So I am doing a bit of a weed-out of the bits and bobs I have stuffed into boxes over the years. Last mini-project was the SamBag, using a pair of his painter pants from when he was about 4 (he is 21 now so you know how long they
Life
Thoughts from what I have seen on this road I walk.
Recycling
The SamBag
Okay this one comes with a story. I am not a pack-rat, more a crow. I don’t save things just to save them, with a mountain of odds and ends in my shop downstairs. Well, actually I do but that is another story, and not a hoarding story! Anyway, many
Lists
Bucket List November 2025
Funny, as you get older the bucket list changes and gets shorter… Mine is still way long, like a knitter’s stash it is doubtful I will ever get to the end. But my list is definitely changing. Here’s the latest iteration (in no particular order): So there is the latest
Geekstuff Life
Pro-Linux & Anti-Virus!
Ahh the joys of WinBlows11 – doing everything the Microsoft way (and sharing to the world whether you like it or not!). For a while this year I was devving new apps on Win11, mostly because it was easy to compile small, neat, portable exes with Nuitka, and my primary
Life Thoughts
Empathy as Worldview
We have just ‘exited’ one of the greatest upheavals of our modern era – The Covid Pandemic. And how has Covid affected our psyche on a personal, national and global level? I wonder about this a lot, perhaps more than is healthy, but as a ‘survivor’ I have an acute
Recycling
Knottiness Continues
So it was fun playing with leather, making paracord bracelets. After a couple of wrong turns I finally have a clasp I can live with. But there hanging in my closet was a rather woebegone leather belt, I think I picked it up on one of those ubituitous ‘FREE’ piles