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• Movies in November 2022

  Published on 1st December 2022

  Following on from my previous movie summaries, this is my November review. Overall, I watched 22 new movies this month, taking the total for the year to 300! Mass The parents of both the sho…

• Movies in October 2022

  Published on 1st November 2022

  Following on from my previous movie summaries, this is my October review. Overall, I watched 24 new movies this month, taking the total for the year to 278! The Alpinist A free-spirited 23-y…

• Making Gingerbread

  Published on 16th October 2022

  This weekend I decided it would be fun to make gingerbread with my (almost) four-year-old. I thought it would be a relatively easy task that would engage and teach them how to make something…

• Movies in September 2022

  Published on 1st October 2022

  Following on from my previous movie summaries, this is my September review. Overall, I only watched 19 new movies this month, taking the total for the year to 254! I reduced the number of mo…

• Movies in August 2022

  Published on 1st September 2022

  Following on from my previous movie summaries, this is my August review. Overall, I watched 25 new movies this month, taking the total for the year to 235! Acclaimed horror director Jordan P…

• Movies in July 2022

  Published on 1st August 2022

  Following on from my previous movie summaries, this is my July review. Overall, I watched 27 new movies this month, taking the total for the year to 210! One Cut of the Dead is such a unique…

• Movies in June 2022

  Published on 1st July 2022

  Following on from my previous movie summaries, this is my June review. Overall, I watched 25 new movies this month, taking the total for the year to 183! Top Gun: Maverick is the latest lega…

• Custom Laravel Disks and Environment-based Filesystems

  Published on 25th June 2022

  Laravel provides a flexible way of using different "disks" or filesystems to store files. This means you can store files locally in a path relative to your code or using a remote s…

• Movies in May 2022

  Published on 1st June 2022

  Following on from my previous movie summaries, this is my May review. Overall, I watched 30 new movies this month, taking the total for the year to 158! Nicolas Cage stars as Nick Cage in th…

• Checkboxes; Hidden Input and Laravel Request Solutions

  Published on 9th May 2022

  Checkboxes are an HTML element that allows you to define a simple on/off piece of information. However, developers often stumble across an issue where if the checkbox is not checked, then no…