#306 - Constitutional
I've managed to put my back out, crouching down and rummaging in boxes in the small storage space in the loft. Normally I record the podcast kneeling on the floor of a cupboard, but I decided that probably wasn't the …
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#305 - Lick of Paint
Surprise! It's a new Edinburgh Man Podcast. The last year has been rather crazy at Edinburgh Man Towers. We had the attic converted, which involved a lot of banging, drilling and sawing. None of this is especially …
#304 - Variability
Apologies for the somewhat variable release schedule for the podcast. January has been pretty busy, and unfortunately that busyness spilled over into February and the school holidays. But today, at long last, I have a …
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It's Hogmanay! The detritus of Christmas surrounds us. The last few crackers are left unpulled, a few lonely boxes of chocolates are still to be eaten, and we soon must deal with the looming bells of the New Year. All …
#303 - Christmas Retreat
I'm hiding away as I record this week's show - ostensibly the Christmas episode of the podcast. I've gone and left it too late and I now need to record the episode on the Saturday before Christmas, i.e. the first day …
#302 - Low Winter Sun
Aye, the nights are fair drawing in up here in Edinburgh - sunset is something crazy like half past three in the afternoon. The photo accompanying today's show was taken while me and Thing 2 walked home from school …
#301 - Whonivirus
Urgh, I have a cold. That's the excuse I'm going for as to why the show has been delayed for a week or two. It's absolutely not because I was spending all my free time catching up on three seasons of Doctor Who before …
#300 - Three Hundred
It's the three hundredth podcast! Except it's not, because I've always been fast and loose with the numbering. It's probably more like number 350, but let's pretend for a moment and bask in having reached this numeric …
#299 - Freshly Ground
I was showing my work colleague some new photo management software I've been using, and I shared an album with him. "Why would someone have so many photos of coffee?" I mean, it's probably a legitimate question. But my …
#298 - Floored
Apologies for the lack of podcast last week. The all new Edinburgh Man Towers is still, very slowly, being decorated and upgraded since we moved in over a year ago. Last week it was the turn of the Dining Room / Office …
#297 - Eye Line
One of the most important things when it comes to making a podcast is planning. Planning. Not something that this show has much of. But not this time, this time the show was actually planned. Anticipating the fact that …
#296 - Cupboard Cast
Back in the cupboard for today's podcast. It's still a wee bit cramped in here, but the acoustics are hopefully better. Let me know if it sounds good, bad or indifferent. You can get in touch with the show on social …
#295 - Demolition Man
It's been a bit of a week at Edinburgh Man Towers. The kids were off school for three of their four and a half days last week due to a strike, which was as hectic as you would imagine. Then, the fifteen-year-old fridge …
#294 - Jab In The Arm
An unexpected COVID jag this week has thrown the already shambolic podcast schedule into a state of flux. My Fitbit tells me I was a bit under the weather for the two days afterwards. Although to be honest, I'm not sure …
#293 - Hard Landscaping
After an impromptu week off, the podcast returns. Obviously it wasn't really a week off for your earstwhile host. Life reared its ugly head and prevented the recording of a show. But we return this week, refreshed (sort …
#292 - Pocket Cast
Apologies for being a bit later than normal. I went and ordered myself an Analogue Pocket portable games console a while ago. Like eight or nine months ago. It's a hardware clone of the Gameboy and Gameboy Advance, with …
#291 - Enter The Dragon
Last week I said that there probably wasn't going to be a show this week, and here we are. In the end I found six great tracks (mostly from recent releases) and I wanted to record and upload the show as quickly as I …
#290 - August Blend
As regular listeners may remember, I've been cataloguing and archiving old episodes of the show. Making old episodes available again in the feed, and uploading shows and shownotes to archive.org. As I've been cutting …
#289 - Windy Glampers
Right. Okay. A second attempt at recording this podcast! This week we've been on our summer holidays. The first few days were spent "glamping" near Glenshee. The next week or so was spent in a static caravan just north …
#288 - Deck Building
My plan for today was to build a deck. Not like a Pokemon deck, or a MTG deck, but a wooden construction out in the back garden for sitting on and enjoying the... weather? Unfortunately the Edinburgh Fringe must be …
#287 - Wet Tent
The school holidays in Scotland are still dragging on - we're about two thirds of the way through now I reckon. I'm not going to check in case I'm wrong. Let's just say (hope) that we are nearer the end than the start …
#286 - Bird Watching
I'm almost getting the hang of this podcast lark. Although I do get distracted looking out of the window at some baby birds for a chunk of this show. Most of the last week, at least in terms podcast stuff, has been …
#285 - RSS Discovery
The school summer holidays continue in Scotland, and last week we took a trip up to Dundee to take the kids to see the Discovery. I forgot how cool it is to walk around on a ship that’s been to the Antarctic, and the …
#284 - Talking Tapes
A proper podcast! It's been a while. This time I figured out (or at least I think I figured out) how to do it live. However, what I couldn't do was figured out how to 1) promote the show or 2) receive messages during …