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… woke up to find my PC strangely silent… It refused to boot and so it was open-the-case time… It did initially get power, CPU fan spinning, but that soon cut out, and no attempt to access the drives. After a bit of fiddling I got the CPU fan to keep running, but nothing loading […]

Mel’s work for today was cancelled at last minute, so we decided to go off for lunch at the Ladybower Inn, seeing as it’s been a year since our last visit. But a bit surprised on arrival to see an array of beer kegs out front, and a notice telling people not to park there.

Don’t really use a VPN very often, and PIA has been quite good enough. But it’ll soon be time to renew the PIA subscription after 3 years, so I had a random think. I’ve been more than happy with Proton Mail, and not had a single piece of spam in all the months I’ve been

The last couple of times that I’ve been strimming the back lawn, a (young?) male blackbird has come to have a look. He seems very unafraid, getting within a metre of me while I chat random nonsense to him.

Blimey – 100 interactions to a TwitterX post! 97 Likes and 3 Retweets. We live in exciting times. There were other titles I thought of doing, but maybe best not to push my luck… Perhaps the best of the rest was “In Search of Lost Time: Frenchman remembers things; in tediously long sentences.”

Much as I’ve enjoyed using Adobe Photoshop over these past 4 years, it’s now time to ditch it and return to Affinity. Adobe are becoming a pain in the arse with their policies, and do not inspire trust or belief at all now. Affinity have an offer of £59.99 for Photo + Designer + Publisher

Great to catch sight of a pair of buzzards circling for ages over the west side of Greno this afternoon. Not rarities, but they’re magnificent birds. And another one the next morning, very clear in the bright sunshine. Didn’t hang around long, though, as it was being harassed by a couple of jackdaws.

Not sure which is the more surprising – that Easter pic of gridlock, or this pic of an open-topped doubledecker (Peak Sightseer) about to tackle a clear Winnats.

… some time… Had an e-mail from Openreach this morning to say that they’ve added our address “to our build plans”. I suppose it’s reason for mild optism (and nice to know that Grenoside has not been forgotten in the grand scheme of things), but would be truly amazed if it happened this year. I

Weather this year has been atrocious so far. cold and rain almost every single day. But today looked promising, so an impromptu visit to Castleton. Would have preferred Edale! But too late starting off, so took the easy option. Turned out to be a glorious day weatherwise, so that was much appreciated! Didn’t do any