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So if we hear about a politician who read out page 6 twice we know who is responsible! Tony

Good morning and best wishes for today Dominick.

I found the Apollo 8 photographs showing the earth from lunar orbit rather moving. In those days "defence" was based on MAD and I didn't appreciate that there were people who wanted to make that pretty planet uninhabitable. Tony

Morning all. Just rather overcast and a slight breeze here at the moment. Don't know what I'm doing today, possibly doing some more rearranging stuff in the garage. Tony

I didn't take Robbie for his walk when it was clear and sunny earlier. We went while it was raining and hailing. Now I'm back it has of course stopped raining and is again sunny. I've also bought some brackets to make some more shelves in the garage (33% saving on shelf brackets at Focus DIY today). Yesterdays effort now means I can get to the pillar drill and mitre saw. I don't seem to be throwing much away though. Tony

Morning all. The weather is rather pleasant here at the moment, blue sky with a few high wispy clouds. No coffee for me with breakfast, I usually prefer tea. There seemed to be quite a few layouts with trams on them at the Shoeburyness exhibition yesterday. Although I saw the trams in Nottingham last year I didn't travel on them. I'm fairly certain that it is over 20 years ago I last went on a tram at Crich. I did go on a bendy-trolley (or trolley-bendy) bus in Salzburg more recently though. Tony

I've avoided doing examinations since 1975 (except for driving test in 1982!). I suspect I didn't get stressed enough. Tony

Hello again. I've been to the Shoeburyness exhibition and also did some shopping in the conveniently placed supermarket. I didn't intend to buy anything at the exhibition but did. A couple of extra log cars should look nice behind my Heisler, and I bought a tap holder? (like a vice for taps). I did have one but can't find it. I did get everything on the supermarket shopping list. I may go to the garage and do some tidying for the rest of the afternoon. Everyone else is studying. Tony

Good Morning. It looks very slightly damp outside but didn't appear to be raining. When I made tea earlier, Robbie put his head under his blanket so I don't think even he was too keen on going out yet to investigate. I'm not going to Warley but I'll go to the Shoeburyness exhibition today. As it is almost next door to a large Waitrose I suspect I will be given a shopping list as well. Tony

I was very saddened to hear about the police officer who drowned. The amount of rain that fell so quickly seems to have damaged some well established bridges and waterways. Down here the main flood problem is from tide and wind combinations. When the Thames Barrier was built the coastal defences along our bit of the estuary were upgraded as well. Further along the coast the sea defences have been removed to allow natural flooding to occur. Tony

It has stopped raining here so I'm off to the park with the dog. Hope you are having a good day studying. My wife is finding it very hard to study at present. She has her own job to do and is also covering for someone who is ill and then comes home to read books that are full of words I've never found before. The latest one is autonymy which in fact my spell checker tells me is an error but isn't. Matthew is also doing lots of reading as well but as most of his is about religion and politics at least I get a break from being asked my opinion on those topics when I'm on RMweb! Tony

Hello all. Very light rain with gentle breeze here, but it is supposed to be like this all day today. I don't know what I'll be doing yet apart from walking the dog, he isn't bothered by rain. I nearly gained another dog yesterday. I opened the car to let Robbie out at the park and a beagle jumped in. Fortunately his owner soon turned up. Tony

I'm just off out. First on the list is a haircut, then walk the dog, and then shopping. Lots of mail just arrived, including two invitations but not to parties, one was a parent consultation meeting at Matthew's college and the other was for a swine flu vaccination, hopefully neither will be painful! Tony

Good morning. Dry and breezy here. We have just had a visit from the window cleaner so I suppose I'll have to clean the inside glass soon as I can't use the excuse of thing the marks are on the outside. I hope all the flood defences work. Parts of Benfleet are very low and ,if it were not for the seawalls, would flood. Not long after we moved here (late 1970s) the seawall was significantly built up to protect from the kind of conditions that flooded Canvey Island in the 1950s. Tony

A pair of Pleides ?

There may be some showers here on Friday.

Is it a Ford Galaxy?

Good Morning everyone. It is very windy here but not cold. I expect to see bin bags blowing down the road soon as more people put them out. I didn't see any meteor showers last night, just the police helicopter, some stars I don't know the names of and Jupiter. Tony

I can't see anything outside apart from the street-lamp. I never got round to tidying the garage today. My battle with the were-panda seems to have injured my ribs so I cleaned all my stuff out of a chest-of-drawers I'm giving to my mother.

Not any more but I sometimes build scratches when weathering.

With all these nut, screw, bolt remarks it reminded me of the time I had a job in a factory where bolts, screws and rivets were made. No nuts though. Part of my job was to count rivets. Tony

I didn't think he would appreciate any remarks about self tapper dancing either. Tony

I don't seem to have a to-do list today (except for cooking dinner which will be goulash) so I think I will attempt to do some clearing in the garage. I did have a bicycle on a wall that I want to put shelves on. As I no longer seemed strong enough to lift the bike up I took it down (to be honest, let it fall) and replaced the brackets with a Lakeland bike-lift last weekend. I now have to work through the "that bit of wood may be useful one day" pile. Tony

Morning all. Sky is sort of blue-grey here at the moment but it is getting bluer. No illness to report but I think last night's butternut squash risotto caused some strange dreams. As a result of believing I was being chased by a were-panda I fell out of bed and hit my head on the bedside table. Apparently it was something to do with the cupboard under the stairs, which is odd as we don't have one. Gordon, I hope your feet are OK, it sounds like the kind of thing I do. Tony

My mother in law had a lot of trouble with even voice communication over her tree affected telephone lines. It didn't get any better after the trees were trimmed. I think without the trees the cables moved more when it was windy. Eventually they did replace the cable and it seems OK now. However she doesn't have any internet. Tony