Unlike UGLE, The Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons have allowed lodges to meet virtually to carry out lodge business. Last September we had a strange installation meeting under the 'rule of 6' with 6 present, our November meeting was held virtually due to covid restrictions, and our February meeting is also to be held …

Today should have been our regular meeting and traditional Burns Supper festive board. Due to covid-19 it is now a full 12 months since the lodge has met. We've had bi-weekly zoom meetings since early March 2020 and these have been really successful in enabling the members to maintain some form of contact with each …

Since lockdown we’ve been meeting virtually as a lodge every 2 weeks. We’ve had presentations and discussions on a variety of masonic topics such as the work of the Secretary, the DC, the Treasurer, the various aprons, collars and jewels, Provincial Ranks, and some of the other masonic orders. A younger member …

Under the rule of 6 guidance we took the opportunity to hold the delayed installation meeting of Aldershot Military Lodge of Mark Masters No.54. We did this to not hold up those brethren in the progressive offices longer than necessary. I was duly installed as Worshipful Master in a very strange and much reduced …

With all the restrictions around covid-19 it was great to finally get away this year, even just for a week! Some much needed time was spent hiking in the mountains around Interlaken, clearing the head, and drinking beer! Accommodation was booked early in the year and was a 1970s style tent provided by Canvas Holidays …

Following on from here where I talked about setting up a raspberry pi running pi-hole, its all good news. The pi has been running fine and it's improved our browsing experience no end. However, I don't like having a single point of failure for something as critical as DNS. Yes, if the pi fails the router does give out …

I'm really getting into the whole ubiquiti/unifi architecture and am loving the information the dashboard provides. My next plan is start separating my network into VLANs to divide trusted and untrusted devices. To do this I need some more ubiquiti switches to replace the various brands in service around the house. …

For years I ran a mikrotik 750G routerboard as my router in place of whatever guff the ISP provided. This, along with various WAPs from Netgear and Apple served our needs for a good few years. The mikrotik in particular was rock solid, only needing a reboot for a firmware or OS update. This fag packet sized box of …

Blimey! The Grand Master has suspended all masonic activities due to the covid-19 situation. The last time masonic activities were suspended was at the outbreak of WWII. Freemasonry is predominantly composed of older brethren so it makes perfect sense, but we were due to initiate two new members tomorrow. I wonder how …

My raspberry pi running pi-hole was ticking along nicely and blocking all ads. We'd seen percentage of ads blocked hit 40%+ and it was improving our browsing experience no-end. The only issue bugging me (and it had been for a while) was that DNS queries are sent in the clear meaning our ISP (and probably google) are …