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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 12/10/2026

Cooked a perfect pair of poached eggs for lunch

Two perfectly poached eggs, each on a toasted muffin

They’re on a large round white plate which is on a rectangular dark slate mat on a wooden table

Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 11/10/2026

Apple claims that Managed WiFi networks associated with a SIM get removed when that SIM is removed but my phone still has networks for O2, Three and Vodafone and I can’t remove the old ones…

Screenshots from iOS WiFi settings showing networks from O2, Three and Vodafone

None of them can be removed as they’re managed

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 06/10/2026

“Please can you resend the form circling your answers and it’s unclear whether you’ve answered yes or no” Why would anyone ever want a pension with these people (I didn’t pick them they came via employment)

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 11/09/2026

Guy who runs our favourite restaurant in Skiathos can speak 16 or so languages pretty fluently… we joke he was a spy in a former life… We’re staying in his daughter’s apartment… don’t think I’ve seen so many bolts and hinge bolts on a door before

Hinge side of a front door with many hing bolts in place

Opening side of a door with two locking bolts at the bottom, four in the middle and two at the top

The door is surrounded by a steel frame

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 11/09/2026

When in Greece… make Greek coffee…

Briki (Greek coffee pot) sat on a modern hid with the bottom right ring glowing read hot

Inside the briki is a a mixture of find ground coffee and water bubbling away

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 07/09/2026

This view never get’s old… Skopelos Town, Greece

Skopelos town…

In the foreground, there’s the cool clear waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Behind there’s a hill sloping left to right covered in Greek houses with the harbour in front of them.

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 19/08/2026

@orangetronic.bsky.social Browsing through photo’s on Dyski, come across this one and immediately think “Ah, yes, that’s David’s” freight.cargo.site/t/original/i...

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 07/08/2026

Nestled between the door for 11312 and 11314 is the door for 11312 1/2

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 06/08/2026

@johnwards.bsky.social Saw this an thought of you… No idea what it is though!

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 26/07/2026

Leaving notes for whoever is next to take down these kitchen cupboards

Magnolia wall with a an electrical back box

There’s some wires that have been snipped off inside the box and NOT LIVE written on the wall underneath it

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 10/07/2026

TIL that Vercel games TTFB by sending a useless Early Hint Early Hints are designed to send hints that allow the browser to preconnect to domains or preload other resources while it's waiting for the HTML payload to be delivered

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 02/07/2026

Maybe the maddest restaurant in the world?

Man diving off a waterfall inside Casa Bonita

Pool at the bottom of the waterfall with a fake cliff behind it

Outside Casa Bonita — a gaudy pink bell tower lit it pink with rows of white lights along the tower windows

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 29/06/2026

Wish I didn’t have an eye for noticing things like this Now I’ve seen the misaligned panel I can’t unsee it

Wall made of light coloured wooden tiles with one tile slightly misaligned

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 15/06/2026

Unexpected things you find hiding behind your front door… No idea where it came from (live 1/2 mile from the canal) and no sign of any parents

Small dark coloured ducking say on a grey brown concrete floor

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 08/06/2026

Know we’re running short on clean mugs when the Underscore Christmas Party mug comes out Underscore was (still is?) an email list for webby people around Bristol… many years ago some folks (can’t remember who) decided to organise a Christmas Party so we could get together IRL

White mug on a black background

The mug has an underscore within square brackets wearing a traditional Santa’s hat

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 18/04/2026

@johnwards.bsky.social Saw this in Fuerteventura earlier in the week… and thought you’d like it

White Renault 5 GT Turbo under the shade of an abandoned petrol station

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 15/04/2026

Noodling away by the pool… making plenty of nice tunes but buggered if I can get the arpeggiator to work on this thing though

Small Roland music synthesiser sat on a blue and green beach towel

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 06/04/2026

How it started… how it finished… Spent the morning ironing the contents of our laundry basket… Needed some short sleeve shirts to go on holiday and they’ve been in there since we went on holiday last Sept!

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 04/04/2026

Helped @ninjanails.bsky.social acquire her next door neighbour’s greenhouse It wouldn’t go down the side of the house without coming apart and we didn’t fancy taking it apart so over the fence it went

Greenhouse frame balanced on top of a tall blue fence. A young woman in a red top and black leggings is supporting to to make sure it doesn’t fall off

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 25/03/2026

Definitely not running on gas… Right now 21% of the UK’s electricity is coming solar, 60% from wind, 11% from nuclear and 3% from gas

Chart from grid.iamkate.com showing the current breakdown of electricity generation sources in the UK

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 09/03/2026

When life gives you carrots make carrotaide! Making carrot and corriander soup as @ninjanails.bsky.social came to visit and gave me some carrots from her allotment

Black slow cooker pot with sliced orange carrots, green fresh coriander and stock bubbling away in it

Unpeeled orange carrots is a clear plastic box on a dark black worktop

The green leaves on top of the carrots have been trimmed off

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 03/03/2026

Noticed this ages ago but now can’t unsee it… Numerals on the Technogym machines at my local gym have inconsistent heights

Photo of the heart rate section of a gym machine display showing ‘HR BPM 140’

The zero in 140 is taller than the one and the four

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 24/02/2026

Gotta love OpenReach… of all the days they choose to close our lane for work they chose bin day

View of a county lane with a road closed sign half way up it

On the left of the rear of the bin lorry as it turns around, behind the bin lorry are two men in high visibility clothing

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 02/02/2026

WTAF… do National Savings and Investments not know how browsers work?

Screenshot of National Savings and Investment website after being force logged out as I pressed the back button in the browser

Text says…

We’re sorry we had to clear your session

For security reasons, we had to end your session because you used the back button in your browser. Please try again and only use the buttons, links and menus on our secure website.

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 25/01/2026

Didn’t realise you can just peel the back off a modern debit card Mag strips, signature strip and numbers are all on a thin film that comes off in one piece

Back of greeny blue coloured debit card

There’s some writing around the edge but the film with most on the print has been peeled off

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 15/01/2026

Thursday lunchtime experiment… will lactase allow me to eat cheese on toast again? @ninjanails.bsky.social bought me some lactase and cheese for Christmas (unfortunately I left the cheese in her fridge so had to buy more)

White plate with a slice of cheese (Double Gloucesterh on toast on top

Next to the plate is a small pot of lactase tablets

Bothe the tablets and the plate are on a dark grey worktop

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 11/01/2026

AI summaries… so confident and yet so wrong… Bristol Bears beat the Bulls 61-49!

Text says “ The match between the Bulls and Bristol Bears in the Champions Cup has been a thrilling encounter. The Bulls, fielded with ten Springboks, faced the Bristol Bears, who had a full house of points in the Champions Cup. The game featured a series of tries, with key contributions from players like Mpilo Gumede, Handre Pollard, and Sebastian de Klerk. The Bulls managed to secure a victory in a remarkable 16-try shootout, securing their place in the knockout phase of the Champions Cup. The match showcased the Bulls' resilience and the Bears' aggressive playing style, making it a memorable game in the tournament's history.”

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 10/01/2026

I’ll have a deeper look later but rendering seems quite broken on my iPad Mini (iOS 18.6.2) Rendering gets delayed when scrolling… if I enable my content blocker then often those chunks never get rendered at all

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 30/12/2025

Those nice folks at RUMVision sent me a tree to hang on my tree!

Slate grey Christmas tree shaped ornament with RUM Vision engraved on it

The tree is on top of a gold coloured, metallic shiny Jiffy bag

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 19/12/2025

O… Y… O… Y… O… Y… DevTools… (Notice there's no option to say go away and don't darken my door again)

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 08/12/2025

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 04/12/2025

Thanks for the postcard… glad you’re having a fab time

Postcard with a drawing of a stylised Thai elephant on it

Writing on the card says Chang Mai, Thailand

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 20/11/2025

Was sorting through some boxes and found old media… Following what was happening with Thrust SSC is one of the first things I remember using the internet for

On the left is a VHS tape about Thrust SSC breaking the land speed record, a 3.5” floppy disk with MSDOS 6.2 on and a 100mb Zip disk

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 18/11/2025

I'm not a visual designer but there's somethings that even I can't un-see

Screen shot from Paypal with action buttons of Send/Request, Donate, Fundraisers, Pool money & More

Send/Request is wrapped onto a new line in the middle of Request and Fundraisers has an orphaned s on a new line too

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 05/11/2025

It's funny to see @dalevince.com wingeing about the cost of the dual carriageway that's needed for Forest Green Rovers new ground as if it's something new stroudtimes.com/road-woes-st... The proposal he originally submitted in 2016 clearly showed they were proposing to dual the A419

Road plan from Ecotricity's 2016 planning application to build a football stadium on green fields

Plan shows the conversion of the A419 from single to dual carriageway to meet the stadium's traffic flows

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 01/11/2025

We need more trains like this… Currently on the way back from Amsterdam but why can’t I do Gloucester to Glasgow at this speed?

Train display saying we’re currently doing 268 kph

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 28/10/2025

On my way to Amsterdam for #PerfNow First train of the day is the somewhat delayed 07.19 under a very clear Stonehouse sky

Photo of Stonehouse station with a clear blue sky and a fairly empty platform

Green fields of the Gloucestershire countryside with clear blue skies overhead

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 24/10/2025

There are many places I’d park around here but on the corner of a blind bend isn’t one of them In the 20yrs we’ve lived here at least two cars have hit the fence from driving too fast Though because he’s just about visible from both sides people are being extra cautious

Silver car parked against the inside corner of a blind bend

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 17/10/2025

Looks like this bumble bee has had a successful summer

Large bumblebee on a large yellow dahlia flower

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 11/10/2025

A perfectly good phone … abandoned by Google

Screenshot of Android update setting on Pixel 4a showing it’s running Android 13 and the last security update was in August 2023

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 04/10/2025

20yrs ago today got a call from Mrs D to say they were going to let her out of hospital… by the time I got there it had become a case of we need to deliver this baby (at 33 weeks) He's changed a bit in those 20yrs (he’s on the right) Forever grateful for the care we got from GRH

Small baby about one week old, but still six weeks before due data. Baby is being cradled in parents arms and has a nasal gastric feeding tube plus arm splint for IV line

Two men standing on the side pf a rugby pitch in blue and white striped kit (it’s covered in mud)

Jon is on the right and it slightly smaller than the man on the left who has a beard (and is our next door neighbour)

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 03/10/2025

Went to the land of @bell.bz to see Stroud muller Cheltenham North It was very wet and windy…

Photo of a green rugby pitch with rain lashing down. There are two floodlights on the far side of the pitch and some people standing with their backs to the camera on the near side

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 29/09/2025

Think not… This is YouTube on an iPad in Landscape with AirPlane mode on… spot the un-needed ellipses…

Screenshot of YouTube in landscape and airplane mode on iPad…

Despite the huge amount of screen space “See your downloads” it truncated to “See you…nloads” and “Tap to Retry” truncated to “Tap…retry”

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