Hello. I'm David.

Husband, dad, dog owner, occasional author, occasional musician, and the sort of person who starts a project with total confidence and finishes it with a lot of swearing.

This is where I keep track of things I've done, things I'm in the middle of, and things I keep saying I'll get round to. Nothing here is showroom perfect. Recipes get followed loosely, timetables get ignored, and plans rarely survive contact with a Saturday.

BlogDone, doing, and someday. In roughly that order of likelihood.StoriesLockdown Loot, DIY that went sideways, and other fun.BooksTales of The Hiole. The bedtime story that got out of hand.MusicRust And Chrome. Night-drive music for the back seat.TableauDashboards, plus tips for Cloud and Desktop that I wish someone had told me.AboutWho this is, and why it's not filtered.

Latest

Hello again. New house, same mess.
16 September 2026 · sitemeta
Normal Guy Dave is gone. This is what replaced it, and why.
So I wrote a book…
1 February 2022 · bookhiolekids
How a bedtime story I couldn't remember the next morning turned into Tales of The Hiole.
Lockdown Loot
26 February 2021 · lockdowngames
Secret Santa, but every fortnight, for a fiver, until lockdown ends. Who fancies a game?
Office space
30 January 2021 · diyhouselockdown
Building a home office in the dining room out of B&Q boards, half a dining table, and a £30 bamboo screen. Reversible, mostly.
Normal sponge cake
24 January 2021 · cookingrecipe
Four ingredients, one bowl, mix the life out of it. Plus why marshmallows in a cake was a stupid idea.