Sorry I know it's been ages since I wrote anything here; between working, spending time with Tom and general procrastination this thing is a pretty low priority. I'll keep this fairly concise as I'm not feeling very waffly this evening ( Read more... )

Well it's a little less than two months since I last posted anything and a few things have happened in the mean time so here goes. I mentioned last time that I was starting to put some more effort into finding myself a partner. To my surprise that happened almost immediately, I met Tom in Leeds at the start of July and we've been going out ever ( Read more... )

So it's just about a year since I completed my move from Aberystwyth to Mytholmroyd. It's been a busy one at that, filled with new experiences, places and people ( Read more... )

At 17:34 on Monday I called 999 for the first time in my life. I badly misjudged the severity of the snow up on the tops and after what had been an amazing walk across the moors to Stoodley Pike, found myself stuck on a track in deep snow with my route ahead completely blocked by towering drifts. I'd already walked far further than I'd planned and ( Read more... )

I've now lived up north in wonderful West Yorkshire for half a year. How time flies. The valley which looked beautiful in its summer clothes, put on a spectacular autumn show. Really it's quite breathtakingly beautiful up here. I'm very excited at seeing what new visual delights the winter will bring.


( Read more... )

So I've been living in Yorkshire full time now for about a month and a half. After a bit of a wet start (to put it mildly), things have settled a bit and we've even been blessed with a little sunshine by the weather gods. The flat is now fully painted and has all the essential furniture, although it's still missing quite a few bits and pieces that ( Read more... )

As you may have seen on the national news, on Friday evening my new hometown Mytholmroyd suffered quite serious flooding after a month's worth of rain was poured into the Calder Valley in just 24 hours. The river Calder had been running pretty high all day but it seemed to be coping with the volume of water. Just before 8pm I heard the faint sound ( Read more... )

It's such a relief to be moving. I've been stressing about my post-Aber life for going on two years now so it's wonderful to have a new home lined up. I picked up the keys to my new apartment on the 21st of May and have spent the last two weeks doing the most cleaning and decorating I've ever done in my life. The flat wasn't left in an awful ( Read more... )

So I'm leaving Aber this summer, at last, although the exact date of departure is still being worked out. I need to be out of my old flat by the end of June when the tenancy agreement finishes so that sets the upper time limit ( Read more... )

Backing up your data is important. Early trials and tribulations experimenting with Linux (Redhat 2, Slackware and Caldera) and OS/2 Warp when I was a teenager quickly taught me that. I screwed up my PC on more than one occasion which got me into the habit of making sure I had copies of my important stuff stashed away on floppies, then removable ( Read more... )