Boy had a great birthday day out

Another day home (nearly) alone survived

Pre-wedding meet up was nice

I am reading an book

Bank holiday fun

Feels like a long day

Record prices creeping up

Good day of rugby

Still wishing the week away

Did not get away with being on call this week

I get up when I want, when parkrun is cancelled

Far fuller day off

Lovely dinner at Pomus

My new years resolution is not going so well

I thought you were doing parkrun?

Lovely christmas

Great London weekend breakdown day two

Exercise stats 14/12/25

Been playing a lot of Reunion

I messed up the shopping order

Enshortened night in the Potting Shed

Nice day for it

Lovely weekend

Different load out for work this week

Great day out, with Suede @ Royal Festival Hall 2025

Run stats 6/9/25 - 5'02/K

Tightly scheduled Wednesday @ Museum Of Comedy 2025

Holiday 2025 - Zurich

EE broadband is in

Internets working OK today

Reduced my Glastonbury packing even further

No parkrun yesterday

Happy birthday T1

Fun day in Broadstairs

In tents

Google are gaming me like Duolingo are gaming me

Aspendos meal was very good

Long time no update

Bonjour!

Super long weekend - to Portchester and Fareham

Super long weekend - Leaving Brighton

Super long weekend - Brighton pier

Stonks recovered very slightly

Big Stratford day out Saturday

Links I forgot to mention

Oh yeah stocks are falling

Sprout sandwiches for tea

Light switch repair looks fine now

Lovely half term midweek weekender

Not very manic Monday

Stewart Lee vs The Man Wulf was brilliant

Too cold to go out for a walk

Happy new leak

Damn, messed up

Christmas round-up

Pokemon lessons

I got up when I wanted

Lovely long weekend part three - the rest

York: day one

Family day out today

Productive day

Lovely weekend

Great birthday day out

Singapore day three - Universal Studios

Got up at 6am to do some work

AC/DC weekender part three: the gig @ festivalpark stenehei 2024

AC/DC weekender part two: pre-gig in Turnhout @ festivalpark stenehei 2024

AC/DC weekender part one: Turnhout @ festivalpark stenehei 2024

Happy Birthday

Week is going fast

Back to work today

Both boys are playing Fallout on the XBox

Feels like covid

Recovery day from Saturday

Day 3/5 in the office

Day 2/5 in the office

Trooli broken internet today

Peaceful Sunday

Happy Birthday T1

Super Saturday

Slightly disappointing Friday

New bar on Folkestone Harbour Arm

What the hell is this?

Positive TV news at least

I recycled my recycling centre booking

Tesco profits soar

Mysterious payment coming out of my account

Another day of hot-spotting

Nice relaxing day today

Febrewery 22/18

Glad I bought the dip

Febrewery 13/10

So corrupt

The final nativity was brilliant

Sure I've read this story before

Overwhelming dadmin task list today

Freezing out today

A day out in Maidstone

Blocked from energy saving session

Big Sunday gig day out part 1 - the train

Strange sort of day

Friday night out out @ Hammersmith Odeon 2023

Inn Doors Reunion

Second plumber did turn up today

After the funeral

Lazy day

Splendid long weekend

Hot busy day

Free energy day is here

More of my notes from FOWA 2009

Holiday 2023 - Bath day two

Holiday 2023 - to Portchester @ Portsmouth Guildhall 2023

Ninja cottage pie was a success @ Electric Ballroom 2023

Short swim

Oh not quite rest on Tuesday

My idiot children are playing a Peppa Pig game on the XBox

London weekender: The Prince Of Greenwich

London weekender: Friday night dinner in Greenwich

London weekender: the drive to Greenwich

Wind power takes over

Let's play darts!

Dinner at the Radnor Arms @ The Radnor Arms 2023

Got a stand for the Sonos soundbar

Cheriton United nearly didn't lose

Not really a beer festival @ The Pullman 2023

Less busy, less productive day

Busy but productive day

Boys have gone crazy

Great long weekend in London

Football rained off today

I am not dead

Happy Mother's Day @ Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms 2023

Where's Wally?

Long day with football

A different kind of performance bonus @ Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms 2023

We got through the football

Oh guess who's back...

Febrewery 23/17

Eco hour went smoothly

Eco-hour again

Cold

Febrewery 10/5

Febrewery 8/4

Oh how I long for the last working day of the month

Eco ninety-minutes today

Runuary day fifteen

This is how I will get my KISS pinball table

Now is this really a slow cooker too?

Jobs to do before today's run

Runuary day two, and a cheeky Pizza Express

All is quiet on new years day @ Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms 2023

No rain today, but windy

Back to work

Quiet day

Brussels and Cologne the full story

So much to unpack, from London, Brussels, and Cologne

Too busy for a so called tech improvement day

In theory Eurostar journeys are unaffected by strike action

Quiet Sunday

Packed but relaxing weekend

We have sickness in the house again

T1 is very supportive of today's eco-hour

The beginning of the end of religion hopefully

Not a lot of actual content up here this week

Up the workers

288300 households joined us in the Octopus eco-hour @ Southampton Joiners 2022

Midlife Eurotour part thirteen - Sorrento that I forgot to write up

Playing an energy saving game today

Parkrun 100 and no-one even knew

Quiet day

Dear santa I have been very good

Too much coffee

First graph of the new energy rates

No parkrun today

Midlife Eurotour part seven - sleeper train to Rome

Midlife Eurotour part four - sleeper train to Vienna

Midlife Eurotour part two - Brussels

So much to unpack (2)

Extra busy extra chaos London birthday midweek weekender (part two)

The magnificent seven @ The Hawley Arms 2022

Extra busy extra chaos London birthday midweek weekender (part one)

I did get some of my tasks completed

Gaming was different in the 1980s

Extreme heat day two

This is interesting if true

Booked another part of my grand eurotrip, nearly done now

Weather still good for Parkrun @ Electric Ballroom 2022

Is the Sandgate Hotel opening again?

We have had a birthday this week

Energy monitor is up and running

Getting things done

Running and drinking

Back on the running track

Plumber instills me with confidence

Confusing call from the window cleaner

Second in the quiz

In London tomorrow. Or am I? @ Bull and Gate 2022

Going swimming. Or are we? @ Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms 2022

Only three more sofa payments left

Thirty years ago today

Easter London trip

Did not parkrun, did escape room type fun

Not quiet night in

Sensible Saturday night @ Barfly 2022

Only twenty-seven days until pay day @ Barfly 2022

No nukes yet

Bit windy here

Secret recliner action

Runuary day twenty-five

Runuary day fifteen

Runuary day nine

Runuary day eight

Runuary day two

Surely the last todo list of 2021?

Brief updates @ Leas Cliff Hall 2021

Day off

Good day on the stonks, following a bad day on the stonks

Cinema and Nandos

New sofa is in

Ashford fun day

Action packed weekend

Slower Parkrun today

Poor day on the stonks

And we are back @ The Good Mixer 2021

Good end to a very busy week

It is a step closer to home

What a lovely picture

We survived one night of Clare doing nights

Bonus meal out

Todoing...

Someone is fixing the beetle today

Happy birthday thing one

Rained here today

Lovely long weekend ends with a more hectic Tuesday

So, lovely long weekend then

Eating out to helping out

I think I want a dryrobe, but I have a compromise

Much more chilled start to the working week

Lovely day for a run

Back to swimming

Broken Google Home

Frittering the long weekend away

Too much beer

Got shoots on my hop plant

About the hospital

Back to school

I've made £8 from my vending machine so far

Stewart Lee gig is also postponed

Spoke too soon

Weird comic of the day

Weird comics

Will I get something to entertain me in half term delivered in time?

Groundhog day

Day off running

More shopping, need new scales

Runuary day twenty-seven

Morning, routine

Runuary day twenty-four

So as expected no school tomorrow

Runuary day 3

Happy New Year

Back to work

Belated merry christmas

The game that failed to win the hack day

Hack day did not go as well as I thought

Hack day went well

Blue Peter badge turned up again

I made another rubbish game

Busy busy with new job

Still no wine

Disappointing takeaway from Market Square

We might have a winner

We tried to go to Tin And Tap at least

Day out in Canterbury

Very productive day

I made another game

I could get a riot shield

Socially distanced food fair

Heavy rain today

Good payday, but

Glorious day today

We have higher speed internets

Thing one missed the bus

Our holiday to London and Warwick (part two)

A seal, a dolphin, and a lot of water

Fourth record breaking hot day in a row?

Now the Nintendo Switch is not working

Fifteen years ago today

Totally mixed up my Thursday

Great socially distanced walk and beer

Hot run

About to go for a run, but

One more thing, I quite like this bike

Our turn to do a quiz next week

I don't remember saying that

Just about to head out and

I figured out how to stop the coronavirus spreading

PopEx dividend payout is working

PopEx dividends @ The Seagull 2020

Martin Lewis says I could be furloughed until October

Controversial run before Joe Wicks

Busy doing nothing

New project / coding / game idea

Popex got better graphs

I added some bands to popex

Rewriting popex is harder than I thought

I seem to be rebuilding popex

A run in the rain

On the run again

Finished Hunger Games

Shopping swapping

Hot day

I went out twice in one day

What day is it again?

First full day of furlough

First proper day of my furlough

Last day of work for two months

Another day another walk

I have figured it out

I didn't want to fly to the USA anyway

Coronavirus cases day by day

The whole world is literally falling apart

Great long weekend, and Febrewery completed

London pay day profit share weekend part 2

New PB on dry-vegan-runuary day eighteen

Struggled to get up again today

Dry-vegan-runuary day six

Did drag the boys out for a scoot and ride

Pick of the pops chart rundown of 2019

Done with work now for the DECADE

Twenty-nine minute 5k today

Merry Christmas

Looks a nice day out today

Annual meal out at the Old Mill

Cold and damp out there but could be worse

Up late in to the night putting sprouts in socks

Went to see Addams Family in Ashford

Lazy week

Cidertastic weekend

Dire weather but a great weekend

Continual Nintendo Switch meltdown

Typical Thursday

The best day of all

The Walking Dead series one done

Boys weekend

Made quite a good curry

Lovely lunchtime walk

Running the long way to the pub

Took today's parkrun too seriously

Is that the second week of the summer holiday gone already?

Pasta Wednesday

Pay day

Birthday weekender: Sunday morning

Holiday 2019 day nine - XCaret itself Mexico!

Holiday 2019 day six

Holiday 2019 day four

Holiday 2019 part two

Thing one is signed up for the Kent Test

Captain Marvel was ace

Definitely being gamed with the reading rewards

Four new runners from work at the Park Run

New York day two

Awesome few days in Portchester (before we get on to New York) @ The Seagull 2018

A fun day of organised fun, despite the drizzle

Got an odd text while we were away

I will probably not write out holiday up chronologicaly

An update from the school about Fortnite reads like an ad

I can stop pretending to like football for another four years

Part two of twenty-seven of the new regime

Nintendo Switch was a hit

Successful day of freebies In Canterbury

Shopping disaster averted

Busy week

A game appeared on my Fitbit

Super weekend

Bank holiday @ The Fountain 2017

Times tables tester

Last pub of the night: Brewdog @ Brewdog 2017

Party party at the Burstin @ Burstin 2017

Thick frost on the car this morning

Gah installed RetroPie, but

Celebrity Alive Pool 2017

Great day in Tenterden

The most interesting bar of the night was a shop

Started off our pub crawl not in a pub @ Pie And Vinyl 2016

Princes Parade local plan consultation

Fun time bowling in Gunwharf

After the Tower to Whole Foods for a cafe stop @ Whole Foods Market 2016

There's an open wifi network near here called WeCanHearYourGamesConsole

Impressive whackings in the Rugby Sevens

We were all meant to be going to Dover yesterday

Number one son's birthday was the best day ever @ Frankie & Benny's 2016

Forgot to mention we had a good meal at Bella Pasta last week @ Bella Pizza & Pasta 2016

Spent most of the afternoon in the National Maritime Museum @ The Brasserie and Museum Cafe 2016

Trying to turn by German lessons into a game

Number one son's been doing "choose your own adventure" books from school

Number one son just reminded me of this game

Stupid tax

December the 30th be with you

Phone fun

We went to Bakewell, The Peak District, Derbyshire

Smells like popex

Hour of code

Still enjoying my new phone, listening to music on it now

Got my new phone now too

Bad eye did explode

Do old copies of NME and Melody Maker ever sell on ebay?

Technobabble game maker from the bbc is amazing

We tricked number two son into saying I Love You...

This is why I don't go to the gym

Good sounding Doctor Who game

Someone at bowling had a bad day

Great weekend

Anniversary night out part 5 @ Kipps' Ale House 2014

Changing the favicon dynamically

Action packed weekend part 4

I have Costa Rica in the world cup sweepstake

Date Monkey quiz practise game is now working nicely

Worked from home

Another annoying game

Nephew George won 12 "programmable computer devices"

IKEA tetris table

This looks good - hdmi over power cables

Amazing 1k javascript game

Code combat

Apps Playground's 100 Best iPad Apps for Kids: 2013

Stop telling your children they are clever

Chocolate

Type to shoot

Magic Numbers @ Revelation St Mary 2013

Center Parcs was great

Date night at Centreparcs (Centreparcs roundup part two)

At last!

Another birthday ceremony lined up for us

Three days of Asterisk training

Got half a million dollars to spend on consoles and games?

Vinopolis: GOOD

I had a great idea for a computer game - GTA Pontypandy

Nick Helm is recording a christmas show

We went to a gig! @ Marlow Theatre 2012

Learn VIM while playing a game

spaceport.io

TRON in 219 bytes of javascript

Key monkey app

I can't believe my Nan has a better telly than me

The Appside mentions popex today

I bought some more arduino

XBOX for sale (slight return)

Dear secret santa

Also I made a new game

Not really worth getting up for the rugby this morning

Crazy weather again today

Using nodejs and a smart phone to control a browser game

A fraught morning of rugby and a lovely walk @ Googies Art Cafe 2011

Where did my holiday go (part five)?

Where did my holiday go (part three)?

Another cracking day today

artist talk by boredomresearch, thursday 6.30pm, george's house gallery, folkestone @ Georges House Gallery 2011

Here you go birds

Good rugby, bad back

Phone controlled beer cannon

Popex pay day

Pool competition at work today

Olympics ticket prices announced, not on sale yet

Very strange and sad TV experience last night

Good game, good game

Our big holiday in Winchester

Popex was shut down by Channelfly

Americans: too much money or unrealistic expectations?

Sony PSP and games, 99p

Don't let me forget I am going to Ozzy on Tuesday @ Leas Cliff Hall 2010

HTML5 Rocks @ Glastonbury 2010

Has felt like a tiring week

Three teeth

Win a Wagamama voucher with chopstick keepy uppy @ Wagamama 2010

Nice Pacman logo / game on google today!

Lovely long weekend

Countdown in a parallel universe

Man alive they've even shut down Celebdaq!

AMERICAN INDIAN DANCE AND HISTORY COMPANY ON SCHOOL TOUR

Post christmas / pre work blues @ Chambers 2009

Find Good Beer Guide Pubs on your iPhone / iPod Touch

Hostile takeover / bidding war for a company I part own!

iphone app developer up for sale on ebay

A Mindblowing Stop-Motion Lego Homage to Games

The most famous person I know

Nice day so far...

Possibly going to be on BBC local news today

Can't believe I'm back in work tomorrow

Cool baby grows @ Folkestone Harbour 2009

New Monkey Island games!

Spot the deliberate missteak in our new cot

Boot fair in Etchinghill, Easter Saturday

Look at this ridiculous beast!

Have sold 5 of my xbox games

Blogging suffering as a direct result of twitter

Who understands ebay?

What did I tell you?

b-dum b-dum b-dum

One step closer to a xbox media centre

Had a great valentines day

Big spend up

Back on the house train

Whoop, am I back in the ebay affiliate scheme again?

Clarity just confuses me...

I did not win that xbox

Frenchman got WII! @ The Radnor Arms 2008

I didn't know they did Blockbusters without Bob Holness

Guitar Hero on the Commodore 64

Quiet few days

I haven't bought either

The Ringlestone is brilliant. @ Ringlestone Inn 2008

Lost: bit annoying

Beer and rugby @ The Eight Bells (Wetherspoons) 2008

Beadle: No longer about

Flickr interactive adventure game

Two completely different properties this week @ The Radnor Arms 2008

Where we walked yesterday

Magic Numbers every bit as good as I predicted @ Royal Festival Hall 2007

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New JSON feed of my blog

TFI The Weekend

What rugby?

Rugby, RESULT

Day of SPORT

Fullsome weekender @ The Jackdaw 2007

RE: A new version of popex? - 10529

I wouldn't take it personally...

Party weekend

Minesweeper: the movie

RE: Let the coffee wars begin! - 10265 @ Caffe Nero 2007

Lost / Red Dwarf crossover

Hot weekend @ The Providence Inn 2007

A working copy here for only $200 at the moment

Let the coffee wars begin! @ Starbucks 2007

It is all work work work

Magic darts @ The Daniel Defoe 2007

Pipers Nightclub @ Pipers Nightclub 2007

The wrong kind of trees on the line

Aha that would be telling!

Malice Box Quest

Belated weekend roundup

Wii wii wii wii all the way home

Good weekend

It's just a short contract

Yeah same login everywhere

Quiet night in Folkestone

A journey into the unknown...

History in my day @ British Lion 2006

RE: - 9620

Sad news about Paul Hunter

Aye

Cheers mate, sorry to hear about your situation

Not your fault matey

Busy bee

It's taken ten weeks

ZZ blows his top

Get it over with... @ Wagamama 2006

Sofa, so good

We don't really go out any more

Obligatory world cup post

Pig farm to open in Fareham

Another action packed weekender

Welcome to Miami!

Are you watching Lost?

The Lost game is up and running

Mobile game reviews

Ticket to Rye

Double squirrel update

Chops! @ The Eagle 2006

No, *not* grey squirrel curry!

Online rugby games

Weekend of sports @ Twickenham 2006

A silver medal for Folkestone

Wales let us all down

Boo... RAH! @ Twickenham 2006

X-Files???

Stag wins!

Too hungover to weblog yesterday

Tag Everything!

Wife beating

Fastr

Oh, and the snooker

Browncoats Rise Again. The fund-raising drive to revive Joss Whedon's Firefly.

PSP firmware 2.60 hacked

RE: Cheers - 4473

PSP Hacks - Hacks, Mods, Cracks, Utilities, Homebrew. Hack Sony Play Station Portable

Home - PSP Hacks

Cheers

RE: I thought it was only the 1.0 or previous that could do the unauthorised stuff? - 4459

PSP update

Ace changes the suit in our game

The Clarke Cup and new technology

Fitter, happier, more productive

PopEx

Habitat Radius Oak Dining Table

Why's it always Rik Waller?

Yes, ta

Google Maps ?

mostly they're being open and nice about what they're doing

Nice one Neil! @ Buzzlines Stadium 2005

London Crawling

Ace weekend

Santa Barbara

Monterey

Each game we've played, apart from Folkestone, has been tough.

Let's Play Darts!

We're BACK!

UK Resistance

But I DON'T have satellite TV

Cockle Fighting

Amazon bargains of the week

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang @ The Dove 2005

Have Google blocked access to their maps?

The Comic Strip

Rugby @ Twickenham 2005

BBC Backstage

More Rugby

Motley Crue stripper game

Dodgy referers

Rodney Hylton-Potts @ Portofino 2005

Folkestone in the news!

Cheers for persevering there...

Francis Clarke & Elizabeth Marriott

Working from home

Text alerts success

Sold out Barfly gigs

SCUMM

Monkey Island for mobile phones?

Folkestone Interweb access @ Folkestone Computers 2004

What's that song?

Thought for the day

Vote Hibbett!

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas

Lazy day @ The Daniel Defoe 2004

Your Mother's Got A Penis! @ London Astoria 2004

PopEx Control Panel

Splish Splash!

Ah man, I missed Kirstie...

Elstow Lodge

Goldie Lookin' Chain @ London Astoria 2004

Hey buddy can you spare some cat poo? @ Il Bacio 2004

IPOD update

Swiss grocer my arse!

Last post for the week

Panda Golf

Pacmanhattan?

Most Extreme Elimination Challenge

RE: Amy Winehouse - 1173

Download: Stage Three

The Scaffold

Celebdaq

Music Passport

Smack the Pingu

Excel

Back to work

IPOD Crash

damp poisoning

Jet Set Willy

SSX3

SSX3

Not the flat for me

New IPOD feature

Viewing a flat in Folkestone

PopEx

I bet he drinks Carling Black Label @ Finsbury Park 2003

Elbow Room @ The Elbow Room 2003

retro gaming

BACK in BLACK

Hangover

SFA Day OK (part two)

SFA Day OK! (part one)

Dudes from dirty sanchez

violent delight

arcade games

One band was good @ Bull and Gate 2003

Henry Kelly

Buy Syntax

Nice one FHM

Frankie Machine Winners

And so it came to pass...

I knew if I kept this game up long enough, I'd get something worth having...

Monkey Island

Suede @ Electric Ballroom 2002

GameCube Launch Bash

GRATE Andrew WK game:

Official: Crisps are best

Mark

Want to fight Fred Durst?

Win "Reloaded Volume Three"

Big Up The Fly

Artists to be removed from popEx

Snoop Dogg vs Emma Bunton

Friends of PopEx

Stuart and Karen

Grand Theft Auto @ The Vibe Bar 2001

GRATE weak for ROCK!

What are you looking at?

Food is short in the world of Technosphere

Rah, NME didn't let me down

The Names Have Been Changed...

Pat Sharpe

Tease me, tease me...

Whatever happened to the Infidels?

Jacques @ Scalarama @ The Scala 2000

Win tickets to Scalarama II @ The Scala 2000

Noel

Rah! Unbelievable Truth Split!

PopEx: SOLD OUT

Mummm, my ears hurt

One of the first multi player WAP games...

More Tedious Stats...

Still haven't found what I'm looking for

Error 404:

Unfair! Unfair!

popEx dreamCast

Pauly 'Ken' Clarke robs the poor!

News stories obsolete before they've finished being written

Basket game

Bingo

50th birthday bingo

Bingo

Elf jump game

Emu game

Flappy Eggy

Miscellanous

Seed crush

Webspace

Tesco game

Beer man

Beer man

PopEx might end up here