What is Simon Cox up to now?
Latest
Last updated: 9 June 2025 Fixed the wood store as the floor collapsed under the weight of the logs.
Lots of Great Tit and Blue Tit fledgelings hammering away at the birdfeeder, with Yellowhammers, robins, jackdaws, chaffinches, bullfinches, Great woodpeckers wood pigeons and rock doves all feeding off the fallen seed from the ground! Probably the voles too, so I am having to refill the feeder nearly every day. Also Had a badger, fox, Roe fawn, kit and grey squirrel as well as Roe and Fallow deer wandering into the garden. Not seen the nuthatches for a while which is a worry though I have heard them.
Work
Just finished a huge site platform migration with over 650k pages in the old site - and only about 14k in the new as there had been a lot of unessesary and unhelpful duplication. I'm sure decisions were made for the right reasons at the time.
More work coming up on a Charities WordPress website too.
If you want me to have a look at a project of yours, please do get in touch.
Hobbies
No progress on Whitesands Quay for a while though have had some thoughts. Waiting for the next spell of inspiration.
Gaming
Played Dredge on the Mac - was good but the story plot was a bit lacking, though i did like that there was no set path in it - you go fishing and its fun.
Weekend games here was superb! Next one booked for August. played:
- Flamme Rouge x2 (ongoing Tour)
- Homesteaders
- Clans of Caledonia
- Scythe: The Rise of Fenris (Ongoing campaign)
- Colt Express
- Great Western Trail: New Zealand
Always happy to play online so please do invite me for a game of something! Me on board Game Arena.
Reading
Still slowly reading Hello World by Hannah Fry. 'Still' because I fall asleep almost immediately. I used to read books avidly but not so much these days.
Ideas
About Now Ideas is an interesting site that allows searching of small sites like this that have About, Now and Ideas pages. This site now has all three!
What I'm Listening To Now
This is a list of the 18 tracks I last listened to on Spotify. If you give the page a refresh in a few moments it might update if I am listening right now!
and a bigger list.
NowNowNow
This page was inspired by the Now Now Now movement. You can find out more about it at nownownow.com.