Do Starlings chirp? They make all sorts of noises but I don't even know if chirping is one of them.

Sometimes it's nice having a dog. Go out for a little walk before work. Maybe get your daily photo before 9am.

Another late one, but a beautiful starry sky this evening, and an accidental framing error.

Aegir posted about his foreverspin and I basically stole the idea because I haven't stopped since 7am.

Mock assessment day for level 2 went better than I was expecting. Not sure why I always expect disaster.

Penultimate day of my level 2 course, if you don't count the assessment. Which I don't. I probably should but that's a problem for Future Jasper.

The one time I don't bring a proper camera with me, the cormorants are doing a migrate and I can only capture it on my phone.

Of course it rained today. Took the dog with us to the supermarket and I walked him around whilst Charlotte and Tabitha were shopping. The light was super nice and diffuse and the sea looked a weird green colour.

Decided to take Thursday and Friday off because Tabitha's on half term. Feeling pretty guilty about it since I just had a week off but I'll make it up and no-one's waiting on me for anything.

My back hurts. Haven't played that intensely since the summer and my physical fitness is lacking. I barely have time to take one single photo outside my normal routine right now so not sure when exactly I'm supposed to hit the gym!

Back to Homestead for the evening because Tabitha's on half term. I miss going there every week - the standard is so high and I really struggle (and I am so achy!) but I can see myself improving and I love it.

Exhaustion finally caught up to me today. Crashed pretty hard in the afternoon. Felt horrible, unmotivated, moody. Ate my feelings. Hate that.

Day 2 (day 1 for me) of my BE level 2 course. Such a long day and I am terrible at group work like this. I was bad at it in school and I'm bad at it now

It was always going to be challenging, following a week of relaxing and taking pictures with a week of work.

Spent the week in the German countryside, eating too many pretzels (is there such a thing?), drinking too much Spezi, and having a very relaxing time.

Last night the F1 Fwiends went on a field trip to the World's End in Brighton to play their raceway.

What a January! If you're wondering why it's dragged it's my fault - I'm going to Germany to see Sven next week, and the last couple of weeks have been particularly torturous! I feel like the light has been absolutely awful this month. I can't remember another month where I'...

The light has been awful this month and I haven't taken many photos, but "not many" isn't "none".

I've stopped wearing my Apple Watch. Kurzgesagt did this great video on exercise that annoyingly confirmed some things I already knew but would prefer to not be true. The main one being that exercise alone isn't enough for maintaining/losing weight. Diet is way more effectiv...

I like these little question things, like a chain letter. Remember when those used to be a physical thing you forwarded on? Now I feel old.

Tabitha played her final U13 match for Sussex yesterday. Weirdly emotional day. She's been with this team for maybe 3 years and has made friends with some lovely kids (and I feel like I've made friends with some of the parents, too). I hope she gets into U15 or at least stays in touch with them; it'd be a shame to lose that.

I love sport and I wish I'd had more of it at her age. Badminton has been incredible for my confidence and I've met such a diverse bunch of people through it. I'd love to have more sports but I barely have time for the two I actually do.

If you're wondering why Bambu Lab chose to finally lose their minds when they did, it's because I ordered one of their printers.

I'm not normally bothered by photographing a sunset. In truth they never look as good in pictures as they do in real life.

I guess you can call it "back on my bullshit", but I'm giving social media another try. I had a Mastodon instance a while back and when I looked at the cost of running my own (I am never not running my own. There's no version of this reality where I'm on someone else's insta...

I made pizzas. I think these are my favourites I've ever made.

Aegir shared this post on Mastodon earlier and I think it's an interesting take on something I've attributed to an ability to debug. Fixing stuff for a living makes you really good at being wrong. Forty times a day you'll be all "Bet it's one of the outputs on this chip. No...

This month's been a bit hectic. I feel like everything's been leading up to having some time off over Christmas/New Years and I haven't done a lot of anything other than work and stare longingly at the calendar. I did play a tonne of Balatro. I didn't like it at first, but I...

I've done it again. Lots of pictures from the last month.

I've been doing a fairly primitive version of this for a little while. Instagram upped their game, so I had to match pace.