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Garden Pump Track
Over the last few years we ve been working on a pump track in the garden. This was how it looked in April 2026. It s already changed quite a bit since then!
A boring joke
What do you call it when you have patiently listened to dull tales of burrowing South African warthogs? I bore Boer bore boar bore
April 2026
Music Books Intermezzo -Sally RooneyAyoade on Ayoade Richard AyoadeThe Boy In The Striped Pyjamas John Boyne Screen The Other Bennet Sister
March 2026
Music Books The Traitors Circle Jonathan Freedland438 Days Jonathan FranklinMountains Of The Mind Robert MacfarlaneTrouble With Lichen John Wyndham Screen Small Prophets Season 1Springsteen: Deliver Me from NowhereSalem s LotRental FamilyBlack Mirror Season 3
Latin Joke
What did Julius Caesar say when he saw the small undernourished pagans of Britain? Weeny weedy witchy!
February 2026
Music Books Screen
Why I won’t be using AI to help me make music
I ve been seeing a lot of adverts for Suno recently to the point where I was temped to give it a go. I agree that the results are very impressive. It s incredible how quickly you can go from an idea to a fully finished song. Suno is definitely quicker than I am. I could use [ ]
The Pink Moon Palindrome
I cannot get enough of Pink Moon. I have learnt to play it note for note. One of the things I have observed is that there is a sense in which the album works like a palindrome. This is particularly noticable when you look at the tunings for each song: However, having read a bit [ ]
OffRhyme
OffRhyme is an offline rhyming dictionary. I use a rhyming dictionary almost every day for my songs and my haiku. The most well known rhyming dictionary online has several drawbacks: I got tired of these limitations so decided to build my own rhyming dictionary which doesn t have any of these problems. It works nicely as [ ]