Can’t be the only one expecting #stoneroses to sing “Muskehounds are Always Ready” in that chorus, can I?

Just like to wish a happy 90th birthday to Boaty McBoatface * Well, if they can call the boat after him, why not the other way round

A Giant Jammie Dodger!

I think the bottom piece looks like a giant jammy dodger!

Wind Chime Dodger

I think the bottom piece looks like a giant jammy dodger!

By the entrance to our flat hangs a wind chime. I’m not a big fan of such things but Heather likes it so I hung it for her. As well as the metal tubular chimes there hangs, to catch the chimes in the breeze, a disk. I suspect it is supposed to be more evocative of the Sun but I always say it looks like a giant jammie dodger, and I want one.

Mmmmm

Giant Jammy Dodger!

Mmmmm

So Heather got me one. That’s why I love her 😀

A real giant jammy dodger

Ultimate Biscuit

A real giant jammy dodger

Penguins In the Heart

Sometimes* Always, but, perhaps, sometimes more than others I miss my Mam. Most of the time it is a dull absence but occasionally something makes me want to lift the phone to someone no longer there. Apparently today is World Penguin Day (Wayback Machine as that seems down currently). I know this because I saw a list of things for it. Mam would have loved those paperclips, and a USB drive, and a lamp and ice cubes and penguin-opoly. All of it really. Sigh.

Opening A Specific Contact From Tasker

I’m just dropping this here because it just took me quite a while to work out. I love android way more than iPhones because of its customisability. One of the huge advantages is is having Tasker which just lets my phone do what I want it to (my phone wouldn’t look or behave anything like it does were it not for Tasker and UCCW). Anyway, I recently wanted to launch a view of a particular contact from a Tasker task and took ages Googling to work out how to do it, so I thought I’d document it here.

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