I woke rather later than
usual today; I was rather tired last night. Over brekkie I again
tried ti upgrade my lap-top to Windows 10. This time it got past the
spinny-wheel thingy; it got as far as saying it had encountered an
unknown error and had failed. Ith then started a 2Gb download again.
I thought I'd give it one more chance then give up on Windows 10 as a
bad idea. This lap-top must be seven years old (at least); I
doubted it was up to the new operating system.
Today I spent a little
while reflecting on what might have been; in years gone by the
Thursday before the second weekend in August is driving out to
Teston and settting up for camp. Nowadays camping's not allowed
before Friday.
I like camping, and we've
had fun at Teston; but there's no denying that the camping
arrangements aren't what they might be. The water is too far away,
and there is no distinction between campsite and picnic area. We've
had to chase normal people out of the camp before. And bearing in
mind there was a fist fight there last year.... I can't help but
think it's had its day. And I wouldn't have been much good putting
tents up; not with my ongoing dodgy tennis elbow (ouch!)
I took "Furry
Face TM" for his morning walk; as we went
we met several nutters at various stages of our stroll, all
chattering away to the strange voices in their heads. Was it national
"Talk to the Strange Voices in your Head Day" today?
There was nearly a nasty
incident at Bowens Field; some twit tried to refuse to let us in to a
public park because he wanted to walk in there with his dog.
Apparently (in this chap's world) only one dog is allowed in at a
time. As his and my dog sniffed each other amicably (as dogs do)
I told him he could come in after us if he liked, and we pushed past
him. He chose not to follow us; instead he walked off the other way
shouting about how unfair it was that I pushed in. If he thinks I am
supposed to take turns in going to a park he can think again.
As we went through to
viccie park we saw the fun fair had most of its flashing lights
going. What a waste of leccie. We also met several other dogs and
their owners. All the owners knew Fudge by name. How do they know his
name? Is he that notorious?
I got home to find my
Windows 10 download was at fifty-eight per cent so I left it running,
settled my dog and drove off to Folkestone to see the baby before
work. As I drove the radio was frankly depressing. An article was
being broadcast on the right of teenagers with terminal conditions to
choose to die.
I got to Folkestone,
eventually found somewhere to park, and spent a fun ten minutes
winding up the littlun before then making my way to work. This time
the radio was playing something about women who were forced to have
abortions in the 1950s.
What was it with Radio
Four this morning?
Having a few minutes to
spare I thought I might have a crafty impromptu geo-mission. So I set
off to hunt down a geocache near Barham.
Oh dear.
Having been hidden by
someone who is something of a newbie, its difficultly was grossly
overestimated. Having been given a difficulty rating of 3.5/5 I think
it fair to say thet 1.5/5 would have been an overestimate; it was
rather obvious and could be seen from yards away. Mind you perhaps
the increased rating was to take into account the fact that the GPS
co ordinates were about twenty metres out. (or perhaps I'm just
being an uncharitable old misery again)
I got to work, did that
which I couldn't avoid, and came home to find my laptop claimed it
was ready to have another go at Windows 10. After two hours I am now
transmitting to the world from Windows 10.
Can any of my loyal
readers notice any difference...
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