Consultation

It was promising a nice day. The sun was bright, and it was already warm when I got up. It had been a disturbed night thanks to a solid bout of hay fever hitting me at about 10 p.m. last night, and Jasper deciding to practice some of his football chants at 4 a.m. 

After breakfast, Diane drove across to Angmering for her Pilates session. I stayed put and returned to a coding puzzle I struggled with yesterday. I have a line of code that should delete a file... but doesn't. I circumvented the issue with an alternative command, but it bugged me. I opened up a discussion on the forum for the users of the language, and whilst I received lots of suggestions, nobody has got to the bottom of the problem. I can't believe I have found a bug in the language, but maybe I have. The discussion has gone ominously quiet.    

I set off on a walk. This one had to include the village as I needed to collect Diane's meds on the way through. As usual, I was out for an hour or so and got home in time to do some more debugging before grabbing lunch and settling down with my book. (Diane was home by this point and also settled down in the Orangery.)

The doorbell rang. It was Mark from DPD delivering my latest order of curries. This time, I ordered from "Chef Akila" so I could compare them with the last order. They are all tucked away in the freezer for now, but I look forward to trying them.