Stevan

Wandered from South to North, IT to the Humanities, UHI degree. Lower left political compass. Off-grid for practical reasons. A scatterling of Africa.
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#Highlands #Photography #Culture #FreeSoftware #OffGrid #Scotland
Also an automated twice-daily weather conditions, forecast & summary for Clachtoll at @AssyntWeather

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2024-08-15 18:26:33

Walking back to the car from dinner out in Lochinver this evening, a view we so often just ignore.
What is this life if full of care
We have no time to stand and stare
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2024-08-13 14:16:59

More finds from the carefully curated and nurtured Archive Pile (tm)
Who remembers fighting with these?
As usual, sing out, if you need/want retro gear, or it'll go to recycling
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2024-08-11 13:43:51

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@npub1afz…wdvg Not so much individuals as the sports one doesn't normally see on TV, like handball and even some I have no idea what they're called, like that half-basketball thing.

2024-08-10 08:26:19

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@npub15zu…s7lx And it's always the minions who get the penalties, never the masters by whose standards and requirements they have to work.

2024-08-07 15:03:07

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@npub1sdk…0kgj Aaargh! The second image is blank! We'll never know if Lili chose wisely!

2024-08-01 07:05:37

I don't believe it. Percy the Pine marten is back to his thieving self.
We heard a noise outside as we were turning in last night. I looked at the BadgerCam, now more a MouseCam, on my tablet and saw the blighter, hoovering the sunflower seeds the goldfinches love so much. So I opened the window and told him off, and he /knew/ he'd been a bad Percy.
Oh well, will have to top up the feeders in the morning again.
#wildlife
#assynt
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2024-07-30 06:27:06

Herself heard deer noises late last night. As they've got into the garden before and stripped the apple trees of their leaves, and we found deer poo in the garden yesterday, I went out to inspectigate. Shoo'ed them away, though not before one of them turned to give me the "share and share alike, you know" eye.
#wildlife
#Assynt
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2024-07-24 08:05:15

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@npub198t…hasj May be worth running an lsinitrd on the initrd and making sure it isn't including extraneous stuff. eg, it only needs the modules for your root filesystem but may be including all available filesystems.

2024-07-24 07:55:39

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@npub198t…hasj Oh good grief, that's 3x the size of my machine's. Didn't clock that.

2024-07-14 09:19:33

Does a week in London make me even more content with our landscape? No. But the contrast is stark. #HereIStand #Assynt
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2024-07-13 06:58:25

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@npub1afz…wdvg So you've had both my numbers all this time and still haven't called?
Signed
Bob
😃

2024-07-11 17:21:34

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@npub1wuw…pjs5 Good grief, that's exactly where we sat earlier!

2024-07-11 16:04:46

Went for a walk along the Thames Kingston to Hampton Court this afternoon.
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2024-06-27 09:00:28

It's not the brightest morning, but the little daisies on Stoer Green look so cheery.
https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/112/687/760/598/926/264/original/eebbbf21d5b346e7.jpg

2024-06-26 10:32:42

The colours of Assynt.
It's almost time for the hills to be extravagantly purple, but here's a little taster of what's to come, the thyme along this rock blending beautifully with the colour of the rock and the grass
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2024-06-17 16:51:56

Late last evening, I looked out the kitchen window, and happily saw our "rustic" garden looking rather beautifully meadow-flowery. There's a lot to be said for letting a garden grow as it wishes, and the birdie-folk love it.
#bloomscrolling
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2024-06-16 17:28:02

A moment of reflection in #EdinburghBotanics
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2024-06-16 17:26:41

Yes, this is a real heron, fishing in a pond in #EdinburghBotanics
This is all so close to the city centre, it's a wonder.
https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/112/627/420/777/407/551/original/6a063201baf2eabf.jpg

2024-06-13 16:24:21

More from the Statistical Account about Assynt in the 18th century.
"By what means the situation of the inhabitants and Parish might be ameliorated - By good roads and decent inns"
Some things, it seems, never change.

2024-06-09 14:27:26

For #SibilantSunday as it's not appropriate to post this for #SilentSunday here's the burn that runs past The Last Homely House, in the sunshine that's just broken out.
https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/112/587/126/410/385/303/original/64b8e5cfe1604f67.mp4

2024-05-28 13:35:49

Cleared for take-off...
In the bay, on this morning's walk
#birds
#Assynt
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2024-05-26 08:00:39

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@npub15zu…s7lx Of course, it wouldn't apply to the children of senior tories or the rich.
Bu perhaps they think may be a vote winner for old people who wear rose coloured specs AND fear the country's youth.

2024-05-21 08:54:36

What's that? You need some calming sea video to help your Tuesday along? Righto then.
https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/112/478/234/798/341/164/original/744547fba7c48c96.mp4

2024-05-21 06:43:53

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@npub1czg…el70 We barley noticed 😃

2024-05-15 09:42:30

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@npub1ws0…0jhw Oof, close. Don't forget cyanoacrylate doesn't mean one of the ink cartridges is empty!

2024-05-11 09:05:30

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@npub1ws0…0jhw Bestuur jy ook 'n Chevrolet? #OldAdvert

2024-05-11 08:55:50

Just a simple bit of calming sea video, with music supplied by The OysterCatchers and their Flights of Fancy. The track is "Whoooar what about it" from their new album "It's spring and this is what we do"
https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/112/421/609/784/613/075/original/52ae290f3b06d324.mp4

2024-04-24 17:33:48

Hooray! The redpolls are back at the bird feeders.
Seen through the living room window while we were having dinner.
#birds
#Assynt
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2024-04-21 19:55:18

The degree of cuteness and desirability of this little guy may be in proportion to the age of those seeing it, but here's a found little Minikins near the Botanics in Inverness, this evening.
He's a beautifully restored little guy, answers to the name of Arthur, he told me, and I can believe it.
Someone's labour of love, for sure.
#cars
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2024-04-21 12:04:26

#SilentSunday
#PhotoArchive
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2024-04-05 12:53:02

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@npub15zu…s7lx Wow, that's a bit rough on moral cowards....

2024-04-02 10:08:58

You'll recall how smug I was about scripting up and graphing the battery of the rain gauge, so that it didn't run low without me realising?
Well I don't know what figure it's spitting out, but it's not voltage.
The battery ran out this morning.
Ironically the script did alert me, because it tried to divide by "N/A"
Am now trying to find other points in the data stream other than the cryptically titled "raingauge.battery", but meantime I need to find why it's eating batteries.

2024-03-21 17:06:23

It's windy today, getting up to 65mph this morning, and on days like this the little feathery folk flock to the bird feeders. We've even seen come co-existence rather than chasing away, which is their usual bad-tempered preference.
The greenfinch is disdainful, the goldfinch's attitude belies its size, the reed bunting is never still
#birds
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2024-03-20 08:08:32

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@npub1ws0…0jhw A 4 hour wait. Hardly the time and place to have a ball.
(sorry....)

2024-03-11 09:58:23

My cheapie phone, Wolfie, making the most of the morning colours and cloud textures
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2024-03-06 09:01:53

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@npub15zu…s7lx Not "will", Glyn. "Has."

2024-03-02 10:09:12

A bittie sea video for your Saturday.
#Assynt
https://media.mastodon.scot/mastodon-scot-public/media_attachments/files/112/025/541/871/530/450/original/c1ee340eb7b66f80.mp4

2024-02-28 16:30:44

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@npub1yyx…qa5g Good news. Does that mean we can think about forgiving that dreadful transition from 3.5 to 4? 😉

2024-02-27 12:40:59

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@npub1wuw…pjs5 Two takeaways for us - one is that that's not right re the veldskoen.
The other - Cape Union Mart is still going? Cool! Though I think they went seriously up market some decades back, didn't they?
Addendum: such a pity the bright car-tyre-soled vledskoen from the Cedarberg are no longer available.

2024-02-25 12:02:30

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@npub1yyx…qa5g Ah, yes, if that's the origin, which is probably the case, that makes the term worse. I had a rant about "reaching out" rather than "contact" or similar during the week. Neologisms are all very well, but how about for new things rather than pseudo-novelty, the lowest denominator of advertising-speak.

2024-02-25 11:46:05

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@npub1yyx…qa5g Yes, hard agree re the noble status of the amateur, but don't you think there's a implication of collectiveness, rather than individual endeavour, in the term "citizen <profession>"?

2024-02-16 09:52:59

The beach this morning.
#Assynt
https://media.mastodon.scot/mastodon-scot-public/media_attachments/files/111/940/542/091/110/864/original/4743cba86765c4c8.jpg

2024-02-12 14:35:12

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@npub1wuw…pjs5 I was at school with someone whose parents had a rooibos farm. His rather fierce rugby playing would have suited a survival action role-playing game...

2024-02-11 10:51:54

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@npub15zu…s7lx Oof, that's a stomach-heaving read.

2024-02-09 11:15:45

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@npub1ws0…0jhw You could try just eating them, rather than turning them into dodgy vodka, you know 😃

2024-01-25 20:22:33

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@npub15zu…s7lx Awwwww

2024-01-20 18:36:51

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@npub1sdk…0kgj Deep respect to you and your fellow 17000 citizens. Now, not when it's too late, is the time to show that intolerance should not be tolerated.
(And wish we had such foresight here.)

2024-01-18 18:54:52

There is something so beautiful about a thrush.
#birds
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2024-01-18 13:27:29

But there's The last Homely House, our warmth, comfort and safety.
https://media.mastodon.scot/mastodon-scot-public/media_attachments/files/111/777/177/637/042/794/original/8413e2dfd7452b8d.jpg

2024-01-16 11:48:17

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@npub15zu…s7lx I still have a couple in the lift, spare microdrives and all
@npub1fpe…th5v

2024-01-11 20:53:05

We're having to rethink our generosity to the pine martens. At least one now has an urge to climb the walls of the house. We can't risk that.
This footage a few minutes ago.
We're glad these animals are around, but will dial back our encouragement of them over time.
We put the full colour lights on for this footage,
https://media.mastodon.scot/mastodon-scot-public/media_attachments/files/111/739/290/876/764/520/original/22b888fc0f4f2698.mp4

2024-01-10 18:51:59

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@npub1m26…2jhh On a slightly more serious note, it's not the sort of road you can just sit back and get done. It takes concentration. It'll be a dreadfully long day, so be careful.

2024-01-10 18:48:10

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@npub1m26…2jhh Ah, but surely you get danger money when you have to venture north of Helmsdale? 😃

2024-01-09 17:57:47

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@npub15zu…s7lx So remember the Computer Weekly articles about it at the time. It was utterly obvious what was going on. Yet the PO kept digging this hole, filled with the human wreckage of their arrogance and inexplicable, excessive legal power.

2024-01-09 14:46:57

The Minch below a cloudless sky. To the West there is nothing except Lewis then Canada.
But inn the foreground, Clachtoll and Stoer, and tucked out of sight, The Last Homely House (unless you know where to look)
https://media.mastodon.scot/mastodon-scot-public/media_attachments/files/111/726/527/166/561/083/original/3c232570099d172d.jpg

2024-01-08 19:27:25

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@npub1m26…2jhh That will be interesting. Just read the Arch page about it.
May look for an opportunity to try bcachefs myself.
As always, do keep us up to date on this, will you?

2023-12-31 14:54:58

The top of Suilven, widely acknowledged as the second best mountain in #Assynt and the third best mountain on the planet, keeks over the hills towards Clachtoll, on this lovely day in #Assynt
#DailyWalk
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2023-12-28 14:14:06

Fedi Linux users, your wisdom, please.
I've considered derivative browsers not worth bothering with, for loads of reasons. But firefox on OpenSUSE tends to be quite slow.
Can anyone think of a killer reason NOT to run something like Librewolf? I vaguely recall some issue with Waterfox a while back, but may be misrecalling.
Perhaps the most obvious reason is that they are not vetted by the distro. Maybe it's time to let go some prejudices.
*-except chrome. I'd rather go with a chromium derivative

2023-12-28 09:55:34

It looks as though we got off lightly in #StormGerrit yesterday. In spite of hat gust to 89mph and the constant gusting in excess of 70mph, only the little greenhouse was destroyed. This has stood up to countless southerly and westerly gales, as it's located to get shelter from those, but all bets were off yesterday.
https://media.mastodon.scot/mastodon-scot-public/media_attachments/files/111/657/438/762/340/808/original/4e0739474ef3310b.jpg

2023-12-27 12:00:46

Latest score - 81 mph at 11:48
weather.vasten.co.uk
#StormGerrit

2023-12-27 11:16:25

That's the little greenhouse pretty much ripped apart. The door, which faces east, as we rarely get strong winds from that direction, stove in and the place ballooned. Just been out to try to stabilise it. Was almost trapped outside as I couldn't get the porch door open.
#StormGerrit

2023-12-27 09:25:05

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@npub15zu…s7lx I'd wondered about your blog title. Your post left out one aspect of it - its use as a tool of exceptionalism, especially in brexit britain. Accents are another battleground, as well as the usage aspects your post highlights.

2023-12-25 12:24:23

Christmas morning walk. Herself being her usual pied piper as far as animals are concerned, and the sheep come running towards her when she stopped to snap them eating.
Also made a little detour to give "happy Christmas" to Cocoa and Milkshake, Davey the Crofter's calfies. Big mistake. They don't keep Christmas. "Baa", said Cocoa, confused by the sheep around about. "Humbert" said Milkshake, meaning I think she wanted to be called Humbert.
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2023-12-23 19:20:17

Why yes, we do have a pine marten just on the other side of the living room window.
The blighter has somehow managed to leap all the way up to the inaccessible (hah!) window feeder.
2/...
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2023-12-23 18:16:38

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@npub1m26…2jhh Not seen that, and really only know zfs in the server context, hence the question. Also, that zfs seems to shine best with multiple disks, not usual in a laptop. Such a pity about its licencing, isn't it?

2023-12-23 18:02:55

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@npub1m26…2jhh Why not go the whole hog and see if you can do it with one arm tied behind your back and blindfolded? 😂
(But, serious questions. What is the benefit you're hoping for from zfs and will it be a memory hog on laptop? Or maybe is this really about the technical exercise, in which case, happy hacking. Whatever, keep the posts going.)

2023-12-23 14:22:24

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@npub1ws0…0jhw 😂 We kind of have to exercise basic skills here, and, er, get stuck in.
But maybe I should have CW'ed with "Genuine shitpost"

2023-12-23 14:18:24

Ooh, that was close. Crisis averted. I finished the washing up, and as I was passing the loo heard an ominous gurgle. I tried a trial flushette, and saw the water rise in the bowl.
Out to check the septic tank, which seemed OK, but the main inlet pipe was backed up.
Fortunately I seem to have caught it in time and the blockage shifted easily. Soon all was flowing happily.
Amazing how pleasing that sight was, as the alternatives and possibilities were coursing through my mind

2023-12-21 12:20:33

The Great Bank Saga of December 2023 continues. I'm going to have to add to the poll I put up yesterday, because today's requirements made it seem tame. Yes, I got a "Can you load Microsoft Edge" but the best was "Do you have an iPhone?" Eventually he wanted me to use my phone to try to reset the password, to which I replied, with as much restraint as I could muster, "I've just told you I have tried 5 browsers on 3 devices and you want me to try a 4th device and expect something different?"
2/..

2023-12-21 07:51:18

Ooh, that doesn't be good. What's that about "Red clouds in the morning...."?
Went out in the gale to top up the bird feeders, because they'll be hungry little folk this morning, to see this towards the south east.
Only 65mph gusts for us, but higher sustained winds than normal
#StormPia
#weather
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2023-12-20 18:40:01

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@npub1m26…2jhh 'Tis the season, after all.
Keep the reports coming. Have you given up on the BSD's? I concluded that it's just still too hard on laptops, though mildly satisfying.

2023-12-20 18:34:15

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@npub1m26…2jhh Yes, LUKS takes ages to get going, doesn't it? Good luck with this, even though at the end of your post I couldn't help mentally adding "And a partridge in a pear treeeeee" 😃

2023-12-20 14:12:40

Rant alert:
I am literally quivering with rage.
Not just any old rage. The deep rage that modernity keeps in store for when you have to deal with banks.
Bank of Scotland unilaterally decided to stop sending statements by post (they're happy to send marketing guff by post) You now HAVE to use internet banking. Their systems are too stupid to link our different accounts.
This has been OK, just inconvenient. Today, their system rejected my credentials. Before it enforced a reset,
2/...

2023-12-10 16:30:12

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@npub1m26…2jhh I mean, it's interesting following your reports of the furrow you're ploughing, but wouldn't it be easier to find something else less painful, like burning your hand on an iron, or something like that? 😃

2023-12-10 10:25:10

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@npub1wuw…pjs5 Used to love my trackball mice, but they gave in after many years' service - mostly the click switches. Nowadays they seem terribly expensive.

2023-12-10 09:59:00

Well now, this is civilised. After a prolonged period of very little solar power so far north, and not much usable wind power (problematic direction) the house battery for our #offgrid system is rather depleted. We don't let it get below 50% state of charge, although we could discharge it to 20%, but that would start damaging it, as we can't then immediately charge it.
Usually this would mean out with the little petrol generator, but today, Goth Leo the #EV is powering the big battery charger.

2023-12-06 11:26:18

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@npub15zu…s7lx Nah, this one's believable because they didn't spell out the amount in large friendly, totally believable capitals.

2023-12-06 09:20:38

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@npub15zu…s7lx Good grief. These announcements make it seem that every day is 1st April.

2023-11-26 08:45:33

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@npub1yyx…qa5g And inn those days the cost of a unix licence would have doubled the cost of the mac.

2023-11-15 09:51:24

Preas Loch, widely acknowledged to be the very navel at the Centre of the (known) Universe, with its warming reedbeds on this beautiful morning.
(continued.....)
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2023-11-05 11:59:36

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@npub1m26…2jhh I've never known hair regingering to have the effect of motivating someone to try BSD.
Or maybe it was the idea of trying a BSD that caused a spontaneous hair regingering event.
We need more data, Justine. 😃
I'm tempted to try from time to time, but I hit issues with the BSDs as workaday laptops, and while I'd be tempted with their use of a server, I end up just doing it for the intellectual exercise, which I promptly forget.

2023-11-05 10:26:36

Finally from this morning's walk here in #Assynt, have some calming sea video
https://media.mastodon.scot/mastodon-scot-public/media_attachments/files/111/357/456/827/437/905/original/9b29b9e0bd3cac8c.mp4

2023-11-01 12:02:03

OK, systemd, you think a USB stick is still mounted, and will probably claim you tantrum will end on 1:30', no 3:00', and after that just make me wait. But let me tell you, I know where the off switch is.
#linux
#IsThisProgress

2023-10-29 16:53:21

One's latest crochet hat cree-ay-tee-on is coming along. It's slow going, not only because bumbling along is always slow, but because of using two strands of yarn and having to remember which goes over and which goes under.
#crochet
#duffer
#bodge
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2023-10-25 11:42:04

Just saw a stat that I had to check, and yes, it checks out.
Goth Leo the #EV has a 61kWHr battery. The energy density of petrol is apparently 8.9kWHr per litre.
That means we can drive 280 miles on the equivalent of 6.8 litres, or 1.5UK gallons.
Quite mind boggling.

2023-10-21 07:38:34

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Following yesterday's posts, thanks to @npub1f6s…y8ra for pointing out this blog post of many of Glasgow's murals
https://mhejda.com/posts/glasgow-murals/

2023-10-21 07:13:08

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@npub1f6s…y8ra Righto, thanks. A commenter did give the openstreetmap link, but I will have to try to find out the names of the artists.

2023-10-20 10:36:11

After my teaser of a while back, we're briefly back in the hotel so I downloaded my pics.
Here is the first, one of these. Quite apart from the skill of the artist(s), there is some primeval beauty to which one's soul must respond in these images.
https://media.mastodon.scot/mastodon-scot-public/media_attachments/files/111/266/892/336/868/099/original/8fc3e4afd4fd705b.jpg

2023-10-16 10:33:08

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@npub1ks7…eg5u There's the most delightful statue of Ferguson on Canongate in Edinburgh. His sad life contrasts so much against his wonderful poetry.
https://media.mastodon.scot/mastodon-scot-public/media_attachments/files/111/244/230/717/092/934/original/d3311a9198312b4f.jpg
https://media.mastodon.scot/mastodon-scot-public/media_attachments/files/111/244/230/747/972/989/original/c7d3667ea5906de2.jpg

2023-10-14 18:45:23

The front clears through as evening falls.
A little phonepic taken on a visit our neighbour's tonight
#Assynt
#weather
https://media.mastodon.scot/mastodon-scot-public/media_attachments/files/111/234/842/453/643/602/original/34fc9674527bbf80.jpg

2023-10-11 17:37:08

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@npub1m26…2jhh Congratulations to you both!

2023-10-02 19:54:15

Moony clouds or cloudy moon, tonight, and neighbours are home.
#photography
#Assynt
https://media.mastodon.scot/mastodon-scot-public/media_attachments/files/111/167/166/105/244/819/original/d6f5bb5fe305982b.jpg

2023-09-29 19:53:55

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@npub1m26…2jhh I doubt it's irrational.
(Are you ok waiting?)

2023-09-29 19:50:27

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@npub1m26…2jhh The usual advice is drain the red to put the empty glass over the spider. But under the circumstances, the main thing is just drain the red.

2023-09-09 07:28:24

Hands up all those who, when that simple php script stops working & you know why, so make the required changes & it still just won't work, so you spend 2 days, yes, 2 days, debugging the web server setup, only to find you have been editing a copy of the scripts in a completely different directory.
Oh, it's just me in this particular category of "don't let him near a computer."
Still, the old script is now php8.2-worthy.
if(isset($_OLDAGE['REQUEST_METHOD']) == STEP_AWAY_FROM_THE_COMPUTER

2023-09-07 07:51:22

Lochinver on this weirdly hot morning
#Assynt
https://media.mastodon.scot/mastodon-scot-public/media_attachments/files/111/022/772/634/017/400/original/24fd00b602ef3f71.jpg

2023-09-07 06:43:37

"UK owners of smart home devices being asked for swathes of personal data"
"This includes smart TVs that ask for users’ viewing habits and a smart washing machine that requires people’s date of birth."
I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you. Who would have thought a path of destroying consumer protections and becoming a flea on the bum of global capitalism would result in this? Still. worth it for blue passports, huh?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/07/uk-owners-of-smart-home-devices-being-asked-for-swathes-of-personal-data

2023-09-01 14:08:58

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@npub1m26…2jhh Is that eyeslit a space or a tab?

2023-09-01 08:41:46

It's still this sort of day in #Assynt
#DailyWalk
https://media.mastodon.scot/mastodon-scot-public/media_attachments/files/110/988/992/831/231/239/original/04d6b19c344d5cf1.jpg

2023-08-26 16:41:37

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@npub1m26…2jhh That'll be CatchToll, just at the bottom of our road. The prevailing wind is from that direction, which means the delightful smell of Louise and Shane's excellent fish suppers reaches us, usually just when we are feeling hungry.
And really excellent fish & chips they are too.
Sorry to be missing your visit, Justine.