A busy day, during which I bought a new (well, second-hand) armchair, which I hope is the one I've always wanted, from Oxfam, and gave them the old one in return; I also bought a bowler hat, but didn't give any headgear away
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As various people have pointed out, it's 45 years today since the first broadcast of Doctor Who. So maybe I should have been in Cardiff for the Whoniversal Appeal conference this weekend instead of last... But on the plus side, I'll be able to watch the first episode of the remake of Survivors, which seems appropriate as it combines an idea of
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I mowed the lawn! Or rather lawns! And I think I may have done it in record time, though I'm not absolutely certain when I started, and anyway I don't have records of my previous timings. But I reckon it was about an hour and a quarter, and I didn't use up both batteries, whereas usually I've exhausted both by the end. I think it was easier
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I made my third trip to Richer Sounds (round the corner from Mars) this afternoon, to return the LG DVD player which wouldn't play anything not scripted by Chris Boucher. (OK, this turned out to be not strictly true; it would play free DVDs that came with the weekend newspapers. Just not paid-for films.) Richer Sounds staff greeted me with
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matildabj tagged me to do this. I'd been sort-of thinking about it for a few days, since mistraltoes suggested I could do just five facts instead of 20, and I'd got up to three things. But I've had to cheat a lot by breaking some of them down to get to 20. It took about 20 minutes, but I'm definitely not tagging 20 people; most of my friends seem to have done it,
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