There are several external drives that I use for the more specialised back-ups and then there’s the 128GB USB stick in the back of the computer where I back up my data at least every night, and more often if necessary.<\/p>\n
The nurse came to see me while I was in the middle of it all. He changed my bandages and when he finished, asked me “can you put on your socks on your own?”.<\/p>\n
These socks are actually elasticated and very difficult to manage, and also I can’t bend enough these days with all of my problems. But I asked why he wanted to know.<\/p>\n
The answer is that he thinks that in a week or two’s time I’ll no longer need the treatment to my legs and if I could put on my socks myself I wouldn’t need the nurses round every morning.<\/p>\n
Sounds like a good plan to me so I reckon that after my shower on Wednesday I’d have a try. Anything if there’s a possibility of a good lie-in on a Sunday morning again.<\/p>\n
After he left I made breakfast and carried on reading the report of the Naturalists. We’re discussing primroses, cowslips and oxslips, not that I have any interest in botany, but I was interested to see the lecturer discussing treatment that was novel in 1867 but is commonplace today, and how flowers have evolved over the last 150 years or so.<\/p>\n
He went on to say how putting manure on your primroses and cowslips improves their quality and, rather quaintly, goes on to extol the benefits of what he calls “street scrapings”. Yes, the horse-power back in those days came from real horses.<\/p>\n
Back in here I carried on backing up until I’d finished, not having noticed that the internet was back on.<\/p>\n
Once I’d finished another good job I started work,, finishing off the radio notes<\/p>\n
My cleaner came early today. She decided that as it was a lovely day she’d go to join the crowds at the p\u00e8che-\u00e0-pied<\/em> this afternoon so she’d come at lunchtime.<\/p>\n For the benefit of new readers, of whom there are more than just a few these days, I live in one of the best shellfish-producing areas in Europe, if not the World. <\/p>\n In principle, all of the beaches and rocks are let off to concessions who have the right to exploit what they find there. That right goes from high water-mark down to the low water-mark.<\/p>\n However, we also have some of the highest tides in Europe and about a dozen times per year, the tides are such that they go out beyond the low water mark. And when that happens, it’s a free-for-all on the very low part where everyone can rake up what he can, as long as he obeys the limits about size and quantity.<\/p>\n So she’s off with her bucket and grattoire<\/em> and she’ll be OK as long as she shares her catch with her friends. After all, you mustn’t be selfish with your shellfish.<\/p>\n While she was here we chatted about this idea that I have about trying to put on my own socks. She’s not sure how I’m going to do it but she’s willing to see what I can do and how I do it. <\/p>\n And to be honest, so am I.<\/p>\n My salad butty at lunchtime used up the last of the bread and so tomorrow morning I’ll have to make some more. I’ll also have to set a washing machine off so even though it’s going to be a day of rest, I’ll still be busy.<\/p>\n Liz and I had a little chat which was nice. It’s been a long time since we spoke to each other<\/p>\n But anyway I finished off all of the notes for this programme that I’d been preparing. The music that I’d selected ran out at just over 53 minutes and I’d been keeping a careful count of the text that I’d written and I’ve calculated that it will run to 7 minutes and 12 seconds.<\/p>\n It’ll be great if it does because there won’t be much at all to cut out once the soundtrack has been edited.<\/p>\n After the hot chocolate I uninstalled a program that had been causing me problems and reinstalled an earlier version, only to find that I was having the same trouble.<\/p>\n That was when I discovered that I’d inadvertently changed a setting on the program that I’d deleted, that the version that I’d re-uploaded had remembered. A flick of a switch changed that and now I’ll have to uninstall that program and reinstall the new one again.<\/p>\n Tea tonight was vegan salad, chips and vegan nuggets, followed by apple cake and coconut-soya cream <\/p>\n So now it’s bedtime. so I’m clearing off, ready to fight the good fight tomorrow, and I hope that you like my Robinson Crusoe impression<\/p>\n When my cleaner was in I told her that today I was going to do my impression of Robinson Crusoe.
\n"What do you mean?"<\/em><\/strong> she asked.
\n"Well"<\/em><\/strong> I replied "all of his work was done by Friday too"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
