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Computers. Trail Running. Dachshunds. Gardening

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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 03/10/2026
ACNH crew, set your alarms
The game Animal Crossing: New Horizons featured a special item called Double Gloucester cheese, available only from 22 to 31 May, coinciding with the traditional period of the cheese rolling event.
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 29/09/2026
Stayed in a fancy shed, Biscuit approved
A wooden panelled shed made into a tiny house with a pointy roof, surrounded by grass with sunrise mist in the backgroundImagine a dog that's like a golden retriever but the size of a rabbit and you've just told it a really great joke so he's really happy and totally giving you eyes that say "great joke dude". He's sitting on a sandy beach with a grassy hill in the distance
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 19/09/2026
Ran my first 50 miles, saw George Michael's (former) house, big day all round
A map showing an 80.71km route through Berkshire and Oxfordshire, with 1643m of elevation, taking 11 hours and 6 minutes.
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 13/09/2026
It took 14 months but I finally found the last one. Touché, brother-in-law
8 purple plastic 3D printed dachshunds lined up on a table that are no longer secretly.hidden around my house
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 06/09/2026
No like really
Naak is made of bugs
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 22/08/2026
Got out early for a long run along the Pembrokeshire Coast Path. It is really quite something
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 06/08/2026
Pretty cute though
Two cows standing on a slope, with woodland behind them and a town in the distance
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 06/08/2026
There's around a dozen cows in our garden. Fairly normal countryside procedure except we live on what is essentially a cliff and they are likely stuck. Spot the cow
A steep garden with a cow
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 23/07/2026
The ‘just want her back’ meme guy with the text ‘Feel like pure shit, just want Fireworks back’. This image would have been much more fun to make with Fireworks
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 21/07/2026
He's overdone it, get him in the ambient hutch
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 12/06/2026
Quite a lot of cow negotiation on this morning's run, including this belty who was busy reading a Laurie Lee poem in front of the gate I needed to go through
A large black and white belty cow stands in front of a gate next to a post with a Laurie Lee poem inscription
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 09/06/2026
No lies detected. I am a temple of thought where color, science, and cosmology converge. graduate.rice.edu/news/current...
A text screenshot which reads "At first glance, the inside of Duncan Hall may look like a temple transforming you to another world"
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 06/06/2026
A wooden sculpture of two hands shaking, representing the point where the thames & severn canal meets the stroudwater navigation
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 29/05/2026
Four years. Amazing what grows if you just hit everything with a crowbar.
Remnants of an ancient chicken shed, having been slain with a crowbar, lying in a patch of dirtA lawn bordered by wild oxide daisies on one side, with delphiniums and various other perennials on the other
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 26/05/2026
Get an e-bike so you can ride over the hills to the next village and do The Weird Machine Pilates and then ride home with this view
Sunset over Nailsworth valley
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 16/05/2026
Finished reading the Lord of the Rings books yesterday for the first time. This Tolkein guy is quite good it turns out, keep an eye on that name. Ran to one of the highest points in Gloucestershire this morning, extremely middle earth vibes.
Painswick Beacon - a stone pillar on top of a grassy hill, overlooking woodlands with more hills in the distance
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 03/05/2026
Gwennifer Raymond plays harder than you
Gwennifer Raymond playing guitar in Sat Laurence Church, Stroud
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 02/05/2026
LLM coach is definitely not always happy with me even when I feel like I had a good session
LLM running feedback indicating a mixed repsonse
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 02/05/2026
I've also been building myself an LLM coach. They seemed happy today.
LLM generated run feedback
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 02/05/2026
Slowly building back running distance means I get to see places I haven't been to for almost 2 years. Been looking forward to doing this route again for a long time
Selsley common, a chalk path winding up a grassy hillWoodchester valley, wild garlic under tree canopy Woodchester lake, a long dead tree sticks out into the waterWoodchester valley, tall pine trees surrounding a clearing
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 01/05/2026
The only day of the year I look forward to getting up at 4:30am. Walk up the hill, find the 8ft suave pig and the fiddle player; a wee pagan jig until the sun comes up, oh look the pub is open.
Morris dancers morris prancing around Jackie while a sheep plays the fiddleA very tall and suave pig with a resemblance to Mick Jagger, dancing against an orange sunrise A surprisingly large number of strangers on a hill at sunrise A Cotswold stone pub in the morning sun, serving pints, sandwiches and pagan sing songs at 6am
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 29/04/2026
A sad wet dachshund in a bath
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 10/04/2026
First wild orchid of the year
An early purple orchid on a hillside
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 08/04/2026
The absolute state of this
A weather forecast for Stroud. The sun is never leaving
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 01/04/2026
@monkchips.com as per your suggestion/stern request, I have paid real money to replace the Portland copy. Looking forward to it
A copy of the book Progressive Delivery- build the right thing, for the right people, at the right time
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 20/03/2026
It's nice when the tech conference is actually a people conference
Heidi Waterhouse and Kim Harrison presenting "Resilience in Community, lessons from occupied Minneapolis and rural Oaxaca"Adam Zimman reminding us to listen to our children Matt LeMay buys second hand suits and makes them look good Handsom Rob having a birthday
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 15/03/2026
Picking up a side project I have been building on-and-off for 12 years. Looking at the commit history, it's always this time of year when I decide to delve into it again. I even appear to have made the *exact* same commit almost precisely 3 years apart. Definitely going to finish it this time eh?
A screenshot of git commits. On the 17th of March 2023 I committed "Update IP". On the 15th March 2026 I committed "update Ip"
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 14/02/2026
Have you ever been threatened by a pudding menu?
A large cleaver is fixed permanently into a board with the word "Puddings" on it. The cleaver face is a menu with items written on it, including "banoffee".
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 29/01/2026
Science mountain, painted church, wooden bums, cosmic pig
Mauna Kea observatory above the clouds, mad telescopes on a mountainA small wooden church, ceiling painted in muted tropical colours with a faux vaulted ceiling above the altar. Painted in 1899 with lead paint and never needed a touch-up Suns out bums out, at the place of refuge Pig is high af
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 27/01/2026
SMOOT
A green gecko with vibrant blue eyes and orange face stripes on the side of a bin with a big label that says SMOOT
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 13/01/2026
Tops off bbqs out it's happening
A purple crocus emerges from some soggy grass, indicating summer is just days away
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 13/01/2026
One of my favourite gigs from last year was watching a local duo dressed as sweetcorn playing bangers with a recorder and a lot of vocal loops. They've got various tour dates this year, you should go and see them. mermaidchunky.bandcamp.com/album/slif-s...
A giant sweetcorn playing a recorderA very pinkly lit room with a group of people in a circle around 2 giant sweetcorns playing bangers
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 10/01/2026
Went for a walk based purely on the novelty pub name, did not disappoint
A tiny horse in a field, viewed through a hedgeA tiny dog in a tiny dog tunnel underneath a stone stileA giant redwood tree in front of a fancy houseA sign for The Cat & Custard Pot pub. The cat is in the custard pot.
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 09/01/2026
I've had this bottle for nearly 10 years. I've carried it on international trips (and back again because sometimes you shouldn't drink everything). I've had it longer than my dog and my mortgage and it's somehow still drinkable and even a bit of Woodford reserve still going.
A very dusty bottle with a handmade label of mostly illegible text, with just about discernable letters reading "Vanilla Bourbon Dream 2013"
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 29/12/2025
- Lovely illustration ✔️ - Personal connection to the image ✔️ - Shipped across the seas by the in-laws ✔️ - FIVE FUCKING PIECES MISSING ✔️
A jigsaw, 90s illustrative style, ostensibly of the Seattle skyline and surrounding mountains and shorelines. Impossible to tell, because it is riddled with holes
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 28/12/2025
Made Nigellas No-bake Advocaat & gingerbread cake. Mix double cream, mascarpone, icing sugar, custard powder & Advocaat into a single raw material. Hoof in figs, macadamia & crystallized ginger, then layer it between packs of cake from the shop like a gout lasagna & leave in the fridge for 24 hours
A creamy cake from above with chocolate flakes A multilayered cake of cream and gingerbreadIf they were going to remake the film 7even but with less weird spelling but it was still somehow called 1ne and the serial killer only cared about 1 of the sins and it was gluttony and somehow they got Aronofsky to direct and it was 380 minutes of a single shot, this would be it.

Multilayered cream and gingerbread cake
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 25/12/2025
Absurd. Deep into the many layered day of gout, a 6th purple dachshund has been found in the camembert dish
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 25/12/2025
Just one more thing...
If you dropped a chicken nugget down the back of the sofa and it stayed there for 6 years and you discovered it again on christmas day and for some reason forced it into a tiny striped sweater that it hated because it's now become sentient and adopted the mannerisms of a sort of dog, or more likely a vaguely obedient rabbit, but it's now demanding gifts because it is the season so you offer it a small sausage and it refuses to eat it for fear of jeopardising his audition as Peter Falk in the new upcoming biopic. 

A floofy sausage dog in a jumper with a sausage in his mouth
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 05/12/2025
Pleased to announce Yamaha have sampled my internal organs and I'm now available on your favourite keyboard
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 31/10/2025
I think I legitimately had nightmares about this one
A screenshot from Doom Inferno, showing a rabbit head on a spike, in front of a burning building
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 30/10/2025
Signing up for the neighbourhood kids trick-or-treat route as an excuse to pumpkin, which is itself an excuse to avoid computers at all costs
A carved pumpkin on a tableA carved pumpkin on a table
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 28/10/2025
Unreasonably excited about new incense day. Fully ready for this to be my middle-aged golf/candles/minions phase but it's just incense.
Three boxes of incense next to a burning stick in a holder, with the suggestion of a a DIY zither nearby
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 24/10/2025
A local arts collective bought a train shed that Brunel built so you can go and sit on a nice sofa on a school night and watch a bunch of lads doing improv electro jazz and it's really quite good.
Musicians and vocalists standing in a circle in a big shed for trains, with red lighting
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 20/10/2025
The kid from Jumanji turning into a monkey, as seen on cybercars
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 18/10/2025
Biscuit left the gourd harvesting too late and several of the edible contenders have been relegated to the decorative league.
A longhaired dachshund looks over a selection of squash and pumpkin, having just been told he's been fired as head gardener
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 29/09/2025
Baggy Point, Treehouse, Stone Bridge, Watersmeet
The long silhouette of Baggy Point sticks out into blue water A treehouse balcony at sunsetA curved stone bridge in a deep valleyFast moving water in a tree lined valley
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 21/09/2025
A fourth purple dachshund has been found. I'm now not even sure it's not me doing it at this point.
A 3d printed purple plastic dachshund and an orange porcelain dachshund bond over a tiny porcelain pumpkin
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 21/09/2025
Not content with the confines of our own garden I have been let loose with a mattock on the footpaths of Stroud
An overgrown path the needs clearing - with a wheelbarrow full of tools
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 24/08/2025
A few weeks ago we found a purple dachshund hanging out in the succulents. A few days later we found another one in a wall outside. Yesterday we found one in the Monstera. We don't know where they're coming from. Some of you are suspected. Trust no one.
3 purple 3D printed sausage dogs standing on a tableA plastic dachshund amongst succulents in potsA small plastic dachshund among the roots and branches of a monsteraA small purple dachshund head poking out of a wall
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_duncanhall @duncanhall.net · 22/08/2025
We made obscenely good fig jam
Figs boiling in a pan with more figs being cut upUpside-down jars full of hot figs Jars of labelled fig jam Fig jam on goats cheese on toast, looking like the best savoury scone ever
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