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Unblogged August

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My usual round up of things I didn’t otherwise write about this month.

Saturday 2
Everything is so early this year. Today I noticed the first yellow leaves on the Gleditsia in the street outside our house. Now I know it’s the last to come into leaf and the first to turn in the autumn, but this is ridiculously early (like maybe 4 weeks) even for Gleditsia.

Monday 4
So I was sitting on the loo first thing this morning, and felt a tickling on my right leg. Looking there’s a wasp crawling up my shin. It’s fairly dopey, so probably not long for this world. Anyway, I caught it, identified it as a worker Vespula vulgaris (no surprise there) and released it outside into Nature’s care.

Tuesday 5
An interesting, and useful 45 minutes with N’s (new, young) renal consultant today. He says he’s going to be attached to N’s renal centre for 6 months, so maybe we’ll get some stability. If he is as good as he came over then we might make some progress, as he seems happy to try to push things along. Even better he was communicative and took the time to stop and explain things as well as asking some fairly searching questions of N. He was also quite willing to admit that the NHS is very good at finding ways of kicking the can further down the road! I’m hopeful, but I won’t hold my breath.
But why are hospitals such dreadful gloomy places? They try with the main public areas, but once you get off the main thoroughfare you’d have more ambiance in an old submarine. They’re dreadful! They need to be bright and cheerful everywhere; it would help both staff and patients.

Sunday 10
I’m struggling with which radio station to have on the alarm clock. Currently the alarm is BBC Radio 3, so classical music, but I’m getting fed up with them advertising other Radio 3 programmes (and always the same few) between every piece of music – and most of the music they play is boring mainstream classical. I chose Radio 3 because I can’t take loads of adverts, but want music, and not mindless pop. But there seems to be no alternative; every other station is either awash with adverts or mindless music. The clock/radio doesn’t have a CD player, or any connectivity; and music through the Google assistant things sounds dreadful. Where does one go without spending unnecessary cash?

Monday 11
So today comes news that we’ve lost one of the very first literary society members. Well he was 103! An American and a real gentleman, who was part of the American administration in Japan after WW2, and then a Fulbright Scholar in London in the late 1940s/early 1950s. He became a Professor of Public Administration at Syracuse, and was a book collector who had wide-ranging interests across almost all the arts and beyond. Although I didn’t meet him many times, I shall certainly remember him with great affection as a real and erudite gentleman.

Wednesday 13
Blimey, it’s still hot and humid. Although at 27°C it’s several degrees cooler than yesterday. But 79% humidity is on the high side – and it’s going to be worse overnight with the forecast for 89% humidity at dawn tomorrow. Today has been uncomfortable; yesterday was unbearable.

Thursday 14
Yet again a day of getting nothing I wanted done. The get-up-and-go had gone off somewhere else. I did however manage to spend a load of money – but I resisted spending even more, which I guess is a result.

Friday 15
Today is the first ever Home Nudist Day – a low=pressure day dedicated to people who choose to live clothes-free in the privacy of their own space. Whether you’re just lounging around, tending the garden, or working from home in the nude, this lifestyle fosters body acceptance, mental peace, and emotional freedom. For me home nudity is all about being comfortable, liberal, eccentric (which is how I was brought up) and not giving a fuck. After all many, like me, practice their nudism at home because they have no easily accessible social nudist opportunities (eg. clubs, swimming sessions). There’s an article on Home Nudist Day at https://www.planetnude.co/p/a-new-day-for-home-nudists; and I’ve written here about nudism many times, notably at https://zenmischief.com/on-nudity-and-naturism/ (or do a search on “nudism”).

Saturday 16
Now here’s a curiosity. I was eating some cherries for breakfast, and you know how sometimes you find a pair of cherries, and very, very occasionally three, conjoined. Well today I had four joined at the stem. I’ve never seen this before, and even N – who grew up with the fruit trade – said she’d never seen it either.And, yes, I know it’s all to do with where the stems join and how they’re picked, so it’s not entirely natural.

Tuesday 19
What an awful day. One of those where the mood is very depressed and there’s no get up and go. A real struggle to do anything other than fall asleep. Why do I always feel worse when N isn’t here? – something always drags me down.

Wednesday 20
The gardener was here and as it was dry and not cold I spent the afternoon sitting outside repotting some of the larger houseplants. Sent the gardener away with a clutch of Sansevieria to pot on or propagate. A shower was required afterwards!

Thursday 21
Why is it always just before a bank holiday? Today I have a UTI. Luckily I got a phone call with my GP and have some antibiotics on the way. But it doesn’t do anything good for the depression.

Sunday 24
Cannot shift this UTI and its effects. Actual UTI seems better, not best. But still discomfort round bladder; temperature up & down; etc. I see a trip to the GP coming on again.

Wednesday 27
I don’t know. I can’t cope. I’m deeply fed up with it all. Still haven’t fully shifted this UTI and it’s associated crap. Call placed to doctors yesterday, but they’ll not be too interested until I finish the antibiotics tomorrow. Not enough sleep last night isn’t helping. So N has had to go interview her specialist on her own which was not intended. Bugger!

Thursday 28
Early this evening there was some fairly heavy rain together with bright late sunshine. Surprise, surprise, a good rainbow; always easily visible from the study window. I can never remember the suggested exposure settings for rainbows, so inevitably end up grabbing shots on “auto everything”; not ideal but I’d rather capture the moment than lose it looking stuff up, especially knowing I can tweak up the settings digitally. Note the very faint second rainbow on the right.At the same time the hips on the rose which has grown to the top of our silver birch tree were bathed in golden sunlight, looking like strings of red fairy lights. I had to try, although I’ve never been very successful before as the hips are too small. I think this is about the best shot I’ve ever managed.[As usual larger photos by clicking the image.]

Friday 29
Processed the rest of my resent photos, but I’m keeping the best under wraps for now! 😊

Sunday 31
Well I suppose it serves me right for leaving them by an open window … but bugger! My chilli plants are covered in whitefly. They’ve been relegated to the shower and sprayed (one of the few times I will use an insect spray); surroundings in study also given a good spray. I picked the ripe chillies before spraying, so they’re edible; but the 3 or so decent sized ones left on the plants really aren’t so I’ll let them ripen and keep them for seed. After that I think I’ll retire the plants as they’re already in their third summer and not being as productive. Then we can start over next Spring. Not that we need to grow more chillies as we already have a freezer full!

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Links for August

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Here’s our August collection of links to interesting items you may (or may not) have missed.

Science, Technology, Natural World

Good scientists update their theories and change their minds. What happens when the do? [££££]

Or to look at it another way, there is much weirdness, and the best we can do is to try to understand the underlying rules.

Because, for example, the Universe is static. No, it’s expanding. Or slowing? Or accelerating. Depending on who and when you are. [££££]

Meanwhile they’ve discovered a new moon orbiting Uranus – assuming you can call a piece of rock 10km in diameter a moon. [££££]

And it seems that Betelgeuse may have a small stellar companion.

After which we shouldn’t be surprised that Earth gets bombarded by meteorites from outside our solar system [££££], or that some manage to crash land here.

Continuing to look up, we’re still trying to understand what triggers lightning; and it seems to be all down to exploding stars!

From above our heads to under our feet … Earth’s core is leaking out.

Now lets turn to the animal kingdom … a small ancient whale with razor-sharp teeth an huge eyes has been unearthed in Australia.

Antarctic Leopard Seals sing to attract a mate, and their songs are very similar to nursery rhymes!

There’s a new theory that our primate ancestors evolved in colder regions and not in the tropics.

Research has confirmed that cats develop dementia in a very similar way to humans developing Alzheimer’s.

All hail the Rat King – maybe.

A new study has found that “sex reversal” is surprisingly common in birds.

They keep telling me that wasp numbers in UK have been unusually high this summer after a warm and dry Spring. All I can say is “Not here”; wasps are almost absent.

Now finally in this section, a complete change of subject … a sports scientist has looked at how strip colour impacts performance particularly in Premier League football.

Health, Medicine

Do we visualize dreams in colour or black and white?

While different diseases spread via different methods, there’s a scale of contagion.

Is it actually possible to break your penis? Spoiler: yes, and it needs emergency action.

On which note … why some penises are curved?

Environment & Ecology

Scientists have used existing air pollution monitors to assess environmental DNA (eDNA) to discover what lives nearby.

Natural England is reporting the recovery of 150 struggling species of plants and animals.

Southern Small White butterfly has been seen in the UK for first time.

A study is suggesting that reintroduced lynx could thrive in Northumberland.

Social Sciences, Business, Law, Politics

We know that the Mercator projection used for most maps of the world distorts the relative sizes of continents, and now the African Union has joined calls for and end to the projection’s use.

Art, Literature, Language, Music

There’s a Christian principle of “hate the sin but not the sinner” which we seem to have totally lost – artist Eric Gill is, again, a current target – as it’s now a case of “hate the sin, and the sinner, and their works; and airbrush the whole from existence”.

History, Archaeology, Anthropology

A previously unknown species of Australopithecus (our ancestors) has been identified from some teeth. [££££]

Still with teeth, an ancient cow’s tooth may help unlock some of the mysteries of Stonehenge.

Slowly coming up to date … a 2,500-year-old Siberian “ice mummy” had intricate tattoos

A new analysis reveals that the Vikings were addicted to silver and just how far they would travel to obtain it.

Archaeologists have happened upon the tomb of an ancient Mayan city’s first ruler.

Meanwhile all classes of ancient Incan used coded strings of hair for record keeping.

DNA analysis of some early medieval English skeletons has revealed some surprising West African ancestry. [££££]

On the return of the equestrian statue of Charles I to Charing Cross.

Still with the Restoration, their women were much more creative than has been perceived.

HMS Northumberland – built 1679 as part of Samuel Pepys’s modernisation of the Navy – sank in the Great Storm of 1703, but is only now revealing its secrets.

London

And finally for this month … Three articles on transport for London …
*  London’s First Bus
*  The colourful history of London’s Traffic Lights
*  An old Underground train breaks a world record.

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Monthly Quotes for August

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As befits this slow news season, here’s this month’s smaller than usual collection of quotes.

Dire dealings with the fiendish race
Had mark’d strange lines upon his face;
Vigil and fast had worn him grim,
His eyesight dazzled seem’d and dim …
[Walter Scott, Marmion]

Life is strange. You arrive with nothing, spend your whole life chasing everything and still leave with nothing. Make sure your soul gains more than your hands.
[unknown]

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.
[George Orwell]

There’s a funny thing in fiction, where it’s important that the motivations of the characters are clear to the reader. But in real life, the motivations that any of us have are often not even clear to ourselves!
[Reo Eveleth]

So many people from your past know a version of you that no longer exists anymore.
[Eric Partaker]

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then
I contradict myself
I am large,
I contain mult1tudes
[Walt Whitman]

“Why should we wish to ruminate on your most secret orgies?” said Dr Trelawney. “What profit for us to muse on your nights in the lupanar, your diabolical couplings with the brides of debauch, more culpable than those phantasms of the incubi that rack the dreams of young girls, or the libidinous gymnastics of the goat-god whose ice-cold sperm fathers monsters on writhing witches in coven?”
[Anthony Powell, The Kindly Ones]

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August Quiz Answers

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Here are the answers to this month’s six quiz questions. If in doubt, all should be able to be easily verified online.

General History

  1. How long, in days, was the year 46BC? 445 days; the longest year in human history. It had three extra leap months inserted by Julius Caesar as preparation to make his new Julian Calendar match up with the seasonal year.
  2. According to the 1516 Bavarian Reinheitsgebot, what are the only ingredients allowed in beer? Water, barley & hops, although yeast was also used but not stated.
  3. Who was the first woman to die in an aviation-related incident? Sophie Blanchard (a balloonist who died in 1812)
  4. In what year was the Battle of Lepanto? 1571
  5. In 1800, the capital of the USA was transferred to Washington DC from which city? Philadelphia
  6. The War of Jenkins’ Ear (a term coined by British historian Thomas Carlyle), 1739-1748, between Britain and Spain, was fought where? Caribbean

Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2024.

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This Month’s Poem

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Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

Find this poem online at Poetry Foundation

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August Quiz Questions

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Each month we’re posing six pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month. As always, they’re designed to be difficult, but it is unlikely everyone will know all the answers – so have a bit of fun.

General History

  1. How long, in days, was the year 46BC?
  2. According to the 1516 Bavarian Reinheitsgebot, what are the only ingredients allowed in beer?
  3. Who was the first woman to die in an aviation-related incident?
  4. In what year was the Battle of Lepanto?
  5. In 1800, the capital of the USA was transferred to Washington DC from which city?
  6. The War of Jenkins’ Ear (a term coined by British historian Thomas Carlyle), 1739-1748, between Britain and Spain, was fought where?

Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.

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August 1925

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Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.

2. Born. Alan Whicker, British journalist and television host (Whicker’s World), in Cairo, Egypt (d.2013)

7. The United Kingdom passed the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act, making it illegal to sell peerages or any other honours.

12. Born. Twin brothers Norris (d.2004) & Ross McWhirter (d.1975), founders of Guinness World Records, in Winchmore Hill, LondonMcWhirters & Guinness World Records

15. Born. Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist (d.2007)

18. Born. Brian Aldiss, science fiction writer, in East Dereham, Norfolk (d.2017)

22. Born. Honor Blackman, English actress (d.2020)

27. Born. Nat Lofthouse, footballer, in Bolton, Lancashire, England (d.2011)

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Unblogged August

Being a sort of journal of things I didn’t otherwise write about.

Thursday 1
Talk about confusing you! I looked out of the window this afternoon to see two large-ish, completely black, birds pecking around under the birdseed feeder. I had to look hard. Surely they’re not crows? Or Jackdaws? I can’t easily see their bills, so no, they’re not. A quick look through binoculars confirmed that they were in fact two very black feral pigeons. Both unusual and confusing!

Friday 2
It was wonderful to have an evening out to eat with long-time friends – the first for ages and ages, partly due to Covid and partly because of N’s kidney issues. We sat out in our friends’ garden all evening over some super pizza and a few glasses of alcoholic beverage. And it was pleasantly warm with no need for a sweater, even at gone 11. We could all do with more such evenings.

Saturday 3
A cooler day, although still nicely warm, with a fresh breeze. Much more comfortable. Spent the whole afternoon writing my monthly update for the GP’s patient group members – very tedious.

Sunday 4
This morning, a large-ish moth fluttering at the study window. It must have come in last night. Easily caught, photographed and released outside. Identified as a male Gypsy Moth (Lymantria dispar).brown gypsy mothAlso comes the gardener and reports a Jersey Tiger moth in the front garden. Not unusual, we see one (or sometimes more) most years.

Monday 5
Today was the annual trip to the optician for eye tests. It’s always an enjoyable outing as the staff are friendly, helpful and very professional; and we always seem to spend far too long just chatting with at least one of them. N needs new reading glasses but I get out of jail free this year.
When we got home in the late afternoon, I put out the wasp traps for the first session of this year’s Big Wasp Survey. This is citizen science at its best: people across the country trap, identify and count wasps for the team at UCL who are studying our native wasps. It’s been going for 8 years, and I think I’ve been involved since the start (excepting their pilot year).

Tuesday 6
Today is one of N’s hospital days, and the cats have driven me mental this afternoon. Two of them started at lunchtime with demands for a share of my lunch – which they wouldn’t have eaten. Between them they continued on and off all afternoon, until it became persistent about 17:00. Since then I’ve had procession of starving kittens (they think); muttering and yowling; and weaving round my legs. “No you are not a starving kitten. You might think you’re hungry, but you are not staving. Tea when Mum comes in, as usual.”

Wednesday 7
A busy day! First comes the gardener and spends half the day sorting out some of the garden storage. We have potting compost coming out of our ears! As we say, in the style of Yogi Berra: “You never know what you’ve got until you look”. Then comes the guy to do some quick pond maintenance. He was supposed to coming next Wednesday but phoned as he was in the area; so we said yes, come this afternoon. We’ll probably see him next in November for a big autumn/winter clean.

Thursday 8
N’s mobile phone is falling apart, and is being held together with Sellotape. Basically the battery is blown and has disarticulated the back. It’s not surprising really as it is 5 years old. So after much thinking we decided to get me a new phone and cascade mine to N. New phone arrived today (direct from Samsung so I’m not locked to the current network), and we start the pain of getting it set up and working properly. Then I have to do a factory reset on my old phone and transfer all N’s stuff.

Friday 9
We have two, rather scruffy, chilli plants which I over-wintered from last year. They produce lovely yellow fruits which are moderately hot and slightly lemony. I’ve grown them on and off for some years. This year they’re doing brilliantly. I keep picking a handful of fruits: several batches of 5-8, and the last two have been 12 and today 16.yellow chilliesI shall probably use one tonight and the rest will be frozen for later (although we have half a freezer full of chillies!). There are at least another 10 yet to ripen; and if they produces more flowers there will be yet more.

Saturday 10
So what did today bring? Apart, that is, from no clue what day it is, because as usual yesterday was Saturday and I woke in the early hours thinking it was somewhere mid-week, next week. Sad highlight of the day was the arrival of my new tablet, which I them spent too much time setting up in between the household paperwork and writing blog posts.

Sunday 11
What a horrible way to waste a Sunday … transferring everything from N’s mobile to my old one and trying to fettle it. A job that should have taken an hour, but took all day to get everything sorted and (I hope) useable. Likewise trying to finish setting up my tablet. Why are these things always so painful, even with apps which will (allegedly) do all the data transfer etc. – which in the case of N’s phone took two attempts. So of course nothing else that needed doing, got done. Gah!

Monday 12
The day started with one of those weird waking dreams. I dreamt I was catching a variety of odd ladybirds and keeping them in a sample tube. I was being quizzed by N as the idea seemed to be to release some, and those which were less viable to feed to the pond fish. They were on the floor in the bedroom and I was lying on the bed. There was one I wanted to catch, which must have been a pupa, but was a small spring, like you get in a biro. Whenever I tried to catch it, it sprung to somewhere out of sight. Another was a large 2-spot which insisted on flying off whenever I got near, much like a moth. I do wonder at times what the brain gets up to when asleep.

Tuesday 13
A day when absolutely nothing seemed to happen. It’s really quiet round here at the moment; so quiet you’d think it’s a winter Sunday. I guess some part of the population have taken their kids on holiday; the rest are probably lying low due to the heat – although today was much cooler, but still hot. Either that or everyone knows something we don’t! Yeah, let’s have a good conspiracy theory; they (the anonymous, mysterious, ghostly they) are just waiting to pounce.

Wednesday 14
A happy, if dirty, afternoon spent repotting most of the houseplants. With three of us we got quite a lot done, as I could concentrate on the actual repotting with the other two fetching from the nether corners of the house, washing pots, etc. But we can’t now have a shower as everything is in the shower being watered in, and bug sprayed (this is the only time I ever use an insecticide).

Thursday 15
It was one of those days when something must have happened, but if it did, it didn’t impinge on me – except for the wind.

Friday 16
Today was a struggle as I had mild vertigo, so apart from the supermarket delivery and the window cleaner, not a lot was achieved. Vertical hold just about survived so I was at least able to do stuff on the PC, if slowly.

Saturday 17
N found another parakeet feather last evening. At just shy of 15cm (6″) it is tail feather, R3. See the Feather Library if you want to understand their feather nomenclature.yellow/green parakeet feather

Sunday 18
Checking the last week’s photos from the trail camera, we appear to have a new fox on the block. This one is very distinctive with a dark (almost black) tail with the usual white tip, very black ears and black bootees. It’s fully grown but it looks as if it may be a young one. It’s in good condition, albeit slightly scruffy but then it’ll be moulting. Oh and we do like these chicken bones.yellow/green parakeet featheryellow/green parakeet feather

Monday 19
I effectively had to write off the day today (and probably tomorrow too). I’ve been struggling for several days with one of my periodic attacks of vertigo/labyrinthitis. It seemed to be a bit better this morning, so I was hopeful; but this afternoon is definitely worse – so little got achieved.

Tuesday 20
So there I was this morning sitting at my desk by the window editing a document. I could hear a tappety-click, which wasn’t my keyboard. Looking up, there’s a squirrel’s tail immediately outside on the windowsill. I get up to look, whereupon the creature shins up the pebbledashed wall. Cheeky monkey, I think. A few minutes later I hear tappety-click again. This time the squirrel is running back along the outside windowsill. It stops, and has a good look in the window; it also clearly thinks about leaping up to the open fanlight, but decides against. After a good look in it scampers off to scale our neighbour’s pebbledash. I hope he didn’t see it; if he did he’ll have had apoplexy; he hates anything living.

Wednesday 21
Catching up on odd things today, so nothing very worth writing about. We had half an hour’s fun rehoming all the recently repotted houseplants. As expected we ran out of space, especially by the time I’d potted up the handful of germinated date seeds – hopefully these will do better than the last lot, which did nothing. We still have the other half of the houseplants to do, which will be even more fun as they’re the biggest ones and most need dividing.

Thursday 22
Another nice quiet day and a chance to think about various presents I need to buy, including Christmas, already.

Friday 23
The day started lovely and sunny, and it was really good sitting outside for a few minutes after lunch topping up the vitamin D. But it ended with the vertigo back – mainly because I spent 5-10 minutes resolutely looking upwards while we tried (and failed) to unjam the loft ladder. With luck the vertigo will clear again overnight.

Saturday 24
My vertigo from yesterday evening did lift overnight. But N reported late yesterday that the bathroom light pull had broken again. Turns out the knot on top toggle has failed. N can’t safely reach it to fix it, even on our good steps. And because of the vertigo I dare not try working above my head. So we’ll have to manage until we see Tom, as he’s that bit taller.

Sunday 25
Yum yum! Amongst a multitude of other cooking this afternoon I did a mixed fruit crumble. Several nectarines, a punnet of strawberries, and a couple of handfuls of home-grown blackberries; with a tablespoon of sugar, a teaspoon of almond essence, and a couple of shots of Amaretto liqueur; topped with N’s special oaty crumble topping. Blimey it was good; fragrant and fruity. It won’t last very long!

Monday 26
What is this I see before me? A bright, sunny, bank holiday Monday? It’ll never last. And in fact it clouded over as the day wore on; but did stay dry.
I had a joyous 20 minutes changing the tubes on my hearing aids. It’s such a fiddly awful job – especially getting the old tubes off; you know how plastic sticks to plastic! It certainly needed doing; I’m not sure how I was getting any benefit from the left hearing aid as the tube was almost solidly bunged with wax etc. But I won, and only managed to trash one tube in the process.

Tuesday 27
I don’t know why, but I didn’t sleep brilliantly well last night. I had trouble getting to sleep and woke up several times. All of which which is unusual for me these days. Consequently when I did manage to haul myself out of bed, I was dull and headachy. But I somehow managed to do most of what I wanted to during the day.

Wednesday 28
Comes Tom the gardener, to do odd jobs – he’s several inches taller than me, which is what was needed. He managed to free the stuck loft ladder and sort the bathroom light pull – both of which turned out to be quick jobs, as I hoped. He and I then spent ages installing a new light over the bathroom cabinet (the old one having died several years ago). This took for ever! We had to work out how & where to drill holes in the (steel) cabinet; and I had to work out the wiring, which was complicated by the fixed position of the switch and live supply and resulted in two little junction boxes. Getting the covering panel back on was then a right fiddle – small screws in inaccessible places. As this dragged on into the afternoon, and it was hot, repotting the second half of the houseplants was abandoned for today. But it’s good jobs done: especially the new light.

Thursday 29
Oh bugger … Autumn is definitely on the way. This morning the Gleditsia tree in the street outside has its first few yellow leaves. It always goes a magnificent golden yellow, but the downside is that it changes colour very early. As it doesn’t leaf up in the Spring until very late, its photosynthesis must be unusually efficient as it grows at least a foot every year.

Friday 30
“They brought us the best, a perfect and absolute blank.” Today was another “Oh, bugger!” day, and for a very annoying reason. Form reasons unknown, the Microsoft app I use to store all my notes – on just about everything – decided for no apparent reason to trash the lot. No warning, no nothing. Just a blank. YEs, of course it takes backups, but not often enough. And even so I could not divine how to recover them to working (note, working)folders. After about 3 hours, a load of fiddling about, plus redoing some of the latest changes, I managed to recover most of it; although I’m still unsure of what might still be missing. Oh well, the app needed a good clear out anyway, and anything still missing is unlikely to the life-or-death important.

Saturday 31
I’ll leave you this month with Caturday greetings from King Boy Cat.white & tabby cat lounging in the sun