Darren Townsend

@forrishilier.bsky.social

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Husband. Proud dad to 17yo boy. Codeclub leader, CoG at 3 fab schools. Digital Making advocate. RPi Certified Educator. Delivers bread.

Book - The Lost Girls Of Autism, by Gina Rippon.
A building on The Bourne in Hastings, with multiple dormer windows.
Views over the rooftops of Hastings, from the top of the cliff.
A typical airport breakfast of sausage sandwich & a pint of Stella.
The queue for the Lego store opening in Oxford is around 2 sides of the shopping centre.
A snippet from the book, which gives a nod to decreased reaction to pain.
Book - The Lost Girls Of Autism, The Untold Story of Women on the Spectrum, by Gina Rippon.
The prime minister has given the British Medical Association (BMA) 48 hours to call off the six-day doctor strike in England after Easter or face losing 1,000 extra training places.
The pan drawer, which holds all of our pans very neatly when they're put away but a normal person. This has seemingly suffered a minor earthquake 🙄
Cadbury's Old Jamaica Rum & Raisin chocolate bar, which is apparently making a comeback.
Swindon's 'Magic Roundabout'. Named after the 70s children's TV programme, which was known for its possibly-drug-induced stories, this iconic piece of road infrastructure could easily have been designed by someone under the influence of questionable substances. It has a central roundabout, around which traffic flows anti-clockwise, surrounded by 5 mini-roundabouts which have the more usual clockwise flow. What makes this roundabout more 'interesting' than other contraflow roundabouts is that the central roundabout is small & flat, so that a driver can see the whole of this wonder of road design ahead of them when approaching.
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK. Famous for it's concrete cows and (unusual in the UK) grid layout. Every single one of those main intersections is a roundabout, and most of the roads are 60mph. Great practice for roundabout etiquette :-)
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A patch of old carpet inexpertly laid to hide a temporary gap in the laminate floor.
Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson.
Our Christmas dinner, as reguested by kiddo, with roast lamb, red onion gravy, spuds (both roast & mashed), cauli & broccoli cheese, pigs in blankets, & stuffing 🤷
My rather cramped & messy computer area, currently strewn with BBC Microbits and various other random electronics.
An already-depleted batch of homemade Chocolate Brownies 😊
An adult hedgehog with their front paws on the edge of the bowl, having a drink.
3 packets of Cold & Flu capsules, one for each of us!
A partially-completed porch, with all framing done, ready for tiles to go on tomorrow.
A selfie of an idiot with a plaster over one eye, which he hopes will staunch the fliw of blood.
A front doorway now bereft of porch, apart from the main support, which I shall be reusing. The remains of the old porch lay in splinters on the ground.
A boring, felt-covered porch that is well past it's sell-by-date. It was put up when the house was built in 72.
The wiring inside a hairdryer. The brown live wire has a lot of bare wire showing, possibly causing a short on the neighbouring terminal.
A blue Raleigh Bomber bike.
3 landscape pictures (not landscape format, just literally pictures of a landscape) that depict a hill scene. The pictures have been hung out of sequence!
A group of pictures on a wall, all purposely at different heights.
An IKEA Billy bookcase (in beech, because we're classy 😉), looking a bit fuller than it was half an hour ago, with various parts boxes, kits, books, and electronics. It could probably do with dusting 😳
Some MiniBit robots, a couple of potential robot projects, 3 books some Pi Pico bits, and 2 Microbit kits, all of which are staying out in the open, much to the disappointment of my wife 😬
4 large plastic tubs, full of Raspberry Pi, Microbit, and other related paraphernalia.
2 tubs of wires that were probably put away very neatly, but having been stored unused for nearly 20 years, the wires have had time to plot their revenge and wind themselves into a tangled mess.
An image of the back of the 9751 Interface, showing a 9-pin serial port, and a PAT test sticker dated 2007.
A pile of old educational (Dacta) Lego, which I'm hoping will all make sense in a couple of hours.
The 'remember me' check box on any website login page, that is guaranteed not to remember you.
The remains of a ghost sign on the gable end of a building on Queen Street in Oxford.