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[xoggoth]

Usual people missing from local club today so didne bovver. Heard one Dave is having an op and other Dave depended on him from lift so prob. can't make it. Stopped at village cafe where there was a guitarist playing and sat with lady I know from history group. Quite nice.

[NickFitz]

The desk is done!

And I am knackered!

I’m not sure the stuff I moved out of there to have room for assembly will all go back in. But I think I’ll worry about that tomorrow, and put up with stuff cluttering the hall, kitchen, and bedroom for now

Computers, monitors, and so on will have to be moved back in. I might have tea before I bother with that, given that I didn’t get around to having any lunch

[ladymuck]

The parking spot I had secured over the road was under a tree. I expected bird poop but didn't expect the level of tree sap and bits of tree flower completely smothering my car. I managed to get the windscreen clear enough to see out of but the rear was impossible and I didn't fancy driving down the motorway unable to see what's going on behind me. This meant I had to stop at the hand carwash on the A30 to get the muck cleaned off. For a mere tenner they did a fab job. I might stop there more often.

Cloudy but warm and occasionally sunny down on the coast, which meant gardening did get done. The task for the day was to remove, as best as possible, a plant that has taken over the rockery. Mum also got stuck in.

It wasn't going to be possible to get all the roots out without taking all the rocks out and digging the whole thing over. A bit OTT when there were lots of plants that could remain. I added some new planting and left my brother a note to water them in the week if it doesn't rain.

Sorted out an outfit for Mum to wear to my cousin's wedding next weekend. Whether she will want to go on the day remains to be seen.

[NickFitz]

Computers, monitors, and so on will have to be moved back in. I might have tea before I bother with that, given that I didn’t get around to having any lunch

I decided I couldn’t be bothered to cook, being too knackered. But there was stuff in the hall blocking the door, so I couldn’t get out to collect a delivery! So I ended up getting the various computers and things back in there, then moving the junk back in too. At least it’s arranged more conveniently for going through now

I also set up the UPS I bought the other week, so the important things are now powered by that

And with that done, I was able to order tea from the Turkish place. It didn’t arrive as quickly as it sometimes has but it was here within twenty minutes, which was fine

[NickFitz]

There was more David Attenborough on today; I gather they’ve been rerunning it because of his 100th birthday

Later, I watched the first episode of Breaking the Bank: One Trader, 50 Billion on HBO Max, a French documentary series about the rogue trader at Société Générale who’d set up that amount (in Euros) in trades at the time things started falling apart in early 2008. Ironically, he’d made 1.5 billion the previous year by anticipating the subprime crisis, having been given a target for the year of just 12 million; but he'd hidden that from his bosses in the belief he could do even better

And then some more of Goodbye Mickey Mouse

Bank Holiday tomorrow!

Goodnight all