That's not Weston...

aaahhhhh right, I get it. Thank you.

I was told that referendum was a gerund...am I getting confused?

I remember being taught to ride a bike the first time I realised that he'd let go of my saddle and I was cycling on my own. Today I had the perspective of the person doing the saddle-holding. Working with young, first time workers and you suddenly realise they don't need you holding the saddle. Wow.

Ooooh! Top tip. Price from usual electronics suppliers @techresort use went from £13 to £36 for 250Gb SATA drives. Just looked at CEX. Blimey. Thank you for saving our refurb work quite a lot of money!

Oooh! I've just written my first android app with MIT App Inventor. Sunday afternoon fun!

The improvement in the circumstances in our very work class family changed quickly and radically with so many social improvements. I look at my great-nephews and nieces (aged from 0 to 22) and wonder what's the future for them./end

I (born in 1963) didn't have any living grandparents. My dad didn't even remember his father. My dad lived with ischaemic heart disease from the age of 39 - but lived a good life with excellent management of the disease until he was 79. His older siblings died much earlier.

The health/wellbeing/financial inclusion of my family was vastly improved by council housing in Bristol in 1926.
My maternal grandfather died in 1930 having already contracted TB - my mum was 4. My mum died at the age of 88.

I'm ready to vote you in as president of the world, though. Or rather vote Daphne in, with you as her dedicated Regent (because of the opposable thumbs and that...)

It seems like you access the shop via your tiktok account but must have to put a separate email address in. Clearly designed by people who don't think and/or don't care.

If I looked in my trash folder, I'd have their home address but that's it.

It's not for the tiktok account itself because when I tried that it say that it doesn't exist (I don't do tiktok) it must just be the email for shopping or something...I tried contacting TikTok but I've been ignored.

Yes! I have this with a not-quite namesake using TikTok shop. I keep getting emails concerning the trash they're buying. Can't see any way of getting into it though.

There's a new kid in the house joining the team - and what you can't see here are the enormous deep pink flowers on Pinky. Soon be time for a reorganisation

Aaaarrrggghhhh - webforms which don't allow saving and do weird things. Today's pet hate.

Our hosepipe ban was only rescinded last week!

I have a nephew who is 10 years younger than me and a strapping 6'4" - he will be forever about 7 to me and yet, he's now over 50. When he was 19 I once reached for his hand to cross the road.

"If the product is free, you're the product" and "don't click the link" come first equal.

Ah this is what Janauary weekends are for: using a new garden shredder, nearly breaking it, learning how to fix it and then learning that dried lilac trimmings offer the same compressive strength as adamantium.

we discovered a sleepy newt in the garden whilst trying to weed and mulch apple trees. Nice to know I didn't imagine the one I thought I saw in the pond last summer

Sounds like it...

Is it simnel cake that has marzipan balls on the top for decoration one for each disciple (poss exc Judas)?

We switched to Serif Affinity suite: photo editing, DTP and vector graphics. £70 per perpetual licence. Not as shiny as Adobe but certainly good enough for most people. Think it's now been taken over by...errr...Canva??

The same happened with Microsoft and every other "traditional" project management software package. Everyone switched to Project so almost everything else disappeared. Project, being Excel with a sort-of front-end isn't up to the job.

Hello all Minis session attendees and parents/guardians! Our weekly Minis sessions for ages 8-12 will be moving to Tuesdays, starting from our first session in 2026 (the 13th of January). We hope that all of you will be able to keep coming to these sessions, and look forward to seeing you next year!

Our team @techresort.bsky.social have really knocked it out of the park this year. More people supported than ever before. In other news...NEWS!

Love my Instant pot - loads-of-function-thing. Being able to sauté, then add liquid and slow cook, or being able to shove chicken carcass plus veg and water in it and use the pressure cooker function is awesome. Occasionally use the air fryer thing too

Bigg Market Saturday night frock...

Yay! The Orchids are back and now with added Christmas decoration in residence.