Saturday saw Burnley travel just a short distance down the M62 for the East Lancashire Derby. Read on for my thoughts on the game, and images. My friend Craig cam over for the game, so the day started with a short trip up to Burnley Manchester Road train station to collect him. A … | Continue reading
Stoke City were Burnley's accomplices at Turf Moor in a New Years Day massacre of football. Read on for brief thoughts and images from the game - or watch your washing machine cycle instead. I don't want to dwell on this game to much, but I did want to write briefly as the festiv … | Continue reading
Happy fedi new year, from our canine overlords. Planted in: #Canine Children #Caoimhe #Stevie #Fearghus #Leo #bayLee #Mustang Thanks for reading this post via RSS. Reply to this post by email | Continue reading
Burnley took on Middlesbrough in the Sunday evening 8pm kick off at the Riverside Stadium - read on for my thoughts on the game, and some photographs from up in the sky.. Leaving with Burnley Football Supporters Club at 3:10pm, there was very little traffic on the roads up to Mid … | Continue reading
Burnley took on Sheffield United in the Boxing Day fixture at Bramall Lane - read on for my thoughts on the game, and some photographs through the fog. The games come thick and fast at this time of year, so I thought it might be useful to do my write up for the Sheffield United g … | Continue reading
Starting my journey over to Sheffield for Sheffield United v Burnley. Planted in: #Football #Burnley FC #EFL Championship Thanks for reading this post via RSS. Reply to this post by email | Continue reading
Mr Mustang just climbed in for a cuddle. He’s been with me nearly 13 years now, and while his murmur has started to play up, he’s still hanging on in there. Planted in: #Canine Children #Mustang #Me Thanks for reading this post via RSS. Reply to this post by email | Continue reading
Watford were the visitors to Turf Moor on Saturday as Burnley looked to build on the victory at Norwich City 6 days earlier. Read on for images and thoughts from the game. The afternoon started well when, just about to leave, Vickie informed me that the freezer was not working. T … | Continue reading
A few photographs from Blackpool on Monday. Starting at central pier we walked South to the dunes at Lytham, before making our way back for fish and chips at Papa's near the Tower (the best chip shop in Blackpool). Planted in: #Walks #Blackpool #Canine Children #Stevie #Caoimhe # … | Continue reading
I’ll be migrating my Mastodon presence shortly as 500.social closes. I decided to spin up my own instance on masto.host for longevity. Planted in: #Mastodon #Fediverse Thanks for reading this post via RSS. Reply to this post by email | Continue reading
Burnley travelled to Norwich for a 3pm kick off on Sunday, and looking to improve on a disappointing performance at Home to Derby in the week. Read on for my thoughts on the game, and some photographs from the stadium. I set off with Burnley Football Supporters Club on their coac … | Continue reading
As poor a 45 minute performance as I’ve seen since the trip to Sunderland in August. Let’s hope they remember at least knowing each other in second half. Planted in: #Football #Burnley FC Thanks for reading this post via RSS. Reply to this post by email | Continue reading
I went to hospital for an abdominal ultrasound scan this morning. Despite the setting, I'm definitely not pregnant - though I'll need to wait another week or so for any further results. Planted in: #Me #Health Thanks for reading this post via RSS. Reply to this post by email | Continue reading
Here is Mr. BayLee, getting in his last swim of the year last night at Canine Health & Hydro, Rimington. Planted in: #Canine Children #Podencos #bayLee Thanks for reading this post via RSS. Reply to this post by email | Continue reading
Last night I changed all of the YouTube iframes on my site to no cookie variants, with a few Loom and Strava iframes still to resolve. That leaves a few trinket.io code playgrounds with session cookies to work out how best to replace. Planted in: #indieweb Thanks for reading this … | Continue reading
Images from Turf Moor as Burnley played out a drab 0-0 draw with Derby County on Tuesday evening. I was quite optimistic for this game on the back of strong performances against Bristol City and Stoke City, and against Middlesbrough in recent weeks. Derby are a team that this Bur … | Continue reading
It is a beautifully clear but crisp evening here at at Turf Moor for Burnley v Derby County. Planted in: #Football #Burnley FC #utc Thanks for reading this post via RSS. Reply to this post by email | Continue reading
I've not noticed challenge leaderboards surfaced inside the Fulgaz app previously - nice addition. I'm exploring Fulgaz as a scenic option while I cannot ride/race with any intensity currently. Planted in: #Cycling #Fulgaz Thanks for reading this post via RSS. Reply to this post … | Continue reading
Burnley took on Middlesbrough at Turf Moor under the lights for the Sky Sports Friday evening kick-off. Read on for images from the game and my thoughts on the evening. I'm pretty much on holiday for the rest of the year, so I travelled down to the Midlands by train to catch-up w … | Continue reading
In this post i review the new Lenovo Chromebook Duet 11 model after a month or so of use, which I bought mainly for use when traveling to avoid having to take my MacBook Air or iPad Pro out and about with me. I'd been looking for a new tablet sized laptop for a little while - mai … | Continue reading
Here’s Fearghus out on his first walk in several months today. He’s doing well now, thought not without a fright or two in that time. Planted in: #Canine Children #Podencos #Fearghus Thanks for reading this post via RSS. Reply to this post by email | Continue reading
Photographs from the Bet365 Stadium as Burnley defeated Stoke City by two goals to nil, away from home. I was not able to make it on Tuesday evening as Burnley defeated Coventry City 2 - 0 at Turf Moos, and I was feeling ill. I recovered in time for Saturday’s trip to the Bet365 … | Continue reading
Charging my EV at Knutsford while on my way to Stoke City v Burnley with work. Hopefully my allegiance is not too obvious! Planted in: #Football #Burnley FC #Me Thanks for reading this post via RSS. Reply to this post by email | Continue reading
Office dogs photo of the day, here's bayLee (Ibicenco) and Leo (Andaluz) pretending not to like each other on the sofa. Planted in: #Canine Children #Podencos #DailyDog #bayLee #Fearghus Thanks for reading this post via RSS. Reply to this post by email | Continue reading
Burnley took on Bristol City at Ashton Gate today, in a game played in abysmal weather conditons. Read on for my thoughts and images from the game. As usual, I was collected by the Burnley Football Supporters Club opposite Queensgate depot at the uncivilised time of 05:50 this mo … | Continue reading
While I make my way very slowly back to Burnley, Caoimhe has switched off the German Shepherd guarding instinct to get in some rest. How gorgeous? Planted in: #Canine Children #Podencos #Caoimhe Thanks for reading this post via RSS. Reply to this post by email | Continue reading
Continuing my very slow but exciting tour of the service stations of the UK, our stopover on the way to Bristol this morning was at Stafford Services on the M6. Perhaps one of the more exciting sections of this website, it is disappointing that I don't get around the country as o … | Continue reading
It’s an early departure for Bristol City with Burnley Football Supporters Club this morning, and a bit dreich out there. Planted in: #Football #Burnley FC Thanks for reading this post via RSS. Reply to this post by email | Continue reading
Vickie ventured into Manchester at the weekend, taking the bus for the first time ever. Here's a few pictures of the X43 Witchway Alexander Dennis Enviro400. It looks like a nightclub, no idea how you would work on the commute. Planted in: #Vickie #Buses Thanks for reading this p … | Continue reading
RSS Feed Testing - ignore. Hopefully this now works. Planted in: #Web Development Thanks for reading this post via RSS. Reply to this post by email | Continue reading
RSS Feed testing - ignore. Planted in: #Web Development Thanks for reading this post via RSS. Reply to this post by email | Continue reading
Stevie, watching over his hens - much like Rocco used to do. ❤️ Planted in: #Canine Children #Podencos #Stevie Thanks for reading this post via RSS. Reply to this post by email | Continue reading
Here is a picture of Fearghus with Marvin, at the beginning of his treatment that he is recovering well from. Planted in: #Canine Children #DailyDog #Fearghus Thanks for reading this post via RSS. Reply to this post by email | Continue reading
Issue 271 of London Clarets' magazine dropped through the letterbox today. Not satisfied watching 3 months of boring football, then writing about it, I'm now going to spend the next few days reading about it again! More>>> Titled 'Feeding off Scraps' is probably overselling the e … | Continue reading
I spent this evening attempting to automate hashtags through to RSS and beyond, using my website tags in the RSS feed. I'm really happy with the feed reader implementation, Mastodon would be great too - but for those pesky whitespaces. Planted in: #Web Development #Kirby CMS Than … | Continue reading
Stevie pretending that he did not actually mean to sneak off into bed, again - I might forgive him if my attempt at automated hashtags in this post works. Planted in: #Canine Children #Podencos #Stevie Thanks for reading this post via RSS. Reply to this post by email | Continue reading
Toyed with moving my inbox to Hey, but cleansed my inbox and unsubscribed from unnecessary newsletters (again) yesterday instead. Hardest to deal with: LinkedIn. I must have turned off over 50 email toggles from this settings page. Planted in: #Productivity #Email Thanks for read … | Continue reading
Succeeding where I previously failed. Ending a productive day by separating my website dashboard into tabbed pages, with separate tabs for posts, workouts, routes, evergreen albums, and static pages. Quitting for the night while I'm ahead. | Continue reading
As I moved over to 500.social last night, I thought I'd introduce myself. I'm based in Burnley, my posts usually feed in from my website. I talk about dogs (I have (more than) a few)🐕, riding my Wattbike, running and swimming (all badly)🚴♂️🏃♂️🏊♂ … | Continue reading
I've spent a little time working on my Kirby CMS based main website today. I love most of the things about my site, but as I have extended it to do more complex things, I've become frustrated by some aspects of the workflow, layout and syndication... read on for a little more det … | Continue reading
Mr bayLee seems to approve of the fresh linen this morning, I will be in trouble later. | Continue reading
Quick Test Post - still cross feeding to Mastodon and Bluesky after server move? | Continue reading
Today's visitors to Turf Moor were Swansea City, read on for more images, and my thoughts on the game. | Continue reading
Unusually I watched this game from the comfort of my own living room - I'm getting too old for two late night away trip returns in the same week. Predictable a game featuring two of the meanest defences in the Championship produced a 0-0 draw. It would probably not have been dese … | Continue reading
Images from the New Den, as Burnley visited Millwall in the EFL Championship. | Continue reading
Making good progress on the way to London for Millwall v Burnley at the New Den this afternoon. | Continue reading
This afternoon I worked through my previous instructions for installing and updating Championship Manager 2001 / 02 in a Windows XP virtual machine, in response to a support question. In this article I talk through the update and testing process, what worked, and what did not. | Continue reading
Another sunny afternoon here at Turf Moor for Burnley via QPR in the Championship. Up the clarets. | Continue reading