After thinking I had lost these posts to the great back up in the sky I managed to find a snapshot of my posts on an old laptop drive from 6 years ago.
Considering what it took to put something like this together in the past tools like 11ty.dev make it a doddle nowadays.
So with a quick node.js script looping over my old SQLITE GHOST.db, I turned the old blog posts in to MarkDown files.