Diary blip (Tuesday 10th September 2024)

Last Thursday morning I was in my study giving first play to a new remastered version of the Grateful Dead's From The Mars Hotel album, when there was a loud click and all the power went off. It turned out that a leaky gutter had led to water getting into the porch and via the cables into the fuse box, which became flooded. This left me without landline, lighting, computers, CD players, TV, mains radio, kettles, microwaves, air frier or ovens, shower, hot water or any way of recharging anything that needs a battery (such as my portable DAB radio, laptop, LED torch, smartphone or iPad), so a lot of careful rationing.

A temporary fix to stop the water getting in happened the following day but it wasn't safe to attend to the RCD until after the weekend so that it could dry out, and so power wasn't restored until lunchtime on Monday, leaving me with a lot of catching up to do.

I had been reading and writing during the day but the building became too dark for that by teatime and so I have been out every evening, mostly with C. and Loki in Trowbridge. With luck I'll have two backblips of Loki to post when I've worked through the images I took there, and some canal pictures from Caen Hill - watch this space.

L.
Tuesday 10.9.2024 (1455 hr)

Blip #4150 (#3900 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #004
Blips/Extras In 2024 #134/266 + #054/100 Extras
Day #5282 (1326 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3289 (#3129 + 160 in archived blips)


Taken with Pentax K-50 (Red) and Sigma AF 17-70mm F2.8-4 DC Macro HSM lens

Old Forge series
Diary Blip series

Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Grateful Dead - China Doll (2024 Remaster) (recorded 13 March - 19 April 1974, San Francisco CA)
Playing on the CD player when I was so rudely interrupted.


One year ago:
Loki, God of Mischief