That implies that the others have got complete maps - which I find much more surprising. Every time that I have had any dealings with any utility companies - which I do as part of my job - it becomes apparent very early on that they don’t have anything like accurate maps in whatever area I am looking at. And not just for old lines that they inherited - as seems to be the issue here - but for things like fibre optics that I saw them lay myself just 18 months earlier.

There are two of us. There will usually be either 1 or 2 bags from the 25ltr (I think) kitchen bin in the black bin when i put it out each fortnight. They aren’t really ‘full’ full, normally though - it is more a question of getting anything smelly out of the kitchen. If I have been around and emptied the other wastepaper baskets, which I proably do once a month or so, then there will be 2, certainly - most of the bulk will be snotty tissues though.

We usually cook from scratch and compost and recycle a lot though.

I use Rainy Days for the radar, and - since I’m in the UK - the Met Office weather app, which has a Next Rain widget.

Sounds like you should adopt an Official Birthday in a couple of weeks and get a re-do then.

Anyway, I hope it gets better and happy unofficial birthday such as it is.

I have had a lie in and did a bit of gardening. I’ll get out for a walk somewhere or another after lunch and maybe settle in for some reading this evening.

• In Our Time
• Thinking Allowed
• Philosophize This
• Revolutions

Local paper, local tv news and radio 4 for organising a toad road crossing when the colony turned out to be the largest recorded in the UK one year.

Local tv when I was the pagan chaplain for some local prisons,

National tv news for a couple of Greenpeace protests.

My elbow featured on the cover of Time magazine for another protest once.

I appeared in some Portillo documentary or other, and briefly in a couple of episodes of Coast, all because of where I worked at the time.

Did the washing up and watched Fritz Lang’s The Big Heat (1953).

Well, there’s an example of it being vague enough that people can still get the county wrong.

And, when it comes down to it, even if it were the county generally associated with those, the whole webbed feet thing originates with the other half of that county than the one that has any connection with this folklore.

It is a variation on a creature from folklore in my area. It might give some people an idea of where I am and some of the things that I am interested in, but is still fairly vague.

There are some pretty sharp divisions in Ireland it seems. Bonniconlon looks to be holding out as a ‘gone’ stronghold in the top corner of Mayo for example.

I failed Wordle this morning, so not off to a great start.

But then I saw the Franks off at the battle of the Volturnus on my phone, so that helped.

Otherwise, a few chores, topped up the bird feeder, planned a few outings and trips to the cinema, and have settled in to read for a while.

It turns out, in The Romance of the Three Kindoms, that Cao Cao, for all his opposition to the traitor Dong Zhuo, is not an honourable man.

These days, my turn to cook and then film night. Gone are the days of a pub lunch, staying there all afternoon and then out for a curry/Chinese/Mexican most weekends.

Shakshuka tonight, which turned out very well if I do say so myself, and it is my choice of film this week too, so we’re having a '40s noir: Web.

I’ve got the day off tomorrow.

I’m going out to clean some dormouse nest boxes in a nearby wood, so not exactly a day for a lay-in but still… not yhe same as a normal work day.

I couldn’t get to sleep so was reading for a bit. I’m ready to sleep now though.

I’ve had 17 days off in total, using up leave. That was great, but came back this week hoping for a slow start while I actually remembered anything at all about what I am supposed to be getting paid for.

Oh no, not a chance: “Update your budgets by the end of the day!” “Deal with this damage caused by Henk!”, “Your contractors haven’t been paid by accounts, so won’t come out and do anything. Sort it out!”, “We’re auditing your climate actions - update them now!”, “Do your team’s PDRs!” etc etc.

Novel - Corey’s The Mercy of Gods

Movies - Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Dune, part 2, Mickey 17 (this one particularly since it isn’t part of an existing franchise or a remake or whatever).

TV - Severance season 2, Netflix’s 3 Body Problem, Strange New Worlds season 3 if it drops in 2024.

If you haven’t seen any Pui Pui Molcar, then watching at least one episode might help.

Hoping that the rebellion over Starmer’s stand on Palestine will be enough to avoid total tory wipeout?

Been using QBittorrent for longer than I can remember now. It certainly does everything I have ever wanted from it.

It is the Federation’s we do not discuss it with outsiders thing. It confuses time travelling Klingons.