Life & Times

First indoor coffee for over 6 months. It’s good to be back ☕️


Full wet weather gear needed for this morning's tramp around the fields with Parker.

wet fields photo

iPhone 11, Lightroom app, processed in Lightroom Classic 📷


My Album of the Week is Typhoons from Royal Blood. This album proves that rock is alive and well! The title track is awesome.

Listen on Tidal:

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This weekend's project — turn a rusty fire pit into a water feature. Looking forward to seeing how it develops over the coming months.

garden pond photo

iPhone 11, Lightroom app, processed in Lightroom Classic 🌱


Setting off to walk the dog before breakfast. It's likely the best weather we'll see today.

photo of a country lane

iPhone 11, Lightroom app, processed in Lightroom Classic 📷


Goodbye Spotify, Hello Tidal

After the 14 day Tidal trial, it was time to decide to stay with Spotify or move to Tidal. I prefer the new music suggestions that Spotify presents, but much prefer the UI of Tidal. I’ve also got fed up waiting for Spotify to deliver the promised HiFi streaming functionality, which is important to me as I have a Naim streamer that is capable of making good use of the hi-res delivered by Tidal. You guessed it, I’ve moved to Tidal. 🎶


Sad to see that our neighbour cut down a 400-year old oak tree and reduced it to a load of lumber.

remains of an oak tree photo

iPhone 11, Lightroom app, processed in Lightroom Classic 📷🌱


My Album of the Weekis Life By Misadventure from Rag'n'Bone Man. I suspect this'll be high on my "Best of 2021" list at the end of the year. Listen on Tidal:

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Having breakfast on the patio, listening to the birds singing for the first time this year.

photo of breakfast on a patio

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The meadow is full of these wild flowers. Struggling to get a sharp photo on the iPhone.

wild flower photo

iPhone 11, Lightroom app, processed in Lightroom Classic 📷🌱


We held our first in-person board meeting on Wednesday at a colleagues house. He lives 20 minutes from the Cornish coast, so I took my wife and the dog, and we went to Black Rock beach afterwards. The word “bracing” springs to mind.

photo pf black rock beach

iPhone 11, Lightroom app, processed in Lightroom Classic 📷


The weather is horrible here today — heavy rain on a Bank Holiday, so here's a photo of some apple blossom I took yesterday.

photo of some apple blossom

iPhone 11, Lightroom app, processed in ON1 Photo RAW 2021 📷🌱


Sunday morning ride to Grittleton and back

phot of the grittleton arms

iPhone 11, Lightroom app, processed in Lightroom Classic 🚲 📷


Draycot Cerne Chapel of Rest through the apple blossom, taken this morning whilst out with the dog.

draycot cerne chapel of rest

iPhone 11, Lightroom app, processed in Lightroom Classic 📷


Another cold ride this morning

bike photo

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