I loved my Watchy. It is a watch for geeks. I got a lot of fun out of it. But it has now stopped working. Probably the battery. But I made the decision not to replace the battery. In the spirit of adventure, I’ve opted for a new toy. I never took a photo of The full story here…
Category: Other Projects
Gardening in Northern England
I’m slowly learning how to grow veg – very slowly – extremely slowly. So these notes are to help me improve. If you want expert advice, this might not be the right page for you. 🥕
Animal Easter Eggs
After about a decade and a half, I finally found a reason to try my hand at making Easter eggs again. I decided to pull out my old Easter Egg moulds and dust them off. Well maybe not dust, but chocolate them off. Making chocolate bunnies and other animals is a slow business, but a The full story here…
Raspberry Pi to ESP32
A backcopy of Hackspace showed how to use the Raspberry Pi to an ESP 32, in order to control it via Python. Unfortunately the article was too old and the build command didn’t work. Rather than try and unpick the thing, I went to find a newer, working tutorial.
Elderberry Wine Recipe
This time I have tried to be a bit more scientific about it. Note to self, please upload some pictures. Thank you Countryfile for the recipe. Here is my take on it. It takes a few hours – lots of messing around – don’t try and rush it.
Fruit Bowl From Newspaper
Here’s an idea to use up an old newspaper. Make it into a fruit bowl. It took a while, but was surprisingly easy really. Thanks Ikchha for the YouTube instructions. Link below.
Elderberry Wine Retro
We tried two wines, one was bottled at the end of 2020 and the second bottled mid 2021. Interesting comparisons and some learnings.
Elderflower Champagne – Year 2
For the first batch, I got in nice and early. The flowers are lovely and young. Actually picked at 6am, but it was a dry day, and they were lovely.
Bath Salts – First Attempt
Pick a nice warm day for pottering in the garden. It will be even better if you can find a friend to sit and chat with.
Weather App – More Weather
Trying to get more information about the look and feel of the weather. Yes I know there are windows, but that is not the point.