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 Nicky has been feeling under the weather during this week. By the end of Monday she had a sore throat and has generally been feeling tired. She is still aching, though that might be arthritis, then on Saturday she vomited unexpectedly so had a quiet day at home. In-between she has been up to her usual activities.


Steve and Ros called in again on Monday morning before leaving Whanganui, just as I was leaving for work. Steve returned on Thursday, took us out for dinner at Thai Express, as recommended by Pat and Clem, and stayed the night. We enjoyed the food at Thai Express and found its very informal atmosphere interesting.


Jannine, the lady who harvests our flax every so often, called in on Friday to cut some more leaves. She does a very good job of shaping the flax, and we discovered that the kete she presented us with on her last visit is made with flax from our plant:



Sailing was cancelled for me on Friday because of the wind, but the rest of the week has been a full schedule with good passenger numbers. The river was looking at its best this week on Wednesday:



The weather has generally been good, and Tuesday morning was a lovely crisp autumn day with clear skies, sunshine and cool air, as I did the shopping. We had some heavy showers on Friday which made drying the laundry very peripatetic. I am starting to notice the lessening of daylight hours as we move further into autumn. Though the weather generally this month, has been better than we had in February.


I was very pleased when The Listener magazine arrived this week as finally one of my letters has been published. There has been some on-going discussion in the TalkBack section (feedback on TV and Radio programmes) about the paucity of FreeView recorders now on the market. This appears to be due to the range of programmes that the various TV channels now offer for streaming over the internet. I commented that this is all very well, but the streamed versions don’t have the subtitles that the transmitted versions of the same programmes provide. This is problematic with so may of today’s actors having such poor diction. That’s the Grumpy Old Man’s perception anyway.


Take care, Rick and Nicky.

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StellaMM said…
I find there is great variability in audio reproduction in varying TV offerings, some series great, others - not so. But the same also goes for regular free to air TV programmes.
Sweet peas in yet? my first lot are.
March 24, 2023 at 7:39 PM
Peter C said…
The big benefit of hard disc recordings is that you can easily skip through the adverts on play back. We still have 2 freeview recorders, one relatively ancient unit retained because it also has a VHS player (very old technology but we still have tapes!)
March 27, 2023 at 10:17 PM
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