BOOM! Figured out how to turn off automatic blog post thumbnails. (Wrap <!-- --> around the thumbnail stuff in index.html.)

On a roll, but should quit while I’m ahead.

Housing association sent someone round a couple of days ago to place this essential post-Grenfell fire safety sticker inside our communal front door.

Just now another guy came to do the same job.

No excuses now for not leaving the house.

A door with a metal handle and lock features a green sign indicating "Turn to open."

Finally figured out how to use the Lite Youtube embed plugin.

In settings, replaced “post-content” with “post__content”. (This maybe unique to my Anatole theme.)

Now instead of no videos showing in my blog posts, every video is displayed twice.

🤦‍♂️

Space-obsessed four year old last week:

“My head is full of questions, Dad. There are eight planets in our solar system. Four rocky planets, and four gas and ice planets. Do the gas planets have a rocky core?”

Space-obsessed four year old today:

“Daa-aad. What’s in Uranus?”

Spent half the day trying to force @robb@social.lol’s YouTube Lite plugin to work on my site, but have conceded failure. I thought I had it working at one time (and it definitely worked on my test-blog), so deleted all the YT shortcodes I’d been using previously. Gah.

We always used the have a special meal to mark New Year’s Day, like Christmas and Easter Sunday, but yesterday, as big kid was away and I had to go and collect him, we ate leftover burgers, chips, rice, beans and salad.

Main course for me. Comfort food from childhood.

Boiled gammon, mashed potatoes, carrots and white sauce.

My Gran and my Mum used the make this. Carrots boiled with the bacon joint. Sweet as!

A bowl filled with mashed potatoes, cabbage, sliced meat topped with a creamy sauce, and a side of roasted vegetables.

I made a Snowman out of mashed potatoes, with sausage arms, carrot nose, onion mouth, cabbage scarf, roast potato hat and gravy eyes and buttons.

Will little kid eat it?

A snowman-shaped sculpture is made from mashed potatoes with a potato hat, carrot nose, gravy eyes, and meat for arms, served on a plate.

I posted on my blog about Jimmy Carter. Hoping to post more in 2025 but don't hold me to that - danlynch.org/blog/2025/01/rip-

#music #creativecommons

A wet and wild white-knuckle ride home into driving wind and rain on the London Orbital.