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Christmas 2024
This year, I was mostly ill – yay! I tried to have fun, and I did, but gosh, I could have done without the sickness. Boo!
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WPLDN Festive Event – what a blast!
The festive WPLDN event took place yesterday, and what fun it was. A speed build with Jamie Marsland v Dan Maby. A pub quiz with lots of nerdy WordPress facts and figures. And someone walked away with a brand new MacBook Air! I really had a great time, truly. The technical challenges from a AV point of view were many and difficult to overcome, but we got there in the nick of time!
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Today it snowed
When I was a child, the snow would reliably come each year. We’d have weeks of snow, and it would lay on the ground, thick and knee deep. Now it goes for years without snowing, but when it does come, I have to go out into it and try to relive some of the joys that I had as a child. Today was such a day.
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I love where I live
If you know me, you know that I love the place where I live. However, it’s easy to forget just why you love it. I went down to the coast today with my camera and watch Santa sail in on a fishing trawler, to the delight of countless young children gathered there. It was a real moment of re-remembering why I love where I live. The people, the coast, the sea, the architecture.
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Trying something new
One of the things that I’ve noticed about myself lately is that I’m getting stale! I’m not really trying out new things. This is not a bad thing, but I had a revelation the other day that I ought to try out some new things. So this morning I headed to my local theatre and joined in the session in which you got to interact with the actors / actresses from the production that they’re putting on at the moment. It was really wonderful and I’ll be going back. Now I need some more new things to try out. Oh,…
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I love stumbling upon things, like this church
Today I decided to go for a walk. I picked a random place on the map, drove for 20 minutes and got out the car and started to walk. I stumbled upon a church, walked up the path and pushed the door, expecting it to be locked. To my surprise, it was open, and in I went. It was a beautiful church and I got enormous pleasure wandering around, knowing that I had no intention of visiting it.
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Paris
My family just went on a, somewhat impromptu, trip to Paris over the last few days. To say that I love Paris would be an enormous understatement. I think that it’s profoundly wonderful in so many ways. The architecture, the food, the culture. It’s all great. Now, I’m sure that if you live there, the daily grind would be just the same as elsewhere, but for a few quick days, just wandering about and taking in what the city has to offer, it’s wonderful! I would add that it was hysterical that I managed to cause stress at every-single-point at…
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My happy place
This fills me with enormous satisfaction. Every year at about this time, the temperature starts to drop, and we start to use the fire.