David's blog

My new laptop or notebook has arrived its a bit smaller than a laptop and I guess that's why they call it a notebook but I am sure it will do the job that I need it to do and that is to record the music I guess its the processing power and the ram that I need There does not seem to be much movement in the lockdown restrictions in Wales so its like ground hog day the same again for the next 3 weeks I guess. My hip is a bit sore today but no more sore than the day before when I hadn't done a 3 hour walk so I guess its ok I am not looking forward to setting up this notebook I was in the loo when they parcel arrived and my back door is open in this fine weather I was surprised to hear voices here to be honest as its been so quiet for such long time. I went to Blaenau today there was no cue in the coop for a change I just needed to get out of the village to see some life as it dead here these days its dead most of the time but even deader these days, the weather is fantastic though

I found an old photograph of the village on the internet today it was in the local community pubs twitter feed, the pub is called the Pengwern.  The photo was taken from across the road here on the hill in the middle of the village and it was taken in 1973 and discovered in the negatives of some photographer who I can't recall's name.   I went and took photo from the same place this morning and when I got there I was surprised to see that I could not see the original image it changed now there was a load of trees there.  If it had been winter I might have got a clearer image but it being in the summer the trees are full of leaves.  I remember the houses as they were then I was 10 years old there is one car there in the original photo which is different to now the place is packed with cars t is really interesting to how things change here over the years I guess that's one of the advantages of getting older you can see more changes  When growing up in this village as a child

My health is not doing too good in this lockdown I get pain somewhere every day now and my mental health is not doing that great either hopefully things will change soon.  The pain I have today is in my back mainly an ongoing problem, I have just remembered I have to do the stretches in a bit. Today is this same as yesterday mainly and it will be like this for a long time which is depressing thank heavens for the decent weather I guess though I was not a fan of the wind. I got a new aid thing today but its not working the same way as the old one and I can't go to the hospital to sort it out which is frustrating to say the least the hair needs cutting too the situation is getting ridiculous now and its time to do something It was the usual trip to tesco no one on the bus going there and not very many going back either, with this situation in the country there is less and less chance of me getting a job I guess maybe I need to move from here asap

The craziness of this fucking pandemic goes on apparently a friend of mine who is black is twice as likely to die of this shit the virus is racist my friend is a keen sports person but apparently he will suffer more than a couch potato than me. This virus seems to be a monster an gets at everything and there seems no way out of this shit right now for some reason and every day is the same  I have arthritsi in my knees maybe that it is the virus that it causing that but I reckon that its the lockdown and the stress of that probably and the isolation that causes. I took the bus today to another ghost village and you feel like an outsider the place was eerrily ghostly its more like there might have been a nuclear accident as opposed to virus.  I  don't thnk the people in the shop see anyone besides the people in the village but I needed to get out of this village and going to the local shop is not that inviting really these days it takes a lot longer to go on the bus these days as

Its a lovely day weather wise if perhaps the wind is a bit nippy but the sun is shining and it is very warm in the sun.  I have just put the washing machine on I should have done this earlier. I have not been out of the village today there seems no on around again and the traffic is pretty limited really, I am getting fed up of this lockdown thing now and its time to do something though depressingly it is going to be a long time before we are back to normal again if we will ever be I guess. I have spoken to a couple of people on the phone today one regarding a complaint which has caused me to check my complaint after I had done it I guess this whole situation is doing my head in I have a perverse idea that I want this lockdown to continue to some extent to keep the wretched cars off the road as much as possible really so no noise well less noise comes from the hole thing I am sure there are a lot of people who are in two minds about the lockdown one reason for this might be if it

I just had some sad news about a friend he was 92 and had been having a lot of problems recently he was very nice man and had some good chats with him over the years he was a friend of my father's too. I doubt I will be able to go the funeral as there is a restriction of who can go due to this virus shit which is really getting boring now to be honest its going to take a lot of resilience to get through this which I am not too sure I have.  On the positive side the sun out again which is good, but the tedium of this situation is tough going it feels like just going through the motions and there is the anxiety of it all I guess

I was up late again this morning as I suppose there is nothing to get up for these days it seems as if it might be a decent day weather wise and I plan to go shopping in a bit a bit of a chore but has to be done where I will have to manage the new regime in Tesco which might be with us for ages yet. I was glad to get the email about the manhole cover apparently they did not fix it last week but will try again next week lets hope its sorted out. I applied a for a voluntary position a few months ago and the person training just decided to stop contacting me which was ignorant to say the least I thought perhaps she had left the company but no there she was large as life on telly last night I think I might write to the charity. I have been trying for ages to get an usb cable for a microphone with no success I think one minute I have got the right one but it isent its really frustrating I think I will give up now and just use the xlr cable for it or maybe I could take it into the comp