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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 08/10/2026

Notes and links from 7 Oct: notes.peteashton.com/2026/10/08/not… Yesterday I popped to the allotment with my sister for a bit. Had fun getting the scooter to go up the muddy hill — it’s really not an off-road vehicle, but it made it. Was a nice sunny afternoon af...

An orange flower is being held by a human hand in the air. Below you can see the shadow of the human on the ground.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 06/10/2026

Notes and links from 6 Oct: notes.peteashton.com/2026/10/06/not… The weather this last few days has been notable. It’s not been hot exactly but it certainly hasn’t been October-typical. I did put a thick jumper on the other day but then today I was in a t-shirt. ...

Photo of the sky with some tree branches at the bottom. The sky is full of little fluffy clouds which are distributed in what looks like an arc or fan.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 05/10/2026

Notes from 4 Oct: notes.peteashton.com/2026/10/05/not… I didn’t really feel like blogging yesterday, so I didn’t. Not much caught my eye in the feeds and I didn’t do much of note (although I did briefly pop out on the scooter) so when it came to the end of the day and my t...

A shot of a lawn with a fence. There’s a round metal frame in the photo and a small wooden structure (the hedgehog cafe).

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 03/10/2026

Notes and links from 3 Oct: notes.peteashton.com/2026/10/03/not… Went to visit my sister briefly today on the scooter, thus normalising the whole “going out on the scooter” thing, and when I returned Fiona informed me that Lav had been furiously digging out Wally...

A rabbit is in a shallow hole in the ground. It is pushing earth out of the hole towards a large amount of soil spread across the lawn.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 02/10/2026

Notes and links from 2 Oct: notes.peteashton.com/2026/10/02/not… A fairly nondescript day. Pottered around a bit and didn’t accidentally start a project, so that’s good. Conserving energy and resting properly. Bit bored though. Trying not to get wound up about th...

Photograph of a clear blue sky with one thin cloud smeared across the top. At the bottom some tree branches are reaching up.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 01/10/2026

Notes and links from 1 Oct: notes.peteashton.com/2026/10/01/not… My local park on October 1st One of my goals as set by the CFS occupational therapist is to go to a social space once a week. I’ve picked The Cloak and Dagger on Stirchley High Street as somewhere ...

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 30/09/2026

Notes and links from 30 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/30/not… A quiet day, although I did finally receive a couple of widgets I’d accidentally ordered from China on eBay (hate it when that happens, not so much for the shipping time as for the wrongness feel...

The metal lid of a garden waste incinerator is splattered with raindrops at the start of a shower.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 29/09/2026

Notes and links from 29 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/29/not… Psychotherapy day today, alongside a need to rest, so mostly pottering in the garden. Sister came over to borrow something from the shed so we had a brief catch-up. I mentioned my therapy had mov...

A black and white rabbit is facing away from us, squeezed between a wooden post and a plank with other detritus around. Around its tail is loose earth it has just dug up.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 28/09/2026

Notes and links from 28 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/28/not… Nothing much to report today. Bit of a fuzzy head so a rest day, all in all. Not overly happy with my link-notes below. Can’t seem to get the phrasing right, but also my judgement might be off an...

A red ladybug with black spots is walking away from the camera along the top of a wooden fence.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 27/09/2026

Notes and links from 27 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/27/not… So yeah, it’s been a week since I last posted. I had a major chronic fatigue crash on the 19th, the likes of which I haven’t experienced for a long time, maybe since Christmas? It wasn’t nice and...

Two rabbits are munching on a sprig of grass growing between bricks, though they look a little concerned about the human who has bent down to take the photo. A watering can is on the right and a bin is behind.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 18/09/2026

Notes and links from 18 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/18/not… Didn’t sleep too well, pretty tired today. This has definitely been a recovery week. What ME/CFS is, and how it’s wrecking me

A ginger and white rabbit in front of a fence and a bin.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 17/09/2026

Notes and links from 17 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/17/not… More pottering today, thought I appear to have accidentally gestated a couple of plans so I guess my brain is over the fatigue? The first is to extend the water harvesting to the shed roof and pi...

Overhead view of a lawn with two rabbits munching grass on it. There’s a fenced off area at the front where the grass is longer. Scattered around are various short tunnel-type structures for the rabbits to run through.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 16/09/2026

Notes and links from 16 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/16/not… Rest day, mostly pottering in the garden and making the finishing tweaks to the rabbit run water harvesting system. I’m happy that it’s now good enough to run through the winter and save up enoug...

A black and white rabbit with upright ears is leaning towards the camera so its nose is slightly out of focus. In the background is a lawn and garden stuff.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 15/09/2026

Notes and links from 15 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/15/not… Ideally this would have been a rest day but Tuesday is psychotherapy day so no rest just yet. The session went well but afterwards it was clear my battery was exhausted and I got a bit stress tri...

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 14/09/2026

Notes and links from 14 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/14/not… Rest day, and much needed. Lots of sleeping, not much doing.

A stack of random things against a fence. The main focus is a small oddly shaped wooden panel resting on a folding metal workbench. Next to it is a roll of chicken wire and below a ducting tube.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 13/09/2026

Notes and links from 13 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/13/not… Today was the Birmingham Honey Show at Winterbourne Gardens, which means Winterbourne Gardens is free entry and also there’s honey. Plus one of my Birmingham-based cousins developed a beekeeping ...

Photograph pointing up through a canopy of leafy branches with the sky visible through gaps.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 12/09/2026

Notes and links from 12 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/12/not… Very much a rest day today. Was hoping to pop along to the Woodland Games but nope, no energy available.

A bald middle-aged man with a beard and glasses in a white t-shirt and grey sweat pants is sitting on the ground against a wooden shed. Two rabbits are to his left on their hind legs as he holds something out for them to eat. A banana skin is resting on his other shoulder.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 11/09/2026

Notes and links from 11 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/11/not… We went on a relatively big adventure today, driving out to Compton Verney with my sister and bro-in-law. I think it’s the furthest I’ve been since December? Fi gave me loads of opportunities to ...

Photograph of a stately home type building half-obscured by trees with a grassy field in the foreground.

A large rock the size of a house has been placed on a lawn. It has been roughly hewn but is clearly man-made. There’s a very large tree behind.

Photo of the path leading up to a stately home with green lawn on either side. I am on the right of the photo, cropped, on my scooter. A man and women are walking on the left in front of me.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 10/09/2026

Notes and links from 10 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/10/not… Made it out to the hardware store on my wee scooter, the first time it’s been out for quite a while. (My goal is to go out weekly…) Managed to get there, ask a guy about plumbing tape, buy it and...

A light-green water butt is sitting on a wooden platform in a garden. It is in front of an aviary-style caged area (the rabbit run) and a plastic hose is leading from its side to two other butts barely visible on the side of the run.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 09/09/2026

Notes and links from 9 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/09/not… Had a visit from my sister this afternoon which was very welcome. It would have been our mum’s 80th birthday this week so we’re going to try and spend a bit of time with all the family photos she ...

An old metal watering can with a surprisingly long spout is sideways on an upturned dog basket next to a couple of rolls of wire mesh. Behind all this is a tree trunk and a fence.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 08/09/2026

Notes and links from 8 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/08/not… Psychotherapy today, which took up all of my energies really, so the rest of the day was mooching and pottering. Feeling much better though so the crash is over. Going to cautiously resume engagem...

A photo of the shadow of a geodesic dome on a fence, taken from within the geodesic dome.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 07/09/2026

Notes and links from 7 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/07/not… Another rest day. Had a go at fiddling with the water butts and quickly got prickly sweat on my forehead despite doing fuckall really, so hit that on the head. Have mostly been watching the telly...

Photo of a green hosepipe draped over a load of wooden panels leaning against a wooden fence.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 06/09/2026

Notes and links from 6 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/06/not… Nope, nothing happening today. Still crashed. Recovery in progress.

A black and white photo of a pair of black sandals on a wooden floor with light coming from the background.

A painting of a cow on a wall. An electric junction box has been installed where the head was painted so it looks like the cow is some kind of cyborg.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 05/09/2026

Notes and links from 5 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/05/not… And lo, the chronic fatigue crash did finally come. All the usual bullshit — tired, impatient, sore, grumpy, irritable, aching, fuzzy head, can’t read, can’t think. It’ll pass, it always does. Was...

View through the beams of the geodesic dome in our back garden. The blue sky and trees are in the background. A woman is sitting in the lower foreground. A shed and various garden detritus are around her.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 04/09/2026

Notes and links from 4 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/04/222… Had my 6-weekly occupational therapy session for my chronic fatigue today which went well and was pretty useful. But otherwise quite tired after yesterday. No proper crash though, which is very pleasing. Might have ...

A rabbit is sitting to attention on a patio. There are various pieces of garden furniture and watering cans around.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 03/09/2026

Notes and links from 3 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/03/not… Another long night-and-morning’s sleep with no weird stress dreams, so that’s nice. I might have some tomorrow though as I fear I might have overdone it this afternoon. My sister and bro-in-law w...

Two rabbits are chomping on grass on a lawn. There’s a lot of junk piled up behind them

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 02/09/2026

Notes and links from 2 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/02/not… Definitely a rest day. Slept right through to 1pm with very little mental disturbance, then Fi came home with great-neph M for an hour before taking him home after which I went back to sleep for a...

Photo of a wooden post reaching into the overcast sky. It has a hoop screwed into the top and a ratchet strap is hanging from it. The strap is old and worn and twisted.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 01/09/2026

Notes and links from 1 Sept: notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/01/not… Psychotherapy day today. For the last couple of weeks we’ve actually been talking about this blog. Despite it being a big part of my life for 26 years I still sort of think of my online emissions ...

Three wooden spoons are hanging like a wind-chime from a joint on a geodesic dome. The sky is visible through the dome and is overcast.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 31/08/2026

Notes and links from 31 Aug: notes.peteashton.com/2026/08/31/not… A bit of a rest day after the weekend’s exertions. I feared a bit of a crash when I woke early in the morning to a rapid-fire slideshow of random imagery behind my eyelids, the sort of thing I woul...

A bright orange squash, possibly a pumpkin, is hanging from the apex of a green plastic frame on an allotment. It is perfectly round. Behind can be seen various vegetable beds and plants on other allotment plots.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 30/08/2026

Notes and links from 30 Aug: notes.peteashton.com/2026/08/30/not… Another doing-things-away-from-the-computer day in which I might have overdone it but I tried to be careful about pacing so we will see. Fingers crossed for no big crash tomorrow. Things involved g...

Brick dust from drilling holes in the wall above has collected on the skirting board and in a plastic container on the ground. It has settled in small mounds on each ridge in its way.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 29/08/2026

Notes and links from 29 Aug: notes.peteashton.com/2026/08/29/not… I’d planned for today to be a computer-based writing day, given the rain forecast, but when I sat down to do some computer-based writing nothing was happening. Wrote a couple of sentences, deleted ...

A rabbit is peeking out from behind some piles of detritus in the corner of a garden.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 28/08/2026

Notes and links from 28 Aug: notes.peteashton.com/2026/08/28/not… Spent a reasonable amount of time pottering around in the garden today, along with a trip out to the local building supplies barns. While the dome water collection scheme is clearly a dumb thing to...

A wooden frame made up of random pieces of wood is resting on some plastic storage chests against a green wooden fence. A blue strap is holding it in place somehow.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 27/08/2026

Notes and links from 27 Aug: notes.peteashton.com/2026/08/27/not… There was a thing a few years ago, back when wildfires were rare and noteworthy, where people were noticing that their cameras weren’t taking accurate photos of the red skies, shifting the white ba...

Two rabbits on a parched but moist from the rains lawn in a back garden. One has its head up alert to something, the other is heads down eating grass.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 27/08/2026

Have a feeling I’m going to have to declare tab bankruptcy soon.

A screenshot of a list of open tabs in a web browser:

- Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector
- Mug-wump Specific - { feuilleton }
- KARIN BOLENDER: "In a time of great need-starvation, p...
- How to cut off your parents • Buttondown
- Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? | Quanta Magazine
- What's the Point If We Can't Have Fun?
- What If We Never Built Another New Building?
- Opinion | Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here...
- Neuroplasticity As A Praxis - by Matt Seybold
- Seeing Time - by Kei Kreutler - Artificial Memory
- "The ghosts are fast and they don't turn blue." - Unsung
- Zoomers don't know what Usenet is - by Allegra Rosenberg
- New Lecture Series for the Public: "Hitler and Stalin Today"
- Rebecca Solnit • Diary: Before 1776
- OCCUPY! An Unfinished Uprising - Future Hindsight
- Neoliberalism, noise and hearing the signal
- We're getting the social media crisis wrong
- 'I love provocative stories': producer Christine Vachon on ...
- The long shadow of Argentina's dictatorship: she wasn't...
- How Much Dark Money Is in Professional Philosophy? - B...
- Dinah Birch • Born with a Hitler moustache: How to write ...
- The Jason Arday Reckoning - by Carole Cadwalladr
- Jason Arday: J'Accuse the British Media - Will Self
- Plastic bottles can be turned into edible, vanilla-flavour c...

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 26/08/2026

Notes and links from 26 Aug: notes.peteashton.com/2026/08/26/not… A few days ago I was mulling over using our garden geodesic dome as a rainwater collection conduit. Not because it’s a particularly practical idea (the house roof is just over there and has gutteri...

A view of the sky through some trees. The sky is dark and stormy.

A view into the geodesic dome. A joint of the dome is in the middle of the frame with six poles coming out of it. Behind is a green gazebo tent covering strung between four joints. Under the middle is a large plastic container on a small table.

A view of the geodesic dome from above and to the side. A green gazebo tent is hung from four joints of the dome. Under the middle is a large plastic container on a small table.

Photograph of a large IKEA plastic container half-filled with dirty water.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 25/08/2026

Notes and links from 25 Aug: notes.peteashton.com/2026/08/25/not… While this post is mostly about Lav she wasn’t very camera friendly today, while Wally-the-tart went and did this. So here’s Wally. Lavander is much better. She recovered about 10pm last night, tak...

A photo of a rabbit snoozing in a shallow hole it has dug in the lawn.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 25/08/2026

Name your favourite "Bob"

The holy face of JR "Bob" Dobbs surrounded by a ribbon reading Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 24/08/2026

Notes and links from 24 Aug: notes.peteashton.com/2026/08/24/not… Another recovery-type day though I haven’t managed it too well. After a slightly disturbed sleep I woke at 1:45pm and remembered a friend was visiting at 2pm, so got up and greeted them. It was one...

Photograph in the garden of a couple of yellow buckets stacked together next to a worn wooden chair and table on a lawn.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 23/08/2026

In today’s links and notes I wrote a bit about the Lady No-Kids cartoon and some research I did into its author which resulted in finding a lovely blog post about the whole strip. notes.peteashton.com/2026/08/23/n...

A cartoon showing a ordinary looking family of a man, woman, child and baby in a pram looking at Lady No-Kids, a woman in socks and sandals, no trousers, underpants, a jacket and scarf and a top hat and cane. She is looking at goose and the caption reads "Anyway, I'm going to follow this goose for a while and see where I end up."

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 23/08/2026

Notes and links from 23 Aug: notes.peteashton.com/2026/08/23/not… Definitely a rest day today. Fi had a visitor, a friend of a friend she’d met recently who turned out to be involved in the Disabled Photographers' Society amongst other things. While I am now a di...

Photograph of a corner, about 60 degrees, between a garden fence and the support of our geodesic dome. There are many dry brown leaves collected there from the heatwave.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 22/08/2026

Notes and links from 22 Aug: notes.peteashton.com/2026/08/22/not… Bit of a burnout day today. Everything’s just a little bit hard, a little bit frustrating. I want to do all the things but I know that if I try I’ll crash, so I’m trying to stay still without going...

Photo of a rabbit on a lawn. It looks a bit surprised or disconcerted.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 21/08/2026

Notes and links from 21 Aug: notes.peteashton.com/2026/08/21/not… My mum, who was herself a teacher and therefore quite invested in my education, was clear that I was doing fine at school until I had to write essays. We could put this down to all manner of things...

Photograph of the sky full of dark clouds and a tree to the side.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 20/08/2026

Notes and links from 20 Aug: notes.peteashton.com/2026/08/20/not… Lots of steady rain today for the first time in what must be a couple of months if not longer. The lawn was properly soaked. Been feeling a bit tired in the head today. Mental activities needed ext...

Photograph of a lawn in the rain. There’s a puddle of in the foreground and in the top quarter of the image splashes are rendered like sparks.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 19/08/2026

Notes and links from 19 Aug: notes.peteashton.com/2026/08/19/not… A day of mooching punctuated by an overdue visit from Roo to shoot the shit. Both our social batteries were low so it only lasted half an hour, but she brought brownies, which helped. Otherwise I s...

Photograph of a collection of trees against a clear blue sky. Some of the trees have brown leaves due to the drought and heatwaves.

A photo of a rabbit on the ground and a bird on a fence about a meter apart. They are clearly aware of each other.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 18/08/2026

Geodome rainwater thoughts - Notes and links from 18 Aug: notes.peteashton.com/2026/08/18/geo… We got some rain last night, about 3mm or so, with more on the way over the next few days. So I’m finding myself thinking about rainwater collection. I’ve a...

A wooden geodesic dome painted green. It is about four meters in diameter and is sitting on a patio. A woman is sitting cross-legged on a table in the middle.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 17/08/2026

Notes and links from 17 Aug: notes.peteashton.com/2026/08/17/not… One of the things we did yesterday that I forgot to mention was chop up a parachute. Last year someone offered most of a parachute on my sister’s street chat. It’s the real deal, ex-army designed f...

A parachute has been spread over a lawn. At the rear a woman in a pink top is sitting on a bench with her legs under the parachute to cut it, so it looks like she has a massive skirt. A rabbit is running across the parachute looking disconcerted.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 16/08/2026

Notes and links from 16 Aug: notes.peteashton.com/2026/08/16/not… At the back of my mind this week was the sense that nothing had gone badly wrong, chronic fatigue-wise. I appeared to be living a reasonable normal life doing the things I wanted to do at a pace an...

A wheelbarrow wheel and a bike wheel are overgrown with plants which have withered to brown in the heatwave. A shed door is in the background.

screenshot of the flight radar app showing a plane doing so many circles around Birmingham that it looks like a birds nest.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 15/08/2026

Notes and links from 15 Aug: notes.peteashton.com/2026/08/15/not… Saturday WebDev Diary (First in a series?) I’ve been spending a bit of time this week, and a few hours this afternoon, messing around with Eleventy, a piece of website building software that looked...

Photo of a rabbit leaning back to groom its tail.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 14/08/2026

Notes and links from 14 Aug: notes.peteashton.com/2026/08/14/not… The reality of the wildfires in South Birmingham is starting to sink in. Years ago there was a tweet (remember tweets?) saying: “Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed throug...

Close-up on some leaves on a bush in our garden. They wreak havoc suffering from the heat.

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Pete Ashton @peteashton.com · 13/08/2026

Notes from 13 Aug: notes.peteashton.com/2026/08/13/not… Summer holiday childcare duty today with both the great nephs, M (10) and G (6). Given the heat and the inevitability of them getting frustrated with each other after a period of time we stuck on a movie. And then I d...

Two rabbits are lying on the ground with their heads up. They are next to each other, touching at the shoulders, with their legs splayed out on either side. It looks very cute.

36 photos of the moon moving over the sun in yesterday’s eclipse, arranged in a 6x6 grid

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