Paul Robert Lloyd

  1. ♫ Change by Tears for Fears

    ♫ Change by Tears for FearsI wasn’t blown away by Marty Supreme, but it has given me a new found appreciation of Tears for Fears.

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  2. 2025 in review

    Another circuit around the sun and time once again to reflect on a year gone by.

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  3. 2025 in numbers

    Once is an accident, twice is coincidence, three times is a pattern.

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    Today I… stayed up to watch the finale of Stranger Things (and wasn’t disappointed), took a morning walk with old friends, spent the afternoon with both my godmother and goddaughter and concluded it by getting hooked onto new series of The Traitors and The Night Manager. Pretty good start to 2026, I’d…

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    Delivering a small Indiekit-shaped Christmas present, with a new beta release that includes some quality-of-life improvements alongside localisation for Brazilian Portuguese. Feliz Natal!

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  6. Manage vaccinations in schools: Flu private beta

    The mission patch for the release supporting seasonal flu vaccinations features Mavis and her 2 cubs getting their boosters; one with a doughnut, another with a diamond.

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  7. Manage vaccinations in schools: CHIS discovery

    The mission patch for the CHIS (child health information services) discovery features Mavis howling to notify all nearby polar bears about an unvaccinated cub. She does so by standing atop a block of nearby cheese (sounds like chis).

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    Getting close to completing the fourth and final section of Bradshaw’s Guide. As of today, you can now find descriptions for all 1338 towns and cities published in the 1866 edition. Next up; adding the final set of routes and stations.

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    Completed it mate.

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    DUH-DUH-DUH-DUH, LANDO NORRIS! WORLD CHAMPION! 🏆

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    I have re-watched Die Hard and can confirm: it is a Christmas movie (no matter what the British public may think).

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  12. NHS Vaccination Digital Services: Autumn/Winter Campaign 2025

    The mission patch to celebrate the digital services supporting the Autumn/Winter 2025 seasonal vaccination campaigns.

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    I absolutely bloody love Haim, and they didn’t disappoint this evening.

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  14. Last of the summer shine

    Attempting to avoid tourist treadmills in France and Spain.

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    Enjoyed drinks and a curry in Birmingham this evening alongside 6 familiar faces to celebrate an astonishing anniversary; 20 years ago this month, 4 web developers met in Walsall, and the Multipack was born.

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    The concourse at Euston station is now a festival of Rail Alphabet 2. Yet move beyond that and… well, God knows what font has been chosen for the gantries above the approaches to platforms (which themselves still use NR Brunel). One day there might be some visual coherence on the railway, but today is…

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    Trying to buy tickets for a major tourist attraction in Barcelona. Three separate attempts fail to complete (session expired). Go to the attraction hoping to buy tickets in person; online purchases only. When speak to an official, tells me to use Google Chrome (I’m using an iPhone, which is a whole other…

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    Thanks to severe train delays, I have a morning to spend in Paris. Last night I booked into a charming hotel in Saint-Paul, and just met some of its extraordinarily friendly staff at breakfast. Going by previous experiences, I didn’t think any of this was possible! Paris might be growing on me.

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    Favourite tree doing favourite tree things.

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  20. ♫ Lucky by Radiohead

    ♫ Lucky by RadioheadPlayed this in the car driving around Kent with Jon at the weekend, and now pleasantly stuck in my head.

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    Caught up with the Apple Event. Took me 30 minutes to realise I was watching last year’s event.

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    Probably the last post-work rays of sunlight for 2025.

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  23. Twice as nice: Introducing the NHS.UK Eleventy Plugin

    With the NHS.UK Eleventy Plugin you can focus on writing content instead of writing code.

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  24. Sloppy

    Stop the slop.

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    I found a Benchmark. Harder to find than I thought it would be.

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