Monday, March 23, 2026
Scotney castle
went with Jono to the NT place and had a good long walk through mud, slopes and ice house. Then tea and cakes in the stables of the old house. very super.
M
must wash my hair
tiling started
The tile lift was working this am, and tiles appearing stacked on the roof.
I think we will see some big changes soon
Fab
M
just loaded lots of apps
Saturday, March 21, 2026
kitchen cleaning tomorrow
feather duster
Tried to use, with disasterous results. The feathers disintegrated all over the place.
Kept the handle.
M
telephone apps
These dont seem to be much good. Very disappointing.
They try hard to be difficult to get rid of.
M
car is locked
I did more trickle charging, and tried out locking all the doors. Thus proved a success and so have left it locked. There never was anythibg of value antyway.
If the battery runs flat, and interferes with the lock mechanism, then I can still get at the battery to charge it again.
M
large chicken pie with breadcrumbs
I put an amazing amount of the gelled gravy from roasting in the bottom, and it was delicious.
M
hoovering approval
Thursday, March 19, 2026
Urology session
Honda locked
Today tested out the locking systems on the honda. All working fine, and now the car is fully locked on the drive.
I have not managed to undo the boot yet. I need to read a bit more about this.
M
Tiles done
The tiling on the smaller building almost done. Just battens and tiles. No insulation or anything else.
Presumably all insulation and damp prevention is done totally separately inside the void. Makes sense.
M
Printer fine
Works just fine with individual android machines and other standalone machines. Difficulty is probably with the bigger network and microsoft machines.
Need more checking.
M
great imagination
I have started to realise quite how much my imagination ran riot when I was ill. I would then be reasonably logical and persuasive within that framework.
The imagined maths conference was probably my entry into hospital. It included emails, photos, meals, conference, interviews, sleeping arrangements, conference rooms, etc. But stopped after only one day, and it appeared as if the memory of days two and three had been lost. I was until now convinced that this was real. But no. Just a weird interpretation of the emergency entrance into hospital.
M
T
watch time errot
In process of getting help to correct the 4 minutes that the watch is behind the correct time.
Unfortunately they seem to be talking about much more recent versions.
M
hoovering
I have started doing one bit of hoovering per day. I quite enjoy it, and T seems pleased with the results.
M
tiles have arrived
The roof tiles for the new house on the corner have arrived. They are french, which slightly surprised me. Not worried at all.
M
Covid report
The initial press comments are rather mild. Doubt if there has been time to digest it yet. I think we will hear much more in a few days.
M
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
trying to correct time on tracker
Gosh how quickly things go out of date, and the owbnership or branding changes.
Trying to correct the time on my wrist band tracker. It is murder to try and find the right company and help.
The device is about 3 minutes slow. It is not obvious how to feed it a correction or a source for such.
Trying a email help service from honor. Lets see how they do. Hope it is not AI.
M
Sunday, March 15, 2026
Tesco clubcard
Must try out my old clubcard, to see if it works still. It certainly did not work at some stage, because of an incompatibility, but I never forced it, and they may have cleared the issue.
M
Found my security pass for Tonbridge
I had a lot of hallucinations when ill, and developed methods of controlling their effects, which consisted of basically three stages to avoid being taken in.
These were
1. Check if any signs of hallucinating, taking some time to review the evidence
2. Assuming no hallucinations, work out what it might mean
3. Develop a possible response and decide whether to activate it.
Now it can all go wrong, but by delaying action through three steps, it is probably much safer. But you may never know.
The emphasis on delay, may give a better impression to third parties, and be if value.
In this case, I probably wrongly guessed that I had put the security neck band in a safe place, whereas in reality I had done nothing. I probably had imagined doing it, to check if it as appropriate, but not done it. I then had used a memory of that false thought.
Anyway now found, thanks to realisation that there is an increased risk of having a good memory of something that never happened.
M
has Jonathon been in care?
I cannot remember if I have seen him this year, before yesterday, that's between living back at home mid Feb and yesterday. Probably not.
I now assume that the visitation of the three grown up children and the odd child, was to welcome him back home.
I wonder what his problem was. He certainly did not look in good shape yesterday. But no obvious weaknesses, to indicate something mechanical in nature. Could be plumbing, mental or bug.
Given my observations that I communicated to Sue last autumn, I would guess mental problems. His half baked mowing yesterday could be confirmation. Basically he abandoned everything a quarter the way through.
M
tiling on main building about to start
Lots of the roof is now ready for the actual tiles, with all the wooden slats in position.and tile stacks already positioned for the start.
It will make a dramatic difference, since it is visible from many angles.
It will make next doors roof look cheap and nasty, which it is.
M
Creed
Allegedly my new doctor's name.
Will be trying to get a session with him sometimes.
Main questions are
1. What system would be best for dealing with prescriptions
2. How do we speed up removal of catheter
3. Do we resume the cancer injections
4. Question 1 for my wife
5. What injections should I sign up for, eg Tricia's letter
M
Invited to fives dinner
Not sure of date. Probably this coming Friday.
Will check with Neil about date and ride back.
M
Jonathon in garden
We had not seen him for quite a bit, and had assumed some sort of illness, as Sue was around and busy.
He did look an invalid. He attempted some mowing, which was quickly abandoned, and some clearing of sorts.
Brave but probably frustrating effort.
Theory is that the building work has broken him in some way.
It makes existing garden plan, better for his future neighbours, but pointless for him. He will have high blocks to views both left and right, whuch he has made worse by making them vertical, and the place is not designed well for an up and down view, with sychamore and wide steps, up from large low stone patio. Its basically an expensive mess.
No idea what is wrong with him, and mass visit of family last week adds to question.
M
hoovered
Hoovered the top flight of stairs. Managed, but exhausted.
No other obvious repairs needed.
Get ready for the other section of these stairs.
M
onion
Tried out steaming a little bit of an old onion, as part of a concoction of veg. Rather good.
M
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Spitfire
I can hear one going on its regular paying route. Does not seem long since they had to have an emergency landing in a field.
M
car battery
Meal Worms
I have put out the packet of meal worms tgat J gave me when in Hazel Dean. All around the window sills.
So far no obvious takers, but it can take time.
They look horrid.
M
Bread Making
This is now back working. Not obvious what all the problems were.
Old flour
Old yeast
Failing machine and paddle
Poor recipe
Keep fingers crossed
M
need a GP session
windows
Next door have few if any windows looking out over the building plot. They had opportunities before the current building plans, but did not take them.
It has ended them up with little way of stopping being overlooked by the new buildings.
In particular the tesco building could have had some northern lights, instead of nothing.
No wonder if Jonathon is madly mad.
M
Friday, March 13, 2026
rucksack
I filled my rucksack with all heavy tesco items, and found I had very little else of any weight to carry. No problem walking home. Wonderful.
M
