{"id":2249,"date":"2021-04-25T21:26:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T21:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2021-04-25T22:16:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T22:16:03","slug":"sunday-25th-april-2021-day-405","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/2021\/04\/25\/sunday-25th-april-2021-day-405\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, 25th April, 2021 [Day 405]"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was our normal Sunday morning\u00a0routine this morning in which I collected our Sunday newspapers early on and\u00a0then got back in time for the <\/span>Andrew Marr<\/em> show. I was expecting a lot of cross examination of Liz Truss concerning the Boris Johnson ‘decoration\u00a0expenses’ \u00a0and Andrew Marr tried his best (which was not very\u00a0<\/span>good) When asked if Boris Johnson had\u00a0personally stopped a leak enquiry (about the leak of plans for a second coronavirus lockdown\u00a0because it would have implicated a close friend of his fiancee, Carrie Symonds), he got the reply ‘<\/span>I think this is a complete load of Westminster tittle-tattle that people simply don’t care about” <\/i>which is of course not a\u00a0denial but the typical ‘throw sand in the face of the\u00a0enemy’ tactics that all politicians deploy when they are\u00a0being evasive or do not wish to tell the truth – which is nearly all the time. Then we drifted down to the park where we met up with our University of Birmingham friend and we discussed all kinds of matters\u00a0concerning our local Severn Valley railway (upon which we are going to make a trip in about 2-3 weeks time) Then we were joined by a mutual friend who is generally very well-informed on matters and likes to keep abreast of news and current affairs. Our conversations roamed over (a) the changing and preferred shape of\u00a0womens’ bodies (b) the current political scene (c) efficacy and ‘risks’ associated with the current crop of vaccines. Our conversations are like\u00a0that, but Meg and I needed to get home so after we had put the world to rights, we started for\u00a0home to cook Sunday lunch which we did.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The afternoon, as\u00a0every Sunday afternoon, we devoted to a good read of the Sunday newspapers but I did break off in the late afternoon to put a\u00a0supply of Growmore (for a quick tickle) and ‘Blood, Fish and Bone’ (for a longer lasting\u00a0fertiliser) around the\u00a0privet hedge plants that\u00a0our gardner and I\u00a0chopped down to about half their height during the week. As the hedge has\u00a0received a bit of a bashing, we thought it would be a good idea to give it a bit of feed at the start of the\u00a0growing season to encourage the denuded top to ‘green over’ – which I hope it will within about three weeks. I am conscious of the fact that a certain amount needs doing in the garden to get it fully ship-shape but we need a spell of\u00a0fairly good\u00a0weather before\u00a0I commit myself to a daily half hour or so in the garden.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the pandemic is ravaging the towns and cities of India and our TV screens are\u00a0filled with heart-rending images of individuals who are denied admissions to hospitals (and who\u00a0have\u00a0practically run out of oxygen anyway) and\u00a0cemeteries that have\u00a0overflowed into any adjacent land and which is now burning with a succession of funeral\u00a0<\/span>pyres, according to Hindu rites. The UK is going to send off a\u00a0supply of ventilators which is part of a\u00a0consignment of 600 items which the UK is\u00a0sending to India.\u00a0Perhaps this only a symbolic gesture but we do have a vested interest, given the links and history between the UK and India, in making sure that India receives as much help as possible. I am reminded\u00a0that the Victorian middle classes\u00a0worked out that it was in the interests of the\u00a0already privileged to give the working classes a clean\u00a0water supply and good sewerage\u00a0system. It is often said that Prince\u00a0Albert, Queen Victoria’ husband, died of typhoid fever but more modern medical research has\u00a0pointed out that Albert suffered several bouts\u00a0of illness towards the end of his life. A modern diagnosis is that he died of Crohn’s\u00a0disease which precipitated an\u00a0ulcerative perforation of the bowel leading to septicaemia and a rapid death.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Last night, I decided to put (or try to put) Windows 7 onto my IBM ThinkPad. All seem to go well untilI was asked for the\u00a0<\/span>product code but after a bit of an internet search I found a product code relating to an educational version and this seemed to satisfy it. All seemed to go well until, at the final stage, a Windows logo appeared on the screen and after a long wait, I concluded it had frozen. So I left it (and the word on the net indicates that you sometimes to have leave things for an hour or so to resolve) and went to bed. First thing this morning, nothing seemed to have happened so I pressed the power switch on the Thinkpad and the existing installation of Windows 7 loaded. (If you consult the internet,\u00a0lots of installations seemed to hand at the point that I\u00a0experienced) Having got Windows 7 up, I got an informative little message\u00a0saying that Windows 10 had encountered an\u00a0error, failed\u00a0to load and now the\u00a0whole machine was being\u00a0reset to the condition it was in before the installation.I am sure this little story has been repeated thousands of\u00a0times by other Window users trying to\u00a0upgrade. I was not surprised – but quite\u00a0pleased it left my machine in a useable state after all.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was our normal Sunday morning\u00a0routine this morning in which I collected our Sunday newspapers early on and\u00a0then got back in time for the Andrew Marr show. I was expecting a lot of cross examination of Liz Truss concerning the Boris Johnson ‘decoration\u00a0expenses’ \u00a0and Andrew Marr tried his best (which was not very\u00a0good) When asked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2256,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions\/2256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}