Monthly Archives: February 2024

No dig diary, 22nd February 2022

Posted on February 22, 2024 by james

More dark, windy, rainy weather today, and cold with it, too. So no actual progress in getting stuff done. Lots of seeds are making progress however. Chiles and peppers are starting to appear, together with (I think) antirrhinums and busy … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 3rd July 2022: Floors in manufacture

Posted on February 22, 2024 by james

Next job for the new table saw… My bees tend to fill mesh floors with propolis, suggesting to me that they’re not very keen on them, so I’ve decided to move back to solid or sealed floors, and to kick … Continue reading →

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Bee inspections

Posted on February 22, 2024 by james

Never mind the fact that “it’s still winter”, we’ve had very few days below 10°C recently and earlier this week when the Sun was out I was watching the bees in my home apiary flying strongly. I got to thinking … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 26th June 2022: How green is my garden?

Posted on February 21, 2024 by james

Everything in the veggie plot looking lush. This sort of view makes me feel so happy 🙂

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Temporary halt on Deep Sky Stacker port to Linux

Posted on February 21, 2024 by james

I think I’ve reached the point where I can’t do much more with this for the moment, unfortunately. Unless I fancy creating a BITMAP-type library for Linux so I don’t have to port all of the code that uses Windows … Continue reading →

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No dig diary, 21st Feb 2024: Biblical rain

Posted on February 21, 2024 by james

Yesterday I chipped some tree branches that had been pruned off a few trees, leaving the woodchip in the trailer. Today I realised that I was going to need the trailer for something else, so I needed it empty. Oh, … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 22 June 2022: Putting the box joints to use

Posted on February 21, 2024 by james

Now my new table saw blade has arrived I can get on with testing it out for making box joints. First, a test run using the jig I posted about a few days ago. Confident that it would do the … Continue reading →

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Hmmmm: Google

Posted on February 20, 2024 by james

I’ve been redirected to a Google form this morning, meaning I had to log in to Google. I don’t use Google that much, so I was expecting the usual “click on all the photos with a fire hydrant” stuff. After … Continue reading →

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Driving licence renewal redux

Posted on February 19, 2024 by james

Or “driving licence redux redux”, perhaps 🙂 I posted a few days back out renewing my driving licence and how I can’t do it online because I allowed my passport to expire. I can renew it at a Post Office, … Continue reading →

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I am job-hunting

Posted on February 19, 2024 by james

Officially now. I have just submitted my first application. And a very strange thing it is to do. I’ve not actually had to look for work for something like twenty years. In fact I think the last job I applied … Continue reading →

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