Monthly Archives: July 2025

Denise is no longer the shortest

Posted on July 31, 2025 by Gary

Two years ago today, we were handed the keys to our house. It was a wonderful day; even Freya enjoyed it. Of course, Mirinda’s back was playing up at the time but the joy of the occasion helped ease the … Continue reading →

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Blog up!

Posted on July 30, 2025 by Gary

Today was supposed to be another step towards Mirinda’s boatlife. She’d found a probable vessel and she had arranged for us to go and see it this afternoon. It was in Nyköping and the day was organised around us leaving … Continue reading →

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Playing games

Posted on July 29, 2025 by Gary

Tonight, we played Catan. For those that don’t know (I didn’t) it’s a board game about building roads, villages and cities. Sort of. There are cards to collect and things to build. It was excellent fun. Magne won, which was … Continue reading →

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Mezze galore

Posted on July 28, 2025 by Gary

I met my first Swiftie today. Well, the first one who has openly admitted it to me. To be fair, she had on a Taylor Swift Eras Tour t-shirt and I, obviously, asked if she was a Swiftie. The ‘she’ … Continue reading →

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Lessons learned in London

Posted on July 27, 2025 by Gary

One of the universal truths that often surfaces is how the Brits love to queue. To be fair, they don’t actually ‘love’ it but they do understand how it works. They probably attribute it to ‘fair play’ and cricket. Of … Continue reading →

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Blog off

Posted on July 26, 2025 by Gary

The second last message I had from the host server was that they would check on the progress of the domain name transfer and get back to me. The last message was that they would get back to me after … Continue reading →

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Blog again?

Posted on July 25, 2025 by Gary

So, there has been a bit of movement on the blog front. I have started the transfer of the domain from the uncommunicative Britishnic.com to our hosts at myinterserver.com. Apparently, because my domain is a .co.uk one, it takes up … Continue reading →

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Blog end?

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Gary

Is this how my blogging ends? With a whimper? My frustration is making me quite sad. I suggested to Nicoline today that maybe AI has taken me down because I took the piss the other day after it wrote the … Continue reading →

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Blog continues down

Posted on July 23, 2025 by Gary

I have been in almost constant contact with the help desk at the host for the blog. So far, nothing has worked. So, while the blog continues to be down, work is continuing in the background. I should add that … Continue reading →

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Blog down, England up

Posted on July 22, 2025 by Gary

So today, at around lunchtime, this blog went down. I was given the instruction to rename my DNS nameservers. This is fine, I know how to do that. The only problem was that I was told to do this, to … Continue reading →

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