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Car is MOT'd

Feb 13
Beano's Vegetarian Cafe Bar, 43 Tontine St, Folkestone, Kent CT20 1, UK

Took today off mostly to do that, only failed on a missing brake light bulb (the extra one in the boot lid) so that fixed we are good to go!

Went to Beano's vegetarian cafe in Tontine Street while I waited. Very nice, would like to go back there. The Creative Quarter is not quite there yet though is it? All looked particularly gloomy on a cold damp day like today...

Harry much improved today, just about to try and rouse him from his nap...

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Harry much better tonight

Feb 12

Man alive is he snoring though.

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Snow again today

Feb 12

Harry a bit better today, still woke up in the night seeming a bit confused, and still off his food, but improved. Temperature lower, which is the main thing.

We had heavy snow again this morning, didn't last long but gave us a good surface coating. The original snow is not cleared yet, our snowman in the back garden is still standing, though his features have gone.

Not moving far today. Went to Toolstation to buy a new soldering iron but that's it.

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Spent all day at the walk in centre

Feb 11

NHS Direct told us to take Harry to the walk-in centre just in case it was anything more serious, wo we were there today for three hours or so. When we finally saw a nurse she was really good, but still says it's some kind of virus just keep giving him calpol and neurofen.

I say we were there for three hours, but I took twenty minutes out of that time to nip to Maplin and buy some components for my Arduino experiments, leaving Clare waiting with Harry.

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Harry still ill

Feb 10

He's been up and down today, he woke us up several times in the night but seemed to be just a bit sad each time. We left him with Granny and went to IKEA and Bluewater. Granny phoned while we were there to say he had a raised temperature again, so we started heading home. Then a second phone call to say no, the calpol had kicked in and he was OK again. Tonight he seems worse again, though it's been the same routine of raised temperature, worry, apply neurofen or calpol, temperature down, ok again. This time I've called NHS Direct though as this is the third day. Having been assessed by the call centre someone is going to call me back in several hours, so they clearly don't think it's serious.

While we were at IKEA we chose a bed for Harry, will got back and get it or get it delivered though. We headed from there to Bluewater just to double check beds in John Lewis, they didn't have many though. We had a smashing lunch in Gourmet Burger, there are lots of new food options in Bluewater now.

Tonight mostly just sitting my the phone, listening to Harry snuffling on the baby monitor.

Two and a half is not too old to still have a baby monitor is it?

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Hack day

Feb 9
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Missing hack day tomorrow if I don't go in to work (as planned, shopping day) but I'm having one at home today on my own. Got my arduino, plugged it in and am working through examples... I've made the onboard led blink on and off at my command, and plugged my own led in and controlled that. Now I've installed Processing so I can easily turn things like a movement of the mouse in to signals out through the usb socket, in to the arduino. Yes, ok, actually it is only more LEDs blinking on and off but this is just the start. full diy home automation!

And all while Harry was napping...

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Home, sick

Feb 9
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Not me, but Harry, he has a temperature and he's very clingy so I'm staying home with him today. He insists he's not ill, he's feeling much better now, but he's super cuddly. Cousin Elliott had the same thing over the last couple of weeks, hope this doesn't last quite as long.

Thought we'd done dreadfully in the quiz last night, but so did everyone else, so we came in second.

My Arduino arrived, but not the extra bits I ordered with it, no breadboard, got to send an email...

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Paul Clarke's blog - I live and work near Folkestone. Married to Clare and father to Harry, I am a web dev, and I like javascript, PHP, Folkestone Gerald, pubs, restaurants, history, genealogy, TV, music, popbitch, squirrels, pirates ☠, time travel, stained glass...