Hey, been a while, but what a month.

I've been unable to commit time to this site over the last four/five weeks and my list of things I want to add and write is only growing; On and off illness including a throat that was so sore it hurt to breathe, the installation of a water treatment plant, my first visit to a theatre to see a stage production, and the chaos of work.

Luckily we avoided the Crowdstrike escapade. If we had been hit by a similar outage at work I'm not sure we would have done much recovery at all by now as I and the family have been suffering with a chain of illnesses that have been almost completely debilitating. Somehow we managed to be bed bound on different days so parenting could continue, though it was a struggle. And it wasn't even anything exotic that took us out - we're talking cold, flu and covid.

Let's hope the summer break limits the bugs and illnesses that get transmitted and end up knocking us down. If we're luckily our immune systems will somewhat recover by September. In the meantime, I need to update /now and /ideas.