Second Level Articles
The Iron Church – Why Do People Quit Fitness Training?
Basho2026-06-12T15:27:25+01:00And what the science — and AI — say about how to stop them. I would leave work after a long, hard day in the city and simply have [...]
The Iron Church: Why Most ‘AI’ Fitness Apps Are Just Marketing (And How I Built One That Actually Works)
Basho2026-05-09T14:09:33+01:007 AI Pipelines ? 5 AI Prompts, 2 Deterministic Engines. Discover the technical strategy behind building The Iron Church—an AI fitness trainer defined by periodisation science, multi-prompt architecture, and [...]
Critical Praise for “Trials & Tea Ceremonies”
Basho2026-04-09T21:21:43+01:00A hilarious and heartfelt journey for anyone who has ever wondered: "Is this it?" What happens when the life you've built no longer feels like your own? That's exactly [...]
Announcing my new book: Trials & Tea Ceremonies: Misadventures in Far Away Places.
Basho2026-06-19T11:29:31+01:00A love story disguised as a travel memoir. Or perhaps, the other way around. Selected as one of LoveReading’s "Indie Books We Love" If you love books that transport [...]
“The Backroad to Bures”
Basho2025-07-25T17:05:07+01:00"The Backroad to Bures" by Basho AI image upscaled from 2019. It would make a lovely computer background.
Things Will Change – a Basho travel film
Basho2026-04-09T21:27:29+01:00Things Will Change A travel film exploring humanity's journey through history, touching on themes of faith, nature, technological advancement, and the essence of human connection. [...]
Jawbreaker – Ultimate AI Upscaled 4k edition
Basho2024-07-26T07:58:41+01:00I was at the gym and, as usual, I was watching downloaded films on the gym's TV while cycling or rowing. I decided to watch the documentary "Samsara" by [...]
Basho rewrites: Rime of the Frostmaiden – Defeating Auril, DM’s guide and ending
Basho2026-07-15T15:09:44+01:00
Basho’s bonus modules: Rime of the Frostmaiden – an Adventure with Pirates
Basho2024-01-15T17:32:09+00:00When I was a child, I had no one to play Dungeons & Dragons with. Now, I am 45 and play with my own children. Yes - I [...]
Basho rewrites: Rime of the Frostmaiden – Sunblight
Basho2024-06-06T16:31:05+01:00**Caution this post contains spoilers for Sunblight!** When I was a child, I had no one to play Dungeons & Dragons with. Now, I am 46 and play [...]
Basho rewrites: Rime of the Frostmaiden – Destruction’s Light.
Basho2023-08-01T14:35:50+01:00**Caution this post contains spoilers for Destruction's Light!** When I was a child, I had no one to play Dungeons & Dragons with. Now, I am 45 and [...]
Remembering Catherine
Basho2023-03-06T17:27:23+00:00"Remembering Catherine" by Basho Today, on the anniversary of her passing, I present a new painting; a present for my mother in law. This digital portrait was painted in [...]
You’re the Pretender – a Tier 1 tribute
Basho2024-09-30T15:13:33+01:00A loving tribute to 5 years of Tier 1 Military Simulations events. They say that it is only when you lose something that you realise the value it had. [...]
Children of the Red Rose
Basho2024-06-06T19:11:00+01:00**Caution this post contains spoilers for Children of the Red Rose!** When I was a child, I had no one to play Dungeons and Dragons with, it being the [...]
A Wild Sheep Chase
Basho2024-06-06T16:42:15+01:00**Caution this post contains spoilers for The Wild Sheep Chase!** When I was a child, I had no one to play Dungeons and Dragons with, it being the 80’s [...]
And so I went for a walk…
Basho2021-11-01T11:34:25+00:00"And so I went for a walk..." by Basho Painted by hand onto a Microsoft Surface Studio 2 in the software "Rebelle" using a digital stylus. This is near [...]
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist | Dungeons & Dragons
Basho2021-04-12T17:00:33+01:00**Caution this post contains spoilers for WDH!** My players (9-year-old children, my wife and her 70+-year-old mother) just completed Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, and there follows my write up [...]
The Storm King’s Thunder and the Dragon’s Bane
Basho2024-06-06T16:32:03+01:00There follows the campaign we have played all through the 2020 lockdown. It has helped us all resist the mental anguish of the COVID virus, recover from the infection itself and be a beacon of bright enjoyment for all. Truly the great value of this magical game cannot be overstated when played with attentive and imaginative children. So, I present the chronicle of my son, my daughter and my wife playing their first campaign after the starter set, Storm King's Thunder!
“Countryside walk” – Digital Watercolour
Basho2023-08-01T14:36:17+01:00"Countryside walk" by Basho Painted in Rebelle 3.
“Morgan” – Digital Watercolour
Basho2023-08-01T14:36:24+01:00"Morgan" by Basho Painted in Rebelle 3.
The Alam Clock Lesson
Basho2024-06-06T16:33:16+01:00Early in my leadership career, I had a junior member of staff who was late to work. Nothing unusual about that, you may think, for are we not all occasionally [...]
OMEGA Speedmaster Professional “Moonwatch” review
Basho2024-06-06T19:20:45+01:00THE SPEEDMASTER PROFESSIONAL MOONWATCH. For well over half a century, the OMEGA Speedmaster has witnessed events that have tested the limits of physical endurance and human courage, including the first manned lunar landing in July of 1969 and every one of NASA’s piloted missions since March of 1965.
Kyoto, Nara, Himeji, green tea and finding inner peace
Basho2024-06-06T16:41:57+01:00I have written before about travellers wanting a point to it all, to travelling. In part this is perhaps seen as them wanting to justify the vast cost of [...]
Beijing and the Great Wall – Our final days in China
Basho2024-06-06T19:18:48+01:00"So," said Cesca loudly and clearly, just as I was drinking from a water bottle, "What's all this about China and Tiananmen Square?" I almost did a spit take. [...]
Yaks for tea and Tibetan Temples. Living the high life in Shangri-la
Basho2024-06-06T16:59:50+01:00"You have to imagine," said the man in broken English, "that this..." he gestured his hands at the view in front of us, "big lake... flood wide and deep... great water!" He broke into a wide toothy smile.
The Hidden Context in some Great Movies
Basho2024-06-06T19:16:48+01:00I love the cinema and movies. I also make films myself. What stared as a simple passion for the action and adventure in films has [...]
The day I met the Buddha, and killed him
Basho2024-06-06T16:55:30+01:00Delhi. Many people say they have “done” Delhi, but in all honesty they haven’t. They have perhaps done the tourist parts of New Delhi, or maybe [...]
Varanasi – City of the Hindus
Basho2025-05-03T11:55:21+01:00Many Indian cities are a jumble, a mix of the ancient and modern, but nowhere I have ever been compares in this regard to Varanasi. [...]
Varanasi City of Gods – Special Edition
Basho2025-05-03T11:53:13+01:00How does it make one feel to be in one of the most “holy” cities in the world?