………….I wish I could scream. I am really really fed up with this computer and my internet connection! This morning, it took over thirty minutes to get a stable connection – and it’s still been slow as hell since. Like wading through molasses. No exaggeration, but every page takes minutes to load. This isn’t the […]
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Today, this was posted on an elist I belong to: What is with all the drivel? Most of us that are here in the UK take it in our stride and get on with our lives. We are fed up of the media stretching disasters into a week long filling of a TV channel because […]
….got Transit finished and the camera-ready copy emailed off to the printers. It was a bit of a mare all round – I had to hold the nearly-finished copy until the Council News came in on Friday night; when that happened, I found it was too long to fit in the space I reserved for […]
…so I went downstairs to make myself a meal. Had thoughts about doing a nourishing, healthy rice/lentils/veggies stew. Inspection of the kitchen cupboards reveal pitiable lack of the first two ingredients. A veggie stew on its own holds no appeal (for this particular veggie anyway), so I look for other sustenance. Hmm. 2 eggs – […]
It’s always rather entertaining to look at the details of my site statistics and see what people are searching for. Naturally, most of the most recent searches are about the Solstice, where and how and when; gratifying to see that I can provideso many people with some info on that. One search query had me […]
Time to get the next issue of Transit together. It’s quite a big job nowadays – the magazine has grown since I took it over in Spring of 2003. Then, it was purely web-based, with a downloadable PDF version. Laying out the web version took two or three days; the PDF consisted of the website […]
Last night, at about 11, B called me to the kitchen door. “I think there’s a badger out there!” I came to the doorstep and peered out. Sure enough, in the middle of the field outside, there was a dark animal shape moving about. At this time of year, this far North, it never gets […]
I caught an episode of One Foot in the Grave the other night, and was struck by how the series was so unlike the usual sitcom. I’m not a fan – I didn’t watch it at all the first time round, and just catch odd episodes that have been rerun. But it is one of […]
Walked into the village this morning to pick up another month’s supply of stay-healthy pills from the surgery. There were posters everywhere for next Saturday’s “Speed Shear”; I love living in a place where a sheep-shearing display is one of the summer’s social highlights. Managed to walk back all the way with a five-pound bag […]