2008 — 5 Mar: Wednesday, and the daffodils beckon

It's 00:19 and feels cold, too, but the BBC weather forecast is still suggesting it's OK for the next adventure later. Watch this space. Meanwhile, here's one of the rather rare shots of the three of us. I don't know who took it, but the print is labelled on the back as dating from November 1996. I had to scan it in, and tweak it a little. It's far from perfect but is better than nothing! Peter would have been in the Sixth form,1 and I was completing my first year of IBM Java webmastery.

The three of us, November 1996

Brrr!

Just (01:47) listening to a BBC chap talking about the -2C we can expect in most of the UK tonight. Definitely time to submerge under that nice warm quilt. G'night.

Back in the sun

It's now 09:10 already and time to do something about breakfast. Today's walk, it's been finally decided, will either terminate with, or at the midpoint involve, a pub that serves some kind of lunch. So be still oh grumbling tum. Now why, do you suppose, have the "bin men" just decided to turn up, 24 hours late? Was there a national holiday? Or are they cross because I've been spurning their (g)natty2 little food waste collection container? I think I should be told about these things.

More from yesterday...

It was beautifully sunny and clear. I took this from the Bournemouth pier, having stopped off en route to Swanage. It shows the spot where Peter insisted on going into the sea one New Year's Day back when he would have been about four or five years old. (We tended to let him learn by experience; if he wanted to go in the sea while we were at the seaside, our attitude was generally "Yes, OK, though it will be a bit cold, son!")

It was!

The Needles, 4 March 2008

A delightful walk...

... spoiled only by the certain knowledge that, on my return, I would be entering the hell that is my first-ever Blue Screen of Death on my primary XP system. I have restored email on a subsidiary system, and am updating this diary entry via the iMac. All I need is a useful application on that Ubuntu system and I'll have the hat-trick! Normal service may yet be resumed but (at 18:50) it's time to placate the ever-hungry inner man.

Well, after I've updated both the Cyberduck SFTP application and the TextWrangler editor. My, things are suspiciously easy on the iMac compared with a certain other system! (No names, no pack drill.)

From your hapless webmaster!
I've just sent out an email to the people whose addresses I've managed to rescue from the chaos that is my broken PC. I shall post a plea here from time to time asking others who know me to get back in touch. Windows software, shall I count the ways I love thee?

If you know me, and you don't receive an email from me "real soon now", please consider sending one to me so I can painfully recreate my missing Address Book entries. Thanks!

David Mounce


  

Footnotes

1  Oops! See how little impact all those "Year n" years of his schooling had on me?
2  A code word that also means "stupidly" or "ridiculously".