By day, computer botherer, cybersecurity, data protection, teaching, training and explaining, rants about Windows, reminiscences about ZX Spectrums.

By night, piano, guitar and singing teacher, pretty much anything musical theatre, and mucking about in the recording studio.

Dad to a wonderful daughter, husband to an incredible woman.

My header picture has our two beautiful Shiba Inus, Yogi & Venus, off out for a walk in the village. Both chased each other over the rainbow bridge in mid-2022.

September 2023 saw us introduce Pixel to our household, a black-and-tan Shiba Inu puppy, and August 2024 brought us Sparkle, a rescue terrier from Romania.

Expect chats about parenting, fair weather cycling, misunderstood popular psychology, cheese, coffee, whisk(e)y, toast science, crumpeting, Haribo appreciation, and anything you can see from the top of the Malvern Hills.

I've got it set to auto-delete after two weeks, so if it all looks a bit quiet round here, that's why.

Mat DJ 🐶🐶 :verified_paw: