9.10.2025 Mine's the big one!

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  Thursday 9th 45F/7.2C [8.15] Brighter earlier but possible showers after lunch. Wind increasing steadily all day.

 Up at 7.15 after nodding off again. I do a lot of that lately. I had chest pains over my heart last night. Used the nitro spray under my tongue several times. That helped. I was pain free by bedtime. 

 Cooking class today. I replaced the ink cartridge in the printer again. To be able to print out the recipes. 

 The bathroom is getting chilly. It quickly warms to the fan heater. Rather than having it warmed continuously with an oil filled radiator. That can wait. I didn't need to light the stove last night. It was hovering around 66F/19C. So I was comfortable in a fleece jacket over a jumper.

 9.00 Off we jolly well go in the Morris. 

 14.00 Back from cooking class. Where I made sweet rolls with a cinnamon sauce. Starting from scratch with milk and yeast. Then adding all the other ingredients to make the dough. It rained lightly but briefly before I left.

 No dinner required. I made do with a cup of tea and a biscuit.

 I lit the stove and it reached 69F/20.6C by bedtime.  

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8.10.2025 Using the lathe?

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  Wednesday 8th 54F/12.2C [8.15] A grey, wet morning but brighter later.

  Up at 7.00 after deliberately dozing. 

  I may go into town. I need some bolts. 

  And did. It rained going both ways.

  I spent some time on the lathe in the afternoon. Making a part for my telescope.

 Then the lady from the local stately home called and stayed chatting for a couple of hours. 

 After which I had to tackle several days worth of washing up. 

 19.00 Time for dinner. 

 Dinner was a tin of tomato soup and a bread roll with cheese. 

 

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7.10.2025 An excess of fraud.

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  Tuesday 7th 54F/12.2C [8.15] A cool wet day is promised.

  Up at 7.30 after falling asleep at 5am again.

 A visit to my friend. It will have to be in the car. I don't deliberately cycle in rain.   

 13.15 Returning from my visit. It was extremely wet on the return journey. With lots of continuous and often deep puddles on the roads. 

 Another afternoon wasted on YouTube. Or, alternatively, educating myself on YouTube. 

 Why are politicians, who make false promises at elections? Not routinely prosecuted for fraud? They still get the well paid jobs. So gain financially from their deliberately fraudulent behaviour. Yet do not perform any of the magical tricks. Which they swore they'd do, cross their hearts, on the children's circus posters. 

 Dinner was chicken, mushrooms, peas, carrots and Bisto gravy. For the Sunday dinner I missed making. 

 

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