Life's about experiences. These are mine.
This is the third and (hopefully) last post in this series on “Securing my …”. The first post looked at how I was taking steps to secure my digital assets while the second concentrated on securing me for a healthy future. This final post is far more grand in its scope as I am looking …
My annual round-up of the year just gone (you can read the previous year’s reports here). This year I was interested to see how the fact that now I am pretty much fully retired would have had an impact on some of these stats. For a start, I feel that I have listened to less …
Watching Annika on TV last night, starring the always excellent Nicola Walker, mention was made of the 12 rules that author Robert Louis Stevenson lived by. I looked these up and thought that they were still pertinent today so here they are. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Having written about securing my digital future this post is all about securing my own personal future. I don’t know whether it is the retirement, the arrival of the grandkids or a combination of the two but I have been thinking more and more about how I can ensure a long, healthy future. You might …
Back in September 2022 I visited the Berkshire Record Office as part of the Heritage Open Days and was shown how important records are preserved and restored. At the end of the post, I wondered how future digital records might similarly be stored in future. I found myself pondering this once more when I was …
I have promised myself that this year I will spend one day a month away from the house doing “something interesting”. To date that has included both a trip to the Science Museum and the British Museum in London. This month I was back in London for a trip to the lesser known Cartoon Museum. …
I was looking through the blog posts of a friend of mine when I saw one called “25 Things (Slight Return)“. This was based upon one of these annoying social media trends where you have to complete a list and then get x people to do the same. This one was to list out 25 …
My annual round-up of the year just gone (you can read 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021‘s reports). This was very much a transitional year as I moved from working part time to retirement at the end of August. I haven’t fully retired yet as I am still doing some consultancy but my daily rhythm has …
20 months ago I told my business partner that I intended to retire at the end of August 2022. This must have come as a shock to him but I’d been building up to it for a while. During the Covid pandemic Helen came in to see me and said that she had decided to …