- We travelled back from last week’s holiday on Ibiza.
- It wasn’t exactly a warm welcome home at Stansted airport: we had an hour queueing for our passports to be checked and then a 45-minute wait for a surge-priced Uber.
- Next day it was straight back to school for the boys. In previous years there have been a few nerves and night-before anxiety, but they were both excited to go back and see their friends.
- Maybe a little too excited: C broke his wrist on Friday after falling while climbing in the playground. An x-ray confirmed the break. He now has a splint and sling to wear. It’s not bothering him too much: he can still hold a Switch Joy-Con in his hand.
- The boys are now in years five and three, moving ever closer to secondary school age. We’ve started the search and have a couple of open days booked in this term. Boundaries and rules seem to have changed and there may be additional schools available. It’s confusing and uncertain.
- With access to my laptop again I’ve been hacking. I’ve set up my own PDS (Personal Data Host). I firmly believe in the IndieWeb principle of owning my own data and this lets me self-host my Bluesky posts and other content. Whether I want to pay for and maintain a VPS for this is a different question! Using the PDS’s API I can also build a website that serves my content without needing Bluesky’s AppView. A fun new project, and perhaps the basis of my next personal website.
- Football is back for H’s new under-10s team. He had his first pre-season friendly on Saturday. They were pretty rusty and lost 4-3 to a local Hertford team.
