December '25. Well... finally... an update page - how well maintained it will be I have no idea! I will at least try to put links to substantial content updates, and maybe a bit of blurb on any major alterations. I've done most of the chunky page design stuff, so I'm mostly happy with that, and I doubt anyone will be interested in how I've altered some font sizes or added a few missing comma's, so i'll just post the links.

October the 22nd 2026

Ahhh, the "Long Dark" approaches, I haven't updated this place in months - when possible I've been making the most of the Sun and the warmth here in the UK, mostly chilling out in the town park, or going to free music gigs at a couple of local pubs. During one blazing-hot Tuesday in July I started chatting to a guy who was sitting in an isolated spot in the park, playing Hawaiian-style music on a ukulele. I sat down with him... we had a smoke and a beer... "There's a band playing at the Yorkshire House later bro, you coming?"... "Yup, damn right!" - so now I go there every other week to listen to whatever punk or metal band they have on...
Word of mouth, man!

I also went to watch some of the football World Cup in a recently re-opened pub in town, the Coach and Horses. I always liked the place - it's good to see it back! Got myself out to a few open-air gigs, cycled about on a road-bike my buddy gave me before he moved to Thailand, watched some more live classical music, spoke to random people, played Grounded and Route 96, listened to The Midnight and The Toxic Avenger, wore a cool Converse All-Stars cap I found thrifting in a local charity shop, touched grass and soaked up some rays - hopefully those rays will sustain me till next spring, although it was pretty nice today, so I've had a top-up! I plan to expand on some of these things over the winter, y'know, update the website a bit, probably big-up some bands! Our local music scene is really taking off - I have watched some truly excellent local musicians over the summer, one of them being Versaints - unfortunately youtube vids will never do justice to their live performance!

April the 5th 2026

Added some stuff about the alternative music scene in my home town as a teen during the early/mid 90s. I may add some more pics at some point if I dig any out, maybe tap up some of my friends to see if they have any. You just didn't take cameras out with you back then, because you didn't own one! I've made a few other changes over the week, added a swear box to the funny pages where I shall keep my rants, it is empty, but I have many to go in it. Added a tale about pigeons, and some other stuff.

March the 29th 2026

Added a page with a load of animated gifs from a geocities deep-dive. I've hauled these off gifcities, and various old geocities pages on restorativland, one of Kyle Drake's other cool projects. I'll just add to this page over time I think, to amuse myself by chaining them together to construct stupid themes and messages!

March the 24th 2026

Added some more stuff to my music page, I've been to see some live classical stuff, not something I've done much of till last year, so yeah, I enjoyed it. I go off on a bit of a tangent, but why not, tangents are cool.

March the 11th 2026

More link buttons done, and I've added a link to a yourworldoftext instance on my homepage (just click the logo image), which will be fine for now as a kind of guestbook/graffiti wall! I might add a proper guestbook at some point,
but yourworldoftext is way cooler I think!

March the 8th 2026

Some more blinkies added, whether the linked sites match the page category is disputable, but I think they are generally in the right ballpark! I've also trimmed some of the swearing on my pages, not all of it - a bit of spice is necessary! Just to add that none of my blinkies are hotlinked - I've noticed that a lot of sites on neocities which have linked to other sites using hotlinked blinkies are not displaying properly for me -
"content not available in your region".

This is due to the fact that I am in the UK and our goverment is clamping down hard on websites, and the internet in general - so some stuff has just been blocked for UK users - Imgur in particular has refused to play ball with these shenanigans, so many neocities sites are a bit borked for me! This may seem like just a UK problem, but I hate to say this, our banking system has a lot of global clout, so Ofcom is not toothless - if companies have even a little banking footprint in the UK then fines can be extracted. Many of them will bend the knee - because the UK is a big market to be locked out of. Some of the more subversive sites on neocities have been flipped to NSFW 18+ without being informed - it's not outside the realms of possiblity that neocities has been leant on to do so, or at least done it as a precaution to keep their heads down due to this extra "protect the children!" scrutiny - that is speculation on my part, so don't take that as a fact. Neocities has grown as an inoffensive alt-web, a family friendly zone, it's used to teach kids in schools, but it's not a tiny little backwater now - the Ringwraiths will come sniffing.

March the 7th 2026

Added some blinkies to the top of my games page. This is how I will do them all I think - add a few related links to the top of each page, then use the site as my homepage with all my favourite links categorised. I was considering a blinkies page, or a side bar, but then you've gotta scan through scores of them to find the one you want - easier for anybody looking round the site as well!

March the 4th 2026

Added some more to my "Games" page - it mostly hovers around the turn of the millennium, probably because that's where I'd prefer to hover if I could control time!

February the 26th 2026

I've Added a review for the 90s video-review show "Vidz" that ran on Channel 4 late-night in the UK. I've always had a bit of a soft spot for it - me, and the other 30 people who actually remember watching it!

February the 18th 2026

I've Added some more stuff to my "Projects" page - other things I did in the army
(it's where I did most of my "Project-y" stuff!). I've been umming and ahh-ing about putting it up here for months, because war is a dirty business, and Neocities is a nice place. It started off as a "this is what I made/was involved in making", but it's gone a bit "off piste" unfortunately! These things are tied to some rather dark and weird real-world events, so obviously some of that has crept in, in fact a lot has crept in — it now mostly reads like gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson would be proud! Although I think that guy was too insane to be proud of anything... I kinda know the feeling!

January the 8th 2026

Jesus... 2026... I remember thinking that the year 2000 was the distant future!
"Let's all meet up!" sang Jarvis Cocker... he still does... but now he does it ironically, because he's Jarvis Cocker so he can get away with it! I chased him at Glastonbury once - I think it was '99 - he was in front of a few of us while we were walking to a band that wasn't Pulp (obviously), and me and a couple of mates were like "It's Jarvis Cocker!" - he looked at us with an "ahhh shit..." kind of a look, then starting running off... so we chased him, I've no idea why - he was wired... we were wired... it just seemed like the right thing to do! Anyway... I've lit some incense in the Shrines page (and added a flamey header), I've also added some waffle about the moon in "Thoughts", plus some other tweaks here and there over the past couple of days.

December the 30th 2025

Added a "latest update" link to the top of the "Games" page - if you click on the Master Chief you will be transported down the page to the newest bit of waffle I've put up. I'll add it to other pages when they get long enough I think, some won't need it as I'll place the newest stuff at the top, but "Games" kind of relies on a scrolling timeline.

December the 28th 2025

Added some extra jabber to my "Games" page - it now continues from '96 though to my PS1, Nintendo 64, and TINY Pentium II days circa '98 - I haven't altered the link as it's only a short scroll down. I've tweaked the Vagrus review a bit, I was thinking of ditching it, but i think it's more readable now - it's an awkward game to review!

December the 24th 2025

Added a review of the game "Vagrus - The Riven Realms" - it's a good game, though you might not get that impression from the first few paragraphs! I've also made some alterations on various pages to stuff I've written, layout, font shadow colours, and some other stuff.

December the 23rd 2025

Added a nav bar to the top of every page, and now the medallion at the bottom of each page takes you back to the top of the page instead of the homepage. Other minor alterations to the code, mainly trying to eliminate unused .css element selector blocks and declarations that do nothing or are overridden elsewhere - this helps to reduce how baffled I get when I'm trying to do something neat!

December the 21st 2025

Added some jabber to my "Games" page about the TIME PC my folks bought in '95. TIME was a PC hardware company in the UK, the computer didn't alter time or anything cool like that - it barely functioned as a computer in all honesty!

On top of that, for the last week or so I've been tweaking what I put up back in March. I've made a lot of changes to layout, headers and footers, the nav bar, and added a "Reviews" page. Ive also snipped a few things here and there -

mucho embellishmento!