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Stuart Chalmers

@stu73

From #Paisley. Head of Digital Products at @NPL. Former: @bre_group, @odugUK, @riba. Likes: #OpenData #Digital #Tech #Ukulele & @saintmirrenfc. Views My Own.

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Think every barber shop should have a visiting cat that comes in for some dreamies, a nap and to get petted by the clienteleβ€¦πŸˆ

08.03.2026 11:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Starting to feel the first hints of spring down on the South Coast 🌞 (bonus points for spotting Ace the cat enjoying the new season πŸˆβ€β¬›)

02.03.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
GameCube and GameCube games

GameCube and GameCube games

Afternoon well spent getting my #gamecube back up and running with a #bitfunx HDMI adapter. Best gaming console ever 🀘

10.01.2026 15:00 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Vinted delivery in the post today - β€œGod’s Gift” by Toranaga - got this after picking up their β€œBastard Ballads” EP last week. Fantastic album and band that never got quite as big as I thought they should have. Love it. πŸ‘ŒπŸ€˜

10.01.2026 12:46 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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FIP – Γ‰couter la radio en direct et les radios thΓ©matiques Tout l'univers musical de FIP, sΓ©lection de titres Jazz, Electro, Rock, Pop, Groove et bien plus. Γ‰coutez la radio en direct et les radios thΓ©matiques.

First day back at work and doing lots of sorting/planning. Best thing about WFH? Get to listen to and switch between the various Fip Radio stations all day. Best find of 2025.

www.radiofrance.fr/fip

05.01.2026 14:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Pinebook pro laptop and usb-c dock and external monitor

Pinebook pro laptop and usb-c dock and external monitor

Result! After ages searching online for solution, got my Pinebook Pro working with a usb-c dock/external monitor thanks to custom Manjaro kernel from: github.com/mjrh/archlin...

02.01.2026 10:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s times like this when I try to do something vaguely coding related that I really see how pointless LLM generated crap at top of search results are. Wasting time wading through nonsense to get to some actual worthwhile tips/help. Must be some way to switch it off. Wonder if the LLM will tell me…

01.01.2026 20:30 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Starting New Year’s Day having a lunchtime pint in Worthing and watching the Sompting Village Morris Tipteerers performing the Christmas Mummer’s play.

01.01.2026 14:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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2025: A Year in Gigs Total number of gigs attended in 2025: 23 If I was to sum up the gigs I’ve been to this year I’d say it was the old chestnut β€œvaried”. By that I mean a mixture of old and ne…

2025: A Year in Gigs stu73.net/2025-a-year-...

26.12.2025 10:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Did my 200th Parkrun today at a freezing Worthing seafront. 6 years on from my 100th in 2019 and nearly 13 years on from my first Parkrun in 2013. Thanks to Lou for the celebration balloon 🎈

25.12.2025 22:47 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Well that was a bit of alright. Cabaret Voltaire live at the Attenborough Centre in Brighton.

23.11.2025 22:58 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sunday night doin’ the do with the legend Betty Boo down in Brighton - amazing!

23.11.2025 22:54 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Another great find today - Lacy J Dalton’s 1980 album β€œHard Times”. Bit of Saturday country listening…

18.11.2025 08:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nice Saturday charity shop find - Sally Oldfield’s 1978 folky/proggy album β€œWater Bearer”.

18.11.2025 08:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A great Sunday night at Mid Sussex Music Hall watching Ashley Campbell and her band.

09.11.2025 23:40 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The always brilliant Du Blonde live at 93 Feet East in Brick Lane last Thursday πŸ€˜πŸ‘ŒπŸ‘

09.11.2025 23:35 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trying to get my reading bug back again. Not looked at a book for months. Revisiting some of the classics from my teens. See what Corum of the Scarlet Robe has been up to…

10.10.2025 00:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Great way to end the holiday - AC/DC live in Oslo πŸ€˜πŸ‡³πŸ‡΄

07.08.2025 07:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Getting a bit obsessed with finding all the variations of Jefferson Airplane, Starship and all the side projects and solo albums. This one is great even though no Grace Slick on it. From 1979, got a real 80s rock feel to it and worth listening to for the song β€œJane” alone 🀘🀘

23.07.2025 20:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Weakest Link relay race tonight with the #portsladehedgehoppers down at Hove Lagoon πŸ‘πŸƒβ€β™‚οΈ

23.07.2025 20:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tried the Run 5:30 5k today in Brighton. Looked amazing down along the seafront at 5:30am just as the sun was coming up.

11.07.2025 10:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Great night out with the #portsladehedgehoppers doing the Preston Park Weakest Link relay run #brighton

26.06.2025 06:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Got a copy of Hawkwind’s 1972 album β€œDoremi Fasol Latido” recently and it had a mint condition β€œStar Rats” poster inside. Decided it was too good to keep hidden away in the record sleeve…got it framed now and up on the wall.

25.06.2025 11:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Great night out running on the downs with the #portsladehedgehoppers - views were amazing.

17.06.2025 22:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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After being wiped out since Thursday by a bout of Norovirus, felt better enough today to tackle this wee job in the garden - painted and put up a new arch where the old one had blown down during storm Darragh in December.

16.03.2025 17:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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While in Dungeness me & Lou visited Lydd and found this amazing little shop, Lyons. Had nice chat with owner and she’s been there over 50 years - she took over from her parents who opened the place in the 1950’s. It has men’s/women’s clothes and a hardware section in the middle. Proper old school.

01.03.2025 09:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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One week married! Me and Lou got married last Wednesday in secret at Brighton Registry Office. Had a nice small celebration out in Brighton then off to a cottage in windy Dungeness for a mini-honeymoon.

01.03.2025 09:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Slava Ukraini πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ ✊

01.03.2025 09:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Love this album!

22.01.2025 21:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Had an old Maplin weather station for ages but it broke a year or so ago just before I moved down to Brighton. Found the exact same model, new and unopened, in a charity shop for a tenner. Getting it going and will get it connected to my raspberry pi next. β˜”οΈβ›ˆοΈπŸƒβ„οΈπŸŒ¨οΈβ˜€οΈπŸŒ€οΈπŸŒ¦οΈ

12.01.2025 16:59 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0