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I wrote some questions for October...
(which you can still answer if you like)
...but the better person to set these is Christina, who's back for November.
Walk on a slack line; knitting; parachuting; doing henna tattoos; don't have a fifth one
I'm currently reading The Painswick Line by Henry Cecil. It's 1950s humour about various legal things and a vicar who can predict horse races. I bought it in a second hand book stall. I don't think that ISBNs were a thing when it was published.
When I was a kid, I liked ice cream. I remember getting them on the beach: a little block of it that you held between two wafers. Making a mess was inevitable. I also liked Rum and Raisin and Raspberry Ripple, neither of which have I seen for years. Nowadays, I don't much like ice cream, but I pine a little for the old enjoyment.
I don't think that people are receptive to advice. You have to learn things for yourself. And there's a fine line between a platitudinous truism and something meaningful. Anything I suggest might well be on the wrong side of that line.
I have no deeds to do an no promises to keep. I spend the morning in bed with my laptop writing software. In the afternoon, the Grand Prix is on TV. Then I spend the evening with my family. We sit around the dinner table for ages after the meal, just having a chat.
I wondered where Christina was. And the bloke who wrote about his house (Turpis Domum? Something like that). But I always assume that people just have other things that are taking up their time.
No idea. If I ever need to do that sort of thing, I search.
I can use vi - I'm answering these questions with it now. I assume it's really vim, but I never learned any of the 'm' parts. I tried the emacs tutorial once, and half an hour in I was still learning how to move around a file, so I gave up. I recently learned to use ed. But mostly I use GUI editors. I've been using EditPlus for many yars.