House of Deyes

I've carried on spending money on frivolous items, including: an iPod touch: on the basis that I'm looking to yeet off the smartphone, but still require something capable of running the bank app for authorising payments. Also; because I'm crap at remembering to sync

Four weeks to go until things start to open up. I probably won't rush to the nearest beer garden, although if there is space in the Red Lion I'll nip a quick one in whilst I change buses on the way home. I bought

Spring is very much approaching. It's pleasing to be going to the office and returning home in daylight. I'll have to mow the grass soon. Twister OS Armbian is working rather competently on the Pinebook. In fact, I'm using it now to type this

Walking has been the main non-work activity of late: Circuit of Shipley Country Park - 3 miles. Chilly, although little snow on the ground. Some parts of the water table were making a break for the surface, resulting in mud. Matlock to Clay Cross

Winter is here, now with more snow now that I have moved to higher ground. Nothing mega, the most that's fallen is an inch or so, business was therefore unaffected. Apparently, clearing snow off your car before driving it is such an arduous task

New year, same old shit unfortunately. I'm applying the La Linea numbering method here, hence why the post number has jumped up by 48 places. You'll get over it. The government decided to implement another shutdown. Because the first two worked so well. Guess

So there's another year gone. Pretty crap one and all. I aimed to post weekly and managed twelve posts, so averaged monthly. Could have been worse. To round off happenings: Another year older. Normally I'd go to the pub on the day and then

Following Doc Rob's repairs, the hedge is now fully pruned. This will hopefully keep the letting agent happy for a few months. Maybe, in exchange, they will come and paint my hallway? Twitter, or more precisely the users of Twitter, began to annoy me.

I've been slack of late. This post has been sat in drafts waiting for me to finish it but I've not been bothered to do so. Here goes a catch up, then. There was a beer festival at a neighbouring establishment ("pox-secure"

You know how I mentioned about the free money piss-take in Episode 25-38? Guess who isn't coming back now that the gib-me-dats are finishing‽ Autumn is approaching. The central heating is starting to kick in in the mornings, and as a Norfern Munkey, I

In another round of "throw some shit and see what sticks", the pub now has to close at 22:00. As well as robbing me of a couple of hours of wage a week, it won't make any difference to the pox.

Another round up because of slack. I'll skim over the main points, with some breakout posts for particular bits coming in the near future. The pub has re-opened, so getting some extra shifts in through the combination of some other staff leaving and the

Another period of slack. A round-up then. I’ve moved, and have upgraded to a house somewhere in the Sheffield postcode area. I’d been looking at moving before all the coronabollox kicked off – indeed I should have moved the week

So that was a failure. Three weeks then this “regular blogging” malarkey died on its arse. Quite a bit has changed since January, not just because of coronabollox. My laziness hasn’t changed since then.

Following last week’s credit card farce, I applied for another – Halifax Clarity – and was surprised to be accepted at the same limits as Tandem. There’s no cashback, which doesn’t really bother me, and no foreign exchange

The Grannywagon got though its MOT without too many issues. The garage recommended a flush as the emissions readings were a tad high. This seems to have improved cold running, there’s no longer a large white cloud coming out the exhaust for

The week was generally uneventful, as most of the office had taken the week off. Managed to stretch two day’s work over four. New Year’s Eve was a restrained affair. Couple of pints (the wooden cask OP) at The Alex

I don’t really do New Year resolutions so such. However, this year I am going to attempt to blog on a semi-weekly basis. Probably won’t last long but let’s see how badly it goes.