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The day started quite grey but gradually the clouds were chased away and the sun shone weakly out of a blue day. A very chill wind blew across the higher parts of the park!
The weather reports above are more for my benefit than anyone else’s. I decided to include one with every post. And then Mirinda bought me a weather station for Christmas. Once I have it erected and running, up to the minute weather will be beamed directly to my PC. Just think how boring THAT will get! Wind speed, wind chill, dewpoint, humidity, blah, blah, blah. I may have to change the blog name to ‘skip the first para’.
And so today I tested the weather station. I’m going to have to build a structure for it to sit on but I needed to test the wi-fi signal from the bottom of the garden. It worked just fine. Now I need a 2.4 metre post and few bits and brackets and the GazWeatherWatch can begin.
Mirinda was a lot sicker today. Mostly because she’s sick of being sick. This involves trying to sleep but even getting bored with that. In fact, last night, the latest symptom was insomnia. And dry eyes. I was working upstairs on my DITA assignment when I realised she’d finally dropped off to sleep. I figured I’d come downstairs and leave her to it, knowing my typing would wake her.
My day wasn’t very interesting today. I went into town to buy dinner and spoke to Alex in Starbucks. Her cat ate half her Christmas dinner and is now full of chicken and she didn’t get any Christmas presents because they are waiting for her in Schumania where she’s returning for a holiday in January. And that was about it. Not forgetting the two old ladies who asked me if Waitrose was open.
We watched most of Alice in Wonderland on channel 5 – the one with Woopi Goldberg as the Cheshire Cat. I find it amazing that people mix and match bits from Wonderland and Looking Glass to make a single film. It’s quite clearly a sequel. I wonder if Tim Burton is thinking that. Even so, it’s an enjoyable adaptation and Tina Majorino is a delightful Alice. I do wonder why they decided to put her in a yellow pinafore. And the striped stockings were in Looking Glass and not Wonderland. Still. Gene Wilder made a sorrowful Mock Turtle and Miranda Richardson was fabulous as the Queen of Hearts. I have seen it before, of course.
And then to the park to watch as Carmen and Day-z chased a poor, frightened, ten times bigger than them, Labrador while it screamed in terror. Oh, dear. Naturally I apologised and told the girls they were bullies while smiling inside. If the Lab had stopped and started chasing them, the pair of them would have run a mile and hidden, shaking and squealing.
Like yesterday, there were quite a few people roaming about and I saw a few of our neighbours taking the early evening air, shivering in the chill wind!
The poodles taking a break on a bench
I am now going to return to my DITA assignment. I haven’t really written JavaScript for about five years! I must concentrate!
Oh dear, Mirinda just sneezed about eight times. I fear she may be awake again.
