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Sunday 14th June 2015 – THAT WAS AN EXCITING DAY …

… today, wasn’t it?

I’ve set foot out of the house twice, I think. And that’s no surprise because it’s been another thoroughly wet and miserable day today. In fact, had I not had to leave my bed to go for a ride on the porcelain horse at 09:15 I would probably still be in bed now, and I wouldn’t have lost one minute’s sleep worrying about it.

The day started as it meant to go on, with the gas in the little stove up here running out while I was making my coffee. What a way to start the day! And then I caught up a little with some work on the laptop.

From here I went on with the tidying up that I started yesterday and you’ll certainly notice a difference here today. There’s a huge area of empty nothingness now between the door and the back of the bed-settee. everything that was hanging around there has been moved into the bedroom or downstairs to be turned into rubbish.

This led on to another project too. I’ve always had printer issues here as you know, and I inherited an HP 2100-series all-in-one printer. No installation disk so I’ve had to configure it manually but that didn’t enable most of its functions.

Searching for something else on the internet (as you do) I came across a FAQ “I can’t find the installation disk for my HP 2180”. And underneath was the answer – “you can download it from ‘this link’ “. So off I went and sure enough, there it was. And I set to and downloaded it.

218mb, the drivers, which makes a mockery of the old days when I had a 40mb hard drive on my 386, or when I ran my taxi business in the mid-80s with an Apple II that ran everything off a floppy disk of 128kb.

8 hours it took to download, but it seems to work and who knows? I might even have a printer here for a while.

And so with that and the tidying up, you can’t say that the day was wasted.

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Tuesday 21st August 2012 – I HAD ONE …

… of those days where I couldn’t get myself started.

At least I had a good night’s sleep with the fan going through the night – so much so that I dreamt that I was back working at a job that I hated in a place that I hated with people who I hated.

Surprising isn’t it, what goes through people’s minds.

So this morning in the heat I stirred a few papers around – but I’ve managed 14kb of notes so far for the radio programmes and that should see us through the next recording session if I can’t summon up the enthusiasm to do any more.

collapsed lean to repairing stone wall les guis virlet puy de dome france>Outside this afternoon another 6 buckets went into the wall but it’s slow work despite me standing on the ground today doing the work.

I’ve been filling in two of the vertical cracks, and that has been time-consuming, and also it’s not been easy to move some of the old cement pointing that needs to come out.

The old metal screwdriver that I use as a chisel is giving up the ghost, I think. I shall have to buy a new one … “this heat really is getting to you” – ed.

Anyway, I reckon that if I can keep up this schedule, another 5 days will see this wall finished – and then it will be time to start on the long wall and point that.

But that should be easier … “famous last words” – ed … as I’ll be working off the scaffolding and you saw how quickly I did the house wall once I had a scaffolding up there.

Nevertheless, I’m impressed with what I’ve done so far. I shan’t know the place when it’s finished, whenever that might be.

Two phone calls too – one from Marianne telling me that our walk tomorrow at St Hilaire is cancelled as there’s a funeral at the church, and secondly from Rosemary who wanted a chat.

And I cooked a mega-aubergine-and-kidney-bean doodah to last for the next 3 days and just as I finished, the gas ran out. That’s over 10 months (8th October – I mark the bottles with the date when I connect them) that that bottle has lasted.

It just shows you the benefits of having the electric steamer and also the new woodstove. A far cry from when I needed to buy a new bottle every three weeks, isn’t it?

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