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I processed some of the photos I took on last Sunday’s walk in the Heart of England Forest. I’m fascinated by the glow of light on leaves, but it’s so hard to capture in a photograph! I’ll keep trying and probably keep failing.

→ 12:32 PM, Oct 18

I had my first day back at my fieldwork site in more than 6 months. Today was just catching up with what has changed (spoiler alert: a lot 🤣) and planning future work, but I was so happy to be working outside and not in my house!

→ 2:48 PM, Oct 15

Birmingham, UK / 2020-10-14 / 08:07 am

On my daily walk I see natural beauty marred in places by human thoughtlessness.

A Day In The Life: Micro.blog photo challenge

→ 8:45 AM, Oct 14

Walking the deer path

This weekend, we went for another walk around the Heart of England Forest. Part of the route was on the Heart of England Way, a footpath that meanders around the area. In the field you can see in this photo, the footpath goes right up the middle of the ploughed area, and as we walked up it, I spotted trails of deer hoof prints all the way up. Further on, the hoof prints were still there. The deer apparently walk the footpaths too.

That thrilled me: how lovely to think about groups of deer walking the same paths as us (perhaps in the early morning or during the night), seeing the same views as us through different eyes. Imagine being there at night and hearing the soft sounds of their feet on the earth and their breath in the night air?

It struck me when looking at this panoramic photo that this actually might be similar to the way deer would see the same view, with their wide field of view.

→ 7:05 PM, Oct 12

🔗 Down the ergonomic keyboard rabbit hole

This makes me feel better about my keyboard layout experiments 🤓

→ 7:23 PM, Oct 10

Heart of England Forest

A couple of weeks ago, Mr. Bsag and I drove over into Warwickshire and went for a walk in part of the Heart of England Forest. It’s an amazing project (started by the late Felix Dennis), planting new native trees to join up fragments of ancient woodland across Warwickshire and Worcestershire. It was the first time we had been out for a walk (beyond our immediate neighbourhood) for 6 months, and it was a literal and metaphorical breath of fresh air.

It was a glorious, warm and sunny day, and we took our time, looking at plants, birds and fungi, and enjoying the view. I took some photos (pretty much the first I have taken with my real camera since our visit to Pembrokeshire last September), and I have posted a few here. It turns out that my photographic skills have got rusty in lockdown, so I need to get out more and take more photos!

→ 1:32 PM, Oct 4

New post: A shelf and keyboard mat for my desk

I’ve been up to some DIY (sewing and rudimentary woodwork) to tweak my desk setup.

→ 6:19 PM, Oct 3

It’s a lovely golden morning this Monday. I’m grateful that I was able to get a walk in before work.

→ 8:27 AM, Sep 28

New post: Back to evil key bindings in Emacs

Sometimes you just have to admit you’ve made a mistake.

→ 5:20 PM, Sep 26

This was tonight’s cider: a more traditional tannin-rich cider, but very good. Lovely artwork too.

→ 10:05 PM, Sep 25

New post: Using Tailwind CSS

I’ve updated the design of my blog recently and been really impressed by how easy Tailwind CSS is to use.

→ 1:35 PM, Sep 13

I had this cider yesterday which was delicious. I think the name is a top class play on words too 👌

→ 9:31 AM, Sep 12

You might notice a slightly different look to my blog, as I’ve had a bit of a revamp using Tailwind CSS. It was fun and actually pretty easy once I got the hang of it. I’ll write about soon.

→ 7:00 PM, Sep 6

New post: Reverting to qwerty

As the anonymous commenter predicted, using another keyboard layout trashed my ability to use a standard qwerty, so I had to revert.

→ 6:58 PM, Sep 6

Classic DeBryn moment:

Strange: Choke on his own puke did he Doctor?

DeBryn: [after a moment looking at Strange steadily] Been at the Keats again Sergeant?

→ 10:20 PM, Sep 4

Today I’ve been playing around with Tailwindcss to style the site. It takes a bit of getting used to, but it’s quite fun and much less frustrating than standard CSS.

→ 7:15 PM, Aug 30

New post: Comfort re-watching.

In which I rave at length about the brilliance of Endeavour and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

→ 5:11 PM, Aug 23

New post: Advising Emacs

In which I talk about my most recent Emacs tinkering adventures.

→ 11:52 AM, Aug 18

Where has howdoi been all my life? (Hat tip to Brett Terpstra who finds all the best command line tools)

→ 1:44 PM, Aug 16

Sigh. My Mac mini has died. Luckily it is less than a year old so under warranty but I could really do without the disruption of repair. 😒

→ 9:04 PM, Jul 23

Thanks to Kottke, I have just found out about the musical mash-up genre of ‘bardcore’, and now this cover of Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit in waltz time, medieval style, is my new favourite thing.

→ 7:16 PM, Jul 21

New post: Confessions of a reluctant exerciser

In which I marvel at the fact that I’m doing actual regular exercise.

→ 8:53 PM, Jul 20

Mr. Bsag and I just collaboratively cut my hair (him: the length at the back; me: the fringe). Amazingly, it isn’t terrible! I don’t think we’ll be opening a salon any time soon, but it’s pretty acceptable.

→ 8:00 PM, Jul 13

I’ve just made another couple of face masks from scraps left after I made my birthday shirt. And yes - I am planning to wear a matching shirt and mask at some point!

→ 2:42 PM, Jul 12

Today was the last day of an online conference that I have been attending all this week. Since most participants were based in Indonesia, it was on Jakarta time: 2am-8am in my time zone. If you’ll excuse me, I think I need to sleep for a week.

→ 11:16 AM, Jul 10