Category Archives: Witterings

Witterings are, well they’re witterings really. They’re not uncategorised posts but don’t really fit into anything else

All Change!!

Posted on March 17, 2024 by Steve

Finally took the big leap and moved the site off WordPress and onto Classic Press. There are several reasons for this with the primary ones being WordPress’s bloated code base and its jetpack plugin trying to basically make everyone else’s … Continue reading →

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My Poor Neglected Blog

Posted on January 26, 2019 by Steve

Was it really in 2017 that I last posted on here? I guess it must have been. Since then I’ve been boating several times with two week long holidays to Llangollen and a round trip round the West Midlands and … Continue reading →

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Stupid pages that have paid Facebook to be forced into my Page feed

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Steve

The mobile browser news feed for Facebook includes a section featuring “sponsored” pages which they think you might want to like. You can’t hide this section but their selection criteria is totally crap..   So lets start with this – … Continue reading →

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Coming to America

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Steve

We’ve got a pretty good routine working for flying to America. It starts with driving down to Heathrow the night before the flight and staying in a hotel close to the airport – usually the Park Inn as it does … Continue reading →

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You Wensum, you losesum

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Steve

Norwich might not sound like an obvious destination for a weekend away from Cheltenham as it’s not the easiest place to get to but it is a trip worth doing if you like Real Ale ( or “Craft” beers for … Continue reading →

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Merging Sites

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Steve

I looked at what was over on canalplan blogs and decided that actually pulling the couple of live blogs over to here and closing down that site was the best thing to do. So I exported and imported the posts … Continue reading →

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What happened to January?

Posted on February 7, 2015 by Steve

Seriously? Where did it go? One minute it was the start of January and the next it’s suddenly February and I’ve not posted anything anywhere. I suppose the only positive thing I can say is that actually I did do … Continue reading →

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2015

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Steve

So it’s 2015 and I thought that maybe I should start blogging properly. I’d already got my blog over on canalplan blogs but I got to thinking that maybe I should separate the two and make a blog site that … Continue reading →

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Bits and bobs

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Steve

Although I should be working on getting all the data loaded into the Canalplan Boats Database I’ve not been making a lot of progress on getting the new data and the old data mapped into a new structure which I … Continue reading →

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So long EE… and thanks for Nothing

Posted on August 30, 2014 by Steve

I just posted this to EE’s wall on Facebook. I expect they will delete it… they are a company in complete denial. =================== Well its time to say goodbye to EE. I’d like to say I’m sad that I’m leaving … Continue reading →

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