House
Time lapse video from a security camera
Last year I setup a python script to run every day at 2pm to grab a still frame from some of my security cameras around the outside of the house. Today I mashed them together […]
Month: February 2019
Holiday
Vienna holiday – (Egon) Schiele Take a Bow
Had to do it, sorry. Vienna is full of Egon Schiele‘s paintings. We saw a lot of them on our first day in the city at the Leopold Museum, and then in pretty much every […]
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Holiday trip: Day 5 – more Vienna
Can you have too much Vienna? I doubt it somehow, although you can certainly push your luck with its patisserie. Today we went to the Kunsthistoriches Museum, which was amazing. In addition to the priceless […]
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Holiday trip: Day 4 – Vienna… skating on thin ice, ich bin ein Berliner…
We started the day with cakes from the hotel, then moved on to a proper buffet breakfast. Suitably fuelled, we went to the Wiener Eistraum, which is German for “sausage pain”. We skated there for […]
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Holiday trip: Day 3 – Bratislava to Vienna
We got the tram to the train station from close to our hotel in Bratislava. The city’s main train station looks like it has been frozen in time to a great extent – the general […]
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Holiday trip: Day 2 – Bratislava
Today it was time to take in some more of the culture of Bratislava. First up was the castle. This was a properly odd state of affairs – in England it would probably be a […]
Holiday
Holiday trip: Day 1 – Bratislava
An early start on Friday morning, flying out from Leeds Bradford to Bratislava. Quite a few budget airlines head to Bratislava rather than Vienna, as they aren’t a huge distance apart and Slovakia is generally […]
General
Doolin Writers’ Weekend 2019
This was my second year of attending the weekend, and I had learnt a couple of important lessons from the initial visit. Firstly, if a workshop looks like it won’t be useful / engaging enough […]