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Tonight Matthew, I am sewing machine repairman…

Sewing machines… They work by magic, don’t they? My daughter has been using my wife’s machine to make clothes and bags from old unwanted material such as pairs of jeans and shirts that I no longer fit into: Unfortunately the … Continue reading

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The boys are back in town…

Well, nearly 🙂 It’s been six weeks shy of two years since I last posted. Why? Mostly because I just lost my computer mojo I think. I reached the point where I couldn’t face sitting in front of one and … 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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Time to catch up…

I cannot deny that the whole lockdown situation over the last couple of months has been getting to me quite a bit and motivation has been a struggle to come by. The situation has perhaps been made even worse by … Continue reading

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A return to posting

In part thanks to our new Covid overlords, life has afforded me very little leisure time over the last three months and I’ve found little time to do much more than work and get the stuff done that I needed … Continue reading

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Building an observatory. Construction #44

During last week I managed to get most of the final piece of cladding at the tops of the walls in place. All that remains now is a piece above the door and the piece below the flap in the … Continue reading

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A return to posting

It’s been an exceptionally long time since my last post. That’s probably a reflection of “real” life getting in the way. It’s been a very busy last couple of years balancing family (especially as children start to have more active … Continue reading

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Time for a catch-up

Quite how half a year has passed since I last wrote anything is beyond me.  Work, life, family and all that jazz seem to have taken over from the little box in the corner of my office. Time to start … Continue reading

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It’s been a busy summer…

And I’ve had little time to write up what I’ve been doing, so now the autumn is well under way I shall be catching up with details of the last three or four months…

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Solar System Images

I’ve started collecting together some of my better solar system images so they have a page or two each rather than being interspersed with other posts. See the menu bar for links.

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