Mothering Sunday: 15.3.15

No breakfast in bed for me but 2 cards and supportive words from sons.  #2 son has sent flowers, unfortunately I am away most of the weeks, so I may not see them.  #3 son helped out by taking dad to Tesco, fixing their dishwasher and putting ink in the printer.  Mum and I spent the afternoon at the Filmhouse, seeing 'The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.  It was a good piece of froth for a cold, cloudy Sunday.  And I'm sure it will do more wonders for the Jaipur tourist industry.

And happy birthday to sis J who is 60 today. 

And of course before that I responding to the current blip unrest.  I'd started manual backup.  I should have done it ages ago as there is no guarantee a website will ever continue indefinitely and since I stopped a written diary this is it.  However, I'd only got to the end of 2010 and reckoned the rest would take about a week.  Luckily my friend LeeAnne has a contact who can do it for you, at a cost.  I paid my money and (since this is a back blip) it was done 8 hours later.  Both LeeAnne and I have the contact details for Blipbackup and happy to share. 

I hope whatever is happening does not mean the end of blip.  It is difficult to balance the needs of a business, the owners, and the community, us the users.  I don't want to lose my diary, but even more I don't want to lose all the friends and contacts I have made across the world.  Doing my manual backup it was brought home to me that i'd known some folk for over 4 years.  They are part of my daily life and I'd miss them.