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CitiFibre is digging up the road outside our house to put in 'SuperFast' broadband. May be useful, may be not. There seems to need to be a different cable to each house. At the moment we get 50MBps which isn't bad, certainly an improvement on our 33k dial-up of 10 ...

(Sand) Castle

He was a character right to the end. We will miss him so much.

Regards,

Richard

Thank you Mabel. Much appreciated.

Regards,

Richard.

Enya went to bed at 11pm last night and all was well.
At 2am this morning Tracy woke up & went downstairs. Our dear Squeaky, age 19years 7 months, had died in his sleep & was cold curled up on the sofa.
https://i.postimg.cc/R65jr3pp/20230615-075149a.jpg

We'll bury him in the garden this evening ...

Emotional Support Cat.. under strain, maybe?

Regards,

Richard

Mattress

(My old Ladybird book of Princess & the Pea showed so many mattresses)

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Richard

Interesting Holiday.

MIL has about a 10-15 minute memory, except for some things which she remembers for weeks.
At least she's feeling pretty well, even though she's convinced there are people in the basement & loft of her bungalow plotting to steal everything. Her memory is so short we're trying ...

Pea

Regards,

Richard

The care those Elephants give to the younger one is amazing, and the intelligence they show heading for the open area, just incredible.

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Richard

Oh dear. Nothing like having a smashing time:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RubeGoldbergFa ... ither_way/
And here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/watchpeoplesur ... _she_have/

Regards,

Richard.

They are corporate self-set targets, reporting to shareholders and all the other bigwigs who don't actually do anything except spout buzzwords to conferences of other buzzwordophiles (is that a word? If so, I'd class myself as a buzzwordophobe.). It's a target culture, and hitting targets is the ...

That's it. Summer's over.

We had around 1" (approx 2.5cm) of rain last night. Ozzie (our slightly demented Maine Coon) required that we let him out into it at 5am and would brook no disagreement. At 6.45am his language was foul when I let him in. Maine Coons mutter, and his muttering was on full ...

Agreed, very clever.

Regards,

Richard

Spiders! There are SPIDERS!!
https://cheezburger.com/10490291456/big-spiders

Looks quite like our 'Fluffy' used to before he died. However, he only ever looked like he was in charge.

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Richard

The first bathroom I can remember was in a Vicwardian House (not sure if late Victorian or Edwardian), and was off the mid-landing half way up the stairs. It had 3 outside walls, all solid 9" thick. It had an external rivetted galvanized iron cold water tank sitting un-insulated on the flat bathroom ...

Wallpaper, I agree, it's nuts.
Carpet.. Have you walked on a non-carpeted surface in a normally heated UK bathroom (13C if you're lucky)? It's NOT a pleasant experience.

We put a waterproof carpet in our last house's bathroom. That was nice.
Our current house has a vinyl floor covering, and it's ...

Need to do that with our bathroom wallpaper. This has been a long, cold and iggy winter, and the bathroom wallpaper is showing signs of black mould and needs a good wash. This is despite having a dehumidifier operating whenever the room is steamy. As the wallpaper is also peeling in a few places ...

We've had weeks of glorious cold dullness. When the sun comes out, it only warms up if you're out of the wind. Not fun.

Over the weekend I did more chainsaw gardening. Straight from the saw to the shredder. We're close to having as much firewood as we had before the winter. Just need time for it to ...

Delight

(Yes, many would agree with you Serinde!)

Regards,

Richard