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• I wonder what 2014 will be like

  January 23, 2014

  I haven't written since before Christmas, and that was nearly a month ago. I miss writing. Christmas this year went by without too much fuss. Usually we end up in accident and emergency, or there is a family war, but this year it all went very smoothly. New Year also was a quiet affair. I…

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• 12/24/2013

  December 23, 2013

  Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone. This is a kind of test. If this entry posts without a problem.I might just start writing again.

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• Holy Shit…

  December 19, 2013

  We appear to be back on line!

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• Jailbreaking my Kindle

  October 27, 2013

  Typical, the moment I decide OD is unusable, it comes back from the dead. I'll try a few more entires here before I give up and go elsewhere. I was all ready to go to PB, but Serea has sown doubts in my mind on that. We were promised the storm of the century with…

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• RIP

  October 24, 2013

  The place is collapsing under our feet. I'm moving to Prosebox. http://www.prosebox.net/box/550/

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• I did fix the kitchen light…

  October 13, 2013

  I wrote an entry on Friday and then accidentally deleted it from Evernote before I'd published. I have a love-hate relationship with Evernote. It was so much better when it was simple. Now it has all sorts of functions which I don't want and which cause me to delete important stuff when I'm tryin...

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• Ichiban –

  October 7, 2013

  OD is down, so I am writing this in EverNote, with a view to publishing at some point if it ever comes back to life. Firstly, the weekend; I went to Cardiff with the family to meet friends for lunch. We ate very good Japanese food at the Ichiban Restaurant, before visiting the museum of…

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• Passion

  September 29, 2013

  OK, first an update on the floor. I took the day off on Friday to begin varnishing the boards. it's now Monday morning and I have put two coats all over. I have enough left for almost another coat. I may just go over it again lightly, or at least just the parts that I…

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• Words to live by

  September 22, 2013

  I borrowed a hand held belt sander from a friend at work. I've now been all round the edges of the floor downstairs and started filling gaps. My intention is to start varnishing next weekend.I sort of had an accident with the hand sander. The cable got sucked up in the belt and I mashed…

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