Yesterday, we stirred ourselves early in the day in order to go for a walk at Bedgebury Pinetum, followed by lunch at the Oak and Ivy. In the afternoon, we explored Rye before embarking on some windswept stone-throwing silliness on Winchelsea Beach, followed by a visit to my future brother-in-law and his family on the way home.
The main thing is that we actually spent a day relaxing, just ambling about. We need more days like that, but I don’t see many of them being possible this side of moving home and the wedding.
Month: March 2004
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Day out
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Chips, peas and spam
It comes to something when, as I check my overnight emails first thing in the morning, I discover that the spam left in the comment boxes of this site outweighs the general spam email by two to one. In particular, I’ve now blocked three IPs in the series 213.91.217.xx, namely 13, 14 and 15, which were being used to send large numbers of messages promoting online drug stores. If you run MT or some other commenting system that allows you to block IPs, I suggest that you block these three pre-emptively.
The next version of MT will feature a system whereby users must register before they can leave comments. I’ll be adopting that as soon as it becomes available. -
Progress
It looks like things are progressing with the home-moving, as Hels has a tentative offer on her flat that is acceptable, and will hopefully be confirmed on Monday. There are also plenty of other people interested in it, so that is very encouraging.
My flat is progressing too, with the bulk of the decorating work likely to be finished this week, and new (cheap and cheerful) carpet to be laid on Wednesday. Hopefully I should be able to officially launch it onto the market around March 28th.
We’ve been exploring the house market for the last few weeks, and have seen a couple of places that we like and can afford in areas that we would like to live in. We should even have room in our new home for a cat or two, and even a little bit of garden so that I can actually have some plants around my own home.
I’ll be working from home in our new abode, so I’m going to have to get used to a life with less social interaction than I have now (there are usually people coming and going from my parents’ place, which is where my office is based now). I know that quite a few homeworkers read this site – any tips on sanity preservation? -
Wise words
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about "and".Attributed to the scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, but oh-so-true in so many aspects of life.
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World of Lino
New Weebl. Better out than in.
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Crisps
The builders who converted the Nursery Arms into two flats, one of which is now my home, liked Smith’s salt and vinegar crisps. I know this because they left a packet under the floorboards.
Future generations will be utterly misguided into believing that I read the Guardian because I used some pages of that newspaper to plug some holes.
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Penguin
Penguin. Yeti. Sea lions. You know the drill by now. I’ve just scored 337.79 (total 1288.18). Beat that.
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Text message spam
Someone has contacted our dating service and entered your phone because they fancy you! To find out who it is call froma landline 0911 103 xxxx.
PoBox12n146tf150.How irritating. And is that last line supposed to convey contact details for the sender and an indication of the price per minute if I call? If so, it is less than clear. OFCOM should clamp down on this.
In addition, I’ve had five new comment spams since yesterday evening, countless email spams, a bunch of junk mail and a couple of telephone cold calls.
It may be time to become a hermit and live a communications-free existence.