Yesterday must have been
more tiring than I realised; it was after 9am when I finally came
down for brekkie. We had a little birthday card opening session
(today is "er indoors TM"
birthday) whilst "Furry Face TM"
sat on the back of the sofa and growled at the world.
As "er indoors
TM" had her brekkie I took "Furry
Face TM" for a walk round the park. We met
a Fudge lookalike and had a minor run-in with a Staffie before coming
home again. As I walked my arm was giving me gyp. It's not been right
for some time. I've looked on the Internet and I think I might have
tennis
elbow.
Father-in-law visited the
birthday girl and we put the world to rights for a bit. As we chatted
I set the lap-top downloading Windows 10. Part of me wondered if this
was a good idea, but after all is said and done, Windows 7 won't keep
going for ever and this lap-top's getting more and more clunkier.
Perhaps a whole new operating system might sort it out. Or so I
thought.
The Download Windows 10
app told me that everything was ready to go and that it had to
analyse the system. It told me it would take ten seconds. Ten seconds
!!!! So I pressed the "Get On With It" button and it
then said "Working on it" until we were about to go
out. So I left it doing its thing.
We drove round to collect
"My Boy TM" and his entourage and
we then went on to the Kennington Carvery where we had a rather good
roast dinner. As I went up for second helpings so there was a woman
causing a ruckus wanting to know why there wasn't a vegetarian
alternative. Am I completely wrong in thinking that the vegetarians
going to a roast meat carvery (which makes no secret of the fact
that it is a *meat* carvery) really ought to give the people
behind the counter the ten minutes notice (that they actually ask
for) when dealing with vegetarians.
The plan was then to
drive on to the Weald of Kent Steam Rally. But when we called up the
place's website for sat-nav details we saw it was going to cost the
best part of forty quid to get us all into the place. We phoned some
relatives who were there who told us it was so packed they could
hardly move.
We decided against going
there.
Instead we went out to
Rolvenden to have a look round the pond shop. I've not been there for
years. The pond filter upgrade I was going to buy four years ago
(when my life took an unexpected nose dive) is now forty quid
cheaper than it was. "My Boy TM"
saw a huge water feature (small pond) he liked so he bought
that. What with the excitement of buying the huge water feature
(small pond) we never actually walked round the ponds for
which the place is famous (which was why I suggested going there
in the first place).
We then went on to
Tenterden garden centre for a look-see. They had the very same huge
water feature (small pond) that "My Boy TM"
had just bought in the shop down the road. However he'd bought it one
hundred quid cheaper than the price that Tenterden garden centre was
asking for.
By now the double helping
of roast dinner was beginning to settle, and so we popped into
McDonalds for a spot of afters. A raspberry flake McFlurry went down
very well. There are those who run down McDonalds but I can say in
complete confidence that those who would sneer at a raspberry flake
McFlurry have never actually had one.
We then came back to the
abode of "My Boy TM" where we
played with Rolo for a while before coming home with a tomato plant.
"My Boy TM" has loudly given up
with growing vegetables because they mostly seem to rot before he can
pick them, and when they don't rot no one wants to eat them. He's
given his mother a tomaoto bush as a present. I confidently predict
the thing will be dead by next weekend.
We came home and after
seven hours my Windows 10 upgrade was still "Working on it".
I rebooted the lap-top and re-started the Windows 10 upgrade. I then
sorted out the astro club's money after Friday's meeting; I'd like it
to be properly accounted for before I finally spit my dummy out.
And with Windows 10 still
failing to load I spent a rather frustraing hour or so with the
temperature of my piss going through the roof over what I was reading
on Twitter...
Mind you it wasn't a bad
birthday...
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