w/e 2026-09-06

I’m on the train home after another weekend in Essex sorting out the parental house and I nearly forgot to write this. We have now just about finished looking through everything and now, thanks to my much-more-diligent-than-me sister, we have dozens of folders of categorised papers of mostly old Labour Party related material, at least some of which we hope to find homes for. We’ll see. I’m pretty over this whole thing now and even though we’ve cleared this huge hurdle it feels like a never ending task. I’m so ready to move on. Even so it was, as ever, hard to leave the place. § This week’s NTS Early Bird Show with Spirit Blue was unusually guitarry and unusually good, ideal for a gentle start or a quiet evening. § Before I went to Essex, during a couple of dry days, I finished the final patch of scything. This year, spread leisurely over a couple of months, I’ve scythed 946m2, taking around 13 hours, plus another 5 hours of clearing the cut grass. § Having played with Home Assistant…