CraigBlog

A collection of Travel & Gaming & “What’s On My Mind” posts

  • I’d intended to do my standard “blog all of the things until people are totally sick of the sound of your typing” thing for this trip, but as it turned out, I didn’t. Oddly, the reason wasn’t laziness, or at…

  • Nymphadora made sure to tell me, as I left this morning, how much she would miss me.And my ability to open food sachets. I actually got some work done, fixing some code I’d written, then documenting the damn thing while…

  • To be honest, this is mostly a post so that I can try linking images from Instagram into CraigBlog. Just so you know. A group from work made the arduous journey to Haddenham for the beer festival. Naturally, we did…

  • This holiday, because I’m doing a round-trip through NZ, gives me a chance to get some stuff from storage & bring it to the UK. More importantly, curated stuff; I’m sure it’d be possible to get everything moved, but that’s not…

  • The news has a cutesy rhyming name for the storm which is bringing so very much snow to these parts. They can keep said name, because it’s stupid. So, we’ve had the Working In A Snowglobe thing the last few…

  • I currently have some form of lurgh, so this may descend into even less comprehensible ramblings than usual Back in 2016. at the start of my trip around the USA, I stayed in a hotel with some … unusual ……

  • Some time ago, I ran into a set of ‘rules’ for tracking how much of the London Underground you’ve used in a year. That version had the counter starting on New Year’s Day, but I chose Boxing Day, mostly because…

  • In my experience, if I try to do some form of grand summing up of an event with lots of bits, I get bored partway through. So let’s not do that. Instead, let’s talk Christmas Markets. This is the one…

  • Every so often I’m reminded of my alleged contributions to the global store of … let’s call it knowledge … over on Google Maps. Places I’ve reviewed, information I’ve provided, and photos I’ve uploaded. As I type this, 1216 people…

  • ok, that was weak I’ve been doing a “Christmassy Picture A Day” thing for advent, over on The Social Medias. Daily posts to WordPress are a bit annoying, so here’s a digest version – I’ll update it as new images…

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