Hello and welcome to another Burf update, it appears to be nearly 3 months since I have last done an update. That can’t be a good thing.

The Elephant in the room

In the last blog post, I had just split up with my partner, which has changed my focus on life. It’s an odd feeling being on my own at this stage of life. I have my family and friends around me, but it takes time to process. To be fair, I have had some amazing times at festivals and have had some epic adventures 🙂

Burf.co

The old site is back, the blog has moved back to where it was, I have a plan 🙂

Inmoov Robot

So we did another show in May, in partnership with BOW (robotics software), and again was a great success. Since then I haven’t done a lot of robotics due to adjusting to being single. One of the arms needs to be replaced due to failing and I hope to do this over the next month or so.

Vehicles

So I no longer have the GWIZ as it needed welding to get it past its MOT, however, I now own a 1981 VW Campervan (called Hulk, yes it’s green) to take the kids away in and I also have a Sinclair C5 which has broken already (will be upgrading).

Brilliant App

I enjoyed using the Brilliant app, however, I have paused it for the moment, I will get back on to this.

Rover Robot / ROS2

So for July, I plan to get back to building my own designed robot. I feel like I am slowly returning to a good headspace.

Goals

As you can see from above, I haven’t done a lot of technical things however I have:
1) Got my weight down to 83kg from 96.4kg (lost 14% of myself)
2) Ran a half marathon in 2 hours, just went out to clear my head, and ran 13.1 miles
3) Got my 5km down to 23-24 from 28:40
4) Raised £280 for Teenage Cancer Trust doing over 3000 press-ups in June
5) No longer have high cholesterol
6) Can do 10 wide grip pullups
7) Moved the guinea pigs outside so people will now visit (lol)

I think there were some other achievements, but the summary is that I have chucked all of my energy into getting fit and making epic memories 🙂