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A Shepherds Hut was in an auction In 2021 I read an online article online in a daily newspaper where a sheep farmer had been outbid at an auction for an old Shepherds Hut by someone from London.

I have had some difficulties working out how to do draft posts in 11ty and went with a standard solution that has worked well over the past few years.

I have had the disks from my Drobo 5N sitting in protective cases for five years.

I have received a 009 Society Kerr Stuart Sirdar, a new 009 narrow Gauge loco produced by Rapido Trains UK.

In a bout of inspiration this week I changed some of the framework on this site.

Spent the weekend visiting family on the East Kent Coast and decided we would pop over to St Margarets Bay as we had not been for some time.

What is OKF Google Cloud's Open Knowledge Format (OKF v0.1) was released on 12 June 2026 by Google Cloud and is essentially a formalisation of something developers and SEOs have been doing informally for a while — maintaining markdown knowledge bases.

When I work on a site migration I like to redirect everything I possibly can find, very much in a 'no one gets left behind' sort of way.

I use Fathom Analytics for measuring my sites as it is privacy based and has a great dashboard.

11ty templates set up In my 11ty templates I generally use the same content for the title and the h1 tags.

We are life members of the National Trust so try and get out to see as many locations in a year as possible.

Here is the recipe!

Having enjoyed Kaj Kandler’s presentation at the 25th 11ty meetup July 2025 I wanted a modular and automated way to add json schema to my personal website so built a set of templates and some simple logic.

I was having issues sorting out the redirects on Cloudflare and have learnt a few things on the way so am documenting them here – because I will forget it all whilst in the pursuit of happier things.

I came across an odd bug in Apple OSX Messages and reported it to Apple a few months ago, but I am sure they have had other liquidy things to focus on at the moment.

I track keywords and phrases for websites even though I have had a long held belief that it's partly a waste of time.

This has been quite a journey and as professional Technical SEO, quite the challenge.

Why did I want a bookmarks page?

Winchelsea Beach We have decided to get out a bit more this year and go and see places we have not been to before or for a while.

Many years ago when I was working for a global financial services organisation I came up with a strategy which I called Marketing URLs.

I was tagged by Bob Monsour to answer the challenge.

Just read Git Commit Messages by Angie Herrera who has started organising Git Commit Messages "in a way that keeps things organized and makes future me a bit happier and less stressed".

Table of Contents First Building - Sennan Cove cottage Brick booking office and goods hall Stone Office with adjoining open canopy and platform Completion of the Goods Shed and Ticket Office The original plans Reinier drew included a building at the front…

I upgraded the image plugin for 11ty on a small site which had an unintended chain of issues!

I read a short post on Mastodon from Pierre Carrier saying that his blog had a newspaper mode - and it looks great!

A week ago I started having issues with my home network, a network that I had built up and improved over the years.

That's odd I though - does Mousehole actually have cobbled streets?

I signed up for the Modelu.

Whilst most of the Whitesands Quay layout has been planned for many years the details don't actually get sorted out until I turn my attention to them.

Table of Contents How to build a bin store Materials and Planning Construction Process Bin Store Under Construction – Without Roof Bin Store Under Construction – With Roof Extra Features Block of Wood to Hold Bin Lids Open Finishing Touches Painting the B…

We had a Nordpeis Duo 2 wood burning stove installed some years ago and it looks fab!

More of a reminder for myself next time Image need to do this!

I switched all my small projects over to Fathom Analytics in 2023 for various reasons but there was one page on my site where I kept the Google Analytics code - the 404 page.

A "Hang on a minute" moment - what are those?

I read a couple of articles this week on cleaning up your 11ty config file, the initial one that I found from Robin Hoover and the second from Lene Saile in which Lene had added a 3rd method, adding another config file as a plugin which I then understood…

Set up a draft system in 11ty Now this and a few other sites I have are running on 11ty I have been meaning to add a way of marking a post as a draft while I am writing it - just in case I need to publish a short while getting an article ready.

Recently late one evening when I should have been going to sleep, I had an idea.

I have recently changed the lastmod date in my xml site map to be accurate now that Google are wanting that.

Google's new policy has meant changes to the xml sitemap Google have recently got a little more particular about the last modified date in your xml sitemap following their decision to drop the ability to ping updates to thier endpoint..

Just deployed a site using the 11ty image plugin and it is working well.

In February 2023 I discovered I had an issue with crawling a site after some changes.

I have knocked up a 3D chassis for the Stanton Coach I am designing.

I have a couple of 11ty built sites that are auto deployed out to Cloudflare Pages.

What is INP?

Is there a viable alternative to Google Analytics?

Do we need a neck tag in html?

What is myrm.club?

Last week we were hit by a sudden storm.

A new model of a row of cottages The baseboard of Whitesands Quay is bigger then the original plan by Reinier Hendrickson and so I had to introduce additional features which includes a back row of buildings.

The AI revolution really began in 2022 for the common person but 2023 is the year where it really took off.