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• Mowing the grass this morning is very hard and hot work. Very high humidity today. #
• A little but of a victory with Amazon AWS and my Squid/Apache combination: It Works! #

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• Now on the train on my way to #bmmf #

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• Making a test walk to school with Grace. Suddenly half way across the Nower the heavens open. #
• Cadbury Castle: what a stupendous view. #
• Lyme Regis. Sun:fabulous Sea:blue People:smiling but Traffic:worse than ever. Nevertheles, more lovely than ever. #
• Arrived in Lyme Regis #

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• Now have Android running reasonably well on the #joggler Thanks, @jtonline for the notes and inspiration to finally get this done. #
• Bacon and croissant the beach at West Wittering #
• Bucket and spade time. Hope there's space left on the beach! #

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• Shortly off to Farnham for #oggcamp11 #

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• Returned from excellent show by Dorking Stage Coach: well done to the cast of Glee. #
• Fascinating and intriguing: an antiproton ring found around Earth – New Scientist: http://t.co/SIMuBQV #
• Beer and supper in the garden at The Volunteer #
• Parts bundle from http://www.homeautomationhub.com/ arrived today – now got to find time to make it up & integrate with the rest of my stuff #
• Woman who is way, way old enough to know better has just put her feet on the train seat beside me. #smelly #
• It's very hot on this train to Ockley. #

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• A Leafcutter bee has moved into a vacant hole to lay her eggs in the Wild Bee Hive alongside the Mason bees. http://yfrog.com/h3r6rgoj #

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• Just hung up my wife's wonderful stained glass panel http://yfrog.com/h01d8qpgj Thank you @StainedGlass1 – she loved her day with you. #

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• GingerBeer disaster – the [not sealed] jar with the plant suddenly cracked & broke open – duff glass, I guess . Kitchen top a mess! #
• Extravagantly ordered myself another Nixie Clock kit to while away an evening sometime: http://tubehobby.com/show_det.php?det=57 #
• At church for the induction of our new vicar. #
• RT @surreypolice: Between April 2010 and March 2011, 1276 motor vehicles were stolen in Surrey.#CarCrime << How many were recovered? #VFM #
• Nixie clock kit completed – took about ten years to get started, but relieved it actually works & tubes still OK. http://yfrog.com/kkcw5smj #
• Fourth batch ( #GB4 )of ginger beer now bottled. Made 5 pints. Batch #GB2 tested a few days ago: OK if a wee bit flat compared with first! #

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Well, on Friday, last week, I travelled to the village of Much Hadham in Hertfordshire to meet Richard Maynard, the village blacksmith to spend a day experiencing the business of forging steel.

Well, what a fabulous day it was. After a few practice pieces and a cup of welcome tea I set about making a candlestick which we had sketched out. It’s a most satisfiyng experience, forging the steel, and the results for even a novice are really excellent. Lunch at the local pub followed by making the twist in the stem of the stick. Richard did the welding for me (H&S regs!) and it was done. Time also allowed me to convert one of the practice pieces into a poker. The forge is a museum as well, and well worth a visit of you’re in that neck of the woods.