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Thank you Gennepher. I'll need it.

I didn't bother with the sausage casserole. It will do for tomorrow - must eat well tomorrow morning because I have to be out most of the day and won't have a chance to have anything else until about 6 pm or later. My friend arrived late afternoon begging a favour. She has been asked by the...

Been desperately putting together material for a presentation at a conference tomorrow in our local UHI college. My friend has been asked by the local NHS board to co-ordinate an interfaith conference and the person she had asked to do it has had to call off at the last moment, so she arrived...

You are definitely describing me here, Ian. Except I don't think the word "clanker" is sufficiently expressive of the frustration these things cause. I do, though, quite like the 21st century and its future potential, if the dumbing down of language and thought doesn't ruin it. It's all very...

8.8 at 03.00 today. Had to get up because , at some time earlier in the night, I was very sore but decided to turn onto my other side and try to sleep again. Bad idea. I knew it was really, but I didn't want to get up after only about an hour. 03.00 came and I was too sore to stay on the 2nd...

Breakfast: The last of the minced pork with tomato and aubergine (roasted yesterday). 2nd meal will be a sausage casserole. Today is leg bandaging day so will have to get myself organised to go out. Neil will do a bit more shopping for me while I am in the Health Centre where I am hoping to...

I tried that, but the Company is BT and getting through to them, even on their security site, isn't worth the wait. We're at the end of our contract with BT anyway and are going to sign up with some other ISP. I'm leaving it to Neil - it was my idea going with BT 2 years ago and nothing has...

Hope the op for No 3 son goes well. That's quite an early start to get there. Will you be going with them, or taking a bit of time to rest after your own exertions? It's not only Guy Fawkes day, it's my No 2 son's birthday. 56 years ago this lunchtime, I was hanging washing out on the line...

Hope the day goes as well as can be expected Ian.

Hug for Mrs Miggins. I hope the physio can help and that it heals quickly.

She didn't call back. Scam then, I guess. Oddly though, our internet connection did go down for a bit, which was a shock, but Neil says the signal has been fluctuating all morning so maybe not connected. I tried to get through to BT, our ISP, to report a scam, but it's one of these hateful AI...

Pork and mushroom Egg Fu Yung again for breakfast today. There's still quite a lot of the tagine left, but I think I'll freeze it and have some salmon and salad for my 2nd meal today. I think someone was trying to scam me this morning at 7.30, It was a female with an accent from the Indian...

7.9 at 04.00 today. Up into the 8's now. Had a phone call at 07.30 from someone saying they were from BT. The caller was female and had an accent from the Indian sub-continent. I could make out very little of what she was saying - partly the quality of the line, partly because of my hearing...

I'm hearing of a few problems with Amazon deliveries recently. Maybe they are cutting too many of their workforce and depending on robots to make sensible decisions (some hope - they have to be programmed by fallible humans). At least a human can identify a problem and deal with it. Too many...

I've always had a bad memory - when I was a teenager I often had to go to buy milk at a dairy in Canterbury for my mother after I came home from school. The dairy was about a mile and a half from our house. My mother would give me a shilling and off I would run to get the milk and back I would...

Breakfast: Avocado and some tiny crackers. 2nd meal is either pork mince, in some form or lamb tagine.

7.2 at 03.50 today. Cold today but the sky is bright, if not blue. High cloud is keeping the sun away. Only a light wind, but it is a cold one.

Thanks for that Krystyna. The brain is definitely getting old though, as is everything else. That's life though so we just have to get on with it.

That's great news @Krystyna23040. Best wishes for Mr K for December and wishes for a fast recovery.

Luckily, the funeral service was recorded and I was sent a link to the video. It's not the same as being there, but it was a nice service and quite a few people attending - even more watching online, it seems. A lot of music. I've already written my funeral service, to make sure I get what I...