After all the effort I have taken over the last four years trying not to catch Covid-19, it finally caught up with me this month. Luckily, having had about 8 vaccine boosters over the years, and it being long enough since the first appearance of the virus, it seems to have been a strain I…
Recently I have been waking up, wanting to go for a run, only to remember I can’t, and that I never really ran anyway. I mean, I was fast over the 100-metre dash at high school (long legs), but I never had any stamina for long distance running, and I always hated the cross-country running…
This year, we were again planning to venture to the incredible Portmeirion Steampunk event, and we made a lot of preparations to do so. We prepared outfits, racing teapots, and hats. Sadly, due to both the weather and my health on the day, we were unable to go. I did, however, complete a rather rushed,…
Those who have known me for a decent amount of time, will likely know of my love of Geocaching. It’s a worldwide treasure hunt for caches (boxes) hidden around the world, that you can use clues (and/or GPS if the clues are terrible), to track down hidden messages, information, and history about a locale. Sometimes,…
This is my newest racing teapot, which will hopefully first be raced in 2024 at the Portmeirion Steampunk event. This is the third year we have recreationally built racing teapots for the Portmeirion event. The first year, we made a rather large single racing teapot, which was just a bit too cumbersome for the course….
So, sometime many months ago, we purchased a Tamiya Lunchbox. It’s primarily for Jacob, because he’s ‘not so much’ into the flying, robotics or teapot racing, as we are. I wanted him to have something fun, fast and durable to mess about with in remote parts of North Wales. The Tamiya Lunchbox is an RC…
It was Beachlab in Aberystwyth again recently, and we were extremely pleased to be invited back to show our robotics offerings among some really incredible roboticists. We first attended Beachlab:relocated in 2021 under a very strict, ticketed control system, because of Covid-19 (and rightly so). We were then invited back for 2022, but we could…
Not very long ago, I wrote a couple of long entries on this website talking about my mental health (HERE), and (HERE). I wrote about how I had lost a lot of independence and resilience, due to the ever-increasing descent into the void that is being ill. How needing to use a wheelchair in such…
Firstly all of the major bolts are made of chocolate it seems, and they melted as soon as I threatened them with an Allen Key. I struggled for ages with stud removers, but I eventually resorted to drilling out the one super stubborn bolt in question and I managed to remove the servo.
It seems recently that I spend most of my time writing about my health, and today is no different. This sort of stuff can be a regular occurance, but I never really talk about it. I’m often trying to maintain the pretence that I’m just getting on with life like everyone else, when in fact,…