Animedragon

I spent a huge chunk of today watching the TV coverage of the coronation of King Charles III at Westminster Abbey, the traditional place for coronations since 1066. The procession after the service was amazing and even though I've seen royal processions before I'm always impressed by the Household Cavalry in their traditional uniforms.

Happy Easter everyone.

(and however you do, or don't celebrate Easter, try not to eat too many Easter eggs.)

Trains feature in quite a lot of anime series, which suits me just fine as a railway enthusiast.
On Saturday I visited, fairly local, heritage railway centre to see four of the former Great Western Railway's magnificent Castle class locomotives gathered together in one place which is not a common sight any more. Three of them were in steam and moving around the site during the day.
It was a great day out, but today my old legs are suffering from the effects of a lot walking and standing around in the cold weather.

The four Castles outside the loco shed, and a very small part of the huge crowd that came to see them.

This morning was bright and sunny and the low winter sun was streaming in through my windows, how nice I thought.

The I noticed that the nice bright low sun was also showing up all the dust on my tables, mirrors and such like.

Dust is an annoying thing, as fast as I remove it, it comes back!!

The long cold January is finally over. Only February to get through now.

Did I mention that January and February are my least favourite months?

I've just noticed that I won the day yesterday, which takes my total of 'days won' to 50, which I think is quite impressive.

It also quite possibly means that I spend far too much time on AF !

Winning the Day on January 1st is a good way to start the New Year.

I wish everyone here on AF a Very Happy New Year.

I've got an earworm!

"Song for Friends", the closing song from episodes 3,8 & 9 of Little Busters Refrain keeps playing in my head.  It's a nice song so I don't really mind it being an earworm.

There's two things I really don't like about this time of year.

1: Is the cold weather.

2: The low bright winter sun that's always below my car's sun visor so that I have trouble seeing where I'm going.

Last week I upgraded my Internet service to something a good deal faster so streaming is now a practical proposition.

As a result I've now taken out a subscription to Crunchyroll. Which means I can now watch those series that are not available on DVD/Blue-ray or are too expensive to buy.

Look what the postman delivered this morning.

I'm going to re-watch the TV series then watch the movie.

I had an e-mail this morning to tell me that the Violet Evergarden Movie that I pre-ordered months ago has been dispatched.

The birds in my area are obviously hungry. I looked out through the window into the back garden this morning and saw that both my bird feeders are almost empty, and I filled them up this time last week!

When there's a break in the rain I'll go out and replenish them and do my bit to help the local wildlife.

Aarrgghhh!!!!!!!!

I've just discovered that mice, or some similar rodent, has been eating the top of my car's screen wash bottle! 

I've installed a new graphics card in my PC, but this time I didn't follow the instructions that came with it and go to the manufacturers website to download the drivers I did that last time and driver install messed up the screen resolution and scattered all my icons randomly around the screen. It took ages to sort the mess out.

This time I just told the PC to update the drivers and it went to Microsoft Update found and installed the correct driver with no messing about.

It's temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius I have trouble with.