Took ghastly old ll2 to music thing yesterday. Abba tribute band was good.
Just doing boring stuff today, like fixing my shed door that wouldn't close due to wonkiness as result of subsidence. Lesson learned too late, if you get a new shed/greenhouse put it on a solid concrete floor.
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Gawd! Knocked over my mug of coffee and it spilled onto an extension lead and triggered the RCD in the garage. Now I've got to go round setting all the clocks again.
Lone day today, loony lady 1 has got a hospital appt.
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Mahjongy thing this morning. Have to hang around this afternoon for blokes coming to fix (I hope) my leaky conservatory roof.
Darned annoying, Outlook not updating on my new PC, don't fancy reset as took me ages yesterday to set it up, kept going round in circles, having to enter details...
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Took ghastly old ll2 to a talk this afternoon, didn't stay myself - sounded boring. Finally got round to putting my Windows 11 PC into the office and using the 10 as a spare.
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But I'm sure it was my voice, sounded like me. Darn it! I must be dead!
Maybe find out the cause when I get round to replacing my Win 10 PC with my new 11 PC. Looks yuck down there among all those wires, lots of dust and cobwebs....Last edited by xoggoth; 2 June 2026, 15:22.
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I turned my PC off and turned off all the wall sockets and the speaker was still doing the muttering sounds. Was obviously a recording of me but how was it playing?????
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Creepy, my PC is making faint muttering sounds and I don't have a browser or anything else open. Anyway, off to old arty farty thing soon.
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Really nice old fart meet up at ancient house. Sat near some people I know, unlike last one. Wandered enormous garden afterwards, 3 big lakes!
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Walk with ll1 this morning, she brushed some Common Hogweed and her leg was all itchy with big blister.
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Not much different for me. I really don't understand it, I open all the windows 2+ hours before bed and put a fan in one window but temperature in the bedroom hardly drops at all, 25' last night. Use a little almost silent fan from a computer, really helps. Been doing my walks close to sunset when that...
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Oldf arty farty thing this morning. No Karaoke this evening, cancelled as too hot and you can't open the hall windows apparently.
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Put off me walky until it gets cooler. Been doing lots of boring DIY jobs, mainly sealing garden paths, only in the shadowy bits to avoid that nasty shiny thing up there.
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Gawd. Spent ages this morning getting a quote for home insurance, having to check through docs and online to find out what my lock types were, exact month house was purchased, current house value etc.
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Walk with not loony lady 3 this afternoon, I chose a nice dark woody area. Coffee and cake at nice cafe overlooking the local reservoir afterwards.
Erected some scaffolding with intention of sealing leak in conservatory roof this morning but on close inspection sealant ain't gonna do it,...Last edited by xoggoth; 24 May 2026, 17:12.
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Usual old farty day, Mahjong this morning, local cabaret this afternon with ll1 followed by call in at ll3 place. Did me usual loony dancing at the cabaret and a lady who organised it came over and asked for my phone number, not sure what I've got meself into there.
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Group walk this morning folowed by meet at the pub. Been doing a bonfire this afternoon, smell of smoke, need a shower.
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Day to meself today. Actually got round to cleaning all the moss off the conservatory roof. Bit of a precarious job for an old fart, standing at top of a ladder. Spent over an hour looking at Google search problems on me business website.
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Took ghastly ll3 to a car boot this morning. Total waste of time. Advert said they ran until 1pm but they had mostly packed up when we got there just before 11.
PS Checked the Eurovision winner online just now, Gordon Bennet, modern music is such total ****.
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