There was quite a lot going on last week. On Monday we visited Wotton-under-Edge. It has a bank branch that can (in theory) handle things the Dursley branch can't. We went for a wander up and down the high street after visiting the bank ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

We've had fine weather for most of the last week, and sunset is getting noticeably later at last. The longer days and warmer temperatures have helped my energy levels quite a bit ( Read more... )

Since my last entry I have been over to Germany for a few days, and had Alex and F to stay here for just over a week. They flew back last Thursday ( Read more... )

Thursday morning's Morse practice went fairly well, and a little later in the day I caught a SOTA activator on a summit in Greece, so HF conditions were definitely a bit better than they had been earlier in the week. I didn't manage any other contacts, though. I spent a bit of time in the evening listening to Silke's recording of Über die Brücke ( Read more... )

Sunday turned into a very lazy day. We did get out for a stroll in the evening, but as the clock change had shifted sunset an hour earlier, it ended up being a stroll round streets rather than the woods ( Read more... )

I had to wake up early on Sunday morning in order to go to Heathrow and meet my nephew off a flight from Nairobi. That done, I then headed off to Hayes to spend the day helping with an amateur radio Foundation course. Nine students turned up on day, and they all passed, one only just, and one with full marks. When I got home from that I had a quick ( Read more... )

I did, eventually, sweep up the conkers late on Wednesday afternoon, and went to a radio club committee meeting in the evening ( Read more... )

I woke up a little late on Monday morning to find some messages from my sister and from my sister-in-law awaiting my attention ( Read more... )

Having someone to stay does tend to get in the way of things like DW/LJ updates ( Read more... )