Paul’s Blog – Paul Stallard

The (unusually southern) Northern Lights

After hearing that it could be a good evening to see the Northern Lights even on the south coast, we went up to The Trundle car park at the top of Knight’s Hill to take some…

Paris 2024 Paralympics

We had Paris 2024 in our sights for a couple of years - the Olympics and Paralympics - although in the end we didn’t make it to the Olympics. The boys were around for parts…

Edinburgh Fringe 2024

Our son was part of a university revue show at the Edinburgh Fringe again this year, so of course we planned to spend a few days at the Fringe.

Chichester parkrun 10th Anniversary Stats

Chichester parkrun celebrated its 10th anniverary on 3rd August 2024 (event 441). In the week before the anniversary, I assembled some random stats from the first 10 years…

My Strava Year - 2023

The now annual activity collage! Each of the 348 images shows the route of an activity completed during the year.

parkrun Alphabet

We completed our parkrun alphabet on Saturday 25 November 2023 at Zuiderpark in Den Haag.

Demonstrating Video Compression, with Lego

I created this activity for a STEM event at a local secondary schools (aimed at Year 8s). Each group of about 6 students stays with you for 15-20 minutes before they rotate…

My Strava Year - 2022

The now annual activity collage! Each of the 394 images shows the route of an activity completed during the year.

The Buttonboard - reviving an old Raspberry Pi project

I created this project a long time ago based on one of the original Rapsberry Pi Model B boards (2011.12). It uses some cheap arcade-style switches mounted on a wooden board…

My Strava Year - 2021

As I made one of these last year, I thought I should create my 2021 activity collage! During 2021 I uploaded at least one activity to Strava every day - there are 415…

My Strava Year - 2020

This is a collage of my Strava year, showing each of the activity maps I posted during the year. Some of these are short runs, some are longer bike rides. I wasn’t sure how…

Thank you parkrun volunteers!

Today (16th March 2019) I ran my 100th parkrun at Chichester, my home event. It would be impossible for parkrun to operate without its army of willing volunteers, so I…

Bye Bye Bongo

We got our Bongo, imaginatively known as “Bongy”, in early 2012. After seven eventful years, some memorable trips and the odd memorable garage bill, we finally said goodbye…

Learning to unicycle

This article was originally written for the TANDBERG Television company newsletter in 2004. For some reason I kept it, so here is the original text…