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  • Of Beets, Columns of Black Smoke and Finished Books

    Of Beets, Columns of Black Smoke and Finished Books

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you walk around at the moment you see that they have cut corn, sunflowers and beet. You also see that there are piles of beet in fields, queues of tractors waiting to send them on a train journey and more. Agriculture is busy at the moment. This morning I heard quite…

  • The Curse of The Electric Light Bulb

    The Curse of The Electric Light Bulb

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesHave you ever considered how nice it would be to wake up when the sun comes up, and to end the day when the sun goes down? In summer the days would be long and filled with memories. In winter we would head to sleep when the sun sets. Every day we…

  • With A view of the Mont Blanc

    With A view of the Mont Blanc

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m afraid to open the veluxes because of the threat of finding yet another large spider. I don’t mind having to dispose of it, but I hate the idea of having one walking around without me knowing. A great alternative to open windows is to go for your daily walk. You’re far…

  • The Daily Walk – 100 Days of Consecutive Blogging.

    The Daily Walk – 100 Days of Consecutive Blogging.

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWe walk daily to look into the distance, to have fresh air, and to think about things. We take our daily walk because it’s a habit. We take our daily walk because it is a way of travelling from one place to another, without necessarily changing location. Today is day 100 of…

  • A Walk While Downloading Files by FTP

    A Walk While Downloading Files by FTP

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt the moment I study seven days a week without fail. Today I was learning about “Coding Your Own WordPress Custom Post Types”. I think this will be interesting because you can create a new section to a website, or if not a section then at least a collection of assets.…

  • Broken Stones, Good Weather and Autumn

    Broken Stones, Good Weather and Autumn

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday as I looked at the ground I saw broken stones. The one in the image below is especially beautiful. I don’t know why there were more broken stones than usual. It seems that the conditions were right to bring the stones to the surface and for the farmers’ machinery to break…

  • Good Cycling Weather

    Good Cycling Weather

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesDespite people doing what they can to keep the pandemic going, by not vaccinating, by not wearing masks, by not minimising social interactions, by avoiding busy shops we are in a 3000 new people infected per day routine in Switzerland. For some reason, fatalists and others have taken the decision that the…

  • A Busy day

    A Busy day

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI did not write today, because I was busy.

  • Learning Node.JS and Bullet Journaling

    Learning Node.JS and Bullet Journaling

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a while I have wanted to learn Angular, Laravel and other frameworks but I felt overwhelmed so I decided to learn JavaScript but then I found that I had gaps in my knowledge too, so I went over to Node.js. Now I feel that I am starting to understand more. I…

  • Lopsided

    Lopsided

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI am using the Trevolution Ultralight Daypack at the moment. It weighs 120 grams and folds small enough to fit in a jeans or jacket pocket for when you’re not using it. It also has a volume of 21 litres but I would not use it to carry 20 litres or kilos.…