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  I'm tired. I blogged about the possible suspects. https://wobblybear.uk/post/tired #blogging

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  RE: https://cupoftea.social/@Donations/117325215915166975 There's got to be a hero getting this past the 100% today.

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  RE: https://cupoftea.social/@Whiskeyomega/117311990241715734 Swiftly changed my display name to address Will's feeling that we don't discuss tea as much as we should here on cupoftea.social Now I mention it every time I toot.

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  @emsquared@social.coop Great, it's only 10,000 hours until he's really good apparently.

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  Oh nooos... the noisy sparkly dancy thing begins again tonight. Really must get some of those clever noise cancellation headphones. Or train J to record it and watch it later when I've gone to bed.

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  I am pleased to be home after my hospital stay, except for the text from my Mum this morning which says "Now you've had time to recover, we will be down to visit you soon." Call 999. I think I have a relapse coming on.

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  I am now at home. After the failed cardioversion they let me out, pending further fiddling at a (hopefully not too distant) future time. Still in AF, just extra drugs to keep a lid on the excessive heart rate and tide me over from now until that happens.

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  "C'mon, FILL MY BUTTS!" I have no idea why J takes such exception to me just standing here gently encouraging the rain.

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  Don't worry, it can't last forever. Or if it does, you don't, so it'll end one way or another.

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  Dear BBC Sports site (the only 'news' site I have a quick look at in the mornings). We know what Trump looks like. We do not need any pictures of Trump to ruin our morning on the sports site. We thought we'd be safe from seeing him there.

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  Weird behaviour time. There's no spellcheck in my Vivaldi browser on my laptop, there is on the Vivaldi on desktop - and supposedly they're in sync. But I can't find any spellcheck on or off choice in the settings? Anyway, if you see odd spelling or typos on my posts in the afternoon or evening, that'll be why. #vivaldi

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  Anyone fancy laughing hysterically?

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  Just updated J's blog with details for the Potters Market on the Quay in Exeter tomorrow. She has organised it for the West Country Potters Association. https://jaynerandallpottery.com/post/exeter-potters-market #pottery #ceramics #Exeter

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  I blogged about why I use another blogging platform, Scribbles, for J's blog. https://skryblans.com/the-more-sophisticated-scribbles-blog/ #skryblans #blog #blogging

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  Good morning. There is rain, but it's that sort of rain which seems reluctant to fall as rain. It's spending a lot of time just hanging about in the gap between cloud and land, just floating downwards slowly and having a look at the ground below before landing. It's making the ground look damp on top, but it's not really hefty or persistent enough to sink into it. Ankle update: I did do a bit yesterday, and was on my feet unsupported as I attended to some minor chores, as well a...

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  My ankle is better today, and I can walk around the house without the aid of my walking stick. Hurrah. I'm not going to though. I'm going to sit right here, rest it a bit more, read my book and drink some tea. By order of J, who has gone to work today. Hoping that the dog will be happy with a 200 metre walk up the lane outside, instead of a two kilometre one in the woods. She'll have to be really, I can't really risk doing too much on it and setting it off again.

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  Just found out that the odd and almost subsonic rumbling for three or four seconds on Monday morning, that we put down to some isolated thunder close by, was in fact a 1.4 magnitude earthquake. https://www.cornish-times.co.uk/news/residents-shaken-after-cornish-towns-hit-by-earthquake-929663

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  My FirstDirect phone banking app has worked fine for years, but they must have pushed an update recently because it now refuses to open. My phone has a risky app on it apparently. I would show you what it says, but they disable the screenshot facility. How the banking app gets away with scanning my entire phone to see what's on it is one thing. The fact that the keyboard app they're identifying is open source and hasn't been flagged as any sort of a problem by anyone before is an...

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  It was already horsefly season, but now the as yet unidentified, silent and stealthy little bitey bastards flies have started too. Unfortunately I seem to be of the right blood type to be attractive to unidentified little bitey bastard flies. These are currently the only two creatures in the entirety of creation that I will kill on sight.

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  Oh, Kevin Keegan. That is sad. He was the first star footballer I used to pretend to be in playground matches, and probably the reason I was LFC and not MUFC like the rest of the gang. RIP

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  A nice message left at the gate at the start of our walk today.

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  Ah, new PM. It must be Monday.

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  A new post on my blog. Don't get too excited. https://skryblans.com/this-is-a-new-post-not-one-of-those-new-posts-where-new-people-have-forgotten-to-add-a-title/ #skryblans #blog

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  The footballers are coming home. #ENGARG #WorldCup

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  It's actually felt cool today so far. Perhaps it's just me being cool? I'm so cool I make the air around me cool. Carbon capture, hah, absolute bollocks, just plug me in and let me cool it all with my cool. Ingredients for cool: Tilley hat, varifocal glasses that dim, linen shirt, cycling shorts (baggy sort, not those skin tight ones that thrust your package at everyone) and hiking shoes with no socks. Little white dog and walking stick complete the look. Cool.

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  Oh la la... Olé

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  Good evening. Happy today that in the GP lottery of my local doctor's surgery, I got to see the one with the no nonsense, matter of fact, 'can do' attitude. Bedside manner is all well and good, but some of them are so non-committal and nice but NOTHING HAPPENS. This guy, listen, a few questions, examine, OK, I think it's your heart, not your lungs causing your short breath, I need an Echo to get closer, bosh, turns to computer, turns back, OK, next week OK for you? Done, anyth...

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  Good monring. Due to circumstances beyond my control, my day so far has gone higgledy-piggledy, and my routines-loving brain is completely mashed. It is making efforts to reboot, but every restart is currently bringing unexpected updates which cause more processor overloads. Thinking maybe I'll turn it off and then only turn it back on tomorrow morning.

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  Good morning. Was pleased to see the temperature was going to take some time to get to it's most debilitating today, so was able to wait until 8.30 instead of getting out by 7am for our walk this morning. Consequently, the morning has passed by rather quickly. J is on her way home today but wanted me to give her a shopping list for her to get groceries on the way. Although I had started a list, she was not convinced that we still only needed whisky and crisps replenished for the week ahead...

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  Good morning. Been out for a walk with the dog. Was feeling virtuous by being out and enjoying a cooler sun at 7am, but we saw a neighbour with his dog out this morning too, and he said they were coming to the end of their walk, having started at 5.30 a.m. Luckily he's not called Jones, so I don't have to keep up with him.