She swallowed the cat to catch the bird. The fly had left some time ago. The cat was totally redundant.
I won’t claim it was the most popular post I’ve ever written, but a while ago I kinda vented a few frustrations around my attempts to realise an idea I had, whereby I could post content to an Instagram feed, and scrape that to push the content into WordPress to display on a timeline. The…
Ew.
I’ve always held a fairly cavalier attitude to how long you can keep stuff safely in a domestic freezer. My formative years were influence heavily by the Master of long-term cold storage, my mother. In addition to her mostly-beige-powders spice rack which was stocked some time in 1965, and a comically museum-like pantry cupboard (in…
“Yes. Of course they did.”
Our washing machine packed up on Friday. In fact, it’s just something jammed in the drainage pump (we think), however to get to it you’ve got to basically take the whole thing apart – and based on recent repairs to the dishwasher we reckon that’s gonna be at least £100 for parts & labour. The…
404. Ho ho ho!
We’ve lived here about 7 years now. In that time we’ve pretty well totally redecorated (and in some cases remodelled) the house. The only reminders of the previous occupants are a couple of trees in the garden, the paint job inside the garage, and the Christmas card that now appears every year, addressed to them….
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
There you are, thinking “Well, I’ve been posting data on an Instagram feed – might be nice to organise and visualise it a bit differently?”. No problem – surely there are various ways to query Insta based on hashtags? Oh. [i]You CAN search Insta for a hashtag, but it only shows you ALL posts with…
