9.10.2026 Battery swap!

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  Friday 9th 50F/10C [9.30] Overcast. A wet and windy day is forecast. Peaking at 11C/52F.

  Up at 8.15 after a quiet night. A toasty 23C/73F in the room. I have lowered the heat pump remote down by half a degree.

 Just had a chat with my minder. I intend to go for a walk before the rain arrives. 

 I need to go to the village for more tablets. 

 10.15 Back from my usual walk. A little breathless on the way out. It soon passed. I had a chat with my neighbour's goats. They have been moved into the chicken's former ground. Where they are doing an amazing job at removing the brambles and nettles!  I showered them with praise but they remained unmoved.

 12.20 I drove into the village to shop. I was gone only five minutes in the apotek but had left the lights on [again]. The headlights were dim orange and the engine wouldn't turn over. The old battery must have been running on fumes. So I rolled gently downhill and the engine fired. I parked the car on the flat where I could move around the vehicle. 

 Fortunately I had enough tools to remove the battery. Then found myself unable to lift the sheer weight of it. Being right at the back of the engine bay. With the hot water tap sticking up right in front of it. Somehow I managed to tilt the battery sideways and finally haul it out.

 Replacement took a few minutes and then I could go shopping. I have perhaps 100 assorted spanners at home but wasn't carrying anything very useful in the car. Sheer idiocy on my part! One of the only two spanners in the Morris oilskin folder. Was only just able to manage the four nuts involved. 

 15.45 Blowing a gale and tipping down. 

 Dinner was a salmon pasty, peas, pasta and tinned tomatoes. 

 

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8.10.2026 The phone awakens from the dead!

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  Thursday 8th 56F/13C [7.00] Rain this morning. Temperature dropping like a stone at lunch time. Wind blowing a gale from a north westerly direction. 

 Up at 5.30 after another sleepless night. 

 Cooking class this morning.

 One+ phone still playing the dying fly.  

 I don't know what happened but somehow I managed to restart my phone through Google. The screen was not responding until then. My thousands of photos were backed up to the cloud and my PC. Now appearing on the phone too. This will save me the considerable cost of a new phone!

 13.30 Back from cooking class. Where I made tomato. leek and onion soup. Which proved popular. There were seven of us today. 

 The car is behaving normally for the moment. The phone is catching up on apps and contacts. Not helped by my failure to take a note of a new password. Typed in haste, late at night and approved with a click.

 No dinner required. 

 

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7.10.2026 My One+ phone brick!

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  Wednesday 7th 52F/11C. Rain this morning clearing to sunny periods. Peaking at 17C. Modest easterly winds going southeasterly. 

 A tropical 23C/73F in the room. I have reduced the heat pump remote to 20C/68F and moved it further away from the indoor unit. 

 Up at 7.50 after quiet night. I am slightly congested. The Danish news reports cold-like symptoms doing the rounds. 

 Doctor and dentist appointments around lunch time. I need to change the car battery. 

 The car continues to start instantly. I am carrying the new battery to be safe.

 The doctor has given me an antacid. The new pills seem to give me acid indigestion.

 The dentist and nurse both cleaned my teeth. Almost simultaneously but it didn't come to blows. 

 My One+ phone has turned into a brick. Thanks to One+ well known fault. I have tried erasing all the data several times but it is demanding a PASSWORD WHICH DOES NOT EXIST. Again, this  another well known One+ fault. 

 Do I risk my money on a replacement phone by the same dodgy company? Those who are in still in denial of their well know faults going back for years. 

 Google popped up and wanted verification that my phone belonged to me. Once I had entered pages of text it sent a confirmation code to the damned phone! Which is a brick for all intents and purposes! Oh joy!

 Dinner was mackerel in tomato sauce on toast. No pictures, so you'll have to take my word for it. 

 

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