This week has been an interesting one on a personal level, one minute fucking terrifying. Sorry for the F bomb but last Friday we thought we were on the brink of losiing someone close; he had been rushed

After a somewhat challenging week, yesterday was an oasis amongst the chaos because we celebrated a sixth birthday, mine from the day before and got to see in real life a broadcasting hero of mine, Monty

In one of the last updates for Logic Pro I was particularly excited to try out the new “players” that open up some new options for synth bass and keyboard styles. In this video we demonstrate what it’s

Welcome back to my music technology posts and sharing some ideas that I’ve come up with on the iPad and the brilliant apps, AUM, Super J8 and Euclidean sequencer. All of which are available on the app

Since finishing at my old company I’ve been busy doing a number of things to keep myself occupied, obviously finding new work is priority but I’ve a little bit of time to do my own thing. I’ve no meetings,

Hello my lovely people. I’m making a comeback here on Hive after being hardly around for a while. Hope you’re keeping well? The above photo was taken on our evening walk from our front door and out to

Hello everyone and I’m delighted to say that I’m resuming my #churchproject blog series and have been out photographing a few locations recently. Today though, I am sharing this quick post with you, to

Last year I attended a fantastic little festival in Sussex and I’m going back this year with the ModCaf crew, to run a workshop there on using electronic gear to make music. We will be bringing along an

Otoo, Beepstreets brilliant new groovebox I’ve been playing with this little beauty quite a bit this past week. Laying down some fairly random beats, then processing them in a way that reminds me of how

This is a quick post on the Alicante trip coming up in a few weeks time and that I am highly unlikely yo make it this year. I was all set on coming and on the verge of booking a hotel and all that stuff

The other morning 300 hive just landed in my wallet which was nice. I was initially puzzled. Oh you muppet! I converted 30HBD the other day and that ended up being a nice chunk of hive. So for each calendar

Hinton Ampner ------------- These photos were taken last weekend on a little road trip from home near Reading down into deepest Hampshire, where we stopped off

Welcome to my first #wednesdaywalk post for ages and on this bleak morning you find me wandering around my favourite local Roman site. Silchester is a place I'v

Photos from yesterday’s walk along a nearby lane that is always an early starter when it comes to hawthorn/blackthorn blossom. I believe it’s a good indicator for a later harvest of berries come August,

I think this is my first HPUD for 2026 but I’m planning to do one each month for now on. I’ve slipped up a little bit. A lot going on of late. Mind you not all that long ago I bounced over the 5k HP level,

Yesterday was such a lovely day, it really was a treat. My first proper Hive meetup (I did a writeup in my previous Actifit post) in the wonderful town of Bedford. It has got me thinking about running

It was an absolute delight to meet up with @steevc @alessandrawhite @shanibeer @chris-uk @gillianpearce today in the town of Bedford. It was a good 2h 20m by car and similar time back at the end of the

It’s important to remember that no matter which camera you’ve chosen to accompany you on any given day - use it! The following set of photos were taken on an iPhone or Ricoh GR3X. Two very different cameras

I’ve done it! I’ve broken the 5k barrier and I’m very chuffed! I swapped some HBD for Hive, now’s a good time to do that which converted to about 28 Hive. I used 8 to power up and trickle over the 5000

Developers are rubbish at naming things! The hype about Clawdbot, sorry Openclaw, piqued my interest which had been over-piqued by other things during the week just gone. So I’ve decided to install it