[Checkin] Dan Q found GC8YPVJ Finn1 🔗
On the morning of the Three RIngs Christmas party, I took an early walk to a nearby geocache, just outside the area where the roads are closed for the [...]
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[Note] 67 Bananas 🔗
I think my “six seven”-obsessed younger child was in the kitchen with a biro earlier. How do I know, you ask? [...]
[Note] I got a CCC postcard! 🔗
Well my day, week, and year (which has been off to a slightly ropey start) got a whole heap better today when I received a postcard from August & Sapp [...]
[Repost] Gay sheep – what the FAQ?! 🔗
About 1 in 12 rams (and a similar proportion of ewes) show a strong preference for other sheep of their same sex. To save them from being destroyed by [...]
[Repost] 88×31 Button Creator 🔗
Dan of ritual.sh has produced an absolutely epic 88×31 button generator; well worth playing with if you're into that kind of thing. [...]
[Article] Nostalgia, Music, and Computers 🔗
It turns out that I get nostalgic about technology in the same way as I get nostalgic about music. Here's some things that take me right back to being [...]
[Note] EV Battery Low 🔗
Tonight I learned that when my electric car gets down to 5% battery, it sounds an alarm. And that when it gets down to 4% battery, it sounds a louder [...]
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Bitterly cold and starkly beautiful, this morning: West Oxfordshire is blanketed in an impenetrably thick freezing fog. It’s quite pretty, though I’m [...]
[Repost] Chain Words 🔗
I've been enjoying playing Chain Words, from eclectech, intermittently, since it came out in November. If you've not given it a go yet, and you like a [...]
[Article] Imajica by Clive Barker 🔗
I recently finished reading Clive Barker's Imajica for what I think is the fourth time. It remains one of my favourite fantasy novels, and I'd love to [...]
[Article] 2026 Kicks Off [RSS Exclusive!] 🔗
For complicated family reasons, 2026 isn't off to a great start so far. Maybe the folks who are pretending like it's 2016 are on to something, after a [...]
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Not kink-shaming anyone, but I’m not sure I want to go to the ‘toilets viewing area’. [...]
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The younger kids' taekwondo school put on a free 'new years workout' class this morning. It was pretty awesome. My watch says my heart rate average [...]
[Video] Why I Am So Tired [Video] 🔗
A video version of my recent joke about why I'm so tired, which was also made available in article and podcast formats. [...]
[Article] Why I Am So Tired 🔗
After dusting off and modernising a joke I first read in a chain email from 1996, I can tell you conclusively that the reason that I'm tired is becaus [...]
[Note] Bee 🔗
As part of my efforts to reclaim the living room from the children, I'm building a new gaming PC for the playroom. She's called Bee, and - thanks to t [...]
[Article] Visualising Forged In The Dark probabilities 🔗
Blades in the Dark (and other Forged In The Dark-based games) use a highest-value-from-D6-dice-pool mechanic to resolve actions. I was looking for a v [...]
[Repost] A small collection of text-only websites 🔗
Terence Eden's maintaining a list of websites that are presented as, or are wholly or partially available via, plain text. Obviously my own text/plain [...]
[Note] Tintern Abbey 🔗
Tintern Abbey’s looking especially beautiful in the fresh snow, this morning. [...]
[Note] Invisible Dog 🔗
Our dog has decided that the perfect place to lie down at our holiday accommodation is… on a staircase whose carpet is the same colour as her! I’m gra [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC47WME PYVW- Cuckoo Wood 🔗
I was in these woods anyway, seeking GC10N80 and figured I'd come hunt for this cache too. A quick find; my geosense spotted a candidate hiding place [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC10N80 Wye Eye 🔗
This puzzle cache, undiscovered for 20 months, made for one of the most satisfying geocaching expeditions I've ever done. [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC39NPC Cleddon shoots and falls 🔗
Hiked over from Catbrook on the way to a cache up Pen Y Fan and stopped by these beautiful waterfalls on the way. So glad I did! [...]
[Repost] D&D 5e is not for everyone 🔗
Kai Koehler reminds us that D&D 5e is far from the only TTRPG, with a tight dissection of its specific characteristics so that they can be compared to [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC7P0AN A Fine Pair # 1089 ~ Parkhouse 🔗
The geohound and I walked over from Catbrook this morning "the long way" - over the hill and woods, finding a couple of caches along the way - to this [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC2DJ9K The Wolf Cache 🔗
The geopup and I absolutely chose the right time to come up here on this wintery morning. The sun's ascent over the valley whenever we escape the cove [...]
[Checkin] Dan Q found GC2EFAW The Cairn Cache 🔗
The geopup and I, on holiday from West Oxfordshire and staying nearby, came out for a morning walk in the ice and snow today. Our little Frenchie's [...]
[Article] Roomscale VR Still Rocks 🔗
I'd promised the kids I'd dig up my (ten-year-old!) original HTC Vive VR gear and hook it up in the living room over Christmas. Roomscale VR, even run [...]