Aging tech nerd. I live and work on the edge of the Celtic Sea. It’s very nice, but means I talk about the weather a lot. Sometimes I take bad pictures.
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Last Notes npub1xa4u9mcryee44e63fyca4rkrk5qmk2gfhthrga0evj8702q4jwysxgrz8d Joe Mansfield I had a series of attempts to quit smoking in the 2010s. npub1xa4u9mcryee44e63fyca4rkrk5qmk2gfhthrga0evj8702q4jwysxgrz8d Joe Mansfield I love the detail in the rigging on boats like this. npub1xa4u9mcryee44e63fyca4rkrk5qmk2gfhthrga0evj8702q4jwysxgrz8d Joe Mansfield We got quite the visitor moored off Helvick today. npub1xa4u9mcryee44e63fyca4rkrk5qmk2gfhthrga0evj8702q4jwysxgrz8d Joe Mansfield Work has been a bit intense lately so I was very happy to get out last night to stroll around among the wild flowers. npub1xa4u9mcryee44e63fyca4rkrk5qmk2gfhthrga0evj8702q4jwysxgrz8d Joe Mansfield We had a very interesting visitor anchored outside Helvick Harbour this evening. npub1xa4u9mcryee44e63fyca4rkrk5qmk2gfhthrga0evj8702q4jwysxgrz8d Joe Mansfield We had a visitor in the bay this evening which has sailed from Horta Portugal apparently, the Kanoa. It’s Polish making this the first boat flying that flag I’ve seen here. npub1xa4u9mcryee44e63fyca4rkrk5qmk2gfhthrga0evj8702q4jwysxgrz8d Joe Mansfield For some reason I can’t get the Father Ted scene out of my head where Ted is trying to explain the difference between small and far away to Dougal using plastic toy cows. npub1xa4u9mcryee44e63fyca4rkrk5qmk2gfhthrga0evj8702q4jwysxgrz8d Joe Mansfield Exhibit A: npub1xa4u9mcryee44e63fyca4rkrk5qmk2gfhthrga0evj8702q4jwysxgrz8d Joe Mansfield RE: https://journa.host/@fulelo/116186197588838371 npub1xa4u9mcryee44e63fyca4rkrk5qmk2gfhthrga0evj8702q4jwysxgrz8d Joe Mansfield There were over 3600 measles cases in the UK last year, up from 350 in 2023 and well above the ~ 500 cases per annum rate of the last 15 years or so. npub1xa4u9mcryee44e63fyca4rkrk5qmk2gfhthrga0evj8702q4jwysxgrz8d Joe Mansfield The APF is worth browsing through whenever you take a trip into any of his books. npub1xa4u9mcryee44e63fyca4rkrk5qmk2gfhthrga0evj8702q4jwysxgrz8d Joe Mansfield I started with Pyramids and got hooked. If the flood of characters in books like Hogfather was putting you off the Pyramids has a tighter cast and is a much more self contained story. npub1xa4u9mcryee44e63fyca4rkrk5qmk2gfhthrga0evj8702q4jwysxgrz8d Joe Mansfield Same. This is one of the major features of Mastodon for me. npub1xa4u9mcryee44e63fyca4rkrk5qmk2gfhthrga0evj8702q4jwysxgrz8d Joe Mansfield I’m seeing messages that indicate it’s back so phew I suppose. npub1xa4u9mcryee44e63fyca4rkrk5qmk2gfhthrga0evj8702q4jwysxgrz8d Joe Mansfield If they use the network itself for some of the command and control traffic then this sort of outage could become really bad news very quickly. npub1xa4u9mcryee44e63fyca4rkrk5qmk2gfhthrga0evj8702q4jwysxgrz8d Joe Mansfield Some of the other flowers and plants from the sand dunes today.
