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Sunday 8th February 2026 – BANE OF BRITAIN … <\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"

… strikes again!<\/p>\n

For a twenty-four-hour period starting this morning, I should have been collecting my … errr … liquid output to take with me tomorrow to the dialysis centre so that they could measure and examine it, but guess who forgot?<\/p>\n

What I usually do, and what I should have done last night, is to place the container on the seat before going to bed but, as you might expect, I forgot to do that.<\/p>\n

In fact, I was so tired last night that I just wanted to go to bed, and so everything else slipped my mind. I dashed through everything, but it was still about 23:30 or thereabouts when I finished everything that needed doing. And then I crawled into bed, and that was that.<\/p>\n

Once in bed, I fell asleep quite quickly and there I stayed, fast asleep, until about 07:00. I was debating with myself whether I should leave the bed at that time, but I soon dismissed that silly idea, turned over and went back to sleep.<\/p>\n

Isabelle the Nurse turned up as usual at about 08:30. However, I was still in bed and had no intention whatsoever of moving from it. Consequently, she dealt with my feet and legs while I was still lying there half asleep.<\/p>\n

And maybe more than half-asleep too because I didn’t hear her leave the premises. For all I know, she might well be still here, hiding somewhere.<\/p>\n

It was about 09:30 when I finally left the bed and headed off for the bathroom, completely forgetting about the “collection”. And once in the bathroom, I had a slight wash and then dressed ready for the day.<\/p>\n

In the kitchen, I made breakfast (no medication today) of porridge, hot coffee and a couple of my home-made croissants, followed by a read of Mortimer Wheeler’s MAIDEN CASTLE <\/a>.<\/p>\n

Right now, he’s examining the pottery and other artefacts. He’s comparing them with pottery found in all kinds of hillforts, so I’ve been hopping from one site to another on the internet as I read up about the various places. But I’m surprised that so few hillforts have been properly excavated. I would have expected all of them to have had a good going-over by now.<\/p>\n

Back in here, we had a footfest \u2013 the highlights of all of the matches this weekend that were played in front of the cameras of S4C. I refrained from watching the game between TNS and Penybont. Sitting through it once was bad enough. and I had no appetite to sit through it again, not even the highlights.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, there was Stranraer v Annan in Scotland, and the unbeaten run goes on and on, although we had yet another draw.<\/p>\n

There was some stuff on the dictaphone from last night too. <\/p>\n

\nWe were doing an archaeological search on a farming complex up on the hills somewhere. It was land that had been farmed from the earliest days until the twentieth century. One of the questions that we had to answer was “how did they manage to access the internet?”. I suggested that they had a C-cable that plugged into the USB port that helped them access the internet in those days. There was much more to this dream, but I can’t remember it now.<\/div>\n

This is clearly related to the books that I’ve been reading recently, and the reference to the C-cable and USB port refers to the fact that the laptop on the kitchen table can’t detect the Wi-Fi signal from in the office and so I use my mobile ‘phone as a router, connected to the laptop by the aforementioned cable.<\/p>\n

\nI had a mobile ‘phone and it was charging OK but none of the accessories ever worked with it. I showed it to a friend of mine and she was convinced that the wiring was wrong. She took me over to a musician who was playing guitar who, she said, knew everything. He confirmed that the wiring was incorrect on this plug and that I needed some kind of adapter. I set off to go to my lock-up garages where I had loads of old cars. In the first lock-up garage, there were no cars in it at all. They had all gone. There were still a few bits and pieces lying around but there was nothing that was suitable. I went to the second one but there were only two cars in that, two Ford Cortina pick-ups with truck caps. I didn’t recognise either of those as being mine. I searched around and found something. There was quite a crowd of people in that lock-up, at the counter looking for different bits and pieces etc. As I found my things and walked out, one of these pick-ups started up and reversed out of the yard. I thought “well, that’s certainly not one of my vehicles so where have all mine gone?”.<\/div>\n

This accessory plug is a mystery to me, but the rest of the dream relates to another one of these stories that the World is not yet ready to hear<\/p>\n

By now, it was time for a disgusting drink break, and then I began to work on one of the radio notes that I’d recorded a while ago. These are now edited and the two halves of the programme have been assembled. I also chose the joining track and wrote the notes for it, ready for the next time that I have a very early start.<\/p>\n

A couple of days ago, I had had a surprising letter \u2013 an old friend from down in the Auvergne had written to me. He’d heard that I’d been quite ill and so he sent me his best wishes for a speedy recovery, as well as some news about one or two things down there.<\/p>\n

He’d also sent me a copy of his registration as a self-employed businessman, of which he was doubtless very proud. I’ve known him since he was a teenager and he was always someone who was on the margins of society, so he has every right to be proud of finally organising himself to do something stable. Anyway, he’d included his e-mail address in the letter so I wrote a reply to him.<\/p>\n

While I was at it, I sent a reply to a few mails that I’d received from friends that were on the back burner … "the mails, not the friends" – ed<\/em> … There are one or two that I still need to answer, but I was sidetracked … "as usual" – ed<\/em> … by having to go to start baking. The bread and the pizza base won’t make themselves.<\/p>\n

The bread is another excellent example, the dough of which went up like a lift when it was standing. Several dessert spoons of sunflower seeds at the second mix prevented it from going up as much as it did at the first mix, but it’s still impressive.<\/p>\n

The pizza base was excellent too and it tasted delicious, that’s for sure, with tomato sauce with diced peppers, onions, mushrooms, olives, vegan cheese and thinly-sliced tomatoes. I could only manage half of it, and the other half is in the fridge for tomorrow night when I come back from dialysis.<\/p>\n

Back in here, I began to write my notes but I fell asleep in my chair no fewer than three times before I’d even written two hundred words. At that point, I decided to go to bed and I’ll finish my notes in the morning. I’m sure that you can all wait that long.<\/p>\n

But before I go, seeing as we have been talking about archaeologists, ancient farms and the internet … "well, one of us has" – ed<\/em> … Mortimer Wheeler, digging down fifty feet at Maiden Castle, came across a mysterious network of copper cables. From that, he assumed that even in the Iron Age, they must have had some kind of telephone network.
\nMeanwhile, James Curle, digging down forty feet at Trimontium<\/em>, also found a similar network. From that, he assumed that the Romans must have brought the telephone network up into Scotland.
\nIn Crewe, however, they dug down two hundred and fifty feet and found nothing.
\n"What does that mean?"<\/em><\/strong> asked Curle and Wheeler.
\n"Well,"<\/em><\/strong> replied the Crewe Town Council "it means that we must have had wi-fi and mobile phones here in Crewe long before you lot had telephones."<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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