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Just spent a fair amount of time and effort prying loose the staff beads on one of the windows, in the vague hope I might thus be able to free the sash. Sadly, it now seems pretty unlikely that this is going to work, so I'm abandoning the attempt
In the current tome, we have passed through 1949 and the devaluation of the £ sterling from $4.03 to $2.80*.
Having exceeded the level of excitement allowed for the day, I turned to "Pictures of Neath Port Talbot" for further entertainment, wherein I found, in different volumes, pictures of two of my teachers from the very dim & distant past.
One of them was Myron Davies, a gentleman, and the other was Tom Pugh.
They both taught Physics, and Myron Davies taught maths as well.
I also found a picture of "Neath Radio Service" wherein Strangelove Pater should feature, except that he doesn't.
Tea/dinner this evening was spag bol wherein the spag was that odd brownish whole wheat stuff.
It was nice enough.
The grated cheddar improved it no end.
Followed by stewed apple (brown sugar, soft) with custard (very thick today, spoon stood up on its own).
No grated cheddar required.
Followed by 1.05 imperial pints of Good Glengettie Tea.
The other book I found in the pile was "Dilbert Gives You The Business", being a book of Dilbert cartoons from goodness knows when that's been there [s]20[/s[ nearly 19 years if it's been there a day.
Tea towel washing is complete. It's still hovering around 25° in here, despite being no more than 17° outside; but at least there are still showers from time to time, and it's very grey
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