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james

@zx85.me
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engineer • lover of audio, coffee, 80s music, technology • UK based, but in the global village

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james @zx85.me · 27/04/2026
Quite aside from them being £2.49 for a packet, I'm fairly sure Lidl doesn't realise that when they cover bourbon creams in chocolate, they're effectively selling Penguins at a huge mark-up and without a joke..
Chocolate covered custard creams and bourbon creams
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james @zx85.me · 27/10/2025
Today's @nytimes.com Connections game is very on-point.. #OnlyConnect
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james @zx85.me · 17/08/2025
As close as I've been to a Formula E Gen 3.5 car - well over halfway between an electric go-kart and a Formula 1 car.. #SundayPix #SundayPixVehicle
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james @zx85.me · 25/07/2025
There remains something delightfully old fashioned about catching a train for leisure purposes. This is very much what I'm doing now.
Me with big hair at a station with a goods train in the background
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james @zx85.me · 01/07/2025
In other news, Retford is one of the strangest stations I've ever been to. It's got a bonus level (with a daft little train)
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james @zx85.me · 01/07/2025
This is an absolute Godsend on a day like today. There's a lot wrong with the world of corporate cost-cutting, so it feels right to celebrate things being better. Thanks @lner.co.uk (and @greateranglia.bsky.social too)
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james @zx85.me · 02/06/2025
I have a mac book for work and I'll be honest, it's taken a while to get used to it. But I'm getting there - here, for example, is a cool new feature I've discovered: if I move my mouse to the bottom right of the screen, it displays an elegant dark grey square.
Elegant grey rounded square on the Mac.
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james @zx85.me · 24/03/2025
Richard Osman's House Of Games throwing some shade...
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james @zx85.me · 19/02/2025
These aren't the words to "House of Fun" that I remember...
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james @zx85.me · 07/02/2025
@james.crid.land ooh.. have you got one of these little delights too..?
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james @zx85.me · 14/01/2025
The video doesn't really do it justice - when we went past this field yesterday, it looked like there were pigeons learning how to do murmurations by a whole bunch of starlings.. might go down there at the same time next Monday to see if it's a weekly training course...
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james @zx85.me · 11/01/2025
Made it to the repair café today - one fix, one couldn't-fix and one take-home-to-fix (a 1970s radio with crackly volume and broken aerial). #repaircafe
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james @zx85.me · 09/01/2025
It's been a trying sort of a day.
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james @zx85.me · 05/01/2025
Popped into town earlier with (among other things) a mission to replace the sticky tape in our little tape dispenser thing, what with Christmas and all that. I think someone might have taken leave of their senses with this price.. or have I misunderstood sticky tape all this time?
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james @zx85.me · 24/12/2024
We were joined by a festive robin on our brief sojourn to the Abbey Gardens..
A robin pops down to the arm of a park bench to enquire about leftover breakfast products
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james @zx85.me · 11/12/2024
@octopus.energy Guys..? really..? #turningeverythingoff #dunkelflauteschreckgespenst
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james @zx85.me · 08/12/2024
Whenever a drop-down box for "country" appears online, I often scroll past "U.S. Minor Outlying Islands" to get, inevitably, to the UK, but I never get round to finding out what they actually are. Here's what the ISO.org website says about them. Fat lot of good that is.
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james @zx85.me · 30/11/2024
Thank you, Matt Lyle for these carrots (from me and the guinea pigs). They're delicious!
Perthshire carrots, grown by Matt Lyle
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james @zx85.me · 23/11/2024
The names of these reviewers makes me think mayyybe they're not real..?
Amazon reviews by people like 'Denby Easterling', 'Kipp Fleek' and 'Camdene Cleeton'
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