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.
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…