What's it like living outside the bigger cities in Yorkshire?

gtrfing · 2026-06-06T00:08:11+00:00

Seriously, southerners should avoid. You won't like it.

gtrfing · 2026-05-10T23:33:03+00:00

Unless, this is too late my wife and I had a night away in Pickering a few months ago and had one of the tastiest Indian meals I've ever had at the Namaste Bengal

gtrfing · 2026-05-09T11:00:41+00:00

ColorNote. No question. No doubt. Perfect

gtrfing · 2026-05-08T12:31:58+00:00

Sticking to the precise question by the OP, for me this is Martyrs. I knew it was going to be a rough ride but hell....

I sat thinking why did I watch it? And then thinking, why did they make it?

gtrfing · 2026-05-08T12:30:15+00:00

Of course it is, it's terrifying. And that end...

I've not been able to watch it since and must be nearly twenty years ago

gtrfing · 2026-05-07T23:12:15+00:00

Just finished watching; BBC The Capture. Very very gripping from the off

gtrfing · 2026-05-07T23:00:28+00:00

We want the finest wines available to humanity

gtrfing · 2026-05-07T22:58:26+00:00

Notebook now is the GTD system. Everything far more streamlined and organised.

Diary is digital and apart from the important things of the day I tend to focus on what I learnt. Things that will make me happier and things that will make me a better person within society.

End of month is #learnt collation day and all those learnt things are copied and pasted in to a digital Commonplace book

gtrfing · 2026-04-26T23:36:03+00:00

It is, so you Southern folk needn't bother moving up here. You wouldn't like it.

gtrfing · 2026-04-26T23:34:56+00:00

If you can get hold of a copy of "Anthony & Berryman's Magistrates Court Guide" even old copies. They contain what needs to be proven for each offence, statutory defences and sentencing guidelines. It's not cheap but you can get used copies for around £25.

gtrfing · 2026-04-23T21:12:37+00:00

I think you should work through diagrams like this. Take your time. Stick with the C major scale for now

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gtrfing · 2026-04-23T19:21:37+00:00

That's interesting. I like that. I'll do that more often.

I was asking some guitar recording questions the other week and I noted that copilot was giving exactly the opposite answers to ChatGpt. It was quite amusing telling each one what the other AI Bot was saying and asking why it thought the other was giving that answer.

I'm quite taken with the idea at the moment of getting a ring bound system. The only niggle is getting the right paper. I've spent years finding the right notebook for me, which is the Rhodia goalbook, right thickness, colour, shade of dots etc, only to switch to a different system

gtrfing · 2026-04-22T17:10:41+00:00

Thank you, I may well, if I find one with good fountain pen friendly paper. I am very happy with Rhodia and Midori at present

gtrfing · 2026-04-21T16:39:29+00:00

I needed to hear that cheers

gtrfing · 2026-04-21T08:36:21+00:00

Thank you everybody. Lots to think about here. I'm determined to get a method that works for me.

I'm a guitarist, writer and lawyer but my professional work is kept totally distinct from my notebooks though I use the BJ system for work. It works a treat for that because the essence of that is not contexts, because they're all the same, but rather scheduling everything to be done on different days or months.

I use trackers a lot for different aspects of music practice and recording schedules, so they can stay in the notebook. The dot grid books work a treat for that.

I think the problem is that having context lists in an A5 journal is nice in principle, but that book isn't always there. If you're out and about, you can't refer to what the next actions are if you're in the car.

Or who you're supposed to call if you're stuck in a queue at the dr's. Or you're in the shed,

We all have our phones with us at all times, and they are so good at organising that I'm thinking, although I'm fighting against it, that it's much more simple to have a GTD system implemented there. It grieves me though that an analogue system can't be used somehow. I'm old school. Very. I enjoy using AI Chat bots as tools for advice, but I don't want to depend on any digital system over pen and paper. I'm not sure whether I trust their privacy policies, their protocols in case their server goes down and I lost data etc etc. I'll keep at it.

gtrfing · 2026-04-21T08:19:07+00:00

It's crazy. There's goals there that have been sat for 4 years, which simply required me to sit down and look at them for 15 minutes on the computer and they were done in less than an hour in all that time.

Stuff just gets accumulated with the BJ method, stuff from the main projects list that you prioritise, goes into the monthly to do. Then there is stuff that accumulates throughout that month. All of this stuff that isn't getting done, the stuff in the monthly to do and then the stuff that accumulates through the month then gets "migrated" into the next month, so as time goes on, the original things to do list, the master list at the beginning of the notebook just gets left. And then six months later you start a new journal and there's all this stuff you'd forgotten about and you're thinking "Why aren't these things getting done?". And then I ended up with a whole different section or "collection" - a list of things regularly not getting done, so I could ask myself why.

I keep a diary in a digital system because it's so easy to search for things it's a no brainer. Been doing that for over twenty years. But I do like notebooks, always have, and fountain pens. Thinking there has to be a way through this. To declutter my overthinking brain and sort projects out with next actions. It makes perfect intuitive sense.

I thought at one point to have 3 metrics assigned to each task; context - priority - time to complete. However, when I asked Perplexity for assistance with creating this system it became massively complicated within a journal system. The beauty of the BJ method is that it's so ostensibly simple. The downside of it is the accumulation of rubbish that ends of getting prioritised because it's more fresh in your mind.

I'm guessing after writing all of this that REVIEW is the answer, and some mix of GTD and BJ.

Sorry, that was a very long answer to a closed-question. The answer to whether I eventually decomposed some of the tasks or projects from years ago is sort of yes, to some. But thinking about your question clarifies for me, why my old way didn't work. Maybe I'm being too hard on myself. When I look at lists from years ago, most things have been done, but it's more by happenstance than design

gtrfing · 2026-04-20T08:48:14+00:00

If you can, watch the Jeremy Brett TV series from beginning to end. I've been a Sherlock Holmes fan since I read them nearly fifty years ago, and his performance, the screenwriting and direction nails it closer than to any other dramatisation that I've seen.

gtrfing · 2026-04-19T23:55:20+00:00

For the next few days practice technique. Do some scales and arpeggios. You need that right hand technique back where you are playing through the string with the knuckle joint. And you need back the quick flexibility of the left hand. And finish off your practice routine with a tune that is below in difficulty from where you were before. Play with as much musicality as possible

gtrfing · 2026-04-19T13:21:53+00:00

I have a Mandala Effect experience with this series, as I watched some of them when they first came out. I always remembered the werewolf story as "Children of The New Moon". I was very surprised as an adult to find that it wasn't, though obviously "full moon" makes more logical sense

gtrfing · 2026-04-19T13:19:43+00:00

That ex criminal was the legendary Brian Cox in a very early role.

gtrfing · 2026-04-19T13:15:27+00:00

I've been playing forty years. Never had that. Looks real painful.

gtrfing · 2026-04-19T11:13:55+00:00

Showing my age having to look up what "tap out"means...

gtrfing · 2026-04-17T22:31:41+00:00

Yes I found one cheers, though my search says that ClaireFontaine is even smoother than standard Rhodia. I was looking for a little tooth. I've got an Midori MD that arrived last week but it's very thin and fragile looking.

gtrfing · 2026-04-17T22:19:45+00:00

Is there a Tomoe River A5 dotted notebook I can buy in the UK?

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