Saturday 14th March - pi day?

 Do skip the next paragraphs if you're not interested...

It's really only pi day,  03.14 if you write your dates USA style. I cannot get used to writing dates as Month then Day then Year, except...

It's a really good idea, when saving files on your computer to prefix them with the date as mmddyyyy, American style. Then, almost regardless of the text name, the files will show up in date order.

So, maybe in a folder labelled

 2026 Dental

I will have entries like

2026021 estimate for crown ref 112233

20260309 invoice for crown ref 112233

20260312 receipt for crown ref 112233

My father gave up making sure documents were in the right folders because he discovered the 'search' function. Like all his dodgy wheezes, it worked only nearly perfectly. He would just set the search to look through his entire computer, say for a copy of some information from a 'Mr Entwistle', say, and sooner or later the right file would appear. But if he wanted to find a file concerning a 'Mr Smith' .... or 'a house in Somerset ' then he was doomed.

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Enough. I'm actually not keen on computerey stuff. It's fine while I can blunder around doing the few things I'm comfortable with, but I very soon run out of knowledge, patience and confidence. I guess I'm still a rookie; I've only been using them for 50 years.... I'm lucky to have expert techies on hand in husband and son. Daughter's pretty fluent in computerese too.

We were out in the country this morning. It's been a beautiful day, and we met up with Son and daughter at a new venue; a village farm shop and café which we have bever been to, in a fold of the South Downs. It was quietly busy; popular with locals, especially dogwalkers stopping for coffee and a cake or a cooked breakfast, and a stream of cyclists with sturdy bicycles aso glad of a break. We'll be going back there again.

I was given Mothering Sunday flowers, a little bouquet of beautiful crochet flowers. Aren't they lovely!

'Magic moments', sung by Perry Como.... because today has been magic!