Saturday, April 18, 2026
Gardening
I have been doing lots of weed cleaning in a quick fashion. Compost piles have been growing fast, as well as black bin.
Basically, I try to give an advantage to some of my preferred plants.
M
Repair Shop.
I took my latest iMac to the repair shop, down near the church. First they thought it was the power input that was faulty, but that was not right, and today they showed that this was not correct. They will investigate further next time.
Back home I got it up and running, though not connected to the internet, as it was not attached to peripherals. Later this sort of failed, but still showed signs of life.
I guess there are some ways of setting things up, using the buttons. I cannot seem to use the keyboard. I need to do a sort of reset.
M
Pages party
This has been no problem so far and there is only just over an hour to go.
Thank you Pages.
M
Small composter
I must remember to use the small green plastic bin. At the moment it mostly gets dry twigs, and it needs more of a damp mixture.
M
Dunnock
One seems to be owning a front garden territory. I done remember one ever being there before.
M
Thursday, April 16, 2026
Red top
Fives players liked my paramo top. This is maybe after being in the draw for thirty years. I like it as well.
M
ear buds
Bus stop
I think it is much nicer walking to just beyond the surgery, rather than going to Tesco's, when going to Tonbridge. Might be slightly longer, but much less strenuous and more things to see.
M
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
catheter bags
On my penultimate bag from my original stock. Will need to reorder these via Creed.
M
Rodney
Why cannot I remember this, as source for fives players name.
M
muisli
Nat West
Now in the bank queue for help
Not a good session. The lady clearly did not undetstand how their app was being used by ebay, which caused me to go for help. Her tgreats were pathetic.
She did eventually accept that I had not myself accessed their app directly.
The main point I had not realised is that you cannot have two phones able to pay out of your account. Setting up a new one automatically deletes the previous one.
Not sure where this would be spelled out.
M
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Trump
He really has blown it. He is trying to do too much, and will get nothing done. You cannot try and impose tarrifs and fight a major war at the same time. In a war you need the majority of countries backing you completely, not while being in difficult negotiations.with you.
He is becoming a laughing stock, which is not a good idea in a war.
On the other hand the US forces have been impressive, both in detailed information gathering, and in air borne delivery.
M
three cornered leek
A real pest, but the clusters are much easier to pull up. So best to be patient, stopping seeding, but not budding.
They don't like shade so help taller plants to smother them a bit.
M
garden
Did a good chunk of clearing growth. Jolly hard work, and not much to be seen for all the work. However it helps some of the less strong plants to survive.
M
Lidl shop
Fab bus jouneys. No waiting at all. Route turning right after zebra is much more attractive and free of people. Noted buses are from multiple companies.
Lydl fine, but I am out of practice in finding things. Cheese section not up to standard, but better than tescos.
No thick peel marmelade, though advertised.
Salmon is salmon. Not sure how to cook.
Mibile app worked, no problem. I get the list on line.
M
Monday, April 13, 2026
Female blackbird collecting nesting material by steps.
M
laptop problems
Not sure what was going on. Could not restart.
Unplugged as much as I could, and it did start. Investigating.
M
House sparrow
There have always been some around the neighbourhood, particularly top of Boyne Park and far end of Somerville gardens, but not in our front garden. Together with a Hedge Sparrow and 4 goldfinch. The latter obviously liked one of our plants seeds. Not sure which.
M
Nasty bug.
Tricia now recovering from nasty bug. Probably from Jono, who came on Monday for Creed session.
M
Site.
The front walls are nearly finished, as they only have to touch the top floor, and they are only a couple of layers away..
Bricks uniform colour, and perfectly acceptable.
M
pergola ?
J and S have new feature, right in the centre, half way along central thoroughfare.
Ticket office? Hide the street lamp?
Their success with climers is limited, so don't bother to check this space.
M
payment problem
I have worked out the nat west problem with payment for my ebay battery purchase. It wanted me to use the passcode for the poco machine, which is long enough.
Now I cannot get my toshiba to start proprly. What is happening?
M
Sunday, April 12, 2026
Sue around again
Saturday, April 11, 2026
Huawei watch
The watch has finally corrected the move to summer time.
The problem was making the right connections.
I did not leave the strap with the laptop for long enough. It probably has set times when it tries to make the connections, and cannot be hurried along.
I probably should have physically connected the watch to laptop, and this can only help in making the connection.
Anyway worries are over until the next time change.
M
pm
I think the key here is to realise that it all is managed by the watch, listening out for time stamped signals sent out by other devices nearby. Its presence may not be even noticed. It may work with all sorts of gadgets, such as communication equipment, periferals, clocks, other watches etc.
ag4
This is probably the smallest battery. It is used in the clock present from the guys in the states when I retired from Unilever.
I hate the huge variety of packages that ebay offer. It is very difficult to make up ones mind about which is best. The price range just shows how bad it is.
M
Bitwarden
It wants to update something. But cannot msnage it. All looks a bit unsafe.
I will wait
M
NatWest codes
In trying to pay ebay for a battery, I got into paying with nat west. Should have been easy, but they took me a long way round. Firstly getting me to their site by getting me to scan some image. Which scanner? My examples did not work. Eventually found one that did, and indeed this got me into a nat west login screen. Then asked for various characters in things I should know. Fine, except the very last asked for the 17th character. There is no code this long!! Abandoned, and will visit the bank on monday.
M
Bus shelter
A strange framework has appeared next door, at the top of the garden stairs up the middle of the back garden. Presumably for climbers.
It will do nothing to improve the garden, and make it even more difficult to make a good layout.
It is truely a folly.
M
swollen glands
We both have them this morning. Presumably Jono is carrier.
Taking it easy today, with any shopping delayed to tomorrow.
Might even have a wood fire in play room.
M
