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On Saturday, 15 August 2026
The average temperature today is 16.01˚C,
With highs of 17.14˚C and lows of 15.38˚C,
It may feel like 15.7˚C with broken clouds
The wind speed is 0.45m/s and visibility is 10000m
The pressur...
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On Friday, 14 August 2026
The average temperature today is 18.54˚C,
With highs of 19.47˚C and lows of 17.87˚C,
It may feel like 18.77˚C with scattered clouds
The wind speed is 1.09m/s and visibility is 10000m
The press...
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A GitHub template repository setup to copy an rss or atom feed into a _data folder in a repo for monitoring and archiving purposes.
Simply copy the repo.
Change the daily.yml action to include the feed url and the output file name
GitHub Action runs on a daily...
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There is no guarantee what the future will hold, so when planning for our financial future, we can look back at history and replay our finances in that context and see what would happen. In this post I will answer whether my retirement will survive 111 years of historical...
Twitch have recently opted-in every streamer into Amazon’s generative AI training. You have to explicitly opt-out manually.
Twitch now uses streamer content — VODs, clips, stream chats, and channel text/images — to train Amazon’s generative AI models. Opting out will st...
According to FT Adviser 2.5 million were able to fill their ISAs (both cash and stocks and shares) in the tax year to April 2023. So What do you do when you have filled your ISA?
Pre-requisites
Lets assume those able to fill their ISAs and realise the tax free allowanc...
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On Thursday, 13 August 2026
The average temperature today is 20.79˚C,
With highs of 21.96˚C and lows of 19.11˚C,
It may feel like 20.41˚C with clear sky
The wind speed is 1.34m/s and visibility is 10000m
The pressure i...
I dug a hole in our raised bed in the garden. I put a watertight planter in it. I put a brick at the bottom to one side and a water-based plant on top of the brick. I put some pebbles at the bottom and a bit of scrap stone or something that creatures could climb up and then ...
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Occasionally I discover I have created some blog posts with the incorrect or missing front matter.
This bash script searches through all my _posts/ including my subfolders (one per year) and writes the path to a file.
I can then go file by file and check for issues, in thi...
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On Wednesday, 12 August 2026
The average temperature today is 16.33˚C,
With highs of 16.65˚C and lows of 14.36˚C,
It may feel like 16.19˚C with scattered clouds
The wind speed is 2.68m/s and visibility is 10000m
The pr...
I recently wrote about the ISA bridge and the idea of an “apex” - the point where an ISA has grown large enough to carry you from the day you stop work to the day a pension becomes accessible. That post worked through my own numbers: £147k in the ISA, £20k a year going in, a...
Hello, this is a test post from Drafts to the new Micro feed and syndications
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On Tuesday, 11 August 2026
The average temperature today is 15.6˚C,
With highs of 15.94˚C and lows of 13.73˚C,
It may feel like 15.33˚C with broken clouds
The wind speed is 0.89m/s and visibility is 10000m
The pressure...
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Cheltenham Open data is collecting and disseminating localised open data for Cheltenham and Gloucestershire including local fuel prices, fix-my-street issues, and local news aggregation.
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At 43, the retirement picture is quickly coming into focus and becoming less about accumulating an enormous pension and more about solving one specific problem: Build enough accessible capital to stop work sooner, before 58, then use that capital to bridge the gap until t...
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On Monday, 10 August 2026
The average temperature today is 15.81˚C,
With highs of 16.09˚C and lows of 15.39˚C,
It may feel like 15.56˚C with broken clouds
The wind speed is 2.84m/s and visibility is 10000m
The pressure...
Sequencing risk defines that the order of returns being more significant when you are withdrawing rather than accumulating. A market downturn early in retirement can cause a portfolio to run out, even if average long-term returns are the same.
Definitions
Sequencing ri...
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On Sunday, 09 August 2026
The average temperature today is 15.52˚C,
With highs of 17.62˚C and lows of 14.26˚C,
It may feel like 14.88˚C with scattered clouds
The wind speed is 0.45m/s and visibility is 10000m
The press...
Volatility is short-term price movement; risk is the chance of not meeting your goal. They are not the same thing and why it matters in 2026
Definitions
Risk is what you see when there is any investment advert in the uk. “Capital is at risk”, “Stocks may go up as well ...
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On Saturday, 08 August 2026
The average temperature today is 10.57˚C,
With highs of 13.86˚C and lows of 10.38˚C,
It may feel like 10.01˚C with scattered clouds
The wind speed is 1.17m/s and visibility is 10000m
The pre...
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On Friday, 07 August 2026
The average temperature today is 12.02˚C,
With highs of 13.62˚C and lows of 10.38˚C,
It may feel like 11.31˚C with clear sky
The wind speed is 0.45m/s and visibility is 10000m
The pressure is ...
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On Thursday, 06 August 2026
The average temperature today is 15.55˚C,
With highs of 16.64˚C and lows of 15.38˚C,
It may feel like 15.01˚C with clear sky
The wind speed is 1.34m/s and visibility is 10000m
The pressure i...
Things are tight at the moment, so I needed to make some additional money online. I made over £20 in under 20 minutes of effort, entirely legally, using free sign-up offers — no gambling, no catch. Here’s exactly how, step by step with a potential to make 100s if you refer f...
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On Wednesday, 05 August 2026
The average temperature today is 17.28˚C,
With highs of 18.07˚C and lows of 16.5˚C,
It may feel like 17.44˚C with moderate rain
The wind speed is 1.79m/s and visibility is 10000m
The pressu...
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On Tuesday, 04 August 2026
The average temperature today is 20.67˚C,
With highs of 20.93˚C and lows of 20.39˚C,
It may feel like 20.33˚C with overcast clouds
The wind speed is 0.45m/s and visibility is 10000m
The press...
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