Still without a car, and likely to remain so for some time. So I’m getting in lots of walking. So long as I keep it to a sensible level, it’s not being too hard. Without a car, shopping is the big problem. There are buses into town from the village, but that’s half a mile […]
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My iPod arrived today – wo0t!! It took me a while to figure out the touchpad controls, and I’m still trying to find out how to turn the damm thing off to save the battery. But I can now have music whenever I want it. Which won’t be all the time, or even most of […]
…Sara Maitland’s The Book of Silence – an autobiographical essay on her search for, and meditations on, silence. I can agree with much of what she writes – of how silence should be regarded a presence, not an absence, for instance; and her joy at living alone and reasonably secure is well expressed, and makes […]
…and we hardly knew ye…. Despite Buttercup being a low-slung Fiat, B would drive it along the most incredibly rough, rocky forest trails. On almost every trip, rocks would bang against the underside. B always dismissed my worries – but the inevitable happened on Sunday. He came home from another forest trip (by himself), with […]
The new Doctor’s companion has just been announced. – and she looks about 15.. Which fits in, I suppose, with a Doctor Who who looks no more than seventeen. Now I’m sure it’s not me that’s getting old and thinking that all the latest Doctor Whos look terribly young – don’t they look really young […]
…so I’ve been having a think over the last few days and resolved a few internal issues. So (touch wood) I won’t be posting many more self-pitying whinges in here. One of the things I decided on was that I can and should break out of set routines when I get bored with them. So, […]
Well, I didn’t get out for a walk today – it was raining on and off. Also, we decided to start some housecleaning in preparation for next weekend, and B started putting carpet tiles on the stairs. Also, the car seems to have fixed itself – originally, B thought it was the ignition/immobiler system at […]
…or trying to plan… Over the last couple of months, I’ve been getting a feeling that I should be doing more with my life. Every day is pretty much the same and it’s getting hard to avoid a feeling of ennui. Not having any money has a lot to do with it – trying to […]
After posting yesterday’s bout of self-pitying neepery, I switched off the comp and went outside to take in the evening. There’s a field outside our door, where sheep graze. It’s just one of several linked fields they spend their days wandering in and out of, following the grazing; it has a couple of pens in […]
I’ve decided to give up on developing a CMS for the Oakleaf Circle site. It’s just too difficult for me to hack any sort of directory-type listing. So I’ll crack on with updating the old site – I’ve well behind with that. I’ll probably mess around with the design a bit, refresh it. Generally, I’m […]