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It rained all day today on our holiday
Yesterday was a scorcher, except when we were under the jungle canopy, but today it’s rained all day. So when the bride and groom turned up for a photo shoot on the beach, they must have wished they had wed a day earlier.
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Saturday in Bushy Park
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Greatness is within Trump’s reach
This article isn’t about what you think!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/greatness-is-within-trumps-reach/2017/09/29/25e22348-a53a-11e7-ade1-76d061d56efa_story.html -
In the kitchen
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Horses & bikes but no planes on Epsom Downs
Exercising a young horse
The model aircraft rules
I love this bend on a hill
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Tinkering with line height
I’m very fond of tinkering with the format and layout of my blog! My previous post is somewhat rambling and I wasn’t too happy with the line spacing – it just seemed too spaced out. The solution was straightforward. Simply wrap the text of the post in the following:<div style="line-height: 130%;"> blah blah blah........ blah blah blah........ blah blah blah........ </div>
For comparison, see below for how the line spacing of the main paragraph would look if it was given the same treatment.
I’m very fond of tinkering with my blog. My previous post is somewhat rambling and I wasn’t too happy with the line spacing – it just seemed too spaced out. The solution was straightforward. Simply wrap the text of the post in the following:
For blogs which use a different font and font size, the 130% may need to be revised. Interestingly, when I look behind the scenes, the original text has a line height of 1.75em whilst the formatted text has a line height of 130%. Now “em” is a typographic unit of measurement that is harder to understand than Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, so I’m happy to stick with using a percentage to alter line height.
[As an aside, I had to tinker with the height of the robot image in order to make it a square image (don’t ask) so this post is about height in more than one way.]
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I’m feeling better this morning
I’m feeling better this morning!
Firstly, my cold, which is in its fourth day, is on the turn.
Secondly, I’ve managed to fully charge my laptop! I’ve been struggling to charge it because of wonky connections and I’d become resigned to replacing the machine. But last night I found the old unreliable power cable and it works better than the new unreliable power cable. This means the pressure is off to find a replacement laptop. Yippee!
So why do I need to replace the laptop if it’s just the power cable that’s faulty? Well it’s because it appears to be more a case of the cable becoming unreliable because of all the wiggling required to make it work in a wonky power connector inside the laptop. I’ve youtubed (made up verb) how to fix a wonky power connector and it’s beyond my skills and I don’t suppose I could get it fixed externally for less than £150 (including another new cable). So I’m resigned to having to replace my trusty 2011, Samsung laptop, although this morning’s success with the old cable eases the pressure.
I’ve started to look at new laptops, and it’s so hard! In the old days you would pop into a store and choose from a limited range. Now, online, there’s hundreds, with multiple options and configurations. I thought I’d identified a suitable Dell laptop, but the curse of the Internet throws up lousy reviews regarding the quality of the screen. It’s a nightmare making decisions in the 21st century, particularly having been brought up in an era when there wasn’t much choice.
On the subject of past eras, I’ve just started reading Alan Johnson’s third memoir, The Long and Winding Road.
Having a cold allowed me to zip through All the Old Knives, by Olen Steinhauer. I’m not really into spy novels but this is a terrific read. Most of the story takes place around a meal, where two former lovers vie to discover / hide the truth. It’s a tense, well written, highly enjoyable read.
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The Bargate, Southampton
The Bargate is a Grade I listed medieval gatehouse in the city centre of Southampton, England. Constructed in Norman times as part of the Southampton town walls, it was the main gateway to the city. The building is a scheduled monument, which has served as a temporary exhibition and event space for Southampton Solent University since 2012. [Wikipedia]The big wheel (circa 2017), which wrecks the view of the Bargate (circa 1180), will disappear at the end of October.
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Hythe Ferry
The Hythe Ferry runs from Southampton, across Southampton Water, to the small village of Hythe. The future of the ferry, which was under threat, has recently been secured. Although Hythe village is not particularly interesting, it’s worth doing the return trip, not only because a boat trip is always interesting, but also because at Hythe the ferry docks at the end of a 640 metre pier dating from 1870, and where you can catch the most rickety of trains, dating from the 1920s, to take you to the village. All the images taken on my trip today can be clicked for larger pictures.
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Saturday’s interactions
I accepted a religious pamphlet from a street missionary and put it in the first available bin. Maybe I should have returned it to the missionary further down the street who tried to give me another one.- The ATM outside a bank shortchanged me by £20. I only spotted this because the machine was taking ages to print the receipt and was also still attempting to eject one of the notes . This wouldn’t have happened if I had been prepared to queue at the machines inside the bank. (Queue? See later!)
- The man in the small newsagents refused my i newspaper subscription voucher – it takes too long to get payment back, he said.
- On only my second visit to Wilco I abandoned my budget notebook on seeing the 10-deep checkout queues. There should be a bin near the checkouts so that customers unprepared to wait in the queue can abandon their goods rather than leaving them on a random shelf, as I did.
- At home, my bank’s Internet banking site has an option to report problems with ATM transactions, which was helpful and suggests it’s a fairly common event.
- A very fine evening interacting with old friends on our first visit to the excellent Mute Swan pub in Hampton Court. Good food, lots of space between tables, and for a Saturday night not too noisy. I shouldn’t have finished with a strong, black coffee, but that’s another story.
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