This section covers my life outside of Trainz and other rail simulators which this site is mostly about. This reflects what else I do in my spare time and you will find the following topics come up amongst others – sometimes with Youtube videos.
- Parish Council work (I am currently as I write this a Parish Council)
- Computing and remote VDI solutions for personal use
- Work (VERY occasionally!)
- Travels
- Website troubleshooting and design.
- Other situations like social situations. As I am openly on the Autistic Spectrum, I sometimes find myself in difficult social situations.
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Finding an old site.
Read more: Finding an old site.I thought with WordPress, this would be my only site, turns out I forgotten one! Oops. I had a wordpress.com account with a blog that I was planning to turn into a full site and mess with WordPress, then transfer things over, its not the first time I’ve done that, I created a few internal WordPress sites (they didn’t work – surprise surprise) and get used to new features and create the site I’d like to see. I’m closer now than I have ever been. So, to complete everything including posts from 2016 (when I was actually Train Presentation), I’ve…
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WordPress sometimes
Read more: WordPress sometimesSo an entry of (another?) gripe about how WordPress works. Its a bit alien to me, its a bit troublesome to me, but I wanted to replace my WIP site with a site that’s got a CMS system, since its easier to update and everywhere else is going CMS. Plus for mobile use, its rather flexible. So I came up with a few ideas and the original one was to use a single WordPress site, then I messed with template, then I struggled to deal with templates. I used Joomla! before and that was OK – until I had no…
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Life as a redhead
Read more: Life as a redheadSo I’ve mentioned about life with ASD, but I’ve not really talked about life as a redhead, a natural one as I’m naturally ginger and a bloke. One thing to get used to, you are the only ginger for miles. It’s estimated that there are about 1.5% of people on this earth with natural red hair, the UK has the highest proportion of redheads however, but there are unique problems associated with red hair. Not the obvious, so keep that off the comments please! What better time to talk about it during a heatwave in the UK and there is…
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Railway Byelaws (and one you may not be aware of)
Read more: Railway Byelaws (and one you may not be aware of)The interesting thing about the UK rail system is that there are many byelaws. I visited Ireland recently and one byelaw that you should know that can’t be enforced and as you may of read, I’m on the Autistic Spectrum Disorder which I believe I am rather sensitive to: In fact, hyper sensitive at times. This is where the byelaws on National Rail are a godsend, because Railway Byelaw 7 in particular which states, coming from the National Rail website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/railway-byelaws/railway-byelaws#conduct-and-behaviour-1 (Retrieved 18/06/2025) “7. Music, sound, advertising and carrying on a trade. 1. Except with written permission from an operator,…
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Trains again (and women).
Read more: Trains again (and women).So now for another blog about women – on trains, but this time, I don’t think I’ll see them again. I’m over in Northern Ireland as I write this, staying around the Bangor area and a friend and myself decided to get a train from Carnalea to Belfast Grand Central. Bangor has some great views on the line, had a nice CAF Class 4000 unit which the first coach at least, suddenly wanted to divorce its gearbox. Carnelea has some nice views and some interesting plants, it’s next to t a golf course too. Only downside is that my friend…
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Something random – Why I love thin clients.
Read more: Something random – Why I love thin clients.I thought I’ll write something different for once and it maybe something to give you a thought on what to do with ex corporate equipment, in my case, mobile thin clients. These don’t have to be used in an organisation to be useful, they can be used at home as well. (From a MS Word document) Have I just created a new word or phrase? I think I need to explain this. So I’m trying to reduce the weight on my back and my current setup is a mobile thin client for personal use, a normal laptop (Dell Latitude) for…
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Small update
Read more: Small updateI know I’ve not said anything for around 2 months, things have been rather busy, but been working on posts in the background. I wanted to keep my work off this blog but I’m going to have to do it to explain some of the issues as some of the content coming up I have planned will talk about my recent trips. Work for me is basically, I’ve gone from one company to another basically overnight. Those in the UK will know about the big change that came out with transport, ironically 02:00 the day I wrote this blog –…
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Holidays
Read more: HolidaysSo I write this as I am on leave again and I wanted to write this about 2 weeks after I did – I.e. now. In previous years, I don’t usually get 2 sets of annual leave requested quite close to each other, I.e. 2 weeks between which what happened this year. In early March 2025, I went away with my mum and my younger sister and the photos I came up with were… rather good. This was spent in “Crawford Lakes” near Holsworthy, Devon UK. The photos around the lakes were impressive as for March, we had very good…
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I turned 39…
Read more: I turned 39…Yes really, its my 39th today, I apparently don’t look it, just a lot younger. However, there is more to this story. So finally 39, well over half my life (I think!) its come with a lot of problems and still not the most stable person. I do have some tasks before I turn 40 though, one being my own place as I still live with my dad. Finanically, I’m better off than I ever have been as I’ve avoided kids and marriage somehow. I’ll discuss another aspect after this bit. How does it feel? I need to lose weight…
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The most difficult part of my life (so far)..
Read more: The most difficult part of my life (so far)..WARNING! CONTAINS SUBJECTS OTHERS MAY FIND DISTRESSING.(Pets)