Posts

September 2025

• Sep 09 2025 Getting back on task
• Sep 08 2025 Week Notes: 36|2025
• Sep 07 2025 Flying a Flag
• Sep 06 2025 A Personal Way Back Machine
• Sep 05 2025 Bandcamp Friday
• Sep 04 2025 Lisbon to Calais
• Sep 03 2025 RWGPS Recap Cards
• Sep 02 2025 RWGPS August 2025 Recap
• Sep 01 2025 Monday

August 2025

• Aug 31 2025 Week Notes: 35|2025
• Aug 30 2025 Borstal Institution 1908
• Aug 29 2025 Blaugust Week 4. August 21st - August 27th
• Aug 28 2025 Endearing Qualities
• Aug 27 2025 Talking loudly
• Aug 26 2025 Brothers, Thrills, and Uni Bills
• Aug 25 2025 Would you rather...
• Aug 24 2025 Week Notes: 34|2025
• Aug 23 2025 Consistency and Commitment
• Aug 22 2025 A Question For You
• Aug 21 2025 The Dog Shit Gang
• Aug 20 2025 Blaugust Week 3. August 14th - August 20th
• Aug 19 2025 Do or do not. There is no try.
• Aug 18 2025 Start the day
• Aug 17 2025 Week Notes: 33|2025
• Aug 16 2025 Cape Wrath
• Aug 15 2025 Postbox Toppers
• Aug 14 2025 Working through the list
• Aug 13 2025 Three Rs
• Aug 12 2025 Blaugust Week 2. August 7th - August 13th
• Aug 11 2025 My Biggest Critic
• Aug 10 2025 Week 32|2025
• Aug 09 2025 Loving Someone As They Change
• Aug 08 2025 Hopping Down in Kent
• Aug 07 2025 The Iron is Hot
• Aug 06 2025 Welcome to Blaugust. Week One. August 1st – August 6th
• Aug 05 2025 Looking After Your Future Self
• Aug 04 2025 Intrinsic values
• Aug 03 2025 no.31

July 2025

• Jul 28 2025 no.30
• Jul 21 2025 Roots Garden Sound System Meets Messenger Sound System
• Jul 20 2025 Reality Bites
• Jul 18 2025 An Unexpected Family Emergency
• Jul 16 2025 audax: The Giant Circle 1000k DiY
• Jul 07 2025 Git & Hugo Blog Workflow: Aide-Mémoire
• Jul 07 2025 From Zero to Deployed: My Automated Hugo Workflow on Two Machines

May 2025

• May 01 2025 Ten things - No 3

April 2025

• Apr 28 2025 Ten things - No 1
• Apr 28 2025 Ten things - No 2
• Apr 19 2025 audax: DiY (Do it Yourself) Randonneur Around the Year (RRtY)
• Apr 08 2025 Playing on the edge of understanding
• Apr 04 2025 w/e Sunday 13/04/25 - Scrobbles from my mobile
• Apr 01 2025 Home and garden

March 2025

• Mar 27 2025 Accountability Friends
• Mar 21 2025 Thinking about now
• Mar 21 2025 The good host
• Mar 14 2025 Save our sites - Write to your MP
• Mar 10 2025 The 1957 SEEBOARD tragedy
• Mar 04 2025 Cycle touring: The fifteen Signature Discovery Points of the Wild Atlantic Way
• Mar 02 2025 Ride with GPS February 2025 Recap

February 2025

• Feb 21 2025 Eddington Number. A Cycling Statistics App
• Feb 19 2025 Blogosphere to IndieWeb
• Feb 17 2025 Platform Switch Decision Formulas
• Feb 09 2025 audax: London Orbit (all the home counties) 300k DiY
• Feb 01 2025 Ride with GPS January 2025 Recap

January 2025

• Jan 24 2025 Looking at Checking in
• Jan 17 2025 Is there a long and hilly way round
• Jan 13 2025 Boost investment in cycling
• Jan 13 2025 A timeline like home
• Jan 11 2025 Wildfire as Catalyst
• Jan 07 2025 Status Update
• Jan 06 2025 Distraction
• Jan 02 2025 2024 and 10,000 miles done!

December 2024

• Dec 08 2024 It's been windy out
• Dec 05 2024 Dark, Wet & Windy
• Dec 03 2024 Digital Anachronisms

November 2024

• Nov 30 2024 Heading in the right direction
• Nov 29 2024 Self balancing act
• Nov 28 2024 Reverse & Remix
• Nov 27 2024 40 Big Ones
• Nov 26 2024 Stop Go
• Nov 25 2024 Clocking up the miles
• Nov 24 2024 Hedgerows & Hills
• Nov 23 2024 Wet & Windy
• Nov 23 2024 Shilbottle, Warkworth & Twatt
• Nov 23 2024 Post Office Wall Boxes

January 2022

• Jan 22 2022 A change at work
• Jan 17 2022 Working Nights

December 2021

• Dec 22 2021 Tested Positive for Covid
• Dec 05 2021 A Question for You

November 2021

• Nov 28 2021 Why Do You Cycle
• Nov 28 2021 Podcasts I enjoy and benefit from listening to
• Nov 21 2021 audax: Moonrakers and Sunseekers 300k through the night

October 2021

• Oct 30 2021 audax: Decaying Orbits of London 600km DIY

July 2021

• Jul 19 2021 audax: Asparagus And Strawberries 400k

May 2021

• May 23 2021 It's good to journal
• May 16 2021 Back out on it
• May 13 2021 Mental Health Awareness Week
• May 04 2021 Discord What's in a name

April 2021

• Apr 30 2021 My Political Compass

November 2020

• Nov 02 2020 Learning to code

March 2020

• Mar 22 2020 A Kodak Moment
• Mar 18 2020 Perspective matters
• Mar 02 2020 Atlas & Apollo

October 2019

• Oct 07 2019 audax: Fairies Crown and Anchor 200k
• Oct 01 2019 A letter to myself from ten years ahead

September 2019

• Sep 28 2019 Coping Skills

August 2019

• Aug 19 2019 audax: Paris Brest Paris 1200k

July 2019

• Jul 28 2019 Tow paths, Glastonbury and FMS
• Jul 28 2019 Bike tyres. Feel the bounce

June 2019

• Jun 25 2019 audax: Willesden's Last Gasp 600k
• Jun 20 2019 Flipping the stem and ear muffs

May 2019

• May 13 2019 On the way to PBP
• May 10 2019 An aside

March 2019

• Mar 19 2019 NextcloudPi bringing the cloud indoors

February 2019

• Feb 23 2019 audax: Wye Wednesday 200k

January 2019

• Jan 31 2019 Cycling about in January
• Jan 28 2019 audax: Paris Brest Paris 2019 Let's go!
• Jan 19 2019 Cycling research High intensity interval training

December 2018

• Dec 29 2018 New beginnings
• Dec 23 2018 Standard Notes Making the switch from Evernote
• Dec 23 2018 Drone To make a dull, continued, low, monotonous sound

November 2018

• Nov 20 2018 to unGoogle (verb)
• Nov 12 2018 The defensible default
• Nov 04 2018 For meaning making machines

August 2018

• Aug 26 2018 Rear mech hanger

May 2018

• May 12 2018 Bicycles designs from 1818 to 2018
• May 06 2018 A shameful legacy

April 2018

• Apr 06 2018 Explorer Tiles and March Miles

March 2018

• Mar 31 2018 Positive Money Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
• Mar 22 2018 Shimano ST-RS505 Hydraulic Disc Brake review
• Mar 04 2018 Social Media Addiction
• Mar 02 2018 Inadequate cold weather contingency plans and school closures

February 2018

• Feb 27 2018 An inch of snow and the kid's schools are closed!
• Feb 01 2018 A bad experience in hospital

January 2018

• Jan 07 2018 Start again and stick with it

November 2017

• Nov 20 2017 Knocked off my bike by a too close pass

September 2017

• Sep 30 2017 Don't go jumping red lights
• Sep 23 2017 Handlebars for long distance rides
• Sep 19 2017 Mark Beaumont cycles round the world in 78 days 18,000 miles in 78 days!
• Sep 17 2017 audax: Hartlepool 200km DIY DNF

August 2017

• Aug 20 2017 Nerve damage Cyclist's Palsy
• Aug 07 2017 audax: London Edinburgh London 1400k

July 2017

• Jul 27 2017 LEL in a few days___
• Jul 27 2017 Down the Hatch
• Jul 12 2017 audax: Kingdom of the East Saxons 400km

June 2017

• Jun 09 2017 The switch from Windows to Ubuntu 18 months on

May 2017

• May 07 2017 audax: Green and Yellow Fields 300km

April 2017

• Apr 07 2017 audax: Saracen RC 200km No 2 permanent Audax

March 2017

• Mar 22 2017 audax: Man of Kent 200k 2017

February 2017

• Feb 03 2017 audax: Hills and Mills 100k

January 2017

• Jan 13 2017 Crunching through snow and ice
• Jan 04 2017 Bike miles in 2016

November 2016

• Nov 16 2016 What happens now Trump is president elect
• Nov 07 2016 Be yourself! The Tragedy of Conformity

July 2016

• Jul 30 2016 n +1 = plus bike
• Jul 25 2016 The Dunwich Dynamo
• Jul 25 2016 Enjoy your daily cup of CNS stimulant

June 2016

• Jun 11 2016 Bloody Cyclists
• Jun 08 2016 Bwian's Krave Mix (Part 1) - 1994 5 Jungle producer for the present by Brian Badonde

May 2016

• May 26 2016 audax: Fynyddoedd ac Anialwch Niwlog aka Over the Mountains and Misty Wildernesses 400k
• May 17 2016 An honest meditation

March 2016

• Mar 16 2016 New shoes and panties

February 2016

• Feb 13 2016 NSCR Dundee to Aberdeen

January 2016

• Jan 31 2016 Cycling goals to fit with the day to day
• Jan 23 2016 Cycling goals for 2016 with added Veloviewer explorer tiles
• Jan 14 2016 Evernote, cloudHQ and Google Drive
• Jan 14 2016 Cycling the North Yorkshire Moors on a rainy day in January
• Jan 12 2016 G4S, Israel, Palestine, Medway Secure Training Centre, and my local MP Kelly Tolhurst
• Jan 03 2016 Fred Whitton Challenge

December 2015

• Dec 31 2015 365 days of cycling
• Dec 27 2015 Smashing Windows
• Dec 24 2015 Geocache Log Earls Seat
• Dec 23 2015 Use of the police emergency and non emergency line over the festive period
• Dec 22 2015 Put up or shut up
• Dec 07 2015 audax: Kings, Castles, Priests and Churches 200k

October 2015

• Oct 22 2015 Kelly Tolhurst failed to speak out about the tax credit cuts in the opposition day debate
• Oct 21 2015 Meaning into miles

September 2015

• Sep 21 2015 Enjoying big miles

June 2015

• Jun 24 2015 audax: Fairies Flattest Possible 300k

April 2015

• Apr 21 2015 National Cycling Memorial, Meriden Remembering Fallen Cyclists

October 2014

• Oct 01 2014 Well he was asking for it wasn't he

May 2014

• May 11 2014 audax: Oasts and Coasts 300k

March 2014

• Mar 28 2014 audax: Man of Kent 200k 2014

February 2014

• Feb 07 2014 The North Yorkshire Moors on a bike at night

January 2014

• Jan 04 2014 The London Borough Spiral Ride

December 2013

• Dec 21 2013 Needs and Expectations
• Dec 19 2013 Letting go of emotions

August 2013

• Aug 11 2013 1000 Yards

January 2012

• Jan 28 2012 Changing gears
• Jan 25 2012 Tesco brushed off our complaint and denied responsibility for damage caused

November 2011

• Nov 26 2011 Captain Poopy Pants and the Evil Toilet by Elijah

June 2011

• Jun 17 2011 Away We Go
• Jun 12 2011 Six Go Camping

March 2011

• Mar 09 2011 Bikes, Cars and Trains

February 2011

• Feb 11 2011 DJ Krave Radio Sunlight

January 2011

• Jan 20 2011 Invicta Works
• Jan 13 2011 Where's My Machine Gun?
• Jan 02 2011 Score For a Hole in the Ground

October 2010

• Oct 22 2010 Stages of a Photographer
• Oct 17 2010 Lupen Crook
• Oct 16 2010 Neil's Hat
• Oct 15 2010 Cris Moos List
• Oct 07 2010 The Medway Blogger: City status - need I say more!

September 2010

• Sep 30 2010 Goal!!
• Sep 25 2010 Well done Otis
• Sep 22 2010 ME2: Medway Eyes 2nd Birthday
• Sep 18 2010 We're practice campers
• Sep 12 2010 Tree House
• Sep 12 2010 Flower

July 2010

• Jul 11 2010 Reckless was too wrecked to vote.
• Jul 05 2010 Dancing in Circles

March 2010

• Mar 25 2010 Wishy Washy
• Mar 25 2010 Instructions On How To Look After Dragon
• Mar 16 2010 Work Life Balance

February 2010

• Feb 18 2010 Cyanide & Happiness
• Feb 14 2010 Memoriacide
• Feb 09 2010 Back Up

January 2010

• Jan 31 2010 Rabbit skull and Stockwell Road
• Jan 21 2010 Long pause between posts | busy! busy! busy!

December 2009

• Dec 11 2009 Section 44 arrest outcome letter

November 2009

• Nov 25 2009 Section 44 arrest the latest
• Nov 22 2009 Section 44 arrest I fought the law and___ I WON!!!

August 2009

• Aug 26 2009 The 380kV Thames Crossing
• Aug 17 2009 Section 44 arrest Medway Eyes Keep em' peeled

July 2009

• Jul 27 2009 Section 44 arrest The Chief Superintendent's perspective
• Jul 20 2009 Section 44 arrest I am not a terrorist
• Jul 08 2009 Section 44 arrest Chatham High Street

May 2009

• May 25 2009 The Beat Skanking
• May 16 2009 People I Like People I Don't Like
• May 16 2009 Objectives, goals, and outcomes

April 2009

• Apr 08 2009 Footage showed police push Mr Tomlinson
• Apr 04 2009 The Children’s Tooth Fairy (Shillings Under the Pillow) Regulations 2009

March 2009

• Mar 28 2009 Not everyone cares though
• Mar 17 2009 Helping out with the fireworks
• Mar 02 2009 Oscar's first year
• Mar 02 2009 Empathy for the mundane

February 2009

• Feb 25 2009 Unfortunate Names
• Feb 16 2009 Cannabis and messy legislation
• Feb 15 2009 it's more than my jobs worth___

January 2009

• Jan 10 2009 Where are you and what does it feel like being there

November 2008

• Nov 22 2008 reflecting on my photography
• Nov 19 2008 Outsourcing
• Nov 08 2008 jpg from LR2 to CS4 gives my neighbour a bad case of the shingles!
• Nov 08 2008 Idyl Jack (Of all Trades)

September 2008

• Sep 17 2008 Morphine on Monday

August 2008

• Aug 26 2008 When was the last time you ate dinner in the toilet
• Aug 02 2008 No New Coal

July 2008

• Jul 28 2008 Street Paintings of Kurt Wenner

June 2008

• Jun 23 2008 Mister Post
• Jun 23 2008 Have you had your early day motion
• Jun 04 2008 A Beach Holiday

May 2008

• May 25 2008 I Luve You

April 2008

• Apr 27 2008 The things they say

March 2008

• Mar 28 2008 even when you see it coming___
• Mar 25 2008 Reading out loud
• Mar 18 2008 I'm not convinced
• Mar 05 2008 My Sick Book

February 2008

• Feb 14 2008 The Mosquito Alarm is repellent
• Feb 03 2008 Puskopditben

January 2008

• Jan 29 2008 Neglected but not forgotten
• Jan 07 2008 Kingsnorth Power Station

December 2007

• Dec 22 2007 Broken down boiler
• Dec 14 2007 Using up the internet
• Dec 12 2007 Santa got stuck up the chimney
• Dec 10 2007 Like the butterfly that caused a hurricane
• Dec 09 2007 An adventure with graphics drivers
• Dec 01 2007 Stretch A Nightmare with Graphics Cards

November 2007

• Nov 25 2007 Driven to distraction AIW 9800se - lost and found
• Nov 20 2007 Running on empty
• Nov 14 2007 Team Meetings

October 2007

• Oct 19 2007 Person of the week - YoungStar
• Oct 06 2007 Abcess makes the farts go phoondar
• Oct 05 2007 Seek and you shall find (or something)

September 2007

• Sep 28 2007 Some parents ehh How do the kids manage
• Sep 27 2007 Teaching primary kids bigotry
• Sep 26 2007 Working long hours, photographing road works and getting a reply from the Highways Agency Any ideas
• Sep 25 2007 Because deep down there is a little geek in me that needs some air
• Sep 24 2007 Higher education, bureaucracy and expenses
• Sep 23 2007 Yesterdays balancing act pales into insignificance
• Sep 22 2007 Balancing Act
• Sep 21 2007 Why don't you turn of the computer and go and do something less boring instead
• Sep 20 2007 The value of managerial supervision AKA a lesson in how to communicate without creating enemies
• Sep 19 2007 Avast me hearties

August 2007

• Aug 20 2007 Piece of shit
• Aug 07 2007 For the record

July 2007

• Jul 29 2007 30 interesting pictures in Flickrs explore
• Jul 27 2007 Summer Holidays
• Jul 25 2007 Working from home
• Jul 25 2007 Stage One with Distinction
• Jul 16 2007 The things they say - no 2
• Jul 03 2007 Born Free, Taxed to Death

June 2007

• Jun 22 2007 We moved houses

May 2007

• May 28 2007 Tour de France 2007 Medway
• May 28 2007 Packing up and moving on
• May 28 2007 House building in Medway: Medway Magna; why don't you take a hike
• May 16 2007 On the Edge 10 second photograph

April 2007

• Apr 30 2007 eshu's 1000 paper cranes
• Apr 16 2007 Blogs, cameras and bluebells
• Apr 10 2007 Chunky ties and climate change
• Apr 04 2007 Final Submission
• Apr 04 2007 Chatham's traffic, Sir John Hawkins, environmental lip service and the local elections

March 2007

• Mar 26 2007 BzzAgent
• Mar 23 2007 Checking in
• Mar 15 2007 Early morning in Bristol by the canal
• Mar 08 2007 Essay notes The global food system
• Mar 07 2007 Five preoccupations
• Mar 05 2007 Lunar Eclipse
• Mar 02 2007 Moving slowly

February 2007

• Feb 25 2007 Dipping into the blogosphere
• Feb 25 2007 Blogging
• Feb 22 2007 Affordable Housing
• Feb 20 2007 Random jottings - Not so serious notes from a not so old wrinkly old git
• Feb 20 2007 Cloudy Statistics
• Feb 17 2007 Mummy and Daddy
• Feb 15 2007 Painted Ice and Snow
• Feb 12 2007 There's a formula for the beer goggles effect
• Feb 09 2007 Self Regulatory failure
• Feb 06 2007 A lot of hot air
• Feb 05 2007 Carbon
• Feb 03 2007 On the crest of a wave
• Feb 02 2007 Get a Life

January 2007

• Jan 31 2007 Destinations
• Jan 31 2007 Biofuels
• Jan 28 2007 Give 'em all an untaxed car
• Jan 24 2007 Helping John Reed
• Jan 22 2007 Blue Monday The most depressing day of the year
• Jan 21 2007 What are you optimistic about
• Jan 20 2007 Turn off the lights!
• Jan 18 2007 Gooners
• Jan 14 2007 Quintessential Self-Regulatory Failure
• Jan 11 2007 The value of procrastination
• Jan 06 2007 Kingsnorth from Horrid Hill in January
• Jan 05 2007 Origins
• Jan 02 2007 Tight Fisted Oil Barons

December 2006

• Dec 30 2006 Alpine Chatham
• Dec 23 2006 The Friday before Christmas
• Dec 23 2006 Swings & Roundabouts
• Dec 19 2006 Moving House
• Dec 16 2006 Christmas Trees