At some point in the heavy lifting of the last few days I
poggered my left wrist. It really hurts. I gave up trying to sleep and thought
that if I got up and did something then the pain might ease.
I made toast and had my usual look at the Internet. I had
an email. My credit rating went up by eleven points this week. That’s nice. I
had another dodgy friend request on Facebook
from a young lady who would seem to be all tits and no sense. I sent out
birthday wishes to people with birthdays today, and wrote up some CPD until “er
indoors TM” and the dogs emerged.
We got ourselves organized and drove out to Lyminge where
we went for a little walk following a series of geocaching Adventure Labs. A
rather good walk of half an hour or so. It was a shame we couldn’t find the
cache at the village sign. We tried for that one seven years ago and failed
then as well.
We came home for a cuppa, then “er indoors TM”
helped me with (did all the work) lining the little pond / water
feature.
Leaving her tidying up I popped out to B&Q for two more
bricks, and then on to Bybrook Barn for more rocks and some pond plants. And
with those in place my little pond / water feature is almost complete. There’s pictures of it here. I’m quite
pleased with how it came out. I’ve got to arrange the gravel around it a bit
better and I want to landscape a rockery in front of it. And I need to take the
water pump of off the circuit it is currently on with all the other water
features, and have it running all the time. And in a week or so I shall look at
introducing some fish.
And then the fun started. Our telly has been on the blink
for a few days and last night it packed up altogether. We first got it on 24
May 2021 when I wrote “Bearing in mind we got the last telly on 16 January
2010, I’m wondering if this new telly will also do us for another eleven years”.
Well, it didn’t. It didn’t last three.
We set up the new telly, and after an hour’s farting about
it was ready to go… and it couldn’t connect to the Sky-Q box. We used the “contact
Amazon” option and got through to a most unhelpful woman whose only
suggestion was that the problem had to be with the Sky-Q box as there was no
way that her company’s device could ever be at fault. I was all for taking the
thing to the tip, but I had a quick look on the Internet instead. Several
people had reported the same problem; and all had cured it by doing a factory
reset.
Eventually we had the thing going but it wasn’t easy. Back
in the day when you got a new telly the company would send a man to set it all
up for you.
“er indoors TM” popped to the kebab
shop to get dinner which we scoffed whilst watching one of the new extended “Bottom”
episodes. After the fun of the afternoon it was good being able to watch
anything at all.
I’m off to work for the early shift tomorrow… an early
night might be a plan. My wrist is better than it was… but still hurts.
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