Archives It’s all here, every post I’ve ever made on John’s Adventures. Warning: some of the content may entertain you, make you laugh, make you cry or make you furrow your brow trying to work out what the hell I was on about! 2023 My Recurring Tornado Dreams Finally End! With a Tornado! Hiking To An Active Volcano in Iceland A Week On Madeira, Followed By Another2022 A Hike Up Bidean nam Bian, Glencoe Staying Fit In Your 40s 12 Nights on a Virgin Voyages Cruise 20 Years Ago Today Starting At The Bottom And Learning To Cook Losing My Best Friend2021 You Play Football Long Enough, You End Up Being The Old Guy In The Team A Road Trip around North West Scotland2018 Visiting the Same Glacier 22 Years Apart – Seeing Climate Change in Action Two Weeks Driving The Circle National Parks2017 Saying Goodbye To Facebook2015 Earin Wireless Earphones – Well Worth The Wait On Life In The Mac App Store So I Guess I’m A Vegetarian Then A Few Days Snowboarding In Chamonix2014 John’s Background Switcher for Mac Goes Live! My 40th Birthday Photo Casebook The Tour De France Comes To Yorkshire A Few Days Snowboarding In Borovets, Bulgaria How To Show The xkcd “Now” Live World Clock On Your Desktop How I Learned To Ship Software (And Leave My Ego At The Door)2013 The Apollo Moon Missions and Me John’s Background Switcher Adds Dropbox Support, A New Photo Collage Option and More Languages A Week In Cornwall In November My Birthday Baking Photo Casebook Cornwall July 2013 John’s Luggage Advice For Non-Flying Business Trips To London (And Other Cities) John’s Background Switcher Adds Support For 500px, Last.fm, Pixabay and Tumblr Blogs A Week In Lanzarote The British Winter Tyre Conundrum 7 Things I Love About Having A Dog2012 Pictures From A Few Weeks In London Put Instagram Photos On Your Desktop Wallpaper With John’s Background Switcher The Perils And Pleasures Of An Inquisitive Mind A Weekend Camping Near Aysgarth, North Yorkshire Cornwall 2012 Ten Years Of Incoherent Ramblings (Blogging) Moving My Site From WordPress.org To WordPress.com So Now I’ve Got A Dog! Snowboarding, Morzine, 2012 17 Thoughts on Software, Humans and Facebook2011 The Tricky Decision Of What To Wear To Your Work Christmas Party Sunshine In North Wales St Andrews, A Trip Down Memory Lane Scafell Pike With Friends Belated Birthday Cakes Photo Casebook An Experience Only Counts When It’s Shared A Rest Is As Good As A Rest John’s Background Switcher 4.4 Released! A Long Weekend In North East Fife Tsunami Jamie Oliver’s 30 Minute Meals Why Depressing Music Cheers Me Up Reminiscing About Cold Winters Ain’t What It Used To Be2010 2010 Through The Eye Of A Lens The Very Serious Pursuit Of A Cup Of Coffee So It Turns Out The Best Small Car That Isn’t A Fiat 500 Is A Fiat 500 A New Site Design For Autumn Welcome To The Cloud John, Enjoy The View John Does Yoga Growing Our Own Veg – Year Two The Return Of The Return To The Isle Of Arran My Kind Of Hand Luggage John’s Background Switcher 4.2 Released! It’s Not About The Dog Why I Stare At The Sky FogCreek Kiln, Distributed Version Control Systems And Me The Benefits Of Physio Hogmanay at The Clachaig, Glencoe, Scotland2009 John’s Guide To Travelling With Hand Luggage Only A Weekend In Lyon And The Fete des Lumieres My Thoughts On The Microsoft PDC 2009 A Week In St. Ives, Cornwall John’s Background Switcher 4 Goes Live! A Long Weekend In Wales Rock Star To Marine Corps In One Minute The Cheesecake Comes Full Circle My Annual Camping Trip To Pendleton Dinner At Gordon Ramsay’s Maze Restaurant In London Our First Proper Harvest A Road Trip From Skye To Torridon To Aviemore A Couple Of Days In Plockton 10 Years In Yorkshire The Best Cafe In Skipton Some Flowers And Veg Growing In My Garden Something I Should Have Said Long Ago Bluebell Heaven Beating Those Crafty Television Advertisers Gardening Milestone – Our Veg Starts To Grow Loughrigg Fell, The Lake District John Joins The Rotary Club Ten Observations That Tell Me I’m Not As Young As I Used To Be The First Step To Growing Our Own Veg My First Mac OS Upgrade Jim’s Stag Do I Guess I’m Not Going To Scotland On Rails After All The State Of The British Economy Windows 7 And The Future Of John’s Background Switcher Life On Mars (Better Late Than Never) Oh Dear, I’m Hooked On Mariokart Wii!2008 Something Cool You May Not Know About Water WordPress Reaches 2.7 And Open Source Software From Joe Average To Premiership Football In One Year? The Mystery Of Our Plant Pot Vandal Solved Night Photography, Flash Guns And Too Much Of Me! The Days When The River Tay Used To Freeze Over A BlackBerry That Takes Over Your Life In A Good Way LOLCats, DeviantArt, Zooomr, ipernity, photobucket And More On Your Desktop With John’s Background Switcher 3.6 Some Photos Of My Brother And I From The 70’s My Start-Up’s Been Acquired! Creating Photo Gallery Overviews in WordPress John’s Dead Man Switch The World Is Definitely Moving On Ben Nevis Weekend Passengers That Ship In The Night Blind Faith by Ben Elton Mamma Mia – The Movie Karaoke Nights SnagIt 9 Or How To Take A Step Backwards In Usability Two Days In New York The Contents Of My Wallet How To Make A Surprise Really Surprising John’s Image Converter 2 Ploughing My Way Through The Discworld Books John’s Background Switcher 3.5 Released! A Shiny New Site Design You Can Take Your iPod Touch v2.0 Software And Shovel It They’re Much Sweeter When You Grow Your Own Stephen Fry’s Thoughts On The BBC My Glastonbury Festival Memories The March Of Time John’s Background Switcher 3.4 Released! Return To The Isle Of Arran A Flying Visit To Abu Dhabi The South Pennine Challenge 2008 Bravery In Adversity A Chair Makes A Hell Of A Difference Ray Mears vs Bear Grylls – The Showdown Ducklings At Home Red Screes, The Lake District It Must Be Spring Time… A Hike Up Pen-Y-Ghent Snippets And Photo Albums In WordPress 2.5 The Cheeky Rascals Round Scotland Tour Scaleber Force And Sunshine Snapshot Scrapbook Postcard Mode Pulitzer Feature Photography Winner 2008 The Dating Game And How It’s Easy If You’re Not Playing It How To Deal With An Ankle Strain Or Mild Sprain Photography Tips 10 – Always Keep Your Eyes Open April Fools Day And Flying Penguins Second Comes Right After First My 5 Minutes Of Geek Fame Getting Up To Speed I’ve Finally Gotten Into Podcasting Coffee, Apple And Subliminal Messages Some Thoughts For Mother’s Day The Trouble With Trifles As Fast As My Imagination Isn’t Fast Enough Damnit! This Upstart Joins A Start-Up Still Wearing A Hat Syndrome The Difficulties Of Finding Good People How Do You Get A Swan Out Of Your Garden? Once They’ve Got Your Name They’ve Got You Photography And The Hitch Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy John’s Background Switcher 3.3 Released Yorkshire Flooding Hits Top Scottish Blogger! You Can Take Your Internet Usage Policy And Shove It! Yorkshire Folk Do Like Their Food Finally, A Device From The World Of Tomorrow! Happy New Year 2008!2007 Awaiting Photographic Inspiration Something You Should Know About My Black Leather Gentleman’s Gloves A Christmas At Home For A Change The Science Of The Little Things (And The Big Things Too) Thank You Sparkie Something Tasty You Probably Don’t Know About Me John’s Background Switcher 3.2 Goes Live! Why I Love Groundhog Day A Snapshot Scrapbook Of Your Photos Commercial Breakdown – The Sony Bravia Ads Local Newspaper’s Bargain Of The Century Losing My Mother Another Satisfied WordPress User Caffeine Overload Equals Bad Things Don’t Always Turn Out As You Expect Time To Put Down Some Roots Stick With Movable Type Or Twist To WordPress? Selling Stuff The John Conners Way My All-Or-Nothing Approach To Reading Books Adios Vista, Hola XP Again The Lord Of The Rings Stage Show FogBugz 6 Goes Live The Isle Of Arran 2007 A Week On A Mini Scotland While the cat’s away… Some People Deserve What They Get Mind Over Matter Birthday Cakes Photo Casebook My Moo Stickers Have Arrived! The Yorkshire 3 Peaks, A Nice Way To Spend Friday Harry Potter One More Time Worst. Summer. Ever. A Bike Ride She’ll Never Forget I Thought Egg Yolks Were Yellow Skipton Sheep Day 2007 Waking Up To Quacking Hair Story – The Next Chapter John’s Duck Breeding Factory Le Weekend En Lyon, France Talk About Getting Your Priorities Right Google Toolbar Reckons I Need English Lessons A Guinea Pig Tug-O-War Bagging The Third of The Three Peaks A Comedy Caption Competition The Lost Art Of The Hand-Written Word An Evening With Michael Vaughan My Very Own Digital Signature The Yorkshire East Coast The Ultimate Left-Handed Pen Photography Tips 9 – Black and White or Colour? New Month, New Life The London Eye Mamma Mia – The Ultimate Abba Tribute Our Duck Returns! John’s Background Switcher 3 Released This Throw-Away Society In Which We Live Goodbye Windows, Hello Mac! Renewing Our Wedding Vows Something I Thought I’d Never See Another Season In The Top Flight A Glut Of Good Music So Much For Being Anonymous The Case For The Mac My Shuffling iPod Experiment Photography Tips 8 – Everybody Loves Waterfalls The FOWA Workshops, Day Three My Thoughts On The Future Of Web Apps, London 2007 Off To The Future Of Web Apps Vista Hates My Scanner or My Scanner Hates Vista The Kind Of Cloning That Doesn’t Help Anybody Photography Tips 7 – Getting Your Exposure Right Welcome To The World Vista Worth The Effort A Photo Shoot Around Malham The Slow Fade To Grey A Weekend In Edinburgh So John Likes Cricket Now Does He? Australia 2006 My Australia Trip 6 – The Photos My Australia Trip 5 – Hong Kong My Australia Trip 4 – The Blue Mountains My Australia Trip 3 – The Bush My Australia Trip 2 – Port Stephens2006 My Australia Trip 1 – Sydney Just About Over The Jet Lag I’m Off Down Under For A Bit Save The Planet From Us The Power Of Love I Also Convert Images The Dangers Of Chocolate How to default to Search Companion with Windows Desktop Search 3 I Don’t Need No Fancy HDR! Okay, Why Not?! It Isn’t Easy Being A Teenager These Days Bang Bang Yawn Brother In Another Country My Life Without (The) Sky Add To Contacts Tournament Players Some Thoughts on Windows Vista We Haven’t Changed A Bit Roll On Dark Nights Marriage Advice From The 60s: The Engagement TinyMCE and Movable Type In Perfect Harmony They’ll Be Putting Chips In Our Heads Next Photography Tips 6 – Change Your Angles Photography Tips 5 – All The Gear, Some Idea Robin Hood’s Bay For The Weekend Photography Tips 4 – How To Hold A Camera Photography Tips 3 – ND Grad Filters Photography Tips 2 – The Rule Of Thirds Photography Tips 1 – Leading Lines My Wedding Photos The Happy Couple John’s Background Switcher 2.5 Released More Architecture Than You Can Shake A Stick At A Celebrity For A Day My Honeymoon It’s Raining, But I’m Smiling A Trip Back Home And Google Spreadsheets Last Minute Nightmares Aren’t Mosaics Lovely? It Just Never Makes Things Any Better Warm Weather, Southern Softies And Me Snow Patrol At Leeds Millenium Square Need A Ruler? Got A Printer? Sorted! Life Is Just An Extension Of Tetris Believe In The Sock Monster, He Believes In You The Certainty Of Chance An Intelligent Copy Constructor In C# Using Reflection Not This Time England 4 Weeks To Go Shows What I Know About Photography Running Socks – What A Great Idea John Likes ABBA – 20 Years Too Late! Come On Engerlund! About As Unhelpful As Ian’s Unhelpful Error Message A Second Look You Know It’s A Good Summer’s Day When… Nice Day For A Barbecue A Night Off Line Amusing Error Message Of The Day 13’s The Charm The Miracle of New Life Under My Window First Thoughts On Office 2007 It Was Bound To Happen Eventually Return Of The Garden Bird Hair Story Not The Beautiful Game Like Kids Of Our Own The Price Of Petrol The Ingleton Waterfall Walk My Weekend On The East Coast East Coast Photography Weekend Don’t Be A Drone, Destroy All Sat-Nav! Welcome Back John (no, the other John) The Things You Do For Art The Fruits Of My Labour April Fool’s Day Memories Cold Nights On The Moors Home By The Sea A Curry Problem The Company Photographer Wedding Weekend Traffic Spike Exactly What It Said On The Tin I Should Have Been A Singer In A Band Mirror Mirror On The Wall… Translation Please? Why Does My ASP.NET Cache Keep Clearing Itself? The Learning Process Begins A Weekend At Home Belle and Sebastian At Long Last! New Camera High Finally, I Made It To Malham Cove! John’s Background Switcher 2.1 Released As Easy As Falling Off A Bike My Top Albums Of 2005 Multiple Monitors and Wallpapers What Is It With Wednesdays? Happy New Year!2005 John’s Christmas Bounty A Weekend Without The Internet No Wonder People Complain About Slow PCs John’s Background Switcher 2 For Flickr Another Certificate For The Wall Being Paid To Learn? Surely Not… No More BMW The Sign Of A Good Wedding My Installer Fixation And NSIS Return To Form So Much For Eating My Bread Crusts John’s Background Switcher 1.3 Released Here’s A Sight I Don’t See Often Twisted Dreams This Happens To Me All The Time Winter Must Be Coming The End Of My Bavarian Affair No Room For Mistakes Guillemots – The Next Big Thing? More Powerful Than Love And Death John’s Image Converter Punch Buggy Grey! New Job High Does This Tree Look Dead To You? What That Says About You Weddings and Misunderstandings Working From Home Throw It All Away And Start Again A View Of Things To Come One Man’s Heaven… I Told You I Might Be Back Now Here Is Nowhere2004 I Am A Reverse Vampire Getting There Nice Days Do Happen My California Road Trip John’s Law Number 2 John’s Law Number 1 A Quiet Month The Spirit of Adventure Bitten By The King Bank Error In Your Favour Worst Injury So Far A Flock Of Seagals The Virtual Vegetarian Young Gun Goes For It Tim Booth Was Right PMT For Two An Un-Sympathetic Injury Back To School Guinea’s Photo Casebook A Few Days Off Top Phone Tips Full Product Lifecycle Two Years And Still Running Learning My Lines The Soundtrack To My 20s The Start Of Real Winter Idle Hands And All That Week One New Zealand 2003 The Land of Lord Of The Rings2003 Never Turn Right Swings and Roundabouts A Cold Afternoon In The Dales Night Biking Extreme! Only In England Hunting Chris Ryan That Starbucks Feeling Luxury Weekend For Two At Wood Hall The Kind of Thing That Lasts a Lifetime Autumnal Wanderings Whatever Happened To Gary Douglas? The Other 911 New Shoe High A Scientriffic Experiment Everything Must Go Just Keep On Moving About Bloody Time Three A Day By The Sea John Is Human After All A Snap Happy Chappy A Message From Our Sponsors About Bloody Time Some Rest And Relaxation Flawless Victory A Change Of Plan Too Much Of A Good Thing It Wasn’t Supposed To Be Like This Another Year, Another Milestone Fixed At Last Now That’s What I Call Fun You Can Call Me Roy A Few Problems A Highland Adventure A Short Scottish History Lesson A John Conners Nice Day Two Weeks Is Not Enough John Is Going Dark The Holiday Checklist Bonanza The Difference Between Me And Her Something For The Weekend? A Year Adrift Nothing Worth Doing Is Easy My Disappointment Defence Mechanism The National Hell Service Who Wrote These Stupid Rules Anyway? Crashing Into The Wall The Moment Of Infection Have You Read These Books? Top Marques For Service Hollywood Dreams An Ode To Ibuprofen Bye Bye Humbug Job Done Where Is The Way Out? The War In Iraq So Far The First Sunny Day Of The Year A Lot Can Change In 5 Days Impulsive Friday The Best Exercise Ever Enter The Floyd The Life Of Nine To Five Some Scottish Weather Memories The Beginner’s Guide To Night Mountain Biking Eeh, Me Legs Are Knackered Update Your Bookmarks The Things I Learned In School A Weekend Break In London The Atlantic Divide The Great Gun Debate James Bond Has It Easy A Good Night’s Sleep Customer Service Sucks! Help, I’m Addicted! A Christmas Tale2002 Joy to The World, My Laptop Is Dead A Crisp Winter Morning What Happened To The Glory Days? The Story So Far Tram Track Tastic Saturday Night At The Casino The Way Christmas Should Be Flossed In Paradise See, I Can Be Selfish Too! Fight, Fright, Flight or Delight Harry Potter Rules! Ten Reasons I Don’t Vote My Old History Teacher Save Me From Shiny Kit Syndrome Who Says I’ve Got No Culture? Signs A Weekend On The Road A Breath Of Fresh Air All Change At The Next Stop The Wind-Down To Winter The Story Of How We Met The Great Competition The Murder House vs The Conners Some Thoughts On Creativity The Dawn Of A New Era A Holiday I Won’t Forget A Holiday That Will Need A Holiday I Can See Clearly Now A Day Of Rest And Filming A Year Ago Today The Death Of Scottish Football Brother From Another Country Back From The Big Beyond John Has Left The Building Sensory Overload Why I Shouldn’t Host A Gardening Show Thanks For The Memory To Sleep Perchance To Dream The Pain, The Pain Of It All! Happy Birthday To Me Yorkshire Summer Floods New Month, New Attitude The Price Of Peace Selective Hearing Explained What’s In A Name? Learning To Fail Staying Out Of The Rain Clouds A Formula One Weekend The Blunder Years A Song Sings A Thousand Memories Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Man Somebody Dropped The Sword Of Damocles It’s That Time Of Year Again England Lose To Brazil Are We Small Or What? A Stranger In A Strange Land Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep My Life Will Never Be The Same Just Call Me Mr. Boring New Kit, New Enthusiasm Cold Plus Wet Doesn’t Equal Miserable Evil In A Box The Joys Of Gardening? Farewell To Old Friends The Virtues Of Anonymity Laziness By Decree Rainy Days, Calling To You Shopping Until I Wish I Would Drop The Sense Of Humour Has Left The Building The Tim Henman Fan Club The Road To Recovery Mount Skipton: Mission Accomplished Where Does All The Time Go? Saturdays Of Wonder A Thursday In The Life Of British Summer Time Bank Holiday Highs A Picture Paints A Thousand Words My New Bowling Ball Back To Broughton Baby My List Of Things To Do Okay, I Admit It, I Like London After All Sunday Afternoon In The Saddle In The Rain A Big Time In The Big Smoke Snowboarding In Val D’Isere, 2002 Guinea Pigs – The Ultimate Pet My Spiritual Home Of Yorkshire
