Thanks for all the suggestions - I don't want to use a third party service for privacy reasons but KDE Connect seems to 'just work' and do the job (can share the clipboard which is all that I need). It works over my existing wireless network which is good as I don't need to enable Bluetooth on my desktop.
@pwaring KDE Connect is magic. Love it.
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