Rubens Blog
Rubens Blog
Ruben Hillier
Hi I am Ruben Hillier. My handle, since back in the day, is tregeagle. My pronouns are he/him.
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The reason I travelled all this way was for my little brothers 50th birthday party. I pretty much never go home and do this stuff. I had an awesome night and just love my clan so much. I danced with a lot of people and every second...
Hampstead Heath today My plane landed in the London darkness at 5:30am this morning. The 15 hour flight was extruciating. I took the train to Farringdon to give myself a walk through an old haunt to my hotel in Kings Cross. London has...
Living in the Outback far from the sea I have become increasingly obsessed with what I cannot have. Of course, if I found myself on the deck of a boat I would probably miss the flat brown Outback. This post is link-heavy with things I...
12 years ago I was trying hard to earn a living building stuff using Drupal . A clever chap from Brighton called Jeremy Keith was doing the same but with more success than me. He built a wonderful tool for creating your own podcast...
The Thundering Typhoons was a local band from when I was a teenager. The old mp3s in this post have been kicking around my hard-drives for decades. Have a listen, I think they are pretty great. Johnny I Hardly Knew Yah.mp3 Johnny I...
When did my plans become excuses for inaction? At Wendron Primary School in the 1970s we would be sent outside for our breaks. Sheltering from the drizzle beneath the playground crabapple tree we would play Tiggy . To play we would first...
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff I have been slowly replacing the rotten timbers on our front veranda. Broken Hill summer is making the work hot and cooking my brain. It has been especially warm in the afternoons. Yesterday I escaped to the...
I have been getting a lot of emails of yachts for sale. Maybe the used boat market is more active at the moment. The Clansman's are my favourites but I also like the Viking 30's (like this one ) and this Herreshoff H28 looks fancy. Troy...
I ditched the idea of comments on my website years ago. I did not want to be the shepherd of other peoples thoughts, it was none of my business. John Constable's thoughts often drifted to clouds The years have rolled by and I have...
As previously posted I have added commenting to my site. I used the methodically named Pelican Comment System by Bernhard Scheirle . Bernard seems to have abandoned the project but luckily for me it is still working. There was a couple...
I just read this article by a chap called Connor Jackson about sailing his little Contessa 26 from Fiji to Australia. He had already sailed most of the way in a 31ft Hunter. That is all I have to say about that. In other news I added...
If Cardiff was plonked onto Broken Hill along with the rest of the UK. Credit I know I am struggling when, like in a recent post , I start writing lots of lists. This post started as a list of bicycle rides around Australia. I quickly...
Like many armchair travellers when not thinking about sailing I'm thinking about cycling . Looking ahead to 2024 is no different. UPDATE 30/12/24 I have long considered doing the Mawson Trail but have prevaricated for many reasons,...
It just occurred to me after writing that last post how much of this blog is about thinking about what I'm going to do. When I actually do stuff I don't write it up on the blog because I'm busy doing it. I suppose we can only hope I stop...
Feck me that last post was smug. I am embarrassed. Me at my dullest... old and worrying about money, sheesh. ... but er, this blog has always been full of posts I am ashamed of. I just leave them there to remind me to stop being such an...