Market in Barcelona (Wikipedia)
- To all the amateur doctors, nurses, homeopaths, fortune tellers and witch doctors out there in the blogosphere, I am happy to inform you that I purchased a COVID testing kit today and the result was negative. I do not have COVID! However, I thank you for your concern.
- On Tuesday, I walked down Ecclesall Road to the roundabout (American: traffic circle) at Hunter's Bar and had an idea for a children's story. I even thought of a title for it. I put that title into ChatGPT along with one or two other instructions and "Shazam!" - within ninety seconds a version of the story was produced and do you know what - it was pretty good!
- On this day fifteen years ago, I blogged about a worldwide photo-sharing site called "Panoramio". It was overseen by Google but sadly it was unilaterally "pulled" by them back in 2016. Suddenly all of one's photos, labels and meticulous geo-locating work disappeared. My most visited picture was this one taken near Essaouira in Morocco:-
Allegedly, Jimi Hendrix visited this location back in the late sixties and I believe that explains the number of "hits" this image attracted.
- On Ian's birthday, we went for brunch at the nearby "Dysh" cafe and who should come in with her children but Sheffield's most famous daughter - Jessica Ennis-Hill. She was an Olympic gold medal winning athlete and world champion in the heptathlon. She had just got back from Paris where she had been working as a BBC TV pundit. Surprisingly, she did not ask for my autograph.
- My mother Doreen died in 2007 after spending two years in a residential home. Long before that she had an irritating habit of buying me shirts she had spotted in sales. Three of those shirts are still hanging up in my wardrobe and I still occasionally wear them. I guess they were bought in the late nineties so that makes each of them over 25 years old. In my opinion and in the name of this over-exploited planet, we should all try to make our clothes last as long as possible.
- This afternoon, I read three new books to our darling Phoebe: "Topsy and Tim Learn to Swim", "The Dancing Bug Badge" (Hey Duggee series) and "Bluey - Baby Race", By the way, Bluey is the best thing to come out of Australia since Kylie Minogue but the cartoons are much more entertaining than the associated books which can be quite tiresome and difficult to read with enthusiasm.
- As I write this, Phoebe is out swimming with her grandma and I have got my famous bolognese sauce bubbling on the hob, ready for the evening meal. As usual on a Thursday evening, Frances, Stewart and Baby Margot will be over to join us. I think it's nice that they get one midweek evening when they do not need to think about cooking. They are both working pretty hard - mostly on computers.
- Britain recently experienced several mini-riots by right wingers and mindless thugs and racist idiots following the fatal stabbing of three little girls in Southport. The authorities have come down very swiftly and harshly on those involved. I approve of that approach but I wish that the law would deal just as swiftly and harshly with tax evaders, fraudsters and other white collar criminals. Their cases seem to drag on for years.
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