being useful

 I weeded the paviour drive today..just getting rid of the worst and giving it a brisk sweep! Now the house looks a bit less neglected!

Time to sort everything ready to pack tonight as I'll be on my way in the morning.

After lunch we had a walk to the local garden centre...plenty if things that I'd love to have, but I limited it to two bags of red onion sets!!

We saw Honey fungus fruiting bodies on our way back.

Now I'm comfortably next to a radiator in a large hall in Sherbourne, as Bro helps his friend give two Tai Chi lessons...with free Wifi as well!!

trains, blog and a night out

 Bro. has made this layout with a friend ...they both have 00 gauge (18 mm) track layouts themselves, this trackbed stays at the village hall where the club meets.

I helped clean engine wheels ready for a show in Wincanton next weekend

Then film night at the Swan theatre.

Eagles of the Republic . Interesting. How people can be manipulated

We decided that the easiest way to go with my blog was Blogbooker.   There is a free version, but I've paid for the higher quality..

Now I have a huge amount of pdf files ready to print.

Trees and blog

 the first is through the village hall window where bro goes to a tai chi class, looking out at trees on the edge of Yeovil...hardly any leaves left...the other in the estate near him, far more sheltered.

It has been a sunny day until 3pm, but quickly turned much colder...and started fine rain...just showers so far.

Computer work continues. This blog has been downloaded to the laptop..all 40 gigabytes !! 17 years ....Now that is safe I need to see what it looks like and what editing will need doing before printing, if it looks exactly like the web version of the blog with the sidebar etc.

This is not easy.....we may have to pay and go down the Blog Booker route....

IT

 I thought IT was supposed  to be easy....

Computer shop didn't do all of the job as requested...and in the process cleared all the content on the laptop AND installed windoze instead of upgrading the linux...boss is to blame there as the latter was his job....

However...all my photos etc are mostly on my external hard drive...which I forgot to bring with me....and bro managed to download linux onto a memory stick...Discovering that this worked best on a machine already using linux.....

Then uploaded it onto the laptop.

Then the next step was Bitwarden....a password saving app.....we got back into that in the end when he realised that it was ".eu"

and we had a break after lunch for a walk at the warmest part of the  day...just into double figures C...if you were out if the breeze!!!

I'm not sure what this tree is

but half of it is dead

It is still dry, but getting colder still..I've got two more days here....I may do some drive (block paviours) weeding using a heavy duty hoe that I brought down for him!!

Between being a webmaster for quite a number and travelling, gardening has a low priority for him!!

Misty

 

Today's washing was hung up on a line in the carport!

This afternoon was a visit to a fellow potter, Eddie Daughton. 

His work is beautiful.

It was a great afternoon of blether and discussion with him and his wife, myself and my brother. 

Then kiln firing and building advice!!

Felix...I was surprised that nobody picked up on the reference a couple of posts ago !!

Gone West

 Another day with no photos!!

Off at 9.15, as usual I don't go straight on the motorway..Just as at the end of a journey it is good to have a quieter finish, a settling in on ordinary roads gets it started nicely.

Although I might have been quicker staying on ordinary A roads. 

The traffic report on the radio said "M25 anticlockwise, congestion between junctions 8 and 9 due to an accident....they didn't say anything about the one on the clockwise side..two junctions tailback going between creep and stop...The M25 orbital motorway around London is busy!! I was glad to turn off on the M3 to head West just before the warnings of more congestion!!

This meant that the first stop at 100 miles, Fleet services, was done in three hours.

Time for a break and a sandwich. Then the last 87 miles took 2 hours. 

Going past Stonehenge was clear going West...but the other way was jammed with people slowing to catch a view of the stones with a consequent miles long tailback of traffic. 

It was a clear fresh sunny day to start with, and gradually turned misty over the hills.

We are certainly into Autumn and with Samhain tonight, heading towards Winter.

I'd just finished unloading my car when my brother arrived with friends from his day out! After a cuppa one was dropped at the station to catch a train home and we went for suppa with the other friend and his wife.

Good to not have to cook after travelling..and to have good food, company and conversation.  Although my brain was a little frazzled after a long day "in the saddle"!!

Visiting

 No walking today..Pirate's great niece did the washing and we set out to see her uncle, Pirate's nephew after getting it on the line.

Just a short drive to Ashford.

Tea and chat for the afternoon! 

It was good to see him and his wife. He has Myeloma and is on groundbreaking treatment...and now has developed Prostate cancer. Discussing that we worked out that he has a family tendency for the latter...

Despite all the publicity...plus the fact that he is on a special project for the other...he had never had his PSA checked.....and he is in his  late 60s....

It was great to catch up with all his grandkids' news....I've met all but the newest in person...who I met as a "bump". !!

Then fuel up and head back here...ready for off in the morning.