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Sunday evening some fireworks.
We caught up with petite maman.

2024

January

Monday new year day morning cold grey 4 degrees.
A bit of sunshine later.
A bit of tidying.
Afternoon we went for a walk round the village circuit, past flooded fields, over the bridge, over the slime.
3350 steps.
More tidying.
Now at 97% of les misérables.
Evening we caught up with airplane 2.

Tuesday morning dark rain 9 degrees.
Out into heavy rain, over flooded roads for a bit of shopping at morrisons.
1x chess defeat.
Home about 12:00.
Afternoon put the xmas tree away.
Even more rain.

Wednesday morning damp grey.
A bit of sunshine later.
Afternoon a bit of shopping at other sainsbury's.
Into town for coffee and caramel shortbread at waterstones.
Home about 16:30.
Evening we caught up with in the heat of the night (again).
Ukulele session (6).

Thursday morning cold damp sunshine 4 degrees.
Wood burner on.
Now at 98% of les misérables.
Afternoon 1x chess defeat.
We went for a walk round the village circuit, over the bridge, over the slime.
3092 steps.

Friday morning cold grey 4 degrees.
Now at 99% of les misérables.
Afternoon a bit of shopping at dunchurch.
Coffee and lemon cheesecake at dunelm pausa cafe.
1x chess defeat.
Home about 16:00.
Wood burner on.
Evening we caught up with death on the nile.
We caught up with jour du fête.

Saturday morning cold sunshine 2 degrees.
Wood burner on.
Afternoon we went for a walk up the hill in low sunshine 5 degrees.
4375 steps.
Some more guitar stands arrived.

Tuned up the harp.

Evening caught up with no time to die (again).
We saw bonnie and clyde (again).
Started my xmas choc chip panettone.

Sunday morning cold sunshine 2 degrees.
Wood burner on.

Sunday evening over to the village hall for games night.
1x win.
2x defeat.
We caught up with nomadland.

Monday morning cold windy grey 1 degree.
It seems winter is arriving at last.
Now at 100% of les misérables.
Afternoon fired up the mx5.
A bit of tidying.
A few dry flakes of snow.
Evening caught up with rush (again).

Tuesday morning cold sunshine -1 degree.
Windy later.
Afternoon out to st andrew's church for a piano music session by chenwei zhang.

More heat logs, kindling from wickes.
A bit of shopping at m+s.
Coffee and apple pie at dunelm pausa cafe.
A bit of shopping at other tesco.
Home in the dark about 17:00.
5735 steps.
Evening out for the village meeting.

Wednesday morning frosty sunshine -1 degree.
Wood burner on.
Afternoon a bit of shopping at medium tesco.
1x chess defeat.
Home about 16:00.
Evening ukulele session (6).

Thursday morning cold grey 3 degrees.
Caught up with sound of metal.
Wood burner on.
Afternoon finished the xmas choc chip panettone.
Evening put new ej45 strings on the old italian guitar.

Did ww3 just start in the night?

Friday morning cold grey wind 4 degrees.
A bit of shopping at morrisons.
Afternoon a walk up the other hill in the cold damp grey.
3233 steps.
Evening we saw the untouchables (again).

Saturday morning cold sunshine 2 degrees.
Wood burner on.
Afternoon a bit of tidying.
Went for a walk round the village circuit, over the bridge, in low sunshine.
2998 steps.
Set up printing from my phone.

Sunday morning cold grey 1 degree.
Wood burner on.

Monday morning frosty sunshine -1 degree.
Wood burner on.
Afternoon more tidying.

Tuesday morning frosty sunshine -1 degree.
Wood burner on.
Fired up the mx5.
Afternoon out to st andrew's church for an organ session by richard dunster sigtermans.

We went for coffee and cake at caffe vita.
Refuel and a bit of shopping at other tesco.
Home about 16:00.
Evening 2x chess defeat.

Wednesday morning grey 1 degree.
Afternoon we went for a walk round the village circuit, over the bridge, in cold low sunshine 1 degree.
3166 steps.
Evening ukulele session (5).
Outside -5 degrees already.

Saw -6.5 degrees in the night.

Thursday morning frosty sunshine -5 degrees.
Wood burner on.
Afternoon 1x chess defeat.
Started having a look at lowering the bridge on the martin lx1e.
The orginal bridge cme out easily enough, but the replacement plastic versions are a little too wide to fit directly. Need to slim them down.

Friday morning frosty sunshine -3 degrees.
Wood burner on.
Afternoon more heat logs and kindling from wickes.
Coffee and apple pie at dunelm pausa cafe.
A bit of shopping at other tesco and the range.
Home in the dark about 17:30.
Evening we caught up with decision to leave.

Saturday morning cold grey windy 3 degrees.
Wood burner on.
Afternoon we went for a walk round the village circuit, over the bridge, over the slime, in the grey wind.
3249 steps.
Evening 3x chess defeat.

Sunday morning damp grey 8 degrees.
A bit of windy sunshine.
Wood burner on.

Sunday afternoon windy grey.
Evening very windy.
Out into the strong wind and rain for music night.
Relatively quiet, I did 8 songs, 2 of them my own.
Home about 22:30.

Monday morning windy sunshine 7 degrees.
Wood burner on.
Afternoon went for a walk up the other hill in windy sunshine.
3112 steps.
Finished reading pinion.

More wind and rain at dusk.
Evening caught up with henry 6 part 1.

Tuesday morning damp grey 5 degrees.
Started reading fingers crossed.

Afternoon out to st andrew's church for a music session by rugby school.

Coffee and tiffin and a bit of shopping at other tesco.
1x chess defeat.
Home about 16:00.
Evening very windy.

Wednesday morning sunshine 9 degrees.
More tidying.
Afternoon we went for a walk round the village circuit, over the bridge, in cold sunshine.
3333 steps.
Evening wood burner on.
Ukulele session (6).

Thursday morning damp grey 7 degrees.
Over to the pub for senior lunch.
Into town to see metamorphosis at the belgrade. Parked beyond the blue bridge.
Coffee and mostaccioli cookies at evro caffe.
Carol stayed for the frantic assembly workshop at 17:00.
I went for a wander round town.
Something to eat at steakout.
Saw the iss go over, mostly hidden by cloud.

Home about 20:00.
1x chess defeat.
5560 steps.

Windy in the night.

Friday morning cold windy sunshine 5 degrees.
A bit of shopping at morrisons.
Afternoon pumped up the tyres for 1x circuit in the cold low sunshine 8 mins 50.
1x chess defeat.
Evening we went to see a bit of the music at the pub.
Starry night and a big moon on the way home.
1x chess defeat.

Saturday morning cold sunshine 2 degrees.
Caught up with henry 6 part 2.
Afternoon went for a walk roud the village circuit, over the bridge, in cold wind and sunshine.
3493 steps.
A bit of garden tidying.
1x chess defeat.
Saw the iss go over.
Evening we saw scarface (again).

Sunday morning cold sunshine 5 degrees.
Wood burner on.

Sunday afternoon 1x chess defeat.
We went for a walk round the village circuit, over the bridge, at sunset.
3114 steps.

Monday morning damp grey 10 degrees.
Caught up with richard 3.
Afternoon had another look at the bridge on the lx10e.
The micrometer showed the original at 2.57mm and the new at 2.87mm.
Used a file to slim it down to a nice snug fit at about 2.70mm.
Took about 1mm off the depth.
Went for a walk round the village circuit, over the bridge, over the slime.
3315 steps.
Refitted the bridge and strings.
Seems better now the action is about 3mm.
Also fitted new all black bridge pins.

Evening 1x chess defeat.

Tuesday morning grey 6 degrees.
Afternoon out to st andrew's church for a few songs from ben jennings.
Arrived a bit late due to road closure, and road works.

Coffee and chocolate twist at caffe vita.
1x chess defeat.
Thought I was doing quite well attacking the exposed king at only -3.
Still defeated though.

A bit of shopping at dunchurch.
More congestion meant an interesting drive through warwickshire in the low sunshine.
Home about 16:00.
A bit of garden tidying.
Evening we caught up with the final of only connect series 19.

Wednesday morning slightly frosty 2 degrees.
Wood burner on.
Evening ukulele session (6).

February

Thursday morning slightly frosty sunshine 1 degree.
Caught up with henry 5.
Wood burner on.
Went for a walk round the village circuit, over the bridge, in low sunshine.
2955 steps.
Afternoon another interesting drive through warwickshire for coffee and tiffin, and a bit of shopping at other tesco.
1x chess defeat.
Home about 16:00.
A bit of garden tidying.
Evening had a look at my keyboard sustain pedal that arrived today.
It is working backwards.
Opened up the pedal and spotted the hole where a reversal switch could be fitted.

Friday morning windy grey 8 degrees.
A bit of sunshine later.
Rewired the sustain pedal so that is works correctly with the roland xp30.

Afternoon we went for a wal round the village circuit, over the bridge, over the slime, in low sunshine.
3152 steps.
The snowdrops are out.
Evening we caught up with gangs of new york.

Saturday morning windy grey 11 degrees.
Afternoon a bit of garden tidying.
Went for a walk up the other hill, over the slime, in the grey.
4059 steps.
More tidying.
1x chess defeat.
Evening we caught up with room at the top.

Sunday morning damp grey 10 degrees.
A bit of sunshine later.

1d late due to the herbert.

Sunday afternoon we went for a walk round the village circuits, over the slime.
3677 steps.
Caught up with nobody.
Evening over to the village hall for games night.
2x chess defeat.

Tuesday morning windy grey 11 degrees.
Afternoon out and around the road closure to st andrew's church for a piano and soprano session from julian hellaby and claire fedoruk.

Coffee and apple pie at dunelm pausa cafe.
A bit of shopping at m+s and other tesco.
Home about 16:00 in light rain.
Evening heavy rain.

Wednesday morning cold damp sunshine 3 degrees.
Wood burner on.
Went for a walk round the village circuit, over the slime 6 degrees.
3377 steps.
Afternoon 1x circuit 8 mins 25.
Evening ukulele session (6).
Already down to 2 degrees.

Thursday morning dark rain 3 degrees.
Wood burner on.
Afternoon still raining.
Evening out into the dark heavy rain to see camille o'sullivan at warwick arts centre.

Friday morning dark rain 9 degrees.
Wood burner on.
More tidying.
Afternoon a bit of sunshine.
Out past flooded fields for a bit of shopping at morrisons.
Evening saw atonement (again).

Saturday morning damp sunshine 6 degrees.
Into town for lunch at bistrot pierre, including a paris brest.
Over to holy trinity church for a piano and soprano session from julian hellaby and claire fedoruk (again).
Coffee and cake at the herbert.
A look at the case exhibition.
A nice picture of drapers' hall by helen j woodcock.

Also dippy is still there.

A bit of sunshine.
Home about 16:00.
Evening we caught up with papillon.
4275 steps.

Sunday morning damp misty grey 4 degrees.
Afternoon a bit of sunshine.

Monday morning cold sunshine 2 degrees.
Wood burner on.
Finished reading fingers crossed.

Monday afternoon we went for a walk round the village circuit over the bridge, over the slime, in the low sunshine.
3722 steps. Evening caught up with v for vendetta.

Tuesday morning grey 5 degrees.
Afternoon we went out to st andrew's church for a viola session from matthew johnstone.

Coffee and chocolate cake at caffe vita.
A bit of shopping at dunchurch.
Home in the rain about 15:30.
1x chess defeat.
Evening out for the village meeting.
1x chess defeat.

Wednesday morning damp grey 11 degrees.
1x chess defeat.
Afternoon we went for a walk round the village circuit, over the slime, in the grey.
3857 steps.
Evening ukulele session (6).

Thursday morning damp grey 13 degrees.
Caught up with the end of after the flood.
1x chess defeat.
Afternoon a bit of sunshine.
A bit of shopping at medium tesco.
Evening more rain.

Friday morning sunshine 9 degrees.
Afternoon more garden tidying.
1x chess defeat. Managed to stay up in points for a while. Maybe my best analysis so far.

Saturday morning damp grey 9 degrees.
1x chess defeat.
Afternoon out to other tesco for a bit of shopping.
Coffee and lemon cheesecake at dunelm pausa cafe.
2x chess defeat.
A bit of gutter shopping at wickes.
Home about 15:30.
Evening more rain.

Rain in the night.

Sunday morning wet grey 11 degrees.
Wood burner on.
A bit of sunshine later.
1x chess defeat.

Sunday afternoon we went to the pub for lunch.
We went for a walk the wrong way round the village circuit, past flooded fields and roads, in the sunshine.
3886 steps.
Evening back out to the pub for a very busy music night.
I did 3 songs, 1 of them my own, and a bit of mandola doodling.
Left over roast potato and yorkshire for snacks.
Home about 23:00.

Monday morning damp sunshine 8 degrees.
1x chess defeat.
Afternoon a bit of tidying.
1x chess defeat.

Tuesday morning windy grey 8 degrees.
1x chess defeat.
Afternoon out to st andrew's church for a wind instruments and guitar session from paul jacques and alan taylor.
Croci and snowdrops in the park.

Coffee and chocolate twist at caffe vita.
1x chess defeat.
More gutter shopping at wickes.
Home about 15:00.
More gutter fitting.
Evening thanks to temperance bar livestream discovered the swaps.

Wednesday morning dark rain 8 degrees.
Wood burner on
Boiler service.
Afternoon windy.
A bit of tidying.
1x chess defeat.
A little bit of damp sunshine.
Evening ukulele session (4).
Missed the chaos in parliament.

A big moon and rain in the night.

Thursday morning cold heavy rain 5 degrees.
Caught up with the little drummer girl.
Afternoon out into the rain, past flooded roads and fields, for a bit of shopping at morrisons.
Coffee and chocolate biscuits at m+s.
Evening out into the dark for fascinating aida at the belgrade, parking over the blue bridge.
Home about 23:00.

Friday morning cold sunshine 2 degrees.
Wood burner on.
1x chess defeat.
Afternoon went for a walk round the village circuit, over the slime, in the cold grey wind.
3317 steps.
A bit of tidying.
More rain.
Started attempting to read io by gianna nannini (again).

Evening opened a bottle of domaine les chaumes pouilly fumé 2022.

Saturday morning slightly frosty sunshine -1 degree.
1x chess defeat.
More tidying.
Afternoon a bit of shopping at dunchurch.
Coffee and apple pie at dunelm pausa cafe.
Home about 16:00.
More gutter fitting.
Evening we caught up with wild rose.

Sunday morning frosty sunshine -1 degree.
Wood burner on.
1x chess defeat.

Sunday afternoon we went for a walk round the village circuit, over the bridge, over the slime, getting rained on a bit.
3188 steps.

Monday morning cold windy sunshine 3 degrees.
Wood burner on.
1x chess defeat.
Afternoon more tidying.
Evening interesting to hear about altermagnetism and spintronics.

Tuesday morning cold grey 2 degrees.
Caught up with quo vadis, aida?
1x chess defeat.
Afternoon out to st andrew's church for a piano and song session by teresa and michael karcher young, and william griffiths and varvara maggs.

Coffee and tiffin, and a bit of shopping at other tesco.
1x chess defeat.
Home about 15:30.
4036 steps.

Wednesday morning damp grey 5 degrees.
A bit of rain later.
Afternoon started reading nature's building blocks.

Evening wood burner on.
Ukulele session (4).

Thursday morning damp grey 8 degrees.
More rain.
1x chess defeat.
Wood burner on.
Afternoon cleaned up and put new elixir nanoweb 16002 (10-47) strings on the fender ag20sn acoustic guitar (1995).

Evening 1x chess defeat.
We started watching things you should have done.

March

Friday morning more windy rain 3 degrees.
1x chess defeat.
A bit of damp sunshine later.
Went for a walk round the village circuit, past flooded fields and roads, over the slime, in the cold damp.
3693 steps.
Afternoon more heatlogs and kindling from wickes.
Coffee and apple pie at dunelm pausa cafe.
A bit of shopping at other tesco.
1x chess defeat.
Home about 16:30.
More gutter fitting in the sunshine.

More rain in the night.

Saturday morning damp sunshine 5 degrees.
1x chess defeat.
Afternoon into town in the rain, parking over the blue bridge.
Coffee and cake at waterstones.
Another look at the case exhibition.
A bit of shopping at m+s.
Home about 17:30.
6624 steps.
Evening caught up with h.

Sunday morning slightly frosty sunshine -1 degree.

Sunday morning a drive out in the sunshine, over to stourport fusion festival.
Refuel and a bit of shopping at tiny tesco.
Down the a46, m40, m42.
Stopped at hopwood services for lunch, coffee and cookie.
2x buzzards circling over the trees.

Arrived about 14:30.
Checked in for wristband.
Saw a bit of some of the earlier bands.
By now they were running 1h late.
Back to the car for something to eat.
Returned in time to see overhead.
Went to the bar to get an orange juice, and there she was, in her long brown coat, setting out the merchandise.

Back to the car for something to eat, in the shortened break.
Geting cold under a starry sky.
A double espresso from the stall outside.
Back inside in time to see rosalie cunningham.

Saw a bit of the headline magenta.
Decided to head home at 22:30.
Flooded roads across country in the dark, then roadworks and speed restrictions on the m42.
Home about 00:30.
4698 steps.

Monday morning cold sunshine 3 degrees.
Afternoon went for a walk round the village circuit, over the bridge, over the slime, in the cold wind.
3237 steps.

Tuesday morning cold sunshine 6 degrees.
Afternoon out in the sunshine to st andrew's church for various performance by rugby school students.

That's an aoyama pedal harp.
Coffee and chocolate twist at caffe vita.
Finished off the gutter fitting.
A bit of garden tidying front and back.
5917 steps.

Wednesday morning cold grey 5 degrees.
1x chess defeat.
Afternoon 1x chess defeat.

A bit of fog in the night.

Thursday morning grey 6 degrees.
Afternoon a bit of sunshine.
A bit of garden tidying.
1x chess defeat.
Evening relaxed the truss rod on the fender acoustic, as the strings were rattling, and it appears the neck had moved when I removed all of the strings to clean the fretboard.
Seems to have worked.

Friday morning cold grey 5 degrees.
A bit of sunshine later.
Afternoon caught up with he.

Saturday morning sunshine 8 degrees.
1x chess defeat.
Windy sunshine.
Afternoon caught up with dune.
Out for coffee and apple pie at dunelm pausa cafe, and a new broom and door mat.
1x chess defeat.
A bit of shopping at other tesco.
Home about 16:30.
A bit of tidying.

A bit of rain in the night.

Sunday morning dark rain 8 degrees.

Sunday afternoon more rain.
Wood burner on.
1x chess defeat.
Evening caught up with li and be.
We saw roman holiday (again).

Monday morning damp grey 6 degrees.
Caught up with the end of prisoner/huset
1x chess defeat.
Afternoon wood burner on.
Caught up with b.

Tuesday morning rain 7 degrees.
Afternoon out to st andrew's church for a music session by the scutters.

A bit of sunshine.
Coffee and tiffin, and a bit of shopping at other tesco. 1x chess defeat.
Thought this was quite a good attack, despite being a bishop and a few pawns down.
Maybe my best analysis so far.

Home about 15:30.
3094 steps.
Evening out for the village meeting.
Caught up with c.

Wednesday morning damp grey 10 degrees.
Windy grey later.
A bit of tidying.
Evening ukulele session (6).

Thursday morning grey 9 degrees.
Interesting to hear about sophie scholl and the white rose.
More tidying.
A bit of sunshine later.
Out for a shingles jab.
Afternoon went for a walk up the other hill, in the grey.
5065 steps.
More rain.
Caught up with the last of the mohicans.

Friday morning damp grey 11 degrees.
A bit of sunshine later.
Afternoon took the pretty way to dunchurch for a bit of shopping.
Heavy rain on the way home about 16:30.
Evening we caught up with the end of things you should have done.

Saturday morning cold sunshine 4 degrees.
Grey later.
A squirrel at a bird feeder.

Afternoon caught up with n.
More tidying.
1x chess defeat.
Had a bit of a play with the drum patterns in the yamaha pss-a50.

Rain in the night.

Sunday morning grey rain 10 degrees.
A bit of sunshine later.

Sunday afternoon we went for a walk round the village circuit, past flooded fields and roads, over the slime, in the sunshine.
3630 steps.
Evening out to the pub for a busy music night.
Saw the iss going over on the way.

1x chess defeat.
Home about 22:30.

Monday morning cold sunshine 6 degrees.
1x chess defeat.
Cleaning and tidying.
Afternoon caught up with o.

Tuesday morning grey 11 degrees.
More rain later.
Afternoon out to st andrew's church for a music session by the friday singers.

We went for coffee and pain aux raisins at caffe vita.

A bit of shopping at other tesco.
A bit of shopping at other morrisons.
Home about 16:00.
Evening we caught up with the end of our flag means death series 2.

Wednesday morning rain 11 degrees and equinox.
Caught up with hans zimmer live in prague (2016).
A bit of sunshine later.
Afternoon more cleaning.
1x chess defeat.
Evening ukulele session (6).

Thursday morning grey 9 degrees.
More sorting of the kitchen sink trap leak.
Afternoon out in the sunshine for coffee and chocolate biscuits, and a bit of shopping at m+s.
A new sink trap from b+q.
Home about 17:00.

Friday morning damp grey 9 degrees.
Caught up with the blues brothers.
1x chess defeat.
Fitted the new sink trap.
Pumped up the tyres for 1x circuit 8 mins 29.
Also pumped up the tyres on the fujin and took it for a very short ride.
Afternoon my singing mug arrived.

Caught up with f and ne.
Evening we caught up with undergods.
Saw the iss go over at dusk.
Over to the pub to see mod story.

Home under a starry sky about 23:00.

Saturday morning cold windy sunshine 5 degrees.
Heavy rain later.
Into town through sunshine and heavy showers for lunch at bistrot pierre.
Strange to see broadgate completely clear.

Then over to holy trinity church for a recorder performance by pink noise.

Coffee and chocolate aragostine at evro caffe.
A bit of shopping and refuel at morrisons.
1x chess defeat.
Evening out in the dark to st andrew's church for a music session by el canto guitar trio and duotone.

Sunday morning cold sunshine 5 degrees.
Afternoon we went for a walk round the village circuit, over the bridge, in cold windy sunshine.
3357 steps.
A bit of garden tidying.
Cut the grass a teeny bit front and back.
Evening caught up with top gun maverick.