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Checked in at Dingwall Leisure Centre (Sports centre) — Dingwall, Scotland

Checked in at Dingwall Auction Mart — Dingwall, Scotland

Checked in at Hector MacDonald Monument — Dingwall, Scotland

I'm in Dingwall so figured that I'd join HighLife and can get in the pool every day, while being excited about seeing the Stages at the weekend. £30pm for as much swim and gym as you can fit in across 25 leisure centres in the Highlands is phenomenal value.

It's a fairly safe bet that I won't be buying our third shirt this season. I think that is potentially worse than the football itself.

I’m pretty sure that lineup came out of a tombola. This could be interesting.

Back at the Wham Stadium, avoiding an awful transfer window close out by watching Stanley take on Grimsby Town.

Spotted some commentary on the https://slashfriends.org project in my feed reader. Nice site, but not sure the concept differs from blogrolls. A /friends page is where you link to the people you like. Remember blogrolls? And the MySpace Top 8? I want to bring that back. Linking out is generous. It's a free gift that sends traffic, boosts SEO, and says "I like this person."

On route to Carrot Road where Burnley play Norwich City this afternoon. A long journey and mixed start to the season means that there is plenty of room on the coach today - much needed as I have some work to do en route.

Waiting for Pulp at Live in Wythenshawe Park tonight.

Work Is depressing, I don't really want to write too much. Still have far too much to do, far too little time to do it in, and cannot get on with delivering my strategic objectives while being drawn increasingly into the weeds - despite being instructed to get out of them. With what? Projects I've been working with Claude adding polish to a few personal projects that I've built. Very much taking inspiration from Kev's Pure Blog project, all of these projects are designed to be very fast and…

My second ever week note, and holding onto that weekly cadence so far. Hold on for a week of mediocrity and misery, front-ended by a fantastic 10km run. Work Probably the least said about work this week the better. I was hoping to launch a transformation project next week which I have pushed back to mid September as a result of current workload and resource. It is a bit catch 22, as launching this piece of software will reduce my workload dramatically - but I need to be able to configure it…

On my way through Bank Hall for Burnley’s first game of the season at home to Notts County in the League Cup.

I first decided that it would be useful to have my own website at the beginning of 2004 when I started heading out into the mountains with West Bromwich Mountaineering Club. I wrote my first post about a walk in the snow up Raise, near Helvellyn, from Patterdale in the Lake District in February of that year. I can still remember the small of the sausages cooking in the Helvellyn YHA as we walked past that morning. You can still read my very first entry on this site right here. I spent the next…

I thought that I would kick off my Blaugust 2026 with my first ever week note. I'll try to get into a weekly cadence of these as a sort of retrospective. Work I won't ever be able to talk too much about what I'm working on - though I am working on a project that I'm hoping to launch in just over a week. That's important as it will decrease my workload significantly, selfishly I designed it for that reason. It is very needed as I've been working far too many hours, with the line between work and…