Liz Crew

Aaaarrrggghhhh - webforms which don't allow saving and do weird things. Today's pet hate.

Our hosepipe ban was only rescinded last week!

I have a nephew who is 10 years younger than me and a strapping 6'4" - he will be forever about 7 to me and yet, he's now over 50. When he was 19 I once reached for his hand to cross the road.

"If the product is free, you're the product" and "don't click the link" come first equal.

Ah this is what Janauary weekends are for: using a new garden shredder, nearly breaking it, learning how to fix it and then learning that dried lilac trimmings offer the same compressive strength as adamantium.

we discovered a sleepy newt in the garden whilst trying to weed and mulch apple trees. Nice to know I didn't imagine the one I thought I saw in the pond last summer

Sounds like it...

Is it simnel cake that has marzipan balls on the top for decoration one for each disciple (poss exc Judas)?

We switched to Serif Affinity suite: photo editing, DTP and vector graphics. £70 per perpetual licence. Not as shiny as Adobe but certainly good enough for most people. Think it's now been taken over by...errr...Canva??

The same happened with Microsoft and every other "traditional" project management software package. Everyone switched to Project so almost everything else disappeared. Project, being Excel with a sort-of front-end isn't up to the job.

Hello all Minis session attendees and parents/guardians! Our weekly Minis sessions for ages 8-12 will be moving to Tuesdays, starting from our first session in 2026 (the 13th of January). We hope that all of you will be able to keep coming to these sessions, and look forward to seeing you next year!

Our team @techresort.bsky.social have really knocked it out of the park this year. More people supported than ever before. In other news...NEWS!

Love my Instant pot - loads-of-function-thing. Being able to sauté, then add liquid and slow cook, or being able to shove chicken carcass plus veg and water in it and use the pressure cooker function is awesome. Occasionally use the air fryer thing too

Bigg Market Saturday night frock...

Yay! The Orchids are back and now with added Christmas decoration in residence.

Two glasses of beer on a pub table.

Ah...we have travelled to the Shire and have entered our spiritual home. All is right with the world (well obviously it isn't but just give me this for a couple of hours, eh?)

It's incredibly prevalent in adults who are struggling. Those people often have complex, overlapping issues that most support is only looking at one aspect of. V.Frustrating.

Our work supporting adults with basic digital skills includes a lot of service-users referred from recovery, homelessness, poverty, worklessness etc local support.
All our staff are neurodiverse and they recognise immediately when those service-users have neurodiverse traits.

Blessed are the cheesemakers??

Roger Deakins really is the Robert Mapplethorpe of cinema, IMHO. Fewer butt plugs and cocks, though.

TechResort Newsletter November 2025

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By having neither cats, nor Christmas trees. We find this extremely effective. Not helpful?

Also, from my experience with young people at @techresort.bsky.social , employers very risk-averse to taking on young people with no paid work track record. As a result youngsters fall into the no-experience-no-work/no-work-no-experience trap

One of the tiny pubs in Bristol, I've seen the landlord intervene and ask hoggers to 'let other people sit down'. Hearty approval of this

Oh yeah, those are the words I really want to see on my PC that 'just needed a little Win11' update: 'Your keyboard is disabled whist we update your firmware...'

Elements - really engaging (albeit about 10 years old) chemistry podcasts with Justin Rowlatt and Andrea Sela

Can also recommend leftover fish pie used as toast-toppers on sourdough toast. That was this week's revelation for me.

Mostly Chaotic Evil with my own books. Typically Chaotic Good with other people's.
A previous partner would dispute the Chaotic Evil stance because he always said he liked to see at what point a previous reader had paused - I liked that.

Hahahahahahaha! Fantastic, thank you