Life's about experiences. These are mine.
It’s time for my annual round-up of the year just gone (you can read the previous year’s reports here). This was my first full year of retirement so it will be interesting to see what, if any , impact that has had on the figures. I have worked from home for the last ten years …
It’s time for my annual round-up of the year just gone (you can read the previous year’s reports here). My change in working circumstances has very much driven these stats as they did last year. Next year, well, this year now, I will be fully retired and therefore in theory all time will be my …
For my birthday in the summer of 2023, I was given a Raspberry Pi Camera, which, very much Heath Robinson style, I fixed to the conservatory window looking out onto our back garden. The camera takes a snapshot every hour, night and day, so I end up with a lot of images that are basically …
We were having some work done in the house that necessitated us clearing out the loft, which was long overdue. Down came boxes and boxes of school books, art work and reports of not just my children but my school days too. This covered my education from infant school right through to my university degree. …
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 …
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. …