… for sitting on one’s sofa watching the football on the big screen.

Admittedly it’s only on the internet and the internet connection isn’t as fast as it has been in the past, but buying a decent-sized television and patching the laptop through it is definitely one of my better decisions.

And not only that – regular readers of this rubbish will recall that I have a top-of-the-range DVD player with hard drive and recording facility which I resurrected after 7 or 8 years in a box, and the remote control is dead.

Today, doing nothing much in particular I actually found a new generic one on the internet. It seems that my DVD player is still top-of-the-range and still being made after all these years. And so a new remote control is on the way here (at least, it ought to be).

Who knows – I might even be even more comfortable pretty soon.

Last night was a slightly better night. Still not perfect but good enough. and after the usual morning performance I even had a shower, a shave and a change of clothes.

That was the cue to hit the streets for the shopping.

And a slight amount of excitement up near LIDL. For the last few weeks I’ve noticed piles of hieroglyphics on the road and on the pavement. But today, the street was closed off on one side and they were digging up the area.

I wonder if this is some more of the fibre-optic work. They seem to have moved on from round where I live.

But really I should have gone yesterday to LIDL. It was baking day and they had tons of stuff on offer, most of which had gone. However I did buy a baking sheet and … SHOCK! HORROR! … a cake box that might even fit my next Christmas cake -if there is one;

It was a pleasant walk back here.

And I can tell you that it must be Spring some time soon. The sailing school seems to have started up again and they were out and about in the briny.

I have been meaning to go to see them about a navigation course, but of course I have other preoccupations just now.

But what makes the walk back even more pleasant are the things that you encounter along the way.

Desperately trying to negotiate the roundabout down at the port was a huge yellow mobile crane – a massive thing complete with rear-steering. And that’s the thing over there, fully extended.

It looks as if we are having some serious action on the harbour gates. It’s round about now that they are supposed to be installed.

As for the cooking session, the vegan mayonnaise was rather a disappointment. It was far too liquid and I don’t know what to do about that. But it tastes delicious and I’ll do some more of this regardless. Maybe a little less mustard.

But the hummus – that came out absolutely perfectly and I’m very impressed with that – almost as much as I am with my galvanised steel dustbin. There are two tubs of that in the freezer now for when I finish this packet of vegan cheese.

But it all goes to show that this mixing kit that I bought a few weeks ago was another excellent buy too.

The weather deteriorated for my afternoon walk and I finished in the rain which was disappointing. But it had cleared up by the time that I went out for my evening walk – a quick nip out at half-time.

Tea was a stuffed pepper with rice – cooked in the oven because with having nothing for pudding I made a rice pudding. It’s been a long time sonce I’ve had a proper one cooked in the oven and it was well-worth the effort. It was delicious.

Now that the football is over I can catch up with a couple of things and have an early night. I need it.