Blog2022 ≫ Dover adventure

I got all my jobs done yesterday, the washing machine took longer than expected. I cleared one cloggage but there was another sneaky hidden one, so it broke down a second time. Feels really good to have fixed it, without having to get someone in or buy a new machine. I sort of did a bit of the painting prep too, I delegated it to thing one. He has taken the posters down and cleaned off most of the blue tac. I'll do it properly next week. Need to paint the blue wall white first, and do the ceiling, then do the rest of the light colours, and finally come back to the blue. We only have a sample pot so far, so will need to decide on that too.

Went OUT to the gig, and had a great time. Got a lift to Dover and first we went to The Hoptimist, which is a really good micropub. It closes at 6pm on a Sunday so next we tried to go to a pub I'd never heard of and didn't know was there, The Cinque Ports down in the docks. That was shut too, but a lorry driver there said "are you after a drink? I know a bar"... Sounds very dodgy, but it was alright, there is a little bar in the truck stop down in the docks. It's meant only for truckers, and it's basically a service station, but they had hot food in there and bottled beers. Just the one in there, then got a bit lost on the way out again, then to the gig.

Caravan were as expected, they're good, but I didn't now any of the songs. I recognised one that I'd heard earlier that day. Still, nice to be out! We are planning to go to more there. There are a load of covers bands that play there but some original bands too.

Back to work this week, and it's looking like I might have to go to London one day this week. I have just seen there is a virtual conference thing on that day, so I might just get away with it. No sense going in if I have to be on a video call all day anyway.

Coronavirus weekly death graph for USA + Brazil + India + Russia + Mexico + UK

popex graph Graph line from 4573.0 to 20277.0🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA Graph line from 462.0 to 6871.0🇧🇷 Brazil 🇧🇷 Brazil Graph line from 600.0 to 7603.0🇮🇳 India 🇮🇳 India Graph line from 3525.0 to 9665.0🇷🇺 Russia 🇷🇺 Russia Graph line from 438.0 to 4657.0🇲🇽 Mexico 🇲🇽 Mexico Graph line from 469.0 to 2531.0🇬🇧 UK 🇬🇧 UK Y axis of graph 0 - 5000 - 10000 - 15000 - 20000 - X axis of graph Oct '21 Nov '21 Dec '21 Jan '22 Feb '22 Mar '22

💬 Caravan at Dover Booking Hall

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Paul Clarke's weblog - I live in Hythe in Kent. Wed + dad to two, I'm a full stack web engineer, + I do js / Node, some ruby, other languages etc. I like pubbing, parkrun, eating, home automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, and TIME TRAVEL.