mark hysted

Having flirted (if that is the right term) with bullet journalling before I’m going to give it another go.

If I go running a couple of times a week am I a runner?

This is becoming a bit of a theme, lose something, order a replacement, and then the lost item reappears.

In late 2025 I put together a list of things I would dump in 2026.

Some of you may have noticed that I change blog platforms regularly, I love all the new ideas and how different blog providers have slightly different approaches.

In the UK we are used to the rain, we get a lot of it.

As disappointingly forecast in my previous post, the missing AirPod has reappeared.

I wrote some time ago about the benefits of wired headphones, including the fairly obvious fact that they are harder to lose.

This is the inverse of my recent post about stuff I’d like to dump in 2026.

A list of things I might dump in 2026.

We have been having some work done to the house, requiring a lot of decisions.

Think this is my third visit to the Royal West of England Academy Annual Open Exhibition and the first I have managed to capture my favourites and cobble them together in a post.

I did start my dry September experiment slightly early and that might justify an early finish, but to be honest that wouldn’t be telling all of the story.

January has always seemed to be the worst month to stop drinking alcohol.

I’m about 2 months into my apple watch experiment, and to be honest, I’m not wearing it now.

Went to Watershed in Bristol today to watch the ballad of Wallis island.

One of the apple products I have never owned is an Apple Watch, I was recently offered a spare watch by my parents so I thought I would give it a go.

As I continue to wander aimlessly around the world of blogging tools I have returned to WordPress.

Now that I am a gardener I need to sort out the compost bins.

We have lived, up until now, in houses with lawns and simple borders.