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It has finally happened 😊
The fibre internet has reached our semi-remote location here in Vale de Prazeres.
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During our Christmas break in Lisbon, we also visited the Pavilhão de Conhecimento (Pavillion of knowledge).
They have a dinosaur exhibition which is rather interesting.
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It has been a strange beginning to 2023. Following the relentless rain before Christmas, things have just settled into chilly Wintertime.
Janet and I did have a rather relaxing festive period with just ourselves for company.
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I recently made a trip over to Macclesfield, primarily to effect some repairs and tidy up the decoration in our house there.
With the exception of being able to see some family and friends, it was a very disappointing experience.
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We were treated to a small surprise this morning when a special tourist train passed by.
Not the normal electric passenger service but old style carriages and a powerful old diesel locomotive to pull it.
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Friday, the final day of our holiday 😕
But the flight was not until the afternoon so we had the morning to explore more of Paris and the weather continued nice and sunny.
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Today I have been going through some old folders of photographs on the server and reorganising the pictures for the album.
Here is a gem that I had forgotten about from 2019.
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The day of my birthday finally arrived, we had enjoyed a few days in Sedan but it was time to begin the return journey.
Up and about relatively early, breakfasted, bags packed, bill paid, and yet another walk to Sedan town. This time to the railway station.
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As part of my surprise birthday trip, we were based in Sedan, France for a few days.
After returning from the cemetery at Fleigneux we enjoyed a day out in the town itself.
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Janet bought a small fig tree sapling about 18 months ago and we planted it in the garden, as you would expect.
It was barely more than a twig with a couple of leaves and it withered a little before the first Winter, but it survived.
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Janet's marigolds are, like the nature of Monkey, irrepressible!
They just continue to flower week after week.
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Still waiting for the work on the house to commence but the garden continues to flourish.
We found some new blooms and fruits following the recent rains.
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I spent a long time deliberating over it, but we finally decided to change our internet provider.
Out with the MEO very "narrow band" and in with Gardunha Broadband for much more accessible broadband.
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After the success of last year's sunflowers, we had some self-seeded plants appear in the flower bed. Quite a number in fact!.
Earlier in the year Janet relocated some of the seedlings nearer to the back wall and removed a lot of others. Since then they have grown nicely.
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After struggling with Wordpress for some time I have been looking for a replacement CMS to present and manage our website. The Drupal and Joomla! packages that are included with the Synology Diskstation were difficult to fathom, and both are outdated. I took the decision to manually install the latest Joomla! version and found it much easier to comprehend than the older version. The basic template included was perfectly adequate to get going with and the design of Joomla! makes it very easy to modify the system and include features that are not present by default. 