in my battle, “winning against AMD” A merest whim of an idea, could it become a sentence, or even a paragraph let alone a possibility of a new chapter in my battle with AMD. I have noticed that as I can’t read a word then I can’t spell it so I can’t pronounce it properly….
It started with the word “processional”. Yes I remembered The Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco, The Triumphal March from Aida and then there was the March of Torreadores from Carmen. Of course, I must not forget Vidor’s Toccata. But finally I remembered the word Tannhauser, That was it. Wagner wasn’t it. And finally “The Pilgrims’ Chorus. …
OK it was only for one day but we did get the chance to replant some of our losses. We can still applaud our good fortune with the plants that have done well. In particular our tomatoes and (after a battle) the runner beans, may be a little early. so we are calling any success….
11 May 2024 on the Allotment As with the farmers and all other allotmenteers, we suffered a pretty appalling winter, too wet, too cold, no warmth. Just picture s field of mud. We have resown all the failures and so start the spring with new hopes. The prime performers so far are beetroot and celeriac,…
T‘was a cold and bitter spring April 20th 2024. We hope we’ve survived and that will all be due to the polytunnel. We had to plant broad beans there because it has been so wet and cold. Now we have sown runner beans in trays but then will move them to a cold frame in…
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Spring has sprung or has it? The only hard frost was in early January, since then it has been wet and warm, indeed very wet- even as I write this. Will there be another frost by the end of April? Outdoors the onions and garlics are doing well. The PSB are rubbish this year,…
Seed SOWING Diary/ Rolling Calendar For the first time ever I decided to keep a document on my computer which would control what to buy (when) what to sow (when) an (where). This a copy of the document today, 23 Mar 2024. Some of these are just for fun and many are trials and U am…
Speaker System Controls On Friday I had set up the system for a Youtube presentation. When it was finished, embarrassingly I couldn’t get back to direct CDs. So I needed to formalise how to change music mode easily. Four experimental sessions (and a trip to the suppliers to reset my hearing aids) later: MM1(music Mode)…
The Eye Opener 2024 Update The key change in the last few years has been the extraordinary developments in using smartphones. These comments all relate to Android systems as used on the Google PIXL. Similar features are available on Iphones. The most important is “Select to speak” which reads the text to you,…
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