Monthly Archives: September 2004

The New Astrolog

By Val | Published: September 30, 2004
Astrologers amongst you may rember a free astrology program called Astrolog. It was a DOS-based program, rather unwieldy, but with lots of features. And totally and utterly free. There’s a new and better version of Astrolog out now – Astrolog32. It’s not by the original Astrolog creator, Walter Pullen, but is based on [...]
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Not The Best of Days….

By Val | Published: September 24, 2004
Yesterday was not one of my better days – my knees hurt like h*ll. We went into town for some shopping, bill-paying and a library visit. I did very little walking and I snapped at B for fussing over finding parking spaces close enough to the places I needed to go [...]
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Attack of the Killer Mozzies

By Val | Published: September 21, 2004
What’s with the mosquitos around here lately? They are swarming onto anything warmblooded, biting like crazy. Just last week, B got bitten on his arm; the two bites swelled up into golfball-sized lumps, so he went to the doctor. The doctor had half-a-dozen similar lumps of his own and had given up counting [...]
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Stupid Things I Have Seen (Pt96)

By Val | Published: September 21, 2004
This was on the TV (OK, much of what is on TV these days is stupid – witness the supermarket PR woman this morning explaining to viewers how to read the ingredients lists on food packets). The programme was something about obesity in Britain today; the picture they were illustrating this piece with was a shot [...]
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Autumn Sunshine

By Val | Published: September 15, 2004
It has been beautiful here today. I’d been planning to take the bus to Dumfries, to get some library books, but when I woke up the sun was shining on the hill and the sky was a cloudless blaze of deep blue. So me & B went off for a walk [...]
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Stupid Things I have Seen (Pt95)

By Val | Published: September 9, 2004
Time: This afternoon. Location: Driving into town along a twisty little country road. In front of us, a small Fiat car; in the back of which, sitting on the parcel shelf, was a dog. A medium-size terrier, evidently enjoying itself, sitting up, moving around, taking up most of the window-space. A live nodding-dog. [...]
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Relaxing….

By Val | Published: September 3, 2004
…just a little. We have our friend Norm staying for a few days and we are showing him the local sights. Which consist mostly of trees and hills. And sheep. And trees. And hills. And a few more sheep. And trees. Oh, and a few cows as well, for [...]
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