So Sunday I had an interesting start to my day. I was helping at a local half marathon and walked to my marshalling spot getting there nice and early just in case. A lady nothing to do with the event came up to me in a major panic as she had locked her child in …
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Fame
It opened last night in the West End and there are a criminal number of empty seats at very good prices!
Geeky Sunday
So today I’ve written a plug-in for x-plane 11 and it lets me control my hue lights… This took far too long, but I’ve had to refresh my (human) memory on how to write code in C. I’ve learnt how to compile a dll to use libcurl as the hueapi is based round http requests …
This train is formed of eight coaches
As I was late to bed last night I allowed myself the luxury of getting the 08:39 instead of my normal 07:36 train to work. I don’t understand people the announcement repeatedly says “this train is formed of eight coaches” yet a good number of them walk well past the “8 car stop” sign and …
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Having seen this before when I was still at school it was great to see how they have taken the production into the modern world
Insect bites
I’m going to start this post with a only read on if you can cope with photos of insect bites on my foot warning.
Get back on track
So it’s time to get back on track. Having to buy the largest waist jeans M & S sell is never a good plan, which when I did lose weight I promised I’d never put it back, but alas I failed there. Time has come to fix this. I’ve ordered some new swimming goggles (with …
After my UK A to Z
Should I do a Europe A to Z or a tour of places from the “Meaning of Liff“? I thinking myself I should do both as I love Europe, but it’s big and might take me a while. When I was a young teenager it was Douglas Adams who really made me rekindle my love …
Cramp, but we won
I went to the pub last night, and this morning woke up with a horrible left leg calf cramp. Now before anyone says I drank too much I had one pint of beer and two pints of diet coke, plus I ate pizza so I doubt it was not getting enough salt…. I’m going to …
Ae (Mike’s UK A to Z)
So I’ve started my A – Z project with a trip to Ae Village. I visited Ae on Friday 14th June 2019 whilst on the way to Tough Mudder Scotland where amusingly to me one of the obstacles Arctic Enema often has it’s name shortened to A.E. Whilst speaking of Tough Mudder remember any first …