Wednesday 23rd June 2021

Welcome to Wednesday.

Not much to report today.

I should have gone for a walk as it was sunny-ish, but my heart wasn't in it. So, did more gardening, thinned out the raspberry cames so that the fruit we will get should ripen.

What elese did happen was IT disaster. And is still going on. I opened one e mail and that was fine, the next one crashed Outlook, and needed to be closed down. I rebooted the computer, tried again with a different mail, and same thing happened.

On top of that, Teams stopped working. And other functionality of Office Online was denied.

Sigh.

I know I was expecting shit, but this was worse than I thought.

I did have three meetings in the morning, the Teams from the old company still works, so could join. But as a guest.

But it works, and we all act as spanners in the works of a functioning meeting, which is only right.

At least I have the cats. And coffee.

Poppy seems to have reached the point in which she seems happy in the house, even if it takes her half an hour to decide to actually go out the front door, rather than stare at it out like a very dull episode of The Sweeny. But with kittens. In fact, we have had them for nearly 11 months, and although Poppy has grown a little, Cleo hasn't, and still looks like a kitten.

Such joy.

I do gardening after work, pull up some more weeds. Wild carrot. Smooth Sowthistle. THen have a brew.

Dinner is breaded chicken, noodles and stir fry. Another triumph, though you'd expect nothing less, really.

And then there is football: first up Spain v Slovakia, I think. Spain were slow in the first half, then get a fluke goal when the Slovakian keeper flapped a cross into his own net. Second half it was bonkers, Spain scoring four more, missing five more too.

And then for the grand showdow, the final games of Group F: Germany v Hungary and Portugal v France. Through the game, as scores went up, all four teams in the group lead it, then as both games ended 2-2, France and Germany went through with Portugal picking up one of the best 3rd place finishes.

A mad, but brilliant evening.

We went to bed and saw the near full moon hanging away to the south east.