Thursday, June 11, 2026
landslide
I was just thinking about how next door has a tendency for the land to slide down to the road, and apparently ours doesn't. It occurred to me that it might be just down to roots. We have plenty of roots in and under all areas of the front garden. Next door has for a long time had basically a waterproof surface, so no roots and relatively dry. There has been only small changes recently, and most of them have been right at the bottom.
I wonder how they could improve this. The passageway down the side above the gate is useless, but just below would be fine. I would just drill a number of holes though the tarmac. This would be beneficial for the bank between the properties and encourage root growth from our side all the way down to the road.
The other side of their property is more difficult, and their only hope is dependent on what the builders do the other side. Since there is a big underground carpark, I doubt if anything is possible.
I forecast the death of all the trees along the bank at least up to the side gate.
My solution would be to construct a flower bed joining the house to the bank, moving the car parking to our side. Turning round may become a problem, and backing up would be a problem. But on could have porous tracks for the wheels into the bed.
Alternatively buy space in the underground car park, and remove all the tarmac. Not sure what to do with the charger. But the flats have exactly that problem anyway so let them solve it for you.
When we have driverless cars, the problem disappears anyway, because you just tell to change itself.
And tell it to park elsewhere overnight. That is if you bother with owning your own car.
M
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
no record of me
The NHS at pembury are excelling, as they cannot even find me on the system at all.
There are apparently many dr sha's in the hospitals here and in Maidstone.
I am now outside the room where he is. He is with a patient. I am expecting a very short discussion about restarting the bum injection.
I am perfectly happy with the side effects that I have had before.
M
Tuesday, June 09, 2026
newspaper articles
Something was trying to get me to read news articles, and wanted to know what I would like to see. Not sure which app is doing this.
Never guessed quite how many sources there were, and that is basically UK, with a few internationals. Let's hope I don't get swamped.
M
my time
Amazingly my watch is telling the same time as my tablet. The obviously have been talking to each other. The watch has been saying that it is here, and tell me the time, and the tablet has been telling the time in response.
Not sure why they didn't do it before. I must have changed something. Why did it not work before.
M
toe nails
Monday, June 08, 2026
program icons
I knew that the met office was on the machine, but could not find the icon. I could start the program from other places, could not get an icon on the main screen which I could start.
What you do is to start it, then get to the screen which shows what is running, and then drag the icon of what is running onto which ever screen you like.
So simple, though hard to explain.
M
Out of date stock.
Everyone seems to be selling soon to be out of date stock.
I do wonder what the criteria are for these timings, and what are the limits for these. For instance does the real shelf life vary due to external weather conditions.Does it allow for poor handling in transit? What sort of margin of error do they add. Do they assume a cool downstairs storage room?
I am basically happy in normal weather to eat things a week after purchase. That is before the next routine purchase.
This has basically worked fine, and no major upset.
So if now someone goes ill, but not all the household, is one right to think that it must be something else? I think so, but it does make one a little nervous.
M
COVID jab
I had an upto date covid jab at Paydens. All very simple and low key. Left arm, no trouble.
M
Sunday, June 07, 2026
two sim cards
covid
Having new jab at paydens tomorrow at 9.30. Will be interesting to see how good they are.
Maybe T could make it here, walking. It is not much further than Mathews.
M
sims
Everything seems fine. Alllocated slightly different tasks, so spreading bandwidth between different routes ir allocations. So potentially more robust and faster than just one sim.
M
peony
M
fitting sims
The tray on poco is not symetrical in the way you might expect. It is rotationally so.
Hence I messed around a bit before getting it right. I have started machine up and things seem fine. Lets hope so.
M
poco sims
I knew that poco could theoetically take 2 sims, but the çard holder seemed only to take a sim and a memory card.
How dumb I was. You can fit a sim in the memory slot by rotating 90 degrees. Looks strange but works fine.
I am going to fit 2 sim cards into the machine, and use memory stick else where.
M
pruning
Dead twigs and branches annoying me out side sitting room window. Going to snip them.
M
crossword
Cor, wow.
Kept on thinking that my suggestions would be wrong, onl6 for them to be right.
M
Saturday, June 06, 2026
rubber bands
Shops in TW are much worse than they used to be. No rubber bands anywhere, as well.
I guess eBay is a much better bet as first port of call
Though I did find one at the bus stop in Tonbridge today.
M
now
Is name of the welsh mobile phone company. Is this north wales? And then what?
Martin
Peat
J has put lots of peat like material on the front bed. No allowance for the concrete dam. I wonder if it will be washed away, as weather forecast is not good. He really has no idea.
M
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Friday, June 05, 2026
bad design
The sim page in settings for this phone show 2 slots for the sim cards. Now the chip can itself handle two channels, and one is tempted to get confused since there is only one sim card slot.
The software does not change its looks based on what the chip can do. You instintively look for a second slot.
The design looks as if people did not expect such rapid developments.
M
