Benched

 It was a very wet night. Unexpectedly, we had Ellie with us. She had been unwell yesterday evening and wouldn't settle at home. In the end, she demanded that she should come and sleep with us. She soon settled and other than a couple of trips to the loo during the night, she slept well.

Ellie woke us at about 6:20 but snuggled down in our bed with the iPad. It was still very wet when it was time for Dizzy Ducklings, so we took her round in the car. The rest of the morning was a case of split tasks. The Silver Vixen continued with the washing and started on the ironing. The Gorse Fox prepared a shopping list and headed off to Sainsbury's to fulfill our needs until Ocado deliver on Thursday. (This, of course, meant that the Gorse Fox didn't go to football today. He was, metaphorically, benched by other priorities.)

Once the main chores were cleared he retired to the study. He has received a copy of a remote cousin's obituary from a newspaper in Tacoma, Washington. This was ordered a few weeks ago and turned up while we were away. The Gorse Fox also had to back up all of the photos taken while we were on holiday. This is usually a very quick process that starts with a manual running of a program, then the automatic backup systems take over. With the demise of Condor, this needed some attention. The first part "photofiler" had to be refactored for the MacBook and became "photoharrier".  That is now complete and working rather well as the images are deposited in the new photo library. The Gorse Fox now needs to extend the backup regime he produced a couple of weeks ago to back up the new master photo library to the other NAS devices.