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New Adventures in Low Carb – Part 3

15th August 2022 Going Postal 3351 Comments

 As most Puffins will know (based on my incessant posting of food photos), I have been on a keto/low-carb journey. The 24th of July marked the first anniversary of my adventure, so I thought I’d [more…]

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Automations In My Home

1st August 2022 El Cnutador 2879 Comments

Last year I moved into a new house. On moving in I tried to get the Hive heating system up and running so I could control it from my phone. The previous occupants had left [more…]

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Cnuteneering, Part Thirty Four

25th July 2022 El Cnutador 3352 Comments

Welcome back to Cnuteneering, where the possible is made more difficult by bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm and pointy metal things being brought together. It’s been a while – you may want to refresh your memory [more…]

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The Vaxx, Heart Problems & AFIB

20th July 2022 Lugosi 3274 Comments

Atrial Fibrillation is a condition where irregular heartbeats of certain rhythms create blood clots in a chamber of the heart and its possible that a clot could cause a stroke. A detailed description can be [more…]

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SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 update 9

30th June 2022 Rookwood 3500 Comments

It has been quite a while since I visited this topic, and looking back on my prior eight musings has given me the inspiration to rehabilitate the topic as it hasn’t really gone away. While [more…]

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A visit to Kuala Lumpur

29th June 2022 well_chuffed 3606 Comments

Back in the 80s and 90s in my IT life I did a lot of work on something called platform migrations. If your eyes haven’t already glazed over imagine taking Windoze programs and automatically converting [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse, A “Mini” Postcard, The Right To Choose

28th June 2022 Colin Cross 3114 Comments

I never enter the greenhouse these days without at least a sense of trepidation. The worst’s over, that much is clear and those plants which haven’t been totally ruined, even if they aren’t looking as [more…]

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A Post Covid Postcard From Vilnius (It’s War!)

2nd June 2022 Novak and Goode 3479 Comments

Some of you may remember my earlier Postcard from Vilnius Postcard From Vilnius much to my surprise that article is now 2 years old. I reference it only because it still contains much current information [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; (Pain and Loss)

31st May 2022 Colin Cross 2886 Comments

Welcome dear readers; before we get started, a warning. Those of you that aren’t interested in the maudlin, or the philosophy of loss, or the pain which accompanies it, look away now, this isn’t going [more…]

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