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.
Todo list apps are a source of frustration to me; there are so many beautiful and amazingly designed apps out there, but they often overcomplicate things and make a simple list harder than it needs to be. A few years ago, I started using Tweek (https://tweek.so/) to keep track of jobs that need doing at…
Just before Christmas, I treated myself to a camera upgrade. It has been years (the last photos seem to be in 2015!) since I have had a ‘proper’ camera, using my phone and, if needed, borrowing one instead, so it has been a lot of fun getting used to this type of photography again. Between…
As the year is coming to a close and following up on my other two posts from 2022 and 2023, here are some of my favourite title slides I designed this year. This year, I also designed and introduced a series of icons to signify the type of service, and later in the year, we…
This year has been an eclectic year for music as this list will testify! The list is in no particular order and features standout albums that i first heard this year. They are not nessercarily released this year, although several are. O Sun O Moon Bruce Cockburn I had the pleasure of hearing Bruce Cockburn…
This year has been an unusual year for games. I have had anywhere near as much time to play as in the past. A lot of the time I have had has been multiplayer gaming with my brother and cousin. The games I have chosen this year have been quite chilled, which has been a…
Following on from a successful Christmas concert last year the church band decided it would be fun to go again. This year the band picked some of their favourites from the last year and then added in some new ideas. Songs ranged from classic Christmas carols such as “O come all ye Faithful” and “Hark…
This is a nice gentle route about 7.5km in length with no significant climbs. We started in the main car park in Callander but were soon in the countryside in Central Scotland. The route started by taking us through pine forests brimming with wildlife, we saw plenty of birds and bugs in the trees and…