Monthly Archives: December 2021

Pickled jalapenos

I’ve just realised that I meant to show what I did with all my green jalapenos from this year. No idea how I can have forgotten something so important 🙂 I did save a few to stuff and bake, but … Continue reading

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Swimming, 29th December 2021

My last swim of the year today, and it did not go well 🙁 Not because I’ve over-indulged during the course of the last week (though I shan’t be denying that if accused), but the pool was just way to … Continue reading

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The veggie plot at the end of 2021

As I posted a couple of days back, I wanted to take a few photos of the plot as it is now so I can remember where I still need to spread compost once the winter crops are out of … Continue reading

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Post-Christmas veggie plot tidy up

Despite filling ten (I think — could be twelve) dumpy bags with fallen leaves, there were still quite a few that had collected on the paths and around the plants in the veggie plot so today I decided to clean … Continue reading

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Smokin’ Christmas present

For all sorts of reasons I shan’t go into in this post I’m really not into Christmas, but now the dust is starting to settle I have to share details of a present I received that I’m actually quite excited … Continue reading

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An unexpected ssh “gotcha”

I have a number of ssh keys used for various different purposes where it makes sense not to share the same key across different environments. Up to now that’s worked just fine. Today I added another. Some time later, I … Continue reading

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Raspberry vodka

As I mentioned a few days back, I had some vodka left over from making sloe vodka. A bit of a dig around in the freezer turned up a load of raspberries, and raspberry vodka was so popular last time … Continue reading

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Now I’m getting somewhere!

As I posted yesterday, the kwh_accumulator process in emoncms requires Redis to be available. Fortunately there’s a Docker image for that and it was just a case of pulling the image and starting it. I came up with a systemd … Continue reading

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Piano progress after two weeks

It feels much longer than two weeks. I wonder what that suggests? 🙂 I’ve been practising for about an hour each evening (I skipped one when I had to do a 550-mile round-trip to pick up my son from university). … Continue reading

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Swimming, 23rd December 2021

Last swim before Christmas and for undetermined reasons it was a very tough one. I really wasn’t on the pace I had yesterday and it took some time to get there. Certainly it wasn’t for lack of trying. My arms … Continue reading

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