Autumn is officially with us though the leaves have hardly started to change colour, though I have begun to harvest my blueberries for Magz to make a pie with. I’m also hoping for enough to make some more wine with. I have decanted the gooseberry wine off of its leas last weekend again, hopefully for the last time before bottling in a week. I put it on to the cold-stone, yes you still find them in some houses, in our kitchen cupboard to help draw the sediment down to the bottom of the demijohn. This weekend I’ll just leave it to clear some more while I collect more blueberries for Magz then I’ll see if I have enough for myself, which is as long as the invisible man leaves them alone.
The reinstall of Windows went well, better than expected really. I was reconnected to the web within three hours which is good for XP. It did take a bit longer to get my system fully equipped with most of the main programmes that I use most. I did make or almost made a rooky mistake and forgot to put on my antivirus, firewall, etc. I only remembered as that self satisfied feeling of achieving the difficult began settling on me. At which point I felt a rising panic before reason took hold and guided me to the sites to get them download afresh. At that the crisis was over but it did teach me for being so self satisfied in future. Well maybe not.
I might have a game of Civ5 this weekend. I have that old yearning to conquer again. You know how it is, you don’t play a game for ages then suddenly the bug bites again and you just have too…