Tossal del Moro – 2 April 2018
Wednesday 1 April
We woke to find a group of council workmen spraying the
road, walls and even car tyres. This is
the first time we have seen any such precautions. Apparently they have been doing it regularly
in Parcent for some time, but of course neither of us has been in the village
since lockdown. Reassuring to know that
we have not been forgotten.
I think it is a good idea to have a photo at the start of
each blog, it adds a little colour to the page. But suitable photos of lockdown are not easy
to find. I started using photographs of
Jan and I, but that seems a little vain.
I then tried to take a photo each day.
But as it was raining most days, and as we can’t leave the house, that
was also very limited. So I decided to
try to use a photo from one of our previous walks on the same day, but in
previous years. The first one is shown
above.
Most of the day was spent reading email replies to the
video I sent out yesterday. It was
really nice to hear from so many of our walking friends. All were in favour of making a video each
week, and all remarked how much they enjoy watching it. Many had not only watched it more than once,
but also forwarded it to their friends.
I was also pleased to have some suggestions for “walking titles” to
future videos.
Jan’s task for today was to make yet another cake. This is the third she has made since
lockdown. We only have one small slice
each a day, so each one lasts quite a few days. But it is nice to have a little treat each
day. The house was filled with the
smell of baking. Unfortunately the cake
will not be ready until tomorrow
Thursday 2 April
Another wet and miserable morning.
This meant that we had to do our exercise indoors. Running up and down the stairs is not a lot
of fun, but needs must.
My task today was to answer the many emails I received in
response to the lockdown walking video.
This is a very pleasant task, and we both enjoy reading the comments and
updates from our walking friends.
My second task was to try to sort out my desktop
computer. The language on the browser
(Google search) screen has changed from English to Spanish. As far as I am aware I did not do anything
to make this happen, though I suppose I must have hit the wrong key by
accident. The result is that when I
search for anything I get the options in Spanish
I spent a lot of the day trying to Google the
answer. I found plenty of suggestions,
but when I tried them I always found that the language was already
English. At times like this I would not
be without my computer, but it can be really annoying when this sort of thing
happens. You know it must be something
simple, but finding what that “something” is can be impossible.
Despite the many hours looking at YouTube solutions and
visiting Google forums my browser is still in Spanish.
A small enough problem in the scheme of things, but
pretty annoying for all of that.
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