When I booted the new lap-top this morning it was raring to
go in less than a minute. I saw that as something of a result; the old one
would sometimes take up to quarter of an hour before it felt any urge to
respond to any buttons I might have pressed.
I was into the internet far faster than I’ve been for
years, and was immediately judging people with whom I used to work who were
setting off on their third Mediterranean holiday of this year. And a minor
squabble had kicked off about some company who had started up in Ashford
selling cakes but refused to deliver and was incredibly cagey about where they
were located. A rather strange business model.
I took the dogs up to Kings Wood. We had a good walk; when
it is just me the dogs behave themselves perfectly; when there’s anyone else
along with us they tend to play up. I wish they wouldn’t. We walked right round
the woods, meeting several other dogs as we went, and every meeting passed off
without incident.
With walk walked we came home and as the dogs slept so I
cracked on tidying up the shed. It has to be said that the thing was something
of a mess. Yesterday I got a set of drawers to help tidy stuff into. Perhaps I
might have taken out the benching and put a level one in; instead I sawed up
the old planking which has been laying round the garden for ages and used that
to prop the shelves level.
I tidied. I found half a dozen packets of clout nails. I
found several sets of hacksaw blades. I found an old hedge trimmer that was
broken; I remember intending taking that thing to the tip years ago. I found
four tubs of ant powder and three tins of WD40. I found a whole load of pond
filter stuff which is of no use to me at all (and which is now up on Facebook Marketplace), and loads
of tent poles. I wonder what happened to the tent?
As I remarked to new-next-door if you want anything
from a set of bellows through to an aircraft carrier, before spending any
money, have a look in my shed first.
With about one tenth if the shed tidied I loaded up the car
with loads of black bags of rubbish, several poggered carpets, the knacked
hedge trimmer and more broken torches than sense, and after a quick sandwich
took all the tat to the tip. You still need to book an appointment at the tip,
but nowadays you can get same day appointments.
The tip was rather entertaining; as a fellow punter
unloaded his bags of rubbish so one of the tip staff ran up and started
bellowing “PLASTIC, PLASTIC”. The chap with bags of plastic gave the tip
operative a few minutes then asked why he was bellowing “PLASTIC, PLASTIC”. The
tip operative rather pompously explained where plastic was supposed to be put.
The chap with the plastic pointed out (in much the same way that you might
speak to a rather simple-minded child) that he was fully aware of where the
plastic recycling goes, and went on to explain how one might better convey this
information rather than by bellowing “PLASTIC, PLASTIC”.
I just about managed not to laugh out loud.
From the tip I went to Sainsburys; “er indoors TM”
had given me a shopping list. And with shopping shopped I came home and put out
the garden ornaments that I’d bought yesterday in B&M Bargains. Bearing in
mind they came from B&M Bargains I’m quite impressed with them.
“er indoors TM” boiled up bangers and
mash for scran and we watched another episode of the new series of “Quantum Leap”.
I’m quite getting into this; even though I’m pretty sure I can guess what is
going to happen at the end…
I’m slowly getting used to the new laptop… the biggest
hiccup is that the “\” key is where I expect the down-arrow to be, so every
time I try to page down in a word document (like when I’m writing this)
I suddenly get “\\\\\\\\\” appearing.
Today’s major victory was saving pictures in .jpg format
rather than .psp format. Whilst this probably doesn’t mean much to many people,
I’m quite chuffed about it.
If this blog entry uploads OK I shall attempt to install
FileZilla and GSAK…
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