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Colin Stenning

@colinstenning.bsky.social
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Director at Digital Health Check Localgov website researcher Historian / Allotmenteer / Tea drinker www.digitalhealthcheck.co.uk

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Mark Conroy @mark.ie · 23/08/2025
In my "Build a LocalGov Drupal Website" course, I'll show you some of LGD's lesser known features, but also how to enhance them. For example, adding comments to blog posts. Want to get these and more tips? Sign up for the updates here: the-confident.com/courses/buil... #drupal
Blog page design for "Build a LocalGov Drupal Website" course by Mark Conroy.
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The early bird always catches the worm Ann! I am sorry to admit that I positively enjoy being woken by the dawn chorus and at present by sheep and lambs bleating in the fields around the house.
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
We had to get the National Grid to temporarily switch off the electricity in the local area to allow a tree surgeon to prune this lovely old wild pear. It has a wild rose growing through it, so it should look even better when this flowers.
Wild pear
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
The new neighbours are noisy but very cute.
Lambs
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
You know when you are living in the country when a pheasant rocks up in your garden.
Female pheasant
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Wishing a happy Burns Night to all my friends around the world celebrating the immortal bard #BurnsNight
Cat wearing a tartan scarf and hat
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I was impressed yesterday to see council Highways staff systematically marking up potholes for filling in the streets around where I live. Even the more remote lanes were being covered. Great news as there is no way to avoid potholes on these narrow routes across the countryside. #potholes
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
We take our cats on holiday every year and to stay with friends. They love the journey and visiting new places. They prefer being in an open cage so they can see out of the car windows.
Travelling cats
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Should have gone to Specsavers...
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I have also been a #Numan fan since 1979. I never expected he would continue to make music for so long, but he has and not relied on playing old hits like so many groups of that era.
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
🦊🦊🦊
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Exciting news Neil, I hope you will also be forming a tribute band soon... I have just boxed up all my LPs ready for our move, including one extra large box for Numan related music. I hope it all arrives in one piece.
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Every day is Gary Numan as far as I am concerned...
media.tenor.com
a man in a red leather jacket is singing into a microphone in a black and white photo .
Alt: a man in a red leather jacket is singing into a microphone in a black and white photo.
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Why is moving house such a crap experience? It is time to change the process and find a better way to do it. We found a buyer 3 days after putting it on the market, but it has taken 6 months to complete. It is soul destroying and kills the excitement of finding a new place to live.
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I am thrilled to see that my research on council chatbots has been used in this article by EBI.AI. I work with councils to help improve the performance of their digital resources and recently reviewed their use of chatbots in local government. ebi.ai/blog/local-g...
ebi.ai
How local government AI cuts costs & speeds up service
Find out how Coventry City, Watford, London + South Cambs councils are using AI for to route calls efficiently and provide customers with a 24-hour service
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Finally got round to leaving Twitter, X or whatever else it calls itself. Bye bye Elon...
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
I recently unearthed my cassette collection in the loft whilst preparing to move. They were last listened to twenty seven or more years ago. Amazingly they still all play, but not on my old Sony Walkman as they both have sadly given up working.
Cassettes
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
I don't go to many live concerts now, but I can recommend the Peatbog Faeries who I have seen this year at Carnglaze Caverns in Cornwall and Ropetackle Arts Centre, Shoreham-by-sea.
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Thanks Tom! Excellent service and good to see a bot with a friendly face.
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Hi Tom, when will my bin be emptied?
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
A morning at the allotment has helped to de-stress me after a week of dealing with issues around moving house. Hopefully this time next year we will have our own large veg patch in the garden of the new property. I will miss the allotment though - it is a haven of tranquility.
Borlotti beans.
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
Here are 2 from me ... Bluesky certainly needs more cat photos!
Bella and Meg
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
Great evening at Button House, otherwise known as West Horsley Place, the filming venue for the BBC series Ghosts. A tour of the house with storytelling and music. #Ghosts
BearLibraryWest Horsley Place
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
Get well soon Will.
Bella cat
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
I reviewed council website page not found errors - digitalhealthcheck.co.uk/2024/01/coun...
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
Just love this sign... but I bet people still ignore it!
Sign
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Went to see the local flooding in Cobham. I was amused to see how many cars raced through it totally submerging cars coming the other way. Really selfish and stupid!
Cars on a flooded road.
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Check out my blog post on chatbots on council websites in UK and Ireland - digitalhealthcheck.co.uk/2023/10/webc... #chatbots #localgov
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Looking forward to our next road trip with the cats, this time in sunny Devon! Bella and Meg are seasoned travellers and have visited Cornwall, Cumbria, Pembrokeshire, Herefordshire and Sussex on numerous occasions. Who else takes their cats on holiday? #cats #travellingcats
Cats in a car
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
LinkedIn and Instagram are my personal favourites. Gave Threads a go but it was a waste of effort. Trying to avoid X.
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Check out my research into content management systems used by local authorities in UK and Ireland: digitalhealthcheck.co.uk/2023/10/cont...
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Colin Stenning @colinstenning.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Drupal 9 is end of life... Time to upgrade to Drupal 10!
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