Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Archive for September 2026

Book review: Island Home by Wendy Veevers-Carter

[Signed Hardback, read aloud to Adelle] After a life working for the British Foreign Office in various locations around the world, seemingly mostly in tropical protectorates, the writer and her husband rent an island in the outer Seychelles and try to make a living there. The island, Remire, was a working island with a workforce, […]

Geocaching at Center Parcs

This isn’t real geocaching, it’s a sanitised family game they invented which involves using a GPS device to find plastic rocks with numbers on. It did get us a nice long walk around the site and to look at things we likely wouldn’t otherwise notice, so not all bad.

Glow in the dark ping pong

This is the cyberpunk future I was always looking forward to, it’s a bit less technical than I had anticipated, but definitely looks the part.

Nils Arial Adventure

Nils went into the trees while I made friends with another dad who also wanted to stay firmly on the ground.

1000 pictures of squirrels

We went to Center Parcs and came back with pictures of squirrels. Lots of pictures of squirrels. And few of a some other things.