{"id":2891,"date":"2021-08-13T19:21:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T19:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/?p=2891"},"modified":"2021-08-13T23:17:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T23:17:07","slug":"friday-13th-august-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/2021\/08\/13\/friday-13th-august-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 13th August, 2021 [Day 515]"},"content":{"rendered":"

We woke up to a nice bright day this morning and although it was a little cloudy this\u00a0<\/span>morning, the day seemed to be\u00a0set fair. In a\u00a0wakeful period during the night, I attempted to use the cPanel<\/em> system to investigate a couple of websites that I have. To my display, I kept on getting a ‘login not valid<\/em>‘ message so I had to have a think about how to put it right. Eventually, I hit upon a solution which was to use my conventional FTP\u00a0transfer program on my IBM portable where I was relieved to discover that an\u00a0updated\u00a0password seemed to be\u00a0working OK. I am\u00a0pretty sure that\u00a0cPanel<\/em> uses the credentials from an FTP program and this did the trick for me. Once I gained access to the site, you can have a fish around and use Disk Statistics<\/em> to discern (up to a point) which applications and programs are taking up most space. There is also a utility called File Manager<\/em> which enables you to explore features of the website not accessible to a browser. However, some of these are system\u00a0statistics, log files and web statistics so some of these ‘housekeeping’ files can be deleted but some evidently need to be preserved. I managed to do a\u00a0certain amount of tidying up and eventually recovered a little of\u00a0disk space so now\u00a0the\u00a0I am using 1.5Gb of my 2.5GB allocation – so I think 1Gb should be enough for the immediate\u00a0future so long as I keep an eye on things.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Meg and I had a pleasant walk down to the park this morning. Fortunately, the fairground activities of yesterday have all been packed away so we were relieved to enjoy the\u00a0pleasant and\u00a0more tranquil ambience off the park again. I collected our newspapers whilst Meg read the\u00a0edition of yesterday’s Guardian <\/em>and then we made tracks for home,knowing that our hairdresser was due to call at 1.30 so lunch would have to be delayed. By the time Meg’s hair and been done and my own\u00a0fixed in-between sessions, we had to work out how to have a really fast but delayed lunch. This dilemma was solved by toasting some of the sandwiches we bought for yesterday’s afternoon\u00a0<\/span>the but did not use and this proved to be\u00a0tasty warm snack finished off by a chocolate\u00a0ice cream in which\u00a0Waitrose<\/em> happens to excel.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

One little thing I did in between the hairdressing sessions was to get onto an insurance company who sold us some term assurance (i.e. they only pay out if you die before the end of the time) This \u00a0‘expires’ at the start of December and I needed to know\u00a0exactly at what point the direct debit should cease – after all this was set up 20\u00a0years ago. The personnel in the insurance company confirmed that the direct debit should cease\u00a0after the last payment had been made in the month before expiry which sounded reassuring –\u00a0nonetheless, a bit nearer the date, I will probably do a check to ensure the direct debit is well and truly cancelled and the\u00a0money saved diverted to a more worthwhile savings ‘pot’.<\/span><\/p>\n

This morning as we went down on our walk we noticed that some of the relatives of our recently deceased neighbour are\u00a0clearing out the contents of the garage. As is often the case of people who pride themselves on their\u00a0handyman skills, the garage was stuffed full of tools some conventional and some esoteric collected lovingly and\u00a0used over the years. As I saw tin after tin of god-knows-what \u00a0get disposed of I did feel a quick\u00a0<\/span>pang – I am sure that some of the\u00a0chemicals were out-of-date and needed a rapid disposal but I wonder what was going to happen to the clamps, lathes and sometimes faintly exotic (not to\u00a0say\u00a0quixotic) tools that were lurking within.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

My son and daughter-in-law having returned from holiday are busy throwing things away, recycling them to charity shops and generally de-cluttering themselves of years of impedimenta. I suppose I ought to feel really inspired by their example and start to do the same. Up to a point the ‘ma\u00f1ana’ syndrome strikes and tomorrow always seems the better day to start. I had intended to get our lawns cut day and to do a little bit of pottering which means taking a few of the cuttings I have been nurturing and putting them into more\u00a0conducive surroundings. But our French friend who we entertained in the garden\u00a0yesterday brought along a beautiful little patio rose so I know exactly the spot in which I want that to grow. I have a series of herbs (<\/span>coriander, basil and the like) that in theory you can start off on a kitchen window sill and then transplant out later but it is really getting a little\u00a0late in the year, even for\u00a0fast growing herbs like that.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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