Oh, I wish there was a better (or even any sensible) way of using Flickr content as a featured image on a page or post. I’d just like to be…
Category: General Chunterings
2020 already?
Back at the beginning of last year I said something or other about writing more in 2019. I was just chock-full of enthusiasm about it too. Maybe. I wrote four…
Never Grow Up
Parenting is difficult, isn’t it? You become responsible for an actual juvenile human and have the privilege of guiding them towards adulthood. This is a protracted experience for all involved,…
I <3 Toronto
2018 finished in style for us with a two week trip to visit my family in Toronto. I’ve always loved this city and have visited six times now: mostly because…
Happy New Year!
It is 2019 already. So soon after 2018 too. These years are following on from each other more quickly each year. Last year was a pretty traumatic time for the…
Let’s try lots of blocks
Gutenberg is here and I have no idea how some of the new features work, so let’s see what they look like when you add them to a post. This…
Adding YouTube videos
Just trying out the YouTube embed feature with this Agile-based bit of Christmas fun. You’re welcome. *edit* OK, so the formatting of this post is even worse than the one…
Updated to WordPress 5.0
OK, so who’s idea was it to release the new version of WordPress this close to Christmas? WordPress 5.0 is the first major change in the blogging tool for what…
Oh Flickr
I have been a Flickr user for what seems decades. I joined at some point in 2005 (an age ago in Internet terms). Flickr was the only decent place to…
Holidays on the Kerry coast
Jo and I have some incredible friends. I’ve been very, very lucky over the years to have met some of the nicest people around, whether during my RAF days or…
25/1/2018 Fat Curk
25/1/2018 Fat Curk by rutty is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA I don’t drink Coke very often, but when I do I make sure it is fully leaded, none of those…
305/365 Stairwell
305/365 Stairwell by rutty is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA Tonight is #NottsTest and we are having it in the Portland Building at the University of Nottingham. This is our first…