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Dear Apple, maybe white text on an orange background isnā€™t the best choice? How much is that book?? squints

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Night all! Cosy cosy in the snow

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Last few hours of 2025. A day in the Cairngorms, then Loch Morlich, then Glen More cafe. And just back after a torch light parade. Fab way to end a shitty year. Roll on 2026!

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Heading north (Aviemore area) for Hogmanay! There will be snow! Motorhome is packed, just bikes to load and the usual last minute ā€œwhat have we forgotten?ā€ chat. šŸ˜Š

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In an odd limbo. Feel emboldened to write, blog posts, journal entries, novel excerpts. Social media is leaving me cold.

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Seems like being bored = social media. And Iā€™m better at constructively using my time when not bored.

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Mind you, if we do get snowed in I might have the chance to finish off my little AI coding project, building my own workout tracker. Amazing what you can achieve without knowing any coding.

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Heading North in a couple of days for Hogamanay. Staying for a few days, likely through to the weekend.

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Snow forecast. My favourite condition for driving a motorhome in!

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Boxing Day, waking up in our motorhome after a wonderful day yesterday. Woke at home, watched our sonā€™s excitement grow as he emptied his stocking and unwrapped presents, then off to a family dinner, games, laughter, and love.

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Just what I needed. I hope yours was as joyous as mine.

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Interesting.

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Finally watched F1 movie. As an F1 fanā€¦ I loved it.

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Just watched The Long Walk. I read the novel many many years ago, but itā€™s one of those that sticks in your head. A simple, horrifying idea, that delves into dark places. That Richard Bachman is some writer.

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The movie, pretty good, just as dark, just as horrifying, but the ending is different!

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Alanis Morrisette gig - with Wet Leg and Skunk Anansie as support! - next year in Glasgow. Ā£80+ a ticket. Never seen her live, love the other two bands, butā€¦ Ā£80/Ā£90 (w/booking fees etc)ā€¦ ouch. But last time I did this it was for Prince and I missed the chance to see him live soā€¦ fuck it?

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@ChrisJWilson yeah I appreciate silence a lot more than I used to as well. Quite happy to let my podcast list build, not every episode needs listened to!

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@ChrisJWilson just need some new recs!!

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www.densediscovery.com/issues/36ā€¦ 5 in here (courtesy of me)

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World Cup draw done. Today F1 qualifying, washing the roof of our motorhome, and hanging out with my boy. And coffee. Lots of coffee.

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@Miraz a good hot beverage holder, priceless!

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@Miraz oh no! A favourite mug/teacup is a sacred thing indeed.

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Long term project to reshape my blog is shaping up. Starting with deleting old broken/pointless posts.

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Easiest way Iā€™ve found is to use Word Count. Wordpress Dashboard allows for this, sort smallest to largest and review/delete. A lot of old broken image uploads (1 character) gone in a flash.

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Friends to leave Netflix UK at the end of the year. We are mid-way through a re-watch. Iā€™m ok with this, plenty of other TV available, and we should be finished by then anyway.

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For me, next up is Pluribus. What are you watching just now?

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Got to visit the school my son will start next year. Primary schools have changed a lot since I was in one (yes yes I am very old blah blah). Great open space, and heā€™ll have a few friends from his nursery there too. Wonderful.

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Zwift day. Not doing much, but better than nothing!

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Determined NOT to make any fitness based New Year Resolutionsā€¦ butā€¦ really need to shift ā€˜thisā€™ (he says, jiggling his belly like a bowl full of jelly).

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@lmika ahhh the ā€œwhy did I do it that way?ā€ Fun of bringing out Xmas decorations. EVERY year I find something that I donā€™t understand why I did!!

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A random day, a quiet morning, a potter round the shops, home to build some toy storage (which so far is mostly filling with cars), and a quiet evening. Making my son laugh by walking ā€œintoā€ poles so much he was cackling! Love a wee fam day with ma wee fam.

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@numericcitizen I used to blog with a technical documentation slant, creating a knowledge base of useful internal information. Did it for a while, socialised it and THEN told my boss šŸ˜‰

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Ok, planning is coming together. Moving from WordPress to Bear and culling non-value posts on the way.

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26 years of blogging to move, may take a while!

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Definitely getting old. Driving to Blairgowrie this morning, mostly in the dark, and definitely noticing the difference with oncoming lights.

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@JohnPhilpin synch what? Huh??

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Adding Reeder back and on a bit of a blog discovery kick. Anything to try and break the algorithms.

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At some point this year will end. Right? Cos Iā€™m about done with 2025 thanks.

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Right, time to plunge back into HomeKit automation and find some decent ā€˜smart plugsā€™. Currently have a couple of Hue plugs which work fine but are a bit pricey. Need a few more so any recommendations welcomed. Eve and Meross seem like the next best options?

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@lmika I gave up caring about value quite early. I think itā€™s a given that if you post over time the value and immediacy changes. Hell even my views have changed from things I wrote years ago but thatā€™s part of the journey, right?

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Weā€™ve been trying toā€¦ hang on, this isnā€™t a paid advert or anything! ā€¦ find decent water bottles for us and our son. We found them!

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www.ion8.co.uk

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Even better, itā€™s a Scottish company!

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Great value, great products, I really canā€™t fault them.

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@lmika So true, I veer between avoiding my blog becoming a personal diary, to wanting to publish things which may get more than my usual 4 viewers.

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@cleverdevil yeah a shame but keeps things interesting! Although I think Lando needs more steel, that first corner shouldā€™ve been his!

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@cleverdevil I feel so bad for him. One of the best ever drivers and the car/team is just awful for him.

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@Gabz What do you gain from twitter just now? It's probably the one social media channel I could easily drop. My most useful interactions are on FB (mostly local event announcements rather than friends posting photos of their cats), my most pleasing interactions are on Instagram (because I'm a frustrated photographer myself), but Twitter is mostly a 'something is going on maybe I can find out on Twitter' channel for me these days. Although I do tend to push most automated posts there (from here, from my Instagram via IFTTT, from my main blog, from my Pocket reading list). What's the ROI for YOUR Twitter?

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@Burk ahh that might explain the ā€œpassword resetā€ email I got from FB, someone trying to get in to my account. Thank you 2FA!

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@ChrisJWilson I use Secure Notes (S.Notes) for this. Solid web version, good iOS app, not lost a thing and it's very quick to sync. Might be worth a look.

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@SusanB had no idea this word was Scots, I use it all the time.

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@tones why do you ask?

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@tones not figured that bit out yet. I probably won't, I'll focus on helping those that the Tories have left out in the cold, literally, the dying, the poor, the refugees, the homeless, all the people the Tories have been railing against. I will practice love, not hate, and hope that actions speak louder than words.

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@macgenie yeah I will look at January to do it I think :) means I can stay offline over Xmas a bit.

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@jeannie seconded! Bloomin love a potato me, had a baked one for my lunch!

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@macgenie Yeah that must be it, I don't think I did but c'est la vie! I'll just have to keep trying for that one :D

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@macgenie @manton - so I got the November micro blogging challenge pin (yay, it was great fun!) but I don't have the 30 day pin? Confused!

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@Burk a nice take on the usual lists, I like this. Not sure I purchase enough 'things' to do one myself though. Think my last gadget purchase was my AirPods... two years ago!

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@manton this is my problem being a UK NBA fan, catching all this stuff the next morning after all the analysis is done kinda kills the moment!

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@Burk I looked at this a while ago. Also looked at Notation, found my sweet spot with S.Notes and some add-ons I think.

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@colinwalker so true. Itā€™s fair to say that my opinions on many things are a LOT different today than they were 20 years ago, and some not so much!

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