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Feb 4th and the birds are singing for me and my gal

Feb the fourth doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as May the fourth. For one thing May 4th is Anne’s birthday but also saying Feb the fourth be with you doesn’t sound as good as May the fourth be with you. If you don’t understand that I’m not going to explain, and it’s not an age thing.

It’s dull day here. A typical British February day. It’s why people who can go and live somewhere warm for a few weeks. The winders here don’t have much going for them. OK you get the occasional beautifully crisp day where a walk in the country park produces beautiful photos of frozen landscapes with a low sun dazzling the camera. This ain’t one of those days.

I have been wearing shorts mind you. That’s because I decided to come home in them after the gym. I was going to have a shower at home but two hours later it won’t surprise you to hear that I’m still in the shorts and still not had a shower. It’s a good job this isn’t 4D smellyvision. I had a good session in the gym. 1 hour cardio – 450 calories. Considering it’s only my third session that’s not too bad. I need to build up the length of time.

I had considered going for an hour’s walk later but I may not have the inclination. Ve shall see.

The attic is coming along. Today I tidied up the wiring and moved the router/NAS box/CCTV box/RIPE Atlas Probe/Fast Ethernet Switch onto one of the shelves. It had been a real tangled mess of wires. The wiring needs more sorting really but That would mean drilling holes and getting some shorter patch cables and just right now I can’t be arsed. Still need to sort out proper access to the NAS box from the windows 10 machine. Microsoft hurts my brain. There is a scenario and I am neither going to rush into this one nor take it lightly, that I might one day buy an Apple machine!!!

We also moved my old amp up there and the chair Anne brought back from her mum and dad’s. Had to dismantle the chair and reassemble in the attic. I had said to myself that I would never buy another item of flatpack/self assembly furniture again. In this case we inherited it so I didn’t have much choice. As usual and despite my complaining Anne was right and the chair does look good up there.

We seem to be in between storms today and I can hear a lot of birdsong. I hope they know it’s still only early February. I saw on Facebook that someone had already cut their lawn! I don’t think the weather has been that good. I might even light the fire tonight though I’ve been saying that for a few days now. Maybe I’ll keep it for Sunday – we have people coming round for Sunday lunch which is avery rare occurrence. I like it when we have people round because it gives me an excuse to open some plonk at lunchtime.

This Sunday I do have a little problem in that Ireland are playing Wales at 3pm. The normally boozy friends that might come to Sunday lunch would never have finished by 3pm. However there will be small kids involved this coming Sunday so you never know… They might even want to watch the game – where there’s life there’s hope 🙂

The featured image is “baked beans” taken from tonight’s tea.