Tuesday, July 07, 2026
how does next door do the shopping?
Never seen deliveries.
Never seen unloading from car
Never seen significant carrier bags
Never seen them in my supermarkets
Now none of this means anything. It is just a bit surprising that the high tech J, has not used a regular service, which one would surely have noticed occasionally.
With J not driving at the moment, I would have expected the odd supermarket delivery to be seen.
Maybe it is all purchased and brought home by the Ukrainians. They are regularly out shopping, though I don't know where they go. Not the small Tesco's. More likely M&S?
M
lydl lady insisted all mobile phones had a number
I said no.
My reasoning was that it could communicate via local radio access to the internet, and do everything in that network. It did not need a phone network.
My logic is that you really must have mobile access to the internet, so use that as much as you can, before being forced into a proprietary operation.
Your mobile should not use hardware I.e. the SIM card, to identify you. It should be data stored on the machine or on the network.
Funny I had not thought about this before, but I guess people did not have the internet coverage, that they can now have from satellites etc.
The whole use of telephone numbers is so primitive.
M
3 SIM cards to process
Final search gave me 3 more cards to process. Not sure why these seem special. One maybe from the Now lot. I doubt if there are many more lurking around.
M
Monday, July 06, 2026
Old SIM Cards
I was surprised how different the SIM cards were. Within a supplier and a period of time, they are similar, but over a longer period, or across supplier and the differences were greater than I expected.
I imagine some of the emergency behaviour is very similar, but little else.
It is as if the early ones were very much structured and standard, and the later ones were unstructured, or at least structured at a higher level.
My understanding is that level 3, is dead in this country as a service. It might degrade to level 2.
I doubt if any are level 4.
I also don't know if an old machine can be used in other ways with other connections.For instance connecting to the internal BT network.
M
car
Owen has accepted the challenge of selling the honda.
Wonderful.
M
Front Bed
Moved some buckets of compost to the bed Infront of the study window. Hopefully this will correct some of the problems that have recently caused havoc in the bed.
I think I should dump a few buckets here every month or so.
M
got rid of the side panel of operators
Dragged it onto the screen and then to an x that appeared, and a message of killing the five items was displayed.
Easy when you know how.
M
out and back
more birds of prey
A couple of buzzards flew across garden opposite. Being mobbed by the herring gulls that use the bridge club roof.
One of them could have been a young one, but not certain.
M
Saturday, July 04, 2026
red kite
One seen being mobbed out of bedroom window. I think a first.
Maybe represents some change in refuse collecting, or just population increase.
M
where is J?
I am not sure how the logistics are managed. I just have not seen anything going into the house in the way of food. There is no current transport. Sue is definitely there, and seen working in the garden.
Maybe the Ukrainians are doing the shopping at Tesco's. Maybe J is confined to bed a chunk of the day. It is far from obvious.
It is the absence of the fiat that surprises me most. Has she been banned from European driving, and she has lent the car to one of the children? It would not surprise me. That would be say six months.
Someone must be in the dog house.
I would have expected some treatment for the tumor area, probably radiotherapy. But no sign of anything yet.
I am perhaps surprised that I was not updated after my query about his state of mind last autumn. Clearly something was amiss.
M
owen and ben
Did a super job moving compostable stuff to the garage site. It won't take long to settle down, and be covered with things from the seed bank.
I might need to give the odd climber some assistance. Though nothing formal that J might object to.
M
covid jab
I think I finally got T to see logic of her not having the jab.
There is more risk of her catching covid by going for a jab, than catching covid from an innoculated me.
M
Friday, July 03, 2026
off-line
For some reason I keep on starting in aeroplane mode with no connection.
I have to switch off aeroplane mode. A nuisance and I keep forgetting..
It may be to stop people telephoning me, by default. Ie j and k.
M
nextdoor back
Confused by cars. Fiat out, estate parked by someone else?
M
long bus wait
Just missed one. And now long wait.
Not too hot, so catching up on thoughts.
M
Saturday, June 27, 2026
France
If next door are in France, as I assume, then they could be having a rough time with the heat.
And driving back may not be a good option either.
A long distance ferry might be an option.
It is funny that the red Volvo is specifically being kept in the road.
Maybe they are in Ireland, and enjoying cooler weather.
M
Friday, June 26, 2026
fives opposition in front, your shot
Now clearly one can ask for a let if you want, but somehow this should only be done if they are not persist offenders.
If they are persistent offenders, you have a problem.
One route, ( I will call it the peter mellor) is to hit as hard as you can at them. The alternative is to warn them that this is what you will do next time, so they better duck out of the way or move on a level or behind the player whose shot it is.
New players may need a lot of reminding initially. The emphasis must be on ducking below the potential shot. Running to the side wall is plain stupid and should not be considered as an option. Moving to the centre is better, but must include ducking down. The reason is that hitting the ball straight down the centre is very weak, and likely to be easy to return. There might be occasions when such a shot might manage to hit the opponent on the return flight, so should not be dismissed.
The is a group of players who are brasen enough to take advantage of this sort of obstruction tactic. So Peter's experience is not unknown. It is often done by people who should know better.
M
Thursday, June 25, 2026
breezy.
Have to get milk from tesco' plus maybe some reduced items. Difficult to know how hot it is going to be. Breezy, but cooking?
Cannot be worse than yesterday's walk from the bus drop at the library.
New catheter seems fine, but I will take some Ibuprofen before I go.
M
noise in the night.
Tricia was worried that with the window ajar she would be woken by the paper delivery car.
Can a deaf person be woken by hearing a noise?
Probably, but there is no casual link. They may dream about it and wake up convinced they heard the car. Occasionally by coincidence there may be a moving car in the road. Bingo.
I rest my case.
And she did not get wakened, or even think she had been.
M
