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  40.    <p>Put four washes and four dries on in the end yesterday, the two hours of free energy won&#39;t have made much of an impact in that.</p>
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  42. <p>Have gone back to Come Dine With Me on <a href="/wiki/#tv">TV</a>, thinking it is something that could appeal to everyone. And it&#39;s good, a bit of fun, a bit of cooking, a bit of <a href="/wiki/#competition">competition</a>. Unfortunately the first one we watched is one from <a href="/wiki/#coronavirus">coronavirus</a> lockdown, so they&#39;re not using their own houses and they&#39;re all socially distanced. A bit weird. We watched one from <a href="/wiki/#london">London</a>, and it had a <a href="/wiki/#vegan">vegan</a> in it, and no-one comes across well. Then after some more Ted Lasso. It&#39;s a lot more like a kids programme than I would have thought, but it is heartwarming.</p>
  43. <p>Unsure about going in to <a href="/wiki/#work">work</a> tomorrow. Might do. I&#39;m <a href="/wiki/#work">working</a> really hard at home, starting early and finishing late, to try and make a dent in this new project, plus doing all the interesting little sidetrack bits along the way, improving our systems. Plus someone at <a href="/wiki/#work">work</a> is off sick with <a href="/wiki/#coronavirus">covid</a>, if that&#39;s going round the office again do I really need to be there?</p>
  44. <p><a href="/wiki/#david/lee/roth">David Lee Roth</a> in <a href="/wiki/#portsmouth">Portsmouth</a> THIRTY years ago today...</p>
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  51.  <div><p>Paul Clarke's blog - I live in Hythe in the far South. Wed to Clare + dad to two, I am a full-stack web developr, + I do js / Node, some ruby, python, php ect ect. I like pubbing, parkrun, eating, home automation + other diy jiggery-pokery, history, tree stuff, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, and TIME TRAVEL.</p></div><div><p>🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#octopus">octopus</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#london">london</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#portsmouth">portsmouth</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#coronavirus">coronavirus</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#tv">tv</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#competition">competition</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#vegan">vegan</a> </p></div><p>Yep, <a href="/2023/10/22/thinking-of-shaking-this-site-up-a-bit/">deliberately unstyled</a>.</p>
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  83.    <p>Our traveller is back from <a href="/wiki/#ireland">Ireland</a>, we are very pleased. Though now I suppose we won&#39;t be watching a <a href="/wiki/#marvel">Marvel</a> <a href="/wiki/#film">film</a> every evening. She had a great time, and so did her dad, that was the point of the trip.</p>
  84. <p>Glorious weekend here, I probably already said we took our lunch down to <a href="/wiki/#beach">the beach</a> on Sunday. Was very busy down there, seems like it must be mostly people from out of town. Back to rain again today, just a bit, but enough to make sure the weeds grow back again. I&#39;ve put in an hour here and and hour there to try and keep them at bay, but a bit of the right <a href="/wiki/#weather">weather</a> like this and they&#39;ll take over again.</p>
  85. <p><a href="/wiki/#work">Work</a> very busy, supposedly this project going live in three weeks. I have nearly everything I need now, but one key part missing. I&#39;ve come up with a suggestion for how we can go live without it, but it&#39;s considered important enough to not go live without. So I might get a bit of breathing space.</p>
  86. <p><a href="https://share.octopus.energy/cute-elm-487">A couple of hours of free energy today</a><sup><a href="#foot" title="Join Octopus Energy here and we both earn money.">1</a></sup>, which will come in handy. While Clare was away I cleared all the washing and ironing (and we usually have ironing hanging around for months on end, because of not needing the thing and not really having anywhere to keep it). She&#39;s brought back a caseload, so it&#39;s on an economy wash now, ready to go into the dryer when the free energy hours arrive at midday.</p>
  87. <p>New <a href="/wiki/#home/automation">home automation</a> has not kicked in, I&#39;m supposed to get an alert when the washing machine starts up, and then another when it finishes, with how much energy it used and what it cost. My plan to automate the new <a href="/wiki/#blinds">blinds</a> in the bedroom did not immediately get shouted down! So I&#39;ll probably do that this weekend.</p>
  88. <p>Both boys have exams this week. T1 is doing a GCSE on Thursday, just one early this year, he&#39;s quite relaxed about that. T2 has SATs which he&#39;s also very chilled about. He&#39;s already into the grammar <a href="/wiki/#school">school</a>, this doesn&#39;t count for much for him, it&#39;s more for <a href="/wiki/#school">the school</a>. <a href="/wiki/#school">School</a> have laid on a free breakfast club for them, so he&#39;s gone in an hour early, so I have more free time before <a href="/wiki/#work">work</a>. Time enough to do a bit more <a href="/wiki/#work">work</a>.</p>
  89. <p>I might go into <a href="/wiki/#london">London</a> this Thursday now. Wasn&#39;t going to, but it <a href="/wiki/#work">works</a> out with Clare being off that day. It&#39;s expensive but it breaks the week up.</p>
  90. <p><em>Light rain and a gentle breeze, 11 - 15℃.</em></p>
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  96.  <div><p>Paul Clarke's blog - I live in Hythe in the deep South. Married to Clare + father to 2, I am a full-stack web engineer, and I do javascript / nodejs, some ruby, python, php ect ect. I like pubbing, running, eating, home automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, + TIME TRAVEL.</p></div><div><p>🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#comics">comics</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#tv">tv</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#work">work</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#octopus">octopus</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#ireland">ireland</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#marvel">marvel</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#school">school</a> </p></div><p>Yep, <a href="/2023/10/22/thinking-of-shaking-this-site-up-a-bit/">deliberately unstyled</a>.</p>
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  128.    <p>The slightly messed up <a href="/wiki/#sweepstake">sweepstake</a> worked out alright, some of the teams must just have been knocked out already. We got six teams each, as Mum and Dad joined in remotely:</p>
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  131. <li><a href="/wiki/#belgium">Belgium</a></li>
  132. <li><a href="/wiki/#greece">Greece</a></li>
  133. <li><a href="/wiki/#ireland">Ireland</a></li>
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  135. <li><a href="/wiki/#portugal">Portugal</a></li>
  136. <li><a href="/wiki/#ukraine">Ukraine</a></li>
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  140. <li><a href="/wiki/#albania">Albania</a></li>
  141. <li><a href="/wiki/#croatia">Croatia</a></li>
  142. <li>Cyprus</li>
  143. <li><a href="/wiki/#iceland">Iceland</a></li>
  144. <li>Latvia</li>
  145. <li>Sweden</li>
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  148. <li>T1<ul>
  149. <li>Armenia</li>
  150. <li>Georgia</li>
  151. <li><a href="/wiki/#germany">Germany</a></li>
  152. <li><a href="/wiki/#italy">Italy</a></li>
  153. <li>Poland</li>
  154. <li><a href="/wiki/#spain">Spain</a></li>
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  156. </li>
  157. <li>T2<ul>
  158. <li><a href="/wiki/#australia">Australia</a></li>
  159. <li><a href="/wiki/#denmark">Denmark</a></li>
  160. <li>Israel</li>
  161. <li>Lithuania</li>
  162. <li>San Marino</li>
  163. <li>Slovenia</li>
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  165. </li>
  166. <li>Clare<ul>
  167. <li>Azerbaijan</li>
  168. <li>Finland</li>
  169. <li><a href="/wiki/#france">France</a></li>
  170. <li><a href="/wiki/#malta">Malta</a></li>
  171. <li>Serbia</li>
  172. <li>UK</li>
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  175. <li>Me<ul>
  176. <li><a href="/wiki/#austria">Austria</a></li>
  177. <li><a href="/wiki/#czechia">Czechia</a></li>
  178. <li>Estonia</li>
  179. <li><a href="/wiki/#luxembourg">Luxembourg</a></li>
  180. <li>Norway</li>
  181. <li><a href="/wiki/#switzerland">Switzerland</a></li>
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  185. <p>Looked to me that Mum and Dad had this in the bag, I didn&#39;t realise <a href="/wiki/#switzerland">Switzerland</a> were one of the favourites. We favoured <a href="/wiki/#croatia">Croatia</a> really, but I was pleased to take the pot when <a href="/wiki/#switzerland">Switzerland</a> won. The boys stayed up for it all and really enjoyed it. Clare was partying with lots of relatives in <a href="/wiki/#dublin">Dublin</a> and so missed out.</p>
  186. <p>Another gorgeous day today, very hot. Everyone&#39;s on <a href="/wiki/#beach">the beach</a> round here, and we took our lunch down there too.</p>
  187. <p>I&#39;ve done quite a lot of jobs today, got all the washing and ironing cleared. One last lot hanging out on the balcony in the hot sun now. Simple pleasures being able to dry clothes outside. I&#39;ve just automated the washer and dryer a bit, they have individual energy monitors on them now, which I can used to monitor when they&#39;re being used. With a <a href="/wiki/#home/assistant">home assistant</a> script it will now send me a ping on my phone when the wash is finished. The dryer already did this on its own but now I can see how much each load is costing...</p>
  188. <p>Got pies for dinner tonight, and I just picked up a load of free veg from <a href="/wiki/#tesco">Tesco</a>. The last hour of trading each day is the time for the &quot;colleague shop&quot;, I can get yellow stickered items reduced down to 0p. Today I got spinach and beans and <a href="/wiki/#mushrooms">mushrooms</a> to have with our pies, plus a ready meal (use by today but I&#39;ll risk it for lunch tomorrow) and some empanadas as a snack. There was plenty there today, including <a href="/wiki/#pizza">pizza</a>, but I only took what I can make use of.</p>
  189. <p>Going to finish Thor: Ragnarok on <a href="/wiki/#tv">TV</a> today and then probably watch Race Across The World. We were waiting for Clare, but she has watched it while she is away.</p>
  190. <p><em>Sunny and a gentle breeze, 10 - 21℃.</em></p>
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  193.  <div><p>Paul Clarke's blog - I live in Hythe in Kent. Married to Clare + dad to two, I am a full-stack web developr, and I do js / nodejs, some ruby, other languages ect ect. I like pubs, parkrun, eating, home-automation and other diy stuff, history, family tree stuff, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, + TIME TRAVEL.</p></div><div><p>🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#home/automation">home automation</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#eurovision">eurovision</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#belgium">belgium</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#greece">greece</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#ireland">ireland</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#portugal">portugal</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#ukraine">ukraine</a> </p></div><p>Yep, <a href="/2023/10/22/thinking-of-shaking-this-site-up-a-bit/">deliberately unstyled</a>.</p>
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  231.    <time datetime="2024-05-11T19:25:05.000Z">Sat May 11</time>
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  233. <p><em>Based on your current usage, and a combination of your current and forecast future prices, we recommend a reduction of your monthly payments to £114.20.</em></p>
  234. <p><em>Part of this reduction is because you have more credit on your account than we think you’ll realistically need – we’ve lowered your recommended payments by an extra £20.07 to gradually reduce your credit balance over time.</em></p>
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  236. <p>This is probably partly because of my great energy saving and clever use of free energy, but hopefully because prices are coming down too.</p>
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  264.    <p>Everyone saw the Aurora Borealis last night, everyone I know everwhere saw it. But round here? Nothing. They were all sharing pictures they were taking, all the lovely colours, and even people locally were seeing it apparently. But here, nothing.</p>
  265. <p><em>A clear sky and a moderate breeze, 11 - 21℃.</em></p>
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  299.    <p>View from <a href="/wiki/#folkestone">Folkestone</a> <a href="/wiki/#harbour/arm">Harbour Arm</a> looking West.</p>
  300. <p><a href="/img/2024/05/_2024-05-11-everyone-on-the-beach-today-PXL_20240511_143854518.jpeg"><img width="480px" height="270px" alt="View from Folkestone Harbour Arm" src="/img/2024/05/_bw-2024-05-11-everyone-on-the-beach-today-PXL_20240511_143854518.jpeg" style="max-width: 100%" /></a></p>
  301. <p><em>A clear sky and a moderate breeze, 11 - 20℃.</em></p>
  302.    <h5>⬅️ <a rel="prev" href="/2024/05/11/new-bar-on-folkestone-harbour-arm/">New bar on Folkestone Harbour Arm</a> :: <a rel="next" href="/2024/05/11/aurora-buggerallis/">Aurora Buggerallis</a> ➡️</h5>
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  334.    <time datetime="2024-05-11T17:16:07.000Z">Sat May 11</time>
  335.    <p>There&#39;s a new bar opened yesterday, called The Board Room. It&#39;s an Iron Pier tap room, and it&#39;s very good. No <a href="/wiki/#real/ale">real ale</a> yet but that is coming. Spoke to the owner who said 80% of their <a href="/wiki/#beer">beer</a> is <a href="/wiki/#real/ale">cask ale</a>, but they only had the keg versions in this bar for the opening. The soft launch was yesterday, and it&#39;s about half open. We went for a look today as we could see a sign saying &quot;Shuffleboard and <a href="/wiki/#darts">darts</a>&quot;, that&#39;s the bit that&#39;s not ready yet. It&#39;s in some shipping containers at the end of the car park of <a href="/wiki/#harbour/arm">the Harbour Arm</a>, so it&#39;s got panoramic sea view.</p>
  336. <p>This is the view from the bar, of the outside seating area, rather than a picture of the bar.</p>
  337. <p><a href="/img/2024/05/_2024-05-11-new-bar-on-folkestone-harbour-arm-PXL_20240511_140535907.jpeg"><img width="480px" height="361px" alt="View from The Board Room bar in Folkestone" src="/img/2024/05/_bw-2024-05-11-new-bar-on-folkestone-harbour-arm-PXL_20240511_140535907.jpeg" style="max-width: 100%" /></a></p>
  338. <p>A lovely day all told. We had lunch at home, then I dragged the boys to <a href="/wiki/#folkestone">Folkestone</a>, but as a compromise I parked at <a href="/wiki/#harbour/arm">the harbour arm</a> car park, instead of walking right down through town. This is how we spotted the new bar. The arm itself was good today, a band called Hullabaloo playing, and with <a href="/wiki/#weather">the weather</a> being absolutely fantastic it was heaving there. Took us ages to find a parking space, and the traffic was backed up a bit just getting in to that bit of town.</p>
  339. <p>I bought a few snacks and treats while we were there, and now we&#39;re home again. A little sit on the balcony in the sun, an hour of <a href="/wiki/#game">gaming</a> time, then pizzas for tea and then <a href="/wiki/#eurovision">Eurovision</a>. I have <a href="/wiki/#czechia">Czechia</a>, Norway, <a href="/wiki/#luxembourg">Luxembourg</a>, Estonia, <a href="/wiki/#austria">Austria</a>, and Sweden in <a href="/wiki/#sweepstake">the sweepstake</a>. There are six of us in, we seem to have too many countries, I think I might have messed it up. This is <a href="/wiki/#sweepstake">the sweepstake</a> kit I got from <a href="/wiki/#metro">Metro</a> newspaper though. I think my money is lost.</p>
  340. <p><em>A clear sky and a moderate breeze, 11 - 20℃.</em></p>
  341. <p><a href="/img/2024/05/_2024-05-11-new-bar-on-folkestone-harbour-arm-Screenshot-2024-05-11-at-18.30.36.png"><img width="480px" height="310px" alt="Eurovision sweepstake from the Metro" src="/img/2024/05/_bw-2024-05-11-new-bar-on-folkestone-harbour-arm-Screenshot-2024-05-11-at-18.30.36.png" style="max-width: 100%" /></a></p>
  342.    <h5>⬅️ <a rel="prev" href="/2024/05/11/run-stats/">Health stats 11/5/24</a> :: <a rel="next" href="/2024/05/11/everyone-on-the-beach-today/">Everyone on the beach today</a> ➡️</h5>
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  381.    <time datetime="2024-05-10T12:32:02.000Z">Fri May 10</time>
  382.    <p>The &quot;stations&quot; came back, and my <a href="/wiki/#nas">NAS</a> briefly appeared earlier. I could see the whole indexed collection, and go into artists, albums, genres etc, but there was no option to play or shuffle everything in a folder. This is basically the only thing I use, I don&#39;t want to build up a playlist on the go of individual tracks. So hope that comes back soon.</p>
  383. <p><a href="/img/2024/05/_2024-05-10-sonos-app-update-fixed-some-things-signal-2024-05-10-133744_002.png"><img width="480px" height="1067px" alt="Sonos screenshot, partly working" src="/img/2024/05/_bw-2024-05-10-sonos-app-update-fixed-some-things-signal-2024-05-10-133744_002.png" style="max-width: 100%" /></a></p>
  384. <p><a href="/wiki/#nas">The NAS</a> actually disappeared again, so I&#39;m stuck with <a href="/wiki/#sonos">Sonos</a> stations (like <a href="/wiki/#sonos">Sonos</a> radio) at the moment. It&#39;s played Parklife three times so far today, it doesn&#39;t have a big playlist.</p>
  385. <p><em>Sunny and a gentle breeze, 9 - 18℃.</em></p>
  386.    <h5>⬅️ <a rel="prev" href="/2024/05/10/sonos-app-update-broke-everything/">Sonos app update broke everything</a> :: <a rel="next" href="/2024/05/11/run-stats/">Health stats 11/5/24</a> ➡️</h5>
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  388.  <div><p>Paul Clarke's weblog - I live in Hythe near Folkestone. Wed  + dad to two, I am a full stack web developr, + I do js / Node, some ruby, other languages etc. I like pubbing, parkrun, eating, home-automation + other diy stuff, history, genealogy, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, + TIME TRAVEL.</p></div><div><p>🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#sonos">sonos</a> 🏷 <a rel="tag" href="/wiki/#nas">nas</a> </p></div><p>Yep, <a href="/2023/10/22/thinking-of-shaking-this-site-up-a-bit/">deliberately unstyled</a>.</p>
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  418.    <time datetime="2024-05-10T12:27:18.000Z">Fri May 10</time>
  419.    <p>There was an update to <a href="/wiki/#sonos">the Sonos</a> app. And it broke everything! Here&#39;s how my app looks when I try and play something from my <a href="/wiki/#nas">NAS</a>:</p>
  420. <p><a href="/img/2024/05/_2024-05-10-sonos-app-update-broke-everything-signal-2024-05-09-115150_002.png"><img width="480px" height="1067px" alt="Sonos screenshot, everything broken" src="/img/2024/05/_bw-2024-05-10-sonos-app-update-broke-everything-signal-2024-05-09-115150_002.png" style="max-width: 100%" /></a></p>
  421. <p>I&#39;m sure it&#39;ll be fixed soon, but I can&#39;t play any music on it. All the channels went (<a href="/wiki/#sonos">Sonos</a> radio) and while I didn&#39;t have any other apps (<a href="/wiki/#spotify">spotify</a> etc) that section looks missing too...</p>
  422. <p>Luckily <a href="/wiki/#tv">the TV</a> still works, that plays through <a href="/wiki/#sonos">the sonos</a> speakers too.</p>
  423. <p><em>Sunny and a gentle breeze, 9 - 18℃.</em></p>
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  457.    <time datetime="2024-05-10T06:27:13.000Z">Fri May 10</time>
  458.    <p>Another hectic week. We have managed ok with Clare still being away though. She thinks we&#39;re going to eat <a href="/wiki/#takeaway">takeaways</a> and junk every day while she&#39;s in <a href="/wiki/#ireland">Ireland</a>, and it&#39;s a fair shout. Sunday they had quiche and salad. Monday after <a href="/wiki/#cinema">the cinema</a> I got the boys a <a href="/wiki/#takeaway">takeaway</a>, but then I came back and had a mini <a href="/wiki/#curry">curry</a>, just a portion of <a href="/2024/05/06/i-slow-cooked-a-curry-in-the-ninja-overnight.../">the one I&#39;d made in the Ninja</a>. Our meal plans are all out of whack this week, partly because of the bank <a href="/wiki/#holiday">holiday</a> too - Monday should be <a href="/wiki/#arrabiata">penne arrabiata</a> day! Tuesday we had the full <a href="/wiki/#curry">curry</a> with all the accompaniments. I did have to go down to the petrol station to try and get naan, as I realised too late we didn&#39;t have any. No naan, but I did find poppadums, so we&#39;re good to go. Wednesday I did them chicken wraps with rice and salad, and I had the same but some of the free vegeburgers I got a couple of weeks ago. Last night we had <a href="/wiki/#chilli">chilli</a>, a really good one that Clare had made before she went. Usually I make and it&#39;s not as good as this, what was the mysterious different ingredient? At last it&#39;s Friday, so Friday tea, so something in the oven like I always used to have. Still a few more days to survive after that.</p>
  459. <p>The boys have gone to <a href="/wiki/#school">school</a> every day, dressed and everything. Today T2 needs to take a t-shirt in to decorate, they&#39;re all going to wear these t-shirts when they do their SATs next week. He&#39;s quite calm about it, not bothered at all. He had the last of the extra SATs practice after <a href="/wiki/#school">school</a> yesterday. He&#39;s going to smash it, but it doesn&#39;t really gain him anything, he&#39;s already in to the grammar <a href="/wiki/#school">school</a>.</p>
  460. <p>Work has been crazy busy, I&#39;m on a new project with an unfeasibly short deadline. None of the things were in place in advance so I&#39;m winging it a bit, but I think I&#39;m doing ok. Work must think I&#39;m doing ok as I just got my bonus announced yesterday, and it is enough to pay for <a href="/wiki/#holiday">the holiday</a>. Which is good as the money was basically already spent. Will get it in the pay packet two weeks from today and then probably have to pay the balance with the travel agent the following day. Easy come, easy go. I get a pay rise too but it&#39;s only inflationary I think. </p>
  461. <p><a href="https://share.octopus.energy/cute-elm-487">Had some free energy yesterday</a><sup><a href="#foot" title="Join Octopus Energy here and we both earn money.">1</a></sup>, managed to fit in washing, drying, mowing the lawn, ironing, and made some food in <a href="/wiki/#ninja">the Ninja</a>, all in a lunch time.</p>
  462. <p>Got some more <a href="/wiki/#home/automation">home automation</a> bits to fit this weekend. Dare I automate <a href="/wiki/#blinds">the blinds</a> in our room? Don&#39;t think Clare will like it, but she&#39;s not hear. And I have a couple of power monitoring plus which I&#39;ve lined up for the washing machine and dryer, can use it it monitor them remotely. When they were turned on, for how long, how long each one is costing.</p>
  463. <p>Suddenly spotted in the week that a twingeing pain in my hip had completely vanished. It had been hanging around for a couple of weeks, like something was twisted. Maybe I was too busy to notice it? </p>
  464. <p><em>Sunny and a gentle breeze, 9 - 18℃.</em></p>
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