A new timbunting.com!

And Daily Yamabushi posts for March 27 to April 2, 2026.

Cherry Blossom season is almost here in Shonai, this is from last year.

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I’ve been quietly building a new timbunting.com, and I finally launched it, even though it’s not 100%. I found that I was toiling with things that have very little bearing on, well, anything, and to top things off, my old site was bugging like crazy¹, so I pulled the plug and brought in the new website.

Ready enough is as ready as I’ll ever be, I felt.

Things like this kept happening… not ideal!

So, what’s new?

• The whole site should be much faster, and from my testing it has been.

• The homepage is completely new.

• I changed the ‘blog’ to a dedicated Daily Yamabushi page, where you can now read a whole month’s worth of posts without clicking away.

• I added a dedicated page for the articles that appear in this newsletter and called it Japan Deep Dives (page still needs work, but it’s getting there!).

• I’m going to go through and split my mountains articles into Mountains Stories and Hiking Guides, for those who want the narrative, and those who just want the hike!

• An updated /yamabushi page.

There are a few other places I still need to fix, but it’s mainly stuff like feature images on the Japan Deep Dives, and then fixing the hub pages to make the content more accessible. With over 2,500 Daily Yamabushi posts, 100 or so Yamagata Mountains (to be split in two), and also around 100 Japan Deep Dives, it’s not exactly easy to navigate, but I try to make it as easy as possible.

For those interested, I switched to wordpress.com (from wordpress.org), and have my domain on Cloudflare now. I’m also using a paid Astra theme that I bought years ago. I was using a page builder on the old site that became too css-heavy. That and the constant plugin and php etc. updates that I got sick of led me to wordpress.com. If you’re thinking of doing something like me, wordpress.com is a good place to start if you want customisability. Otherwise, Substack is pretty good (tell them I sent you).

If you find something isn’t quite right with the new website, please let me know! Also, let me know what you like, what you’d like more of, and what you hate I guess…

Thanks,

Tim.

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Daily Yamabushi Posts for March 27 to April 2, 2026

Know what these are for? You would if you had read this.

Daily Yamabushi posts for March 20 to 26, 2026.

Read a whole month’s worth of Daily Yamabushi at timbunting.com/daily-yamabushi (this is new!). See all Japan Deep Dives here.

1. No Choice but to Choose

2. You Can Choose How You React

3. Moving Parts

4. In or Out

5. It’s Only Temporary

6. The Small Things

7. The New Normal

1. For those who subscribe to the Daily Yamabushi, that was why I was posting at irregular times. Sorry about that.