This post is the first part of a series describing my experiences of building a Dunster House log cabin in our back garden. This log cabin is going to be used as a base for my blogging, photographic and electronics hobbies, which have been severely curtailed over the last 18 months as we’ve concentrated on several home improvement projects, culminating last year in the conversion of our garage into a bedroom for my mother-in-law. Choice of Dunster House When I...
This post explains how I created a home media server using a Raspberry Pi single board computer and the Emby media server software. Background Like many people, over the years I’ve built up quite a sizable collection of DVDs as I’ve watched films or TV series and thought, ‘I’d like to keep a copy of that’. Although many of the films I have in my collection are available on services like Netflix or Amazon Prime, not all of them are,...
My son James keeps asking me about the different jobs I’ve done over my working life and I thought I would write a post about my time at Kerry Ultrasonics to act as a memory jogger, and to give him a fuller history he can refer to. Both looking back with the benefit of hindsight and to be honest at the time, I found my time at Kerry Ultrasonics to be the most miserable year of my working life. There...
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