Sunday, 1st December, 2024 – Ordered a terabyte computer storage device with room for my whole collection of scenes from television. It cost £95.
Monday, 2nd December – Received an email to say that the storage device will arrive on December 23rd.
Tuesday, 3rd December – Received the storage device three weeks before I was expecting it.
Thursday, 5th December – Watched a very good film called ‘Storm in a Teacup’ with Cecil Parker and Rex Harrison.
Friday 6th December – Noticed that I have selected the same shot of Houns-tout in Purbeck that I selected when the programme was first broadcast because my memory is now so poor. I wonder how many times I have done something like this and never noticed it.
Sunday, 8th December – Used the computer to print 2½”-inch maps of places where I am planning to go in the near future. It was very useful to be able to ignore the sheet layout.
Tuesday, 10th December – Read on the internet that the Dovecote Press, which published three of my books in the 1980s, has now been run by David Burnett for fifty years.
Received a list of walks from January to April 2025 from the Kendal Ramblers.
Thursday, 12th December – Arranged for the electricity to be paid by direct debit in future. It was very easy to arrange.
Friday, 13th December – Finished preparing my collection of scenes from television for copying to the computer storage device. I encountered a lot of problems..
Saturday, 14th December – Discovered that I can get all of the discs into a shoebox if I stack two of them vertically.
Took a photograph of the Christmas lights in the centre of Kendal.
Found the photograph of the hedgehog using the equipment I bought on 26th November by looking at each photograph in turn. It took half an hour. This enabled me to upload the photograph to the Wainwright Facebook site accompanied by a message. I looked it up and found that the photograph appeared twice.
Sunday, 15th December – Watched a programme about Noël Coward that was so good I selected 16 scenes lasting 7½ minutes.
Monday, 16th December – Received a copy of the Wainwright Society magazine in which I was mentioned.
Friday, 20th December – Chris was due to visit today but couldn’t make it. Sent a message to the Wainwright Facebook site in which I mentioned that the original route of the Coast to Coast Walk from Beacon Hill to Sunbiggin Tarn is now entirely on public access land.
Saturday, 21st December – I couldn’t find my Facebook message, but I could find messages from other people making the same point.
Chris and Priscilla called unexpectedly, and I gave them the Blu-ray discs for copying to the computer.
Monday, 23rd December – Listened to a song call ‘I Passed By Your Window’ on the radio and added it to the list of my favourite songs.
Tuesday, 31st December – I have now been collecting scenes from television for forty years; I have been keeping a diary for seventy years; and I have been sticking things in scrapbooks for seventy-six years.