef Monster Munch on Farmhouse White.

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    • posted 5 October, 2023
  • Motivational poster showing a photograph from a Manchester street. A Pride flag banner is hanging from a post with the words "everybody welcome" at the top. Nearby, attached to the same post, a road sign has the words "except buses". The poster is captioned with the word "inclusivity" (in pride colours), and subcaptioned "the 'B' is not for Buses". The joke is that the 'B' in LGBTQ+ stands for 'bisexual' and not 'buses', although of course the real meaning of that street sign is to ban everybody from driving straight ahead except buses, so the joke isn't perfect.

    Inclusivity

    The 'B' is not for Buses.

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 24 August, 2023

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