A final celebration, and then some quiet time

19th & 20th October

Yesterday turned out to be a final day in the celebration of my birthday. Pressure of family social events had prevented the Masons from coming across at the weekend, so they very kindly took Sheila and I out to lunch. With no shopping to do, we were happy to have a quiet morning; Sheila sawed some more wood whilst I had yet more fun time on the Mini.

It really is a very rewarding beast to work with. I’m getting to the point where it is doing most of what I want, with the exception of being able to edit the static web site without descending into direct editing of the HTML code.

After our third lunch in the Miners’ Arms in a week we had a quiet afternoon. The iBook is now going online via wifi and the Mini’s link to the net, so Sheila is able to return to her pastime of proof reading for Project Gutenberg. She also put in some time on the fat side fender she is making, which she finished this morning so that we have a replacement for the one lost overside just after the National.

We had an opportunity to chat to Austin and Liz Siviter of Just Siviting; they had come up for a week on the boat which is moored just a few pontoons down from us here at Poynton. Unfortunately, Austin has developed a chest infection overnight and they have had to retreat home to get him some antibiotics. Since the weather has deteriorated today as forecast, I suspect they are going to abandon their boating for the time being.

It has indeed been a day for staying inside and getting on with various jobs. In addition to finishing the fender, we took some photos of Sheila’s latest porthole doily designs. I used iPhoto on the Mini to create the replacement web pages, pushed the relevant folders from the Mini to the iBook via wifi and then ran Dreamweaver on the iBook to tidy up the appearance of the new pages and upload them to the website.

They include the design she has copied from Andrew Denny’s Granny Buttons;



All of the currently available designs can be seen here.

Apart from that, there’s not much more to report. I’ve found a physiotherapy practice in Marple, and I’ve made an appointment there for the middle of the day on Thursday. Hopefully the present autumn storm will moderate enough tomorrow to let us set off in that direction either then or first thing Thursday.