Sam Clarke

Goals for 2021: Commitment

2020 was a year filled with a lot of great personal victories, I wrote about it in my Year in Review. 2021 is now the second year in a row I've set myself considered, measurable goals for the 12 months ahead and given the success of last year intended on using the same approach.

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Simple Sourdough

This is about the most basic sourdough recipe I think you can really get away with. It uses a mix of strong white bread and rye flours, though you can ditch the rye entirely by just replacing it with more white flour, and uses only minimal equipment available in most kitchens.

Yearly Goals: 2020 in Review

All things considered 2020 was a year filled with personal successes. This was the first time I'd really set myself a structured set of goals for the year ahead, where

Upgrading my Office Chair

I've seen a few recommendations for this recently as an easy, relatively cheap, super comfortable upgrade to any office chair. I'm still using my Herman Miller Aeron - which is

Working from Home

My current working from home setup. Although, with everyone doing it, it’s really more distributed working, and I’m really enjoying it. Being the only one working from home

Pick up the pace

I've really enjoyed my reading challenge so far this year. I flew through my first 3 books in as many weeks, but hit a stumbling block going in to the

On the road again

I got my driving licence at 18 almost as soon as the DVLA’s scheduling system would allow. I was fortunate enough to have both my parents spend countless hours

Family Additions

It struck me on my way to the office this morning, that it's been so long since I wrote here regularly, that we've had a bit of a change to

Yearly Goals

Taking some inspiration from Derek Muller, CGP Grey & Myke Hurley I'm writing down my goals for 2020 with the hope it'll increase my chances of actually achieving them. Trying

Conservatory Zen

We picked up the keys to our current house on boxing day last year and after a week or so of cleaning, we packed up and moved out of our

On my Vegetarianism

I forget exactly when, but a few years ago we noticed that Elliotte had started biting her fingernails. The guilt I felt when I first saw it happen was immense, after all, it was my fault - I was the only one around her that bit their nails, and I'd passed this horrible trait on to my daughter.

Yoga

I've never, as such, been against yoga - But only very recently have I begun to see the benefits of the discipline. After what amounts to only an hour of total practise, I've very quickly changed my opinion and am now looking to make it a part of my everyday routine.

I'm Going Vegetarian

A little over a year ago now, my fiancée made the switch to a fully vegetarian diet and since then has been creeping across the line of veganism with attempts

Managing my Server

It’s been a couple of weeks now since I first got FreeNAS up and running on my home server. It wasn’t quite as easy as advertised, I came

Attempting to Set Up FreeNAS

Backups have always been a double edged sword for me. I either didn't back up frequently enough, or poorly planned my redundancy. Several times I've ended up losing data all

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Our Italian Roadtrip

On the Road Ellie and I left the house at 7am on Friday morning, aiming to be in Lyon for lunchtime the next day to meet Charleigh and Tyler at

Prepping for my 2014 PC Build

I've invested pretty heavily in an increasingly slender and lightweight range of Macbooks for a long time now. From the pre-unibody days of the Plastic Macbook to the Haswell based

I Quit Smoking and Learned a Few Things

I guess I'm not entirely proud of the fact that I've been a smoker for a good long while — 9 years to be exact. For a long time now I've

My Battle With Eczema

I’ve suffered with eczema since birth, I remember from a very young age visiting the doctors and various dermatologists as I was (As you can imagine) fairly self-concious

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