Posts from 2021
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My only cable-car trip into the high Alps this past winter season was in February. Webcam confirmation of a fabulous cloud inversion encouraged me to get into the mountains after a long abstinence. I expected the visit to be be a nerve-wracking experience thanks to so many people wearing their coronavirus face-masks around their chins,…
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A pedestrian-only footpath through the woods and cliffs on the southern shore of Lake Brienz.
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I’m looking forward to the new cable-cars next year. I hope that they’ll have dirt-repellent, scratch-resistant windows. (Sequence filmed in February 2021.)
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Southerly winds form cloud waterfalls in the high mountains of the Swiss Alps.
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Finally got a tow bar fitted to the car, which means we can mount a bike rack, which means we can take our bikes further afield at last!
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A mighty family rose from a little castle amongst the fields in Swiss canton Aargau.
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About as close as we can get to visiting Germany at the moment; the car park next to the Rhine on the edge of Switzerland. (The river marks the northern border, which is closed because of the pandemic.)
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More and more website development takes place using Javascript these days, whether within the WordPress CMS or as part of a streamlined frontend experience. I abandoned jQuery at the end of 2019 and began learning React in earnest.
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The beautiful cinematography of The Sound of Music, which I watched for the first time this year.
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The steamship “Spiez” – known colloquially and diminutively as “Das Spiezerli” thanks to its small size – en route from Thun to Interlaken for the first time after nearly five years of restoration work.
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The hike from Wengen to Kleine Scheidegg, high above the Lauterbrunnen Valley in Switzerland, is beautiful. But parts of the route are an absolute killer.
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Using command-line scripts to synchronise your live website with your local website.
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Finally photographing a long-awaited evening view across Lausanne, thanks to getting the right angle with my drone.
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Hiking in the wild, remote and dramatic landscape of the north-west of Scotland last autumn.
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Time-lapse sequence of the cable car ride from the valley station to the mountain station.
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Using register_block_pattern in WordPress can be a pain, as you need to manipulate the HTML in your code. Here’s a much less tiresome solution.
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Almost every year, prevailing winds bring fine dust and sand from the Sahara desert to southern Europe.
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Using CSS Grid to overlap two rows and allow a content image to “break out” of the text container.
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When the temperature of snow is above -10°C, it melts slightly when you crush it by walking on it. At temperatures below -10°C, the ice crystals are crushed, which makes a squeaking sound.
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Going somewhere new and exploring the lake shore at Seengen, near Hallwil.
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If you find a natural feature, enjoy it while it lasts.