Finding the chase and cutting to it

I’ve had my own website since 2008 (long story, not relevant here). It was compromised in 2009. I was away from home, and while I had backups, there was no way I could get to them. It taught me a few things though: the compromise was completely my fault, so my website had to survive […]

It’s a lazy, sunny Saturday in May and I have opened our patio door wide to shelter from the sun. The shadow from our sun shade is covering the settee facing the courtyard perfectly, so it makes perfect sense. Honestly. A splash of light cloud drifts across the pale blue sky. There are insects buzzing […]

I have spent the past four years of my career helping teams understand their cyber risk. I would say, first and foremost, many of the established ways of doing business fundamentally introduce vulnerabilities into code. I love open source, but there are libraries I do not touch because I only “need” a couple of functions […]

It wasn’t a terrifically warm or sunny Easter, but the week after it was. Time to erect the sail shade I had bought last year. You waited eight months before putting it up? When you put it like that, it sounds like a missed opportunity. However, there were reasons, not limited to the fact I […]

This is a bit of a departure from my normal sort of post, but with the changes going on in our place, I wanted to cover making a house a home. Over the years, there have been many articles written in many types of publications (like this one) and TV shows talking about style, sometimes […]

I’ve taken a day off, what with all the work to get the house ready for the photos we promised the window company, to get the house clean for guests over Christmas. The house is deserted as Jon is working in the office today, so I also need to look after myself. Not a problem […]

Today is Saturday 20th December, and I have plans. My beloved is doing his turn stewarding a game at our local football club, and I am aiming to achieve the following: Ideally, the aim was to do a little more, but those were the big three. So, how did I do? Well, I woke up […]

Motives are what define us. They allow us to get up in the morning and get a boogie on rather than languish in bed – and believe me, we have all had those mornings where staying in bed and pulling the covers over our heads makes the most sense! For many, their jobs allow them […]

OK, last weekend the clocks changed and I did have that extra hour in bed last week. But I am still working on summer time, so when I woke up early this week, I seized the day. My beloved husband has taken up a lot of the slack since I got a bad bug last […]

I start, along with the confusion of achieving something new, my husband’s tone was “game show announcer” – not something I hear from him very often! The prompt for this announcement was my own surprise at having finished a packet of yeast before it had gone past it’s best before date – again, my beloved’s […]