We're visiting Haworth today to do our annual mourning pilgrimage and have a little day out. We are in the thick of the battle to get out the house.

Took the girls out for an hour at 6am. Get to the field and a guy shouts "is that your car?" and I say no. Check on this car on the way home and the engine is on with nobody around for the past hour. Look through the windows and there's a massive man asleep on the back seat of this Nissan Micra.

Zach is saying so many words this weekend. He was working on "egg" yesterday and has tonight shouted clear as day "eggy!"

Plugging my phone into my laptop has turned into an awful and frustrating experience so that's nice. Anyway it is bath and bed time for Zach so we return tomorrow evening 🙏

Found some ancient dash cam footage and I used to be such a horrible driver lol

Plugged my phone into my laptop so I can more efficiently manage things. What a time to discover all the folders on my phone are virtual and almost everything goes into "Downloads".

Had a thought the other day, which is very obvious, but kept seeing news articles about a Reform councils cutting services and increasing tax. I wonder if that's intentional on their part so they can make things shitter and still pin the blame on migrants.

Another morning at the park where people compliment my dogs behaviour. Print out your comments and put them on a notice board lads. Save your breath 💅

Just bought an external hard drive so I can sort my life out. The last one I bought, for this exact purpose, has a load of digital these from work on it so wish me luck 🤞

I have allowed myself half an hour to have a sit down and recalibrate my brain. As it is Friday we will walk to the park and I will smoke a big joint.

What an enjoyable and exhausting afternoon I've had.

I've come to the park with Zach as I'm off with him today. In the five minutes it takes to drive here he fell asleep so I'm sat enjoying a coffee in the car park 👍

Anyway, back on topic; Get fucked Labour lol

I know it's off topic for today, but Liverpool city council have been sprucing up the parks. New trees, painted railings and signage, replaced rotting wooden benches with metal picnic benches. They even overextended to allow for prams and wheelchairs.

My hands have gone really dry and cracked again 😭

YouTube recommending From theory videos with titles like "it's all connected!" Yes it is. Because it all occurs in the same TV show. Obviously it is connected.

One from the archives. "If you don't like the changes that we've made, I say the door is open, and you can leave"

I think with this copilot trial I'm going to do my own little side project. I'll think of a useful tool for the repo and genuinely try my best to get copilot to build it for me.

So the initial run went okay. Out of the small sample of 10, 7 were open access. Out of 7 files it attempted to get, it managed to get 6. The 1 file it couldn't get linked to a publishers page and the file must be manually accessed from there.

Been working very hard to get two things finished while my manager is on leave. Today I'm probably going to do the first real run of a tool I've been working on and I am quite nervous about it.

Despite having another good sleep I am still shattered. Feel like the dog walks are writing me off at the moment. Or it is the familiar "paradox" of getting more/better sleep somehow makes you more tired than if you managed a few hours.

My moment was in Luxembourg, an admittedly small country. I could literally ride the train up and down the country all day for a few euros.

Had to buy 200 mini chocolate eggs wrapped in foil because Zach has got into the habit of having one when he arrives at home in the evening. We've ran out this week and he's made it crystal clear that this is unacceptable.

Sorted. Turns out I was being a buffoon.

Finally took the time to watch some scientology speedruns. youtu.be/RUUMCkdGN4Y

Trying to get something finished. Basically had to alter the logic to get a title instead of an ID. Altered the SQL, altered the perl, altered the front end. It does not work.

Just tried to post some pictures. Wrote all the alt text etc and got an error so had to discard. Why must this app be such a motherfucker sometimes.

Walking the girls then and looked down to see fresh bright red blood dripping from my finger. Inspected it and it was coming from somewhere on my hand. Pure bloodbath. Got home and cleaned it up to discover a tiny little cut between my fingers.

Oh no the copilot trial I was part of is getting a sequel 😭

This is so sad. Hopefully they go to a new home where the new owner has a good bottle of antiseptic spray.

Our Bon wasn't quite herself last night. She turned down her bedtime biscuit which she practically lives for and refused all other treats. Awake all night worrying about her. This morning she is totally fine.

Found it down between the cushions of the couch.

Lost a little metal clip that I use to attach a small waterproof bag to my rucksack. Had to use a carabiner and the height is different and it is all just wrong.

I have still not been able to look at my foot. It certainly hurts and I'm not excited about putting my boots on in the morning.

Finished the Maul show this afternoon. Good stuff, can't believe it's over, just want to run to you etc

Just stubbed all my toes running after Zach as he launched himself up the stairs. I am quite scared to take my sock off to inspect the damage.

Didn't take many pictures because I wasn't in the mood. I did try to get some of the dogs, but Luna refused to participate.

This is our route that we did today along the dunes from Formby to Ainsdale and back. It says five hours, but it's four. I just took an hour longer as we met Zach and Heather near the end. explore.osmaps.com/route/318204...

Anyway, not going to the Lakes tomorrow because I fell asleep at 2 for two hours and missed the shops.

It's From day for those who celebrate.

Weighing up whether or not to go to the Lake District tomorrow. Thinking of doing the Whiteside-Grassmoor Round and then seeing the Rannerdale bluebells at the end. But also sort of can't be arsed and feel anxious about it.

Not an expert in these matters, but I wouldn't be bringing up the six occupied territories of Northern Ireland completely uninvited.

Partisan cheese? I call this meal Bella Chow

I got out with the girls at 6am and then Heather came to join us at 8:30am with Zach. Was a nice long walk. I tried to offer Zach up to god, but he didn't want him.

Heather went out last night with the dogs looking for the air tag. It's registered to her phone and I've got an Android so can't locate it. Shey couldn't find it. I walked to the approximate location this morning and immediately found the air tag 🥳

All caught up on Maul Shadow Lord and it is great. I still think animated Star Wars is the best Star Wars.

It's Friday and we all know what that means?! Yes! A day closer to Sunday when we get a new episode of From.

Zach's little grin as he's about to stand up, walk over and wipe his mucky hands and snotty nose on me.

At this time last week I'd just got down from our final hill of the day to start the walk back to the car. With absolutely no idea that within two hours I'd be stood on the hard shoulder of the M6 with two spaniels, waiting for the RAC.

Sorted it. TLDR is that I didn't enclose part of a sql query in speech marks. Which is because that part was a perl variable so I just did: 'where field_name = $variable' instead of 'where field_name = "$variable"'