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  • #aberystwyth view from Constitution Hill #wales

    Aberystwyth town spreads out below to the left, the beach, bay and pier are centered, and the sea is on the right. Close up the red roofs of the constitution hill restaurant can be seen, in the far distance fluffy clouds and further coastline under a mostly hazy blue sky&10;
    → 4:55 PM, Aug 6

  • Made it to #Aberystwyth yesterday, got rained on! #wales

    View of Aberystwyth promenade from the end of the pier, well lit with ominous clouds&10;
    → 12:20 PM, Aug 5

  • Heading northish to a Wales adventure, keep passing signs for Ledbury #EMFCamp (tracking courtesy of #owntrack and #homeassistant)

    Map showing a track entering on the east side near Gloucester, travelling west between Ledbury and Ross-on-Wye&10;
    → 2:20 PM, Aug 4

  • Gaaames! Played my copy new Expedition to Newdale, and Guild of Merchant Explorers, both good, wonder if I can get anyone to play the EtN campaign

    Guild of Merchant Explorers endgame, centre of the table are the round cards. In the foreground is my game sheet showing several dark blue cubes and three towers on a map&10;Expedition to Newdale endgame, a board representing a map with several white, brown, orange and grey houses on it. Right of that the score board with my orange marker in front (it counts R to L.. why..) In the foreground is my player board and a layout of cards any player was allowed to build&10;

    → 10:10 AM, Aug 4

  • In the “should do this more often” department, had tickets to see Brandon Sanderson and Joe Abercrombie yesterday. Queued an hour outside the Emmanuel Centre for good seats, excellent talk. Touristed a bit after. QOTD: “Ideas look so shiny before you start working on them” #goodbooks

    3rd row view, empty stage with two red armchairs,above them is a large screen with the text "Brandon Sanderson in conversation with Joe Abercrombie"Home Assistant map screenshot of owntracks/home assistant location tracking roundtrip from Swindon to London (Ealing, then on the tube to Westminster), out via the M4, return via M40 as M4 was partially closed

    → 8:14 AM, May 22

  • Warmest it’s been this year! Spent some time in the garden enjoying the 17C sunshine, and battling ivy versus tree. Here’s a buddleia bush which refuses to be beaten back, next to a (Cherry I think) tree which the ivy is trying to reclaim and is also still alive somehow under the ivy.

    Buddleia bush (left) next to ivy-covered tree, which looks dead but has buds on the top most branches. The buddleia bush seems to be trying to rival the tree for height (by sending one shoot up quite tall which is possibly being helped by ivy)
    → 2:53 PM, Mar 18

  • #PhotoChallenge today, leave the house and take a photo of something .. Tall

    → 10:54 AM, Mar 3

  • I failed to do my Feb Photo challenge this year, partly due to being at #fosdem, then recovering from all the walking! Lets do a #MarchPhotoChallenge. Today, leave the house and come back with a photo of something .. Yellow (starting with an easy one)

    → 1:28 PM, Mar 2

  • Stay weird, #brussels

    Art - a large rusty-coloured metal framework art of a concrete truck
    → 11:42 AM, Feb 2

  • Post #fosdem / #brussels morning cafe recommendation: Damn Good Cafe (north edge of the pentagon), proper tea (with a timer!) and pastries / cake

    A glass of milky tea with a milk jug, timer and loose tea strainer. A pain au chocolat is in the foreground
    → 11:01 AM, Feb 2

  • Most useful #fosdem / #conference device, my pocket #spunspoon

    A paper cup filled with hot milky tea (and some sugar) next to a teaspoon with a quarter-inch hex handle (which you could recklessly use in a powered screwdriver if you wanted)
    → 2:54 PM, Feb 1

  • #fosdem/#brussels day 1: Made it from home to the hotel, despite some interesting navigation

    Flixbus window sign showing wifi and charging information &10;Heathrow Terminal 5 gate B36 sign showing BA394 to Brussels leaving soon&10;British Airways free|complimentary 1hr flight food: a bottle of water and two(!) golden oat biscuits &10;Citymapper display of a route from Brussels airport into the city. The user location is nowhere near the suggested route (though we were on a train going the correct direction!)&10;

    → 11:11 PM, Jan 28

  • #octoprint #3dprinting #wrapped (but the year’s not over yet!)

    An "Octoprint Wrapped" summary showing I have printed 456 prints, in 45d 2h and 27m of time this year. Longest print was 12h and 49minutes, busiest day is Fridays. I have uploaded 439 files and progressed through 5 octpoprint versions&10;
    → 3:48 PM, Dec 10

  • This evenings game, The Hobbit, There and back again. James won! #boardgames

    2 finished boards for the first chapter of the game, left on each is a score board counting points for dwarves arrived at Bag End, and whether they get bread, on the right is a map with lines connecting the dwarves. The dice show map squares that can be used on the map.
    → 11:43 PM, Nov 6

  • Monday #boardgames, Ayar and External decks, both good, would play again

    The External Decks end game: A black cloth with many card shaped spaces, 4 stars indicating we won,. and several coloured cardsEnd game state of Ayar: The main board with 4 tracks covered in scattered player-colour house/tambo pieces, my player board with half a woven carpet, a number of coloured pottery tiles, and all its maize cubes&10;

    → 12:47 AM, Oct 28

  • Over the first week we’ve walked 29% of the virtual Cotswolds walk, finding it useful as a way to check I have done steps today, and to encourage Hannah to walk! #walking

    Chart and map of our virtual walk, on the left the chart shows we have walking 29% of the way 50,558 of 174,436 steps, on the right the map shows that we are over half way between Bath and Cirencester
    → 11:19 AM, Oct 4

  • Oct 1st! Attempting to do more exercise, so friend Hannah and I have joined worldwalking.org, we’re going to do the Cotswolds walk. So far we left Bath.. #walking

    A screenshot of thw worldwalking webpage, showing 14k steps completed of 174k steps on the Cotswold walk, a map shows that we have barely left Bath
    → 8:47 PM, Oct 1

  • Monday night’s game: Perseverance: Castaway Chronicles, Episode 3. Would like to play again, the “how do I actually get points” felt a little obscure(d) (the individual goal cards don’t get you many). #boardgames

    View from the end of a very full table, in the foreground a group of coloured dice with icons on, a player board with some dinosaur and ranger figures, in the background stacks of cards, a large board that shows four columns of city dice-action spots, and a map of wilderness exploration trained-dino spots
    → 10:13 AM, Sep 30

  • Dear printer, what were you thinking? No love, Jess #3dprinting #petg #prusamk4s

    A royal blue print of a board game insert, the final 2 layers of the print are shifted up by approx 4mm and the top is somewhat scruffy&10;
    → 11:15 AM, Sep 15

  • Fixing things: I 3d printed this backpack hanger in Dec 2021, 3.5 years constant use isn’t bad! How long will the replacement last? Design from www.thingiverse.com/thing:422… #thingiverse #3dprinting

    The side of an Ikea Ivar shelving with two backpacks hanging from 3d printed hooks. In between the bags is a third printed hook which has broken
    → 9:24 PM, May 11

  • Monday’s #boardgame pics (all behind this week, I blame bank hols!). We played Perseverance, the castaway chronicles, episodes 1 and 2.

    Perseverance, Castaway chronicles, Episode one mid-game. The board shows a beach with various worker-placement (dice) locations which can be used to gather resources, send out soldies on patrol, train more soldiers. After the beach there are defensive positions for soldiers and walls, and attacking dinosaur modelsPerseverance, Castaway chronicles, Episode two end-game. The board for episode 2 has similar worker placement spots to episode 1, but now they are behind a fortified wall and safe from attack. To capture dinosaurs there are extra missions out into the wilderness beyond the wall, and also, for some reason, a temple in the jungle

    → 1:08 PM, May 7

  • #3dprinting fun this morning, working on the Inferno #boardgame box insert for a friend, looks very pretty! cults3d.com/en/3d-mod…

    → 9:38 AM, May 4

  • End of yesterday’s Galactic Cruise #boardgame, I managed to win this one! (A rare occurrence), mostly by having a large number of end game points

    End stage of the game "Galactic Cruise", a large board with pastel coloured design, blue, yellow, green and pink player meeples occupy worker spots for collecting and building spaceship parts, and planning space criuises. Orange, Blue and Purple "guest" meeples wait at the edge of the board. Each player has a sub board tracking their progress and several assembled space ships
    → 9:10 AM, Apr 22

  • I don’t usually cook a lot, have been trying #pinchofnom “All in one” lately, recommended for cooks with less time to spare. Latest recipe, Tuna, Pepper and Potato bake. Takes about 50min (book says 40), if using frozen onions and peppers, tastes good, 4/5 #cooking

    The Pinch of Nom, All in one book cover, coloured tabs marking pages can be seen sticking out the top edge
    → 9:37 AM, Apr 20

  • #closingtabs Guess what I’ve been working on lately..

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    → 5:25 PM, Apr 17

  • Yesterday’s Monday games: Robinson Crusoe, scenario “The Dying Island”, we won! (and I failed to take a photo", then Tranquility: The Ascent, a co-op card game (see photo), Deep sea adventure, won by the one person who made any treasure at all #boardgames

    A finished game of "Tranquility: The Ascent", a triangle of cards laid out on the table, square cards corner side down, at the top is the summit card
    → 10:11 AM, Apr 15

  • This image needs smell-o-vision, currently in the garden: Apple blossoms, Purple Syringa pubescens blossoms, and White Cherry tree blossom #garden

    View through several layers of garden tree greenery: Foreground, white+pink apple tree buds, middle ground: white fluffy cherry tree blossom, background purple Syringa pubescens ("Miss Kim"?) tall shrubbery
    → 4:25 PM, Apr 14

  • Last nights #boardgame was Galactic Cruise. I lost this by miles on Sunday, played again Monday and won! (Just about, it was a first place tie-breaker)

    "Galactic Cruise" board game laid out on a table, image from the short side - it almost takes up the entire table. In the foreground some pastel coloured passenger pieces lurk, beyond that potential cruises and ship parts. In the middle are worker placement spots and various placed player technology gears. In the background there is a tea tray and an enormous (750ml) mugGalactic Cruise board game box, in the foreground is a large rocket, behind it a planet with smaller rockets taking off.

    → 11:06 AM, Mar 4

  • Hobby mashup: #boardgame from yesterday’s session, #3dprinted #Psion (retro tech) case part. Case part design CC Jon on printables: www.printables.com/model/112…

    Items on a wooden table: In the background, a board game box labelled "Ticket to Ride: Legends of the West". In the foreground some light yellow 3D printed objects, one a pile of tree-structure support material, the other a Psion 5mx case part
    → 1:05 PM, Feb 24

  • ALT text micro.blog -> mastodon experiment

    Street art on a garage door, a series of black squares on a green background. The next garage door along has a colourful tag.Street art on a garage door, a cartoon cat with pink ears, green eyes and brown fur, which has a red fish in its mouth. The next garage along has a tag/airplane design in blue, red and green/

    → 11:32 AM, Feb 18

  • Last night’s game: Inferno (2024), long, crunchy, not point salad, worker placement, action at a distance - hopefully playing again next week! #boardgames

    → 10:58 AM, Feb 11
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