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84. Bring your child to work day
On bring your child to work day, I decided to take the opportunity to drag L along, given how much interest she has shown in getting to know where I work. There were the small matters of two meetings to navigate – an early one which ended at 9am , and the other which finished… Continue reading
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79. Seventeen
F, cartoonised by Gemini The baby is not quite a baby anymore. Standing on the cusp of turning seventeen months, she has somehow evolved a strong will and a mind of her own. Sometimes it feels like someone took a timelapse video of L and is playing it back at 2x speed. We are here… Continue reading
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78. Life in a Song – Fire on the Mountain – Aṣa
Asa seemingly burst on the scene from nowhere in 2008, and my corner of the Nigerian Blogosphere was there for it. Of course she wasn’t an overnight success but had honed her craft for years. The Wikipedia page is a treasure trove of information, her Parisian birth, Nigerian influences and a return to formal musical… Continue reading
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71. The End of the Beginning
The last day of school before the summer break and the start of the new school year was a great time to pause and celebrate just how far L has come. She had to miss the first two months of the (reception) year, which left her struggling to make friends and connections in class. The… Continue reading
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70. Re: Reconnecting with Music
Richard Dallaway posts about reconnecting with music, highlighting his experience with (paying for but not using) music streaming subscriptions, and a new service being tried, Cantilever. In a similar vein, I have a Spotify subscription which has barely been used in the last three months. Cantilever is an interesting service, but one which I am… Continue reading
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69. Life in a Song – Tenth Avenue North – I Have This Hope
Thanks to Navidrome, I have been dumpster diving the innards of old USB hard drives at home. Sadly, there are no bitcoin keys to find there, so tactical slacking must continue “at pace”. I did find my old music archive from ages ago from which this Tenth Avenue North Song comes. It was a real… Continue reading
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68. (More) HomeLab-ing
It is coming up to a year since I ditched my Microsoft Enterprise Basic subscription, slapped TrueNAS on an old Lenovo ThinkCentre, and started the self-hosting journey. Since then I have replaced OneDrive with Nextcloud (without all the bells and whistles of talk, photos etc), and Google Photos with Immich. Both pieces of software are… Continue reading
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64. Not the old July Weather
The warmest June in England on record seems to have been followed by a July which is not particularly keen to provide much respite. For the chronically online, the discourse has been around the (European) AC conundrum – with pejoratives of “Europoor” being thrown in for good measure. It is in moments like this that… Continue reading
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62. In Memoriam: The Way the World Ends
She would have been 70 today but life happens and all we have left are memories, and the stark reminder that the world ends not with a bang but a whimper. Continue reading
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60. Re: 5 Albums
5 Albums which shaped me. Found on Olly’s post which was in turn inspired by Martin’s. Written as part of the JulyReply series Continue reading
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