Author Archives: james

A time for dying

Posted on December 3, 2021 by james

Hot on the heels of one of my Raspberry Pis trying to persuade me that it wanted to meet its maker, yesterday I had need of my Dremel and discovered that it also showed no interest in functioning. I didn’t … Continue reading →

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Swimming, 1st December 2021

Posted on December 1, 2021 by james

Today was my first swim with a new, reduced, rest interval for my 50m reps. It’s still very generous to be fair, but I feel it’s important not to push things too fast because I really want the changes to … Continue reading →

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Changing the RFXmeter base address

Posted on December 1, 2021 by james

This morning I overcame the first obstacle on the way to rebuilding my power monitoring system. I have two RFXmeter units sending data to the receiver which is plugged into a Linux machine on which I’m running rfxcom-rx from the … Continue reading →

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Power monitoring revisited

Posted on December 1, 2021 by james

A few years back I used to have a load of power monitoring stuff hooked up to the house electricity supply, but then we had a lot of electrical work done and it had to be removed. I didn’t get … Continue reading →

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Zombie Pi

Posted on December 1, 2021 by james

Good news! It seems my Raspberry Pi isn’t dead after all, though the problem is a little odd. I ordered some new SD cards so I had some spares, and out of interest put a new copy of Raspbian on … Continue reading →

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Model 1 Raspberry Pi bites the dust

Posted on November 29, 2021 by james

My first ever Raspberry Pi has died 🙁 It’s been out with the weather sensors in my Stevenson screen for at least a year, but we had a power outage a short while ago and it wouldn’t reboot. I brought … Continue reading →

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Swimming, 29th November 2021

Posted on November 29, 2021 by james

I was a bit pushed for time today so I had to sacrifice some of my 25m reps, but that perhaps wasn’t such a bad thing as I was struggling with them a bit after managing to do all my … Continue reading →

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Swimming, 28th November 2021

Posted on November 29, 2021 by james

I had a couple of days off last week thanks to not feeling great and missing quite a bit of sleep, so today was my first swim for six days. I was expecting it to be fairly tough, but actually … Continue reading →

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Well this is quite unexpected

Posted on November 29, 2021 by james

This is a photo of some of this winter’s purple sprouting broccoli plants taken on 26th November. They’re starting to flower! The plants weren’t sown or planted out particularly early. In fact possibly later than the instructions on the packet … Continue reading →

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No dig diary, 18th November 2021

Posted on November 22, 2021 by james

Forgot to post this a couple of days ago… As I’ve already written, I’ve been getting ahead on compost for next winter, filling one of the bins with shredded material from some tidying up of the garden. There’s no grass … Continue reading →

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