Yesterday's optician and doctor appointments both went well. Everything looks normal, I just need to arrange for more regular BP checks so it's a return to the timetable I was following before the lockdown. Probably easier said than done, and it's no good buying a BP monitor for home as they don't seem to work on me, even when the doctor/nurses try to use them, but I'll do my best to stick to the plan.
I bought the book I wanted - Richard Osman's 'The Thursday Murder Club', but the sharpening place wasn't open so that's on the list for another day. I arrived home just before Royal Mail delivered a parcel, which turned out to be my new genealogy software ... brilliant service, arriving one day after I ordered it when I only paid second class postage The National Trust member's magazine was on the doormat and also the local magazine, Staverton News. So I had plenty of goodies to play with but extremely blurry vision and it all had to wait.
It was quite late in the day before my vision cleared and I chose to play with the new software first. I've installed it and just played about, creating a few dummy records and having a go at changing some of the standard phrases, and also manipulating some of the report charts. So far, so good!
Today I want to make a start on transferring the family tree to the new software. It is possible to create a file to do it in one easy step but I've decided against that. There's no point transferring a file that contains corrupted data so I will input manually and check the data as I go along. It'll take longer but will be worth it. Luckily I have printouts of every entry prior to 1939 from before the database corrupted so I only need to check 1940 onwards ... a lot, but nowhere near as bad as it could have been.
We're due a few dry days now, though it's not going to be particularly warm. I'm waiting to hear back from J and L to arrange a couple of short walks (one with each of them). I took my final photo for the SPSH when I was in town yesterday but I still need to take some more on the green theme before the end of the month.
It's the first of the new series of The Shows Must Go On tonight and they're showing 'Fame, The Musical' which I haven't seen before, so will plonk myself in front of the TV by 7 o'clock. It's feeling a little like the start of lockdown again, although that's not the case at all.
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