Portal

This is my portal, where I collect together links that I find useful or good to read. My portal to the web, where I am avoiding search engines.

IndieWeb

Places to find blogs

• 512kb club
• 250kb club
• 1kb club
• The big list of personal website
• 100 Days to Offload

Blogs

• Idiomdrottning
• Protesilaos Stavrou
• Andrew Kelley - creator of Zig

Venues

• Royal Opera House
• Guildhall School
• Southbank Centre
• Eventim Apollo - buying tickets is a pain as have to call them

Health/Exercise Information

• Sleep Foundation
• Strengthlog

Health/Exercise Routines

• 45 minute ashtanga yoga routine
• 15 minute beginner stretch flexibility routine

Dating

• Bored of Dating Apps
• Date in a Dash
• Chicken Rush

Gardening

• RHS

Mandolin

Music

• Jovano Jovanke
• Hasapikos Politikos - performance by Michael Reichenbach
• Out on the Ocean
• Losing my Religion
• Mike Marshall and Chris Thile - Wintergrass 2013
• Chris Thile - Sonata No. 1 in G Minor
• J.S. Bach Cello Suite #1
• J.S. Bach Cello Suite #1 - Tom Wright
• Sierra Hull Gilchrist Model 4 Mandola
• Todd Lombardo - Collings MT Mandola
• Sierra Hull and Molly Tuttle - outstanding

Bands/Players

• The Price Sisters
• Terry M. Lewis

Sheet music

• Cello Suite #1 BWV 1007

Groups/Other Resources

• Mandolin Cafe
• London Mandolin Ensemble - has list of mando links
• Fretful Federation
• Bruce Music Mandolin Lessons - if considering lessons, also First Tutors may be good
• Mandolin retreat - maybe someday?
• Simply Mandolin
• Matt C Bruno's website
• A whole year of mandolin lessons in 10 minutes

Guitar

Music

• Villa-Lobos: Five Preludes
• Rob MacKillop - Prelude no 3

Other Instruments

• Anouar Brahem - Oud

Music that I enjoy listening to but wouldn't add to my playlist

• EoSD Hong Meiling's Theme
• Jazz medleys from matsukaze aoba

Languages

General

• Vocab Tests - receptive and productive measures

German

• Easy German

Polish

• Easy Polish
• Słownik języka polskiego

Japanese

• Easy Japanese - not many episodes
• Sambon Juku
• Kimi no na wa audiobook

Italian

• Easy Italian

Finnish

• Finnish Grammar
• sanakirja.fi

Programming

C++

• Cppreference

Zig

• Zig website

Books/Literary

Best to also look under my reading page for books I've read and am reading.

• Ada or Ardor

Poems

• Motor Bus

Fountain Pens and inks

• Mountain of Ink
• Pure Pens

Other

• Defetter - a guide against information addiction

Podcasts

• Modern Wisdom
• The Urbanist Agenda

Substack

• Freya India

Youtube

• Not Just Bikes
• Technology Connections
• Joe Spivey - love his way of speaking