2025-01-30 18:05:00
Right then, off to the garage...
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2025-01-30 07:00:00
Today has just been the worst day ever and I’m ready for it to fuck right off.
Work is crazy at the moment, so it was a rough day before I'd even finished work, but thats not why it was so shit.
Oh god, no.
So I took my oldest son for a swimming lesson, and on the way there we hit a HUUUGE fucking pothole that was covered by a swimming pool puddle.
Immediately the car started complaining that the pressure was low on my front right tyre.
Fucking great. Puncture. Thanks Wrexham council and your shitty fucking roads.
While my oldest is in his lesson, I head out to sort it. Problem is, like most modern cars, I dont have a spare. Instead I have the cheapest air compressor possible, along with a little tub of useless goo that's apparently going to seal the puncture. Also, the car park is pitch black and I can't see a thing.
Using my phone as a torch, I get the useless bottle of goo connected to the shittiest compressor on the planet, and I squirt that shit into my tyre.
But my car was still reporting the front right as flat.
So I limp the car round to the other side of the car park where there’s lighting, only to notice that the front left tyre feels flat.
I get to the floodlit part of the car park and sure enough, it’s the left fucking tyre that's flat.
How the absolute fuck is my car reporting the wrong tyre as being flat???
…and now I have a bottle of useless fucking goo injected into a perfectly good tyre too.
By this time my son has finished his lesson and is waiting patiently in the car while I call for recovery, and for my wife to come get him.
An hour later recovery turns up, they put a spare on and I limp the car home. The car is now impotently sat on my drive with the flat tyre reinstated.
Oh, did I mention that the flat tyre is only a month old, too?
Yeah. Fuck you, tyre gods.
I’ll have to take the day off work to get the tyre replaced tomorrow.
So it’s around 10pm; I get home, very angry at this point. I’m pottering round, tidying up, and I notice something looks weird in the aquarium in my office.
One of my favourite fucking fish has died too.
Fuck today.
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2025-01-27 04:15:00
✍️ Written by: Peter Brown
🏷 Genre: Sci-fi
🗓 Published: 05 April 2016
📄 Pages: 282
🧐 My rating: ★★★★☆ (4 stars)
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is - but she knows she needs to survive.
After battling a fierce storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realises that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants.
As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home - until, one day, her mysterious past comes back to haunt her.
A friend of mine recommended the film version of this after going to watch it with his daughters, but I knew I had the books on the bookshelf and wanted to read them to the kids.
We recently finished the first book and it's really good - the kids were hooked from the start and although it has some dark part to the book (which I think is appropriate as it's all part of nature) it's still a great one to read to the kids.
There's a part in the book where winter hits and it's really cold. So cold that a number of animals freeze to death in the snow. Lots of the animals comment on how they've never witnessed such a cold winter
This, I think, is a great precursor to broader conversations with the kids about climate change and how we're fucking the planet up.
All in all, the kids didn't seem too upset by the animals freezing to death though.
We've taken book 2 The Wild Robot Escapes off the shelf and we will be starting that one straight away. If you want a great, heartwarming, book to read with the kids, or on your own, The Wild Robot is a great choice.
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2025-01-26 20:20:00
Today it's monster trucks.
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2025-01-26 02:25:00
Just sitting down with the kids to watch The NeverEnding Story and this happened...
Me: this was released the year I was born, so it's the same age as me, boys.
Oldest: So it's old fashioned?
Me: Yep
Oldest: So why is there colour then?
😂😂😂 why do kids troll us so much??
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2025-01-25 22:40:00
One of my favourite #Kirby plugins seems to be abandoned. The default Kirby textarea editor is fine, but this adds some nice quality of life things that I really enjoy.
I wish I had the skills to maintain something like this. I'd love to help. 😞
https://github.com/fabianmichael/kirby-markdown-field
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