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Several Motorbike Journeys
Thursday 10th of April 2025
Since the previous post , the weather has improved enormously – dry, sunny, clear blue skies and the fading of winter’s chill. It’s still not warm , but neither is it bone-numbingly cold. This means, of course, it’s time to really get out on the motorbike! Since I already had the bike a few days prior to passing my test, I was able to start riding it basically as soon as I got home from the test…
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Huge Success
Sunday 30th of March 2025
A lot has happened since the previous post : A very foggy Christmas Miserable, cold, wet weather for weeks I booked a Direct Access course to get my full motorbike A licence I passed by full motorbike A licence test I got a proper grownup bike looking west across Neston marshes, with Wales concealed by fog on the horizon fluffy seeds caught on fence wire Damp, cold, and dull; it felt interminabl…
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A Mini Motorbike Adventure
Tuesday 5th of November 2024
One of my main motivations in learning to ride a motorbike is the idea that I can go places , touring on it to far flung parts of the world. I’ve always wanted to travel, but never really had the opportunity, either because I couldn’t afford it, or because the options available for actually getting around didn’t appeal to me. sign attached to a railing that says no parking at any time But a motor…
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The Beginning Of My Adventure On Two Wheels
Monday 21st of October 2024
A couple of months ago I finally got round to doing something I’d wanted for a long time: to start the process of learning how to ride a motorbike. The first step was getting doing my Compulsory Basic Training, or CBT; this is a one-day course where they aim take you from absolute beginner to road-legal rider. There are a few limitations to that road-legal status, of course: you’re limited to a bi…
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A Day Out on the Wherry Albion
Wednesday 19th of June 2024
One of the members of my local photography club is involved in maintaining an old wherry – boats which were used to transport goods around Norfolk before trains and cars became common. I and some other members of the club were offered the chance to spend a day on one of the wherries, the Albion, with the provisio that we provide the Norfolk Wherry Trust with a few pictures each for promotional p…
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Haywright, now with words!
Friday 27th of October 2023
Some months ago I wrote Haywright , a filler text generator that took an input text and produced output that was random, but had the feel of the input. As I mentioned in a recent post , at one point during development I tried implementing word-based tokens, but abandoned it as it felt like a lot of unnecessary code duplication. Well, ever since then the idea has remained in my mind, stewing away…
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The Chaos
Thursday 20th of July 2023
By G. Nolst Trenite, a.k.a. Charivarius (1870-1946), via http://www.i18nguy.com/chaos.html Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies …
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Haywright: filler text generator
Wednesday 28th of June 2023
A while back I read a blog post by Dr. Drang about ChatGPT , which briefly discussed a way to generate text from a source input that, while random, had something of the feel of the original. This idea resonated with me, and after I read the original Computer Recreations article Dr. Drang’s post mentioned, I decided to try my hand at writing a program in Rust to do the same thing, based on the des…
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New Colours: Rosé Pine
Tuesday 7th of February 2023
A while back I simplified the colour palette for the blog, to just ‘light’, ‘dark’ and ‘night-sight’. The first two were basic monochrome schemes that, while functional, were not especially nice . For the past month or so I’ve been using a colour scheme for my text editor called Rosé Pine , a soothing, pastel look that I find surprisingly relaxing to look at. While there’s something to be said f…
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Backlog: December 2019
Thursday 2nd of February 2023
Finally, the last month of 2019! As with the previous month, finding pictures wasn’t actually a struggle for a change; in fact I had to be quite selective to reduce the choice to just these ones. Even so, three of them are from the same morning fog adventure, and two are pictures I’d previously not really paid much attention to. It’s interesting what a fresh pair of eyes can reveal. This image is …
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Backlog: November 2019
Tuesday 31st of January 2023
Autumn and early winter are probably my favourite times of year for photography, which is hardly surprising as it means glorious light available at readily accessible times of the day, as well as trees displaying a wonderful variety of colours. autumn trees in the caravan park bright yellow and orange leaves It’s also wetter, naturally, and this is good for urban photography. It’s a common filmmak…
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Backlog: October 2019
Tuesday 10th of January 2023
October is Emily’s birthday, and also when Interesting Things start happening to the trees and sunlight. Emily in her birthday dress at my parents’ house petals fallen from a potted plant A bit more variety this month, with trips to Lowestoft and Yarmouth and of course the usual walks along the seafront. rusty chain with circle patterns scraped on its anchor I find abandoned shops fascinating, and…
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Backlog: September 2019
Tuesday 3rd of January 2023
This was a strange one. When I adjusted my saved search filter in Capture One to show this month’s pictures, and saw over 500 of them, I was surprised and quite pleased. Perhaps this month I’d have to struggle to narrow down my choice to a reasonable amount of pictures? Nope. Turns out the vast majority of them are pictures of Emily. Don’t get me wrong, they’re adorable, because she’s adorable, bu…
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Backlog: August 2019
Friday 23rd of December 2022
Well, I said last month that I had more pictures this month, and… well, that’s true, but the variety isn’t as great as I initially thought. It was no exaggeration to say that about 70% of the pictures are of my daughter, but hey, that’s just the way it goes when you have a 2-year-old: she changes so much even week to week, and she’s just so adorable . Still, I’ve posted plenty of pictures of h…
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Backlock: July 2019
Monday 19th of December 2022
It’s beginning to look like the whole of summer of 2019 was when I mostly gave up trying very hard to produce artistically relevant photos. I took plenty of pictures – 286 if Capture One’s count is accurate – but probably 85% of them are just of Emily or other family members, and are only really interesting to me and other family members. Still, lack of artistically relevant pictures is only real…
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