Posts from 2023
I used to avoid Radiohead back in the 1990s, because my youthful inexperience made me think their songs were miserable. I’m so glad that I’ve grown up to hear the beauty in the melancholy.
How to work around PHP’s deprecation of dynamic class properties without refactoring your whole codebase.
Reminding myself that although mountain hiking season is over now, there are still wonderful opportunities to walk and clear the mind.
We’ve all heard of the dreaded “Rail Replacement Bus”. But what if we had Rail Replacement Helicopters instead?
A familiar array of “adventures” which I feel fortunate to regularly enjoy.
An unfestive 1st August, barbecuing in a mountain valley, and walking around a lovely lake near Gstaad.
The road from Easter Ross into the Strathrusdale valley leads into what I felt was the middle of nowhere.
The “Grimsel Snake” (“Grimselschlange”) is a cloud formation in the mountain region between canton Bern and Wallis, where the clouds pour over the ridge slowly like water when the humidity and wind combine in the right direction. Here’s a time-lapse video I filmed of it from the Furka Bélvèdere car park in 2016.
Lots of work stopped me from going out so much, but we did get in a great trip to canton Wallis.
Making more of an effort to publish moving pictures, including one from Dartmoor in June.
Pottering at home, a trip to Scotland and photographing wild flowers in Switzerland.
The final resting place of a beloved character from the Harry Potter series of books and films.
