Musings

Longer, slightly considered posts, roughly one a week.

  • Please show your passion

    This musing was prompted by Robb’s post about pens. I have pondered all of this before but that was a while ago so I wonder where my passion now lies. Passion is wonderful I love people who are passionate about something —as long as it’s a positive passion for a good thing, if you are…

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  • Your sites are ok I guess

    In reply to my Sort your sites out note Case Duckworth takes each of my points and gives them a good grilling. There are many good points in his reply so I thought it worth unpicking them a little, alongside my original glib comments, and see where I land. As mentioned before, I write to…

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  • I love F1

    It’s almost time for the Monaco Grand Prix, the most famous, and my least favourite, Grand Prix of the year, but then, I’ve been watching F1 for a long time so maybe I’ve been spoilt. F1 is increasingly popular these days, and whilst the Apple produced F1 movie was entertaining (if nonsense), it’s safe to…

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  • 27 years later

    It started because I was noodling about with HTML and needed some ‘content’ (or ‘words on the page’ as I likely called it back then). Last year I marked 26 years of this blog by writing: It is odd to think of this blog through a different lens, I mean I know other people read…

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  • Empathy & Consideration

    The turn is on a bend in the road. As I drive towards it the road curves to the right and the entrance I want is just round the apex of the corner, on the right. Once you pass the apex you can see the turn clearly so I was slowing as I drove towards…

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  • The Return of the Cyclist

    I’ve had a bike —now known as my bang about bike— for 15 years. I first used it to complete a Glasgow to Edinburgh ride, Pedal for Scotland, which was a big fun day out kind of event, very much enjoyed by amateur/part time cyclists doing it for charity. But it took COVID to really…

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