A man in a shed with scrap wood and time on his hands.

Piling up stones for fun and money

Dry stone walling for fun and money

Music highlights 2020

A day of walking about in London. The Barclays AGM (Good climate change protest) and then up to Covent Garden to get new trainers at vivobarefoot. 9659 Walking

Although I did a lot on my feet today a lot wasn't recorded. I cycled 6 miles or so, did a tai chi class (phone in bag) and then surveyed some local trees. 3820 Cycling

Visit a plant sale and mausoleum. A bit of shopping. Clearing loft ready for some changes. Garden tidy and a walk for an ice cream. 6937 Daily Activity, Gardening, Walking

A slow day. Indoors. Then at archery. Then shopping and driving around. Then more domestic duties. Why do I need to post 100 chars? 5024 Daily Activity

Housework and cycling for shopping and pleasure. Not a lot else. Only started logging around lunchtime. 5306 Cycling

We were clearing the house of a relative who died and I decided to try and renovate an old Qualcast E1 push mower that they had that had seen better times. I have a small lawn and liked the idea of not

I have participated in a few distributed computing efforts over the years. Remember SETI anyone? But the latest one to catch my attention is DreamLab. Essentially the same idea of farming out calculations

Evening. A blackbird riffing over some crows. ► Listen on DSound ► Listen from source (IPFS)

Skykarks and the sound of walling. ► Listen on DSound ► Listen from source (IPFS)

You can tell which way the wind blows around here. But not today. Today is sunny. There are walls being built.

Like the odd daffodils that comes out a different shade. Variation is part of our design. We are (nearly) all born with generic differences. Generally that's a good thing, Let's celebrate diversity.

Today we took a stroll along the national cycle route 11 between Cambridge and Great Shelford. It's about a mile or more and the main attraction is that it also has colour coded stripes of the 10,257 base

How close can he get before things start singeing? He creeps closer and closer and seems to know but every now and then gets up, stretches, turns around and sweeps tis tail dangerously close to the flames.

Every year the local toads come out of hibernation and get on the move to the breeding ponds. They apparently wait for the right level of warmth and dampness and off they run. Unfortunately they need to

@detlev is running #MetalWeekend and I could not resist a quick post. Lets start with one from a musician / producer he also chose; Leo Moracchioli doing a totally bonkers version of Toto's Africa. In

Do you get those days then you feel your 'ion' supply may be running low? Here's the answer. Drink Pocari Sweat! I first came across this in Japan some thirty plus years ago. A drink called Sweat, how