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Autumn colours at Standen House

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The joys of being in early at my volunteering role at Standen House. Visitors are unlikely to see these amazing views.

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@octopus.energy No change in the app here. No breakdown of the costs when I click on a day’s bar. I’m on Intelligent Octopus Go. Are you sure the update has been rolled out to everyone? Or maybe it’s only for Android users?

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@patrickrhone So true! Wonder if I have any?

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Hellebores in flower.

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Currently reading: Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚Slowly working my way through this book. I’ve reached the start of the fourth week of meditations. I allowed myself to be diverted to read Time Surfing that was mentioned in the meditation for day eleven. I’m enjoying it. Recommended.

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@odd A quick search using Perplexity.ai indicates that it is a record label. Also appears to be a Hebrew word for marriage, the name of a London fashion label, etc. I know it as the name of a road and care home in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

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@ayjay 🤣

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Starlings clearing the bird tables. They had left within a couple of minutes.

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@patrickrhone I’m still using an iPhone 11 Pro. I had the battery replaced rather than buy a new iPhone. Hope it gives me another couple of years use before Apple refuse to update it to the latest version of iOS.

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Are the days of upgrading a smartphone every year or two gone? Beginning to look like it?

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Test post from Drafts

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Afternoon sun making the garden glow.

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Afternoon sun and bumblebee on the mahonia.

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Autumn colour at Wakehurst Place, which is the country home of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and its Millennium Seed Bank. Had a walk around in pleasant company. 🙂

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Autumn colour at Wakehurst Place, which is the country home of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and its Millennium Seed Bank. Had a walk around in pleasant company. 🙂

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@robertbreen Sorry. I’ve found some more to read… 🫢

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Currently reading: Writers and Their Notebooks by Diana M. Raab 📚I’m drawn to yet another book about the use of notebooks. This is a collection of essays by writers on their use of notebooks.

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@pel looks like autumn’s arriving. Lovely picture.

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@hollie What? Work as a tax consultant? 🤣

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@odd Go on, have a go at qualifying for Civil Engineering School.

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@hollie Your post reminded me just how lucky I am to be able to arithmetic without too much difficulty. I often see numbers as patterns, which made it easy to spot anomalies in a businesses accounts when I worked as a tax consultant.

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@maique Nice picture. I like that the furniture and the cat are colour coordinated 😂

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@pratik The Reds won, but how did the Toffees do?

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@mroutley So far I’ve only read one chapter. Looks as though I’m going to do it a chapter a day. I’ve enjoyed the first chapter. I’ve found Oliver Burkeman to be saying many things that make sense to me, e.g. 4000 Weeks!

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At the end of chapter one in Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman the message I’m taking away is “Good enough is perfectly acceptable”. 😂

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@jean congratulations. I found your story quite moving. Keep on keeping on. 🙂

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@Annie I’m reading Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. He says on page five “… the truth is that even the most experienced and qualified people feel as though they’re winging it, much of the time …”.

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@hollie It’s fun playing on the radio, isn’t it? I haven’t used a radio for a while. Time to change that perhaps… 73 M0VPG.

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@jsonbecker I’ve been doing much the same for my whole life and wondering why I waited to do something that I thought would take half a day only to find I’d done it in half an hour. 🫤

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Currently reading: Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚Just arrived and I’m reading the prologue. Question I’m asking myself is: do I read it over a couple of days, or do as is suggested and take four weeks? I’ll find out tomorrow when I start reading chapter 1 and maybe chapter two, etc.

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@pratik 🤣

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@odd They were bright points on an otherwise gloomy walk around the gardens at Penshurst Place in Kent.

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@val Hope you feel better soon. Enjoy your break.

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@ericgregorich I found this book to be engrossing and it rekindled my use of a notebook. In Austin Kleon’s recent newsletter he mentioned that he was reading the book and came across a page from one of his diaries that he’d given the author permission to use, and forgotten about. I suggest you move it to the top of your to be read pile.🙂

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Penshurst Place colours

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@hollyhoneychurch Very atmospheric. Delightful.

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@adders I was looking for something to play with as its raining and I can’t play outside 🫤

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@viticci but not if you’re in the UK. Is it only available in the USA?

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@viticci The disappointment of my day is finding that Apple Intelligence isn’t available in the UK 😳 I was looking forward to using all those extra facilities - not really, but some of the things I was reading about earlier made it seem like a good idea to update the OS.

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Early morning in the garden

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Bother! I’d intended to take some photos of Standen House kitchen garden where I have spent the day weeding the beds. Meeting other volunteers and chatting drove the idea from my mind. Maybe next time…

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Finished reading: This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing by Jacqueline Winspear 📚If you’ve read her Maisie Dobbs books, you’ll see where some of the stories came from. An enjoyable and at times emotional read.

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Dahlia still in flower this late in October. Is this usual? It’s my first time growing dahlias and I have no idea what to expect. These were grown from seed: Bishop’s Children.

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Went out earlier to clear the leaves from the drive. I even did the neighbour’s drive too.

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A couple of hours later and there’s another fine layer of leaves on the drive. Ho-hum! Glad I have a leaf blower and can make leaf mould to use in the garden in a couple of years 😎

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Finished reading: Principles for Newsletters by Cj Chilvers 📚A short and interesting read. Lots to ponder. I’ll no doubt be returning to it for more ideas.

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Recovering from a day spent in the Kitchen Garden at Standen House and Gardens, a National Trust property, near East Grinstead, Sussex.

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Playing with my new iPad Air with the keyboard and pencil pro. After an initial set up hitch, and waiting for Notes to sync, I’m impressed with the set up. The typing experience is probably better than on the keyboard for the iPad Pro I have for work.

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Seems to me that the term Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an oxymoron. AI is definitely artificial, but is it intelligent?

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Currently reading: Principles for Newsletters by Cj Chilvers 📚got this this morning and I’m more than half-way through. Easy read and one that anyone writing or thinking of writing one might find a useful idea in. 😎

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