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On Wednesday evening I went over to Thornbury for a meeting of my now-nearest radio club. It was an informal chat evening, so some good conversation and nothing too brain-taxing.
Thursday morning's Morse practice (which I'm catching at present via the WebSDR at Hack Green) didn't go anything like as well as last week's. I'm not really getting enough practice between broadcasts. I'm in a similar state with German on Duolingo. In order to keep at least a basic streak alive I've cut my target to one lesson a day, but that's not really enough, especially as the way Duo does things these days, lessons tend to be quite narrowly targeted, so there's almost no more general revision.
My work on the garage has made some progress. The bookcase I made for my bedroom back in 1991, and was able to dismantle to bring to the new house, has now been modified a bit and put up in the garage against the last bit of un-claimed wall, and should serve quite well as a place for storing small boxes and such. Next I need to put up some tool boards so that all the presently loose (or still packed away) tools have somewhere to go.
As my garden furniture was delivered on Tuesday, and as the weather has been pleasantly mild, we've enjoyed lunch on the patio a few times this week, though today's weather wasn't quite pleasant enough.
On Friday afternoon, as a break from all the work around the house, we went down into town and joined a two-hour guided walk around the countryside. The path took us across quite a few of te fields we can see from the house, and it was interesting to look back at the house from across the valley. The weather was fine but not too hot, and the walk was a good one, though on the limit as far as my feet were concerned.
We'd set Saturday aside as a day for doing some cleaning and tidying. We did get a bit done, but I ended up tackling a few other tasks that needed doing, and got a bit less housework done than I'd hoped.
Today the clocks did their jet-lag-going-nowhere thing. I changed most of the clocks yesterday, and went to bed early, so it hasn't been too bad for me, but A, who's a bit more of a night-owl than I am, is struggling a bit. I read a report a day or two ago that claimed the European Parliament had passed a motion abolishing the twice-yearly clock change in Europe, with the last change to happen in 2021. As far as I'm concerned, the end of the clock-changing can't come soon enough. If the report is true (and I have no reason to doubt it, but it hasn't been widely reported) then it marks about the only sane bit of politics we've had all month.
Thursday morning's Morse practice (which I'm catching at present via the WebSDR at Hack Green) didn't go anything like as well as last week's. I'm not really getting enough practice between broadcasts. I'm in a similar state with German on Duolingo. In order to keep at least a basic streak alive I've cut my target to one lesson a day, but that's not really enough, especially as the way Duo does things these days, lessons tend to be quite narrowly targeted, so there's almost no more general revision.
My work on the garage has made some progress. The bookcase I made for my bedroom back in 1991, and was able to dismantle to bring to the new house, has now been modified a bit and put up in the garage against the last bit of un-claimed wall, and should serve quite well as a place for storing small boxes and such. Next I need to put up some tool boards so that all the presently loose (or still packed away) tools have somewhere to go.
As my garden furniture was delivered on Tuesday, and as the weather has been pleasantly mild, we've enjoyed lunch on the patio a few times this week, though today's weather wasn't quite pleasant enough.
On Friday afternoon, as a break from all the work around the house, we went down into town and joined a two-hour guided walk around the countryside. The path took us across quite a few of te fields we can see from the house, and it was interesting to look back at the house from across the valley. The weather was fine but not too hot, and the walk was a good one, though on the limit as far as my feet were concerned.
We'd set Saturday aside as a day for doing some cleaning and tidying. We did get a bit done, but I ended up tackling a few other tasks that needed doing, and got a bit less housework done than I'd hoped.
Today the clocks did their jet-lag-going-nowhere thing. I changed most of the clocks yesterday, and went to bed early, so it hasn't been too bad for me, but A, who's a bit more of a night-owl than I am, is struggling a bit. I read a report a day or two ago that claimed the European Parliament had passed a motion abolishing the twice-yearly clock change in Europe, with the last change to happen in 2021. As far as I'm concerned, the end of the clock-changing can't come soon enough. If the report is true (and I have no reason to doubt it, but it hasn't been widely reported) then it marks about the only sane bit of politics we've had all month.