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Posted by Shirley Anne on March 27, 2012
I accompanied Jane to the venue for an evening meal with her archery club friends on Saturday and we arrived a little late, the last to arrive in fact but we settled down and soon found ourselves enjoying each others company. A few of the regulars came over and greeted us personally which was nice. I suppose there were about forty or more guests in our group but in other areas of the restaurant were more groups of people celebrating birthdays. It appeared to be a popular place and I imagine the restaurant to be filled most evenings. I am not sure when Jane and I left but it was getting late when we did. Jane took me back home before returning to Liverpool for the night. She said she would be travelling to Brighton sometime on Sunday as I recall but using the train services rather than her car. I seem to remember her saying she hadn’t as yet received her residents parking permit so was leaving her car in Liverpool for a couple of weeks. I gave her a hug and she was on her way. I didn’t go to bed immediately as I wasn’t that tired but eventually hit the sheets around 4 o’clock having forwarded all the house clocks by an hour so technically speaking I really went to bed around 3 o’clock I suppose. I was dressed and eating my breakfast at 9 o’clock but was still a little tired. Around noon I decided I had to get motivated and mow the grass which was by now getting rather long but I hadn’t taken into account that it was still mostly wet with dew. The sun was shining but only half the lawn was in sunshine. Part of the lawn, that which is closest to the rear of the house, doesn’t receive full sunshine until we are nearer summer and then only in the morning or around sunset. The rear garden is on the north side of the house but most of it is in full sunshine at some point in the day and some parts all day during the summer months. So I set up the extension lead and mower and began to cut the grass. I got about a quarter of it done, that part which was in full sunshine and then began to struggle somewhat because of the dew that had elsewhere remained. I took a break for lunch and returned to complete the job later hoping that the grass had dried enough by then. It hadn’t. I struggled but found I could still cut the grass by pulling the mower backwards rather than forwards as it didn’t clog up the blade as quickly. It still took me a couple of hours where normally I could get it done in forty minutes when it is dry. It may have been easier with the larger petrol-driven mower we have but it was out of fuel and it needs servicing. What I might do is purchase a hover mower for use when the grass is damp as they are not affected in the same way as other mowers but they don’t really cut the grass as short as I’d like. Nevertheless having one would enable the grass to be cut much more quickly and I could always use the other mowers when it is drier weather. By the time I’d done the lawn I was really exhausted but I found the strength to get out the heavy wooden garden furniture that had been stored in the old garage over the winter months and put it into the patio area. I noticed that the floor paint I’d put on the patio concrete floor had peeled away in many places. The concrete had been treated with a sealant to keep out the water and the paint is supposed to be suitable for outdoor use but eveidently it isn’t! I doubt I shall repaint it though. I didn’t rake off the grass cuttings, I was too tired but that can be done during the week. Gardening is hard work especially if it hasn’t been done in months! The garden plants are in full bloom and I took some photographs while the sun was still shining on them…..
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on January 21, 2012
Last Monday found me at home with no electrical work scheduled. It was a cold and frosty day as was Tuesday but I looked at the garden and decided I would do some work out there. Last year we did a lot of work in the garden, preparing and laying paths after digging up huge amounts of roots for the path that was to lead to the new greenhouse. I installed electrical supplies for the greenhouse area and later in the year another electrical supply for the new patio at the opposite end of the garden. Alongside that patio was an area of border which was heavily overgrown with trees and shrubs which we wanted to remove to pave the way for a flowerbed. To the right of this flowerbed and positioned in the corner of the garden was a raised area dotted with heavy stones originally set there by the previous owner of the house as a rockery but by now had become heavily overgrown too and filled with ivy from a neighbour’s garden. We wanted to clear the whole area last year but we had too many other projects on the go so we deferred working on it until this year. Well this year has started and on Monday I made a start at clearing all of the trees and undergrowth. It wasn’t an easy task as all the plants were intertwined. E joined me after a short while and we managed to cut down and remove much of the trees but we left some of it until Tuesday when I made an early start and removed the rest. It is Tuesday as I write this and there is still much more to do, not least of all digging out the roots which is going to take quite some time over the next couple of weeks. First of all we have to remove all of the stones to leave the soil clear to dig and hopefully then the tree roots and stumps. 
Compare these three photographs taken over the last two years. The first one shows the trees and shrubs before any work had been started on the patio. The second shows the corner of the garden to the right of the first photo in which I am currently working and was taken almost two years ago when we had all that scaffolding erected whilst work was going on replacing windows and such. The third photo shows the same area taken early last year and it shows the previously cleared flowerbed adjacent to the yet to be built patio just out of view to the left as well as the remaining trees and shrubs behind the plum tress in the raised area. With a bit of hard work we hope to complete work in the area within the next few weeks but that will depend on other things not least of all the weather. Work in the garden will keep us occupied for some time but I mustn’t forget the plans I have elsewhere in the house (the wet room) and the garage too.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on January 13, 2012
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I haven’t really had much chance to see what is going on in the garden lately except at the weekend because my jury service commitment has kept me from home during the daylight hours. I remember looking around the rear garden on Sunday and seeing flowering plants in the border we created last Summer when we were working on the patio. It is pretty much sheltered from the prevailing westerly winds because of the garden wall which would help to keep them flowering for longer but it is January and not exactly the month to see flowering plants unless they are snowdrops. Daffodils it appears are sprouting up all over the country and there are some even as far north as Aberdeen according to one viewer on a television magazine program a day or so ago. It would seem that Spring has come early this year. Although it is still Winter we haven’t really had much wintry weather compared to what we are accustomed to. It is too early to say that we won’t get colder spells with snow and ice before the season is over or that it is too late in the season for it to happen but if we judge by what the plants are doing it appears unlikely. It it a good thing? Perhaps not. The reason I say that is the plants will be struggling to cope with the changes but more than that there is nothing to stop garden pests from flourishing in the mild weather. When the weather becomes cold it has the effect of curbing the growth or even killing off diseases and general garden pests that threaten a plant‘s developement, especially those we cultivate for food. The garden nevertheless looks fine and the grass is lush and flourishing too but no doubt so will the moss, clover and weeds! Our lawn isn’t that good! There will be plenty to do out in the garden soon enough not least of all replacing those plastic panels that the recent high winds blew out of the small greenhouse. Thankfully the large greenhouse has been unaffected but then it is a more professional affair with glass panels. I will be replacing the damaged plastic panels in the small greenhouse with glass in a few weeks time. There is much to do elsewhere before then.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on October 22, 2011
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Well the weeks work is over and I have no plans for the weekend. I’ll probably visit the pub at some point. I think there will be things to do at home though, like checking the central heating which needs attention, venting off air from the radiators, setting the controls and adjusting thermostats and such. The garden is looking good but there is some tidying up to do, leaves and broken twigs lying about need clearing away. At this time of year most of the work in the garden is simply tidying and bringing in any crops that are still growing. I removed the remainder of the apples from the trees before they began to drop off by themselves rendering them bruised if they fell on a the hard surface below. Both trees are planted between a path and the concrete standing where the greenhouses are. The path was placed there earlier in the year where there was only grass so we have to watch for apples that fall before we can pick them. Come to think of it, I don’t need to plan anything do I?
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on October 13, 2011
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As those who have been reading my many posts over the last twelve months will know, E takes care of what is grown in the greenhouses we have. I take a passing interest. I am not a gardener by any means and really only help out with the more heavy work of mowing the lawn, chopping up branches and clearing out debris. I like gardens but don’t much fancy working in them! E’s pride and joy is to see the fruits of her labour and being able to stock our refrigerator with tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers from what is produced in the greenhouses. I have been eating tomatoes so much I fear they will be coming out of my ears soon and there are still plenty more of the to eat yet. A week or so ago I came across this specimen
Alongside is a more normal specimen, like the rest of them. Now I have seen many odd things in my lifetime but never a tomato that has a nose! It tasted good though – nose and all! The crop has been incredible and it is difficult to keep them fresh for any length of time although the fridge keeps them so for quite some time. Those that cannot be eaten raw because of the time element have to be fried or used in cooked dishes like chilli-con-carne or Bolognese but get eaten they do. This year we had so much cucumber that E had to give some away. One or two specimens grew to about three feet or about a metre in length and as you know cucumbers don’t stay fresh too long once cut into and really can only be eaten in a salad. I think that next year we will have to grow fewer cucumbers for that reason unless we can give them away. In fact as I write this there are still tomatoes and cucmbers growing in the greenhouse! There has been success in growing beetroot and carrots too. A couple of onions have done well but as this was really the first season for E to experiment with growing vegetables she has done remarkably well. The greatest success outdoors has been the potato crops but they are quite easy to grow. I am wondering what sort of crop we will get next time. The apple trees have produced quite a crop too and there are still apples on the branches. E has made several jars of apple sauce for use when having pork and there is some left for making pies. The rhubarb has supplied me with a few rhubarb crumbles and continues to grow as it is picked but the weather will soon put an end to that until next Spring. Altogether we have done quite well growing our own produce and we hope it will be even better next year.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on September 30, 2011
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The weather here in the UK is most unusually hot especially for this time in the year. The capital is the warmest place but even here on the west coast we have been enjoying temperatures of around 25 deg C. Extraordinary for the last couple of days in September and the forecast is for it to remain so into the weekend. Of course there is a lot of moisture in the air overnight which means the grass is wet where it is in the shade. We have not really had the opportunity to mow the grass over the last couple of weeks but this morning (Wednesday) I looked at it and decided that if I didn’t mow it today it might be too long for the mower to cope with it. We do have a motorised mower running on petrol but it is out of action so we have to use the less powerful (900W) electric one. I waited until the afternoon to allow the grass to dry out so in the morning I had a stint on the treadmill. At first the grass was fairly easy to mow but as I progressed up the garden it became almost impossibly difficult and I had to repeatedly switch the mower off and clear out the grass which was being compressed instead of being ejected because it was getting wetter as I moved along. This meant I had to stop and start the operation many times. It became unbearably hot and although I was wearing suitably lightweight clothing I was exhausted by the time I had finished. Normally it would take about forty minutes to mow the lawn if it was dry but this time it took me almost two hours! I had then to remove all the cuttings from the lawn because using the collection box for the cuttings was out of the question with the machine getting constantly blocked. Fortunately we have a lawn sweeping device which is mechanically propelled for collecting the cuttings but as I was already exhausted it wasn’t that easy to push it along and of course that had to be emptied about three times too. Altogether I was outside for three and a half hours. Who said gardening was easy? I suppose it would have been much easier had the weather been cooler and the grass drier. There will most probably be a need to cut the grass again in October and that should be the last time until next Spring. When I had finished I sat for a while on the garden bench and relaxed in the warm sunshine. It is most strange seeing the larger trees devoid of leaves with bright sunshine and high temperatures when normally it would be much cooler. Our weather gets stranger every year.
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Posted by Shirley Anne on June 22, 2011
Yesterday was a much better day for me than the previous one were I felt as sick as a dog all day. I managed to go shopping with E in the afternoon but my body was resisting all the same. As promised the guys came and began laying the paving in the front. They had finished the rear garden the day before when I wasn’t well.
Meanwhile I began to remove the plastic sheets we had placed over the paving in the rear garden for it had been raining overnight and we needed to protect the new mortar. I cleaned the area then set about filling in the edges of the paving with grass lifted from elsewhere. I used a spade to dig up the grass (it was growing where it shouldn’t have been) and a large kitchen knife with a serrated edge to slice the sods into strips that would fill in the narrow space between the lawn and the paving edge. After tamping it all down and watering it you can hardly tell that I had done it. I did several small jobs around the garden in between making and serving coffee to the guys. E was busying herself stripping wallpaper in the downstairs toilet/cloakroom, the one we are converting into a ‘wet room’. After a quick-lunch I was off again but this time onto the garage roof. Probably the hardest part here was getting the ladder down from its perch! Anyway I proceeded to fit some ‘Flashband’ tape over a couple of sections of fascia board where it was exposed and then I painted the boards in their top coat of gloss paint. In the photo below you can only see a small section on the top left above the passageway that had been painted, the other board runs down the whole right-hand-side from front to back. The area over and around the windows are to be clad in pvc (part of that is already done beneath the gutter). 
After cleaning brushes and myself (LOL) the next task was to mow the lawn. Much easier to do now as it is completely surrounded by paving! That task usually takes about 50 minutes in total then out to the front to sweep up everywhere. Several other small jobs later I returned indoors and cooked E a roast dinner while she did some weeding and bringing in the washing from the clothesline. I was somewhat exhausted when I sat down to eat but felt much better after my meal. I retired to the rear lounge and sat playing my guitar for a while. At this moment I am writing this post, something I do most days but I schedule the posting to early the following day. Well you didn’t really think I sat around at 6 o’clock in the morning doing it did you?
A couple more pictures for you……..If you click on them they will appear larger and you can see the open edges around the paving that I have now filled with grass. 
I always feel better after a hard days work don’t you?
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on June 12, 2011
Yesterday I awoke full of beans and ready for anything but as things turned out I did next to nothing! To be honest I was totally out of the game and really tired. Perhaps this was due to my night out on Friday but I am thinking otherwise. I don’t usually have feelings of tiredness the day after a night out. I think my workload has caught up with me. That being the case I thought it wise to simply rest for the day. Tomorrow I have electrical work to do and the same on Tuesday and Wednesday, hopefully all of them restricted to a couple of hours each. I am not sure what I will be doing today even though there are plenty of things to do.
The weather has been sunny but cooler than expected because of the wind so sitting out in the garden hasn’t really been an option which is such a shame because it looks inviting! E has been working in the garden though regardless of the wind. She doesn’t seem to mind the weather when she has things to do in the garden as long as it isn’t very bad or raining. It does make a difference when the sun is shining.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on June 10, 2011
We finally got E’s nephew to start the laying of the paving slabs in the rear garden, those that we had planned after the patio was to be finished. Yesterday saw all of the paving slabs cut and some of them laid into place ready for ‘pointing’ up later. I took a picture of what has been done so far. If you click on the picture for a larger image you can see some of the paving laid in front of the patio wall (one of the slabs is missing because they broke it and it needs replacing). The others are arranged in a fan shape and they will fit into the space cut out for them as you can see. 
When these have been laid that will complete the main works in the rear garden.
E and I have been preparing the area under the front bay window ready for paving slabs to be laid there. That meant rebuilding part of the dry stone walling and levelling out the ground . We had hoped that E’s nephew would have been able to lay the paving this week once he had finished in the rear garden but as things look at the moment I don’t think that is on the cards. At least the groundwork is done and the area doesn’t look too bad, as it did some weeks ago! I have placed a couple of pictures here so you can see what I mean.
In the first picture you can also see the retaining brick wall we had built two weeks ago and the garage with much work still to do on it!
One day…………
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on June 9, 2011
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I went to do my job yesterday morning and to my surprise I was back home by 11.30. There was no sign of anyone having been to do the paving but it appears that E’s nephew was having staff problems. The guy he works with doesn’t work on Wednesdays for reasons best known to himself and a sub-contractor E’s nephew uses occasionally didn’t turn up to carry out work he had given him elsewhere. This meant E’s nephew was hard pressed to fulfill his own commitments including our job. He did call and he did some levelling of the ground, removing soil in the process but he was unable to start laying the paving slabs. Hopefully he and his friend will turn up today to continue with the work. After they have completed the work in the rear garden they will start laying the paving slabs in the front garden. This meant that E and I had to rebuild part of the dry-stone walling we had demolished when clearing the area for a brick wall to be built a few weeks ago. So before lunch, E and I set about doing that and also laying a completely new top layer of stones along the length of the 6 metre long wall. We then began to level out the soil above. As it was almost 2 o’clock we left off working and returned an hour later when we transported many bags of soil from the rear garden and placed that on the raised ground contained by the dry-stone wall and levelled that soil out too. We also did some filtering of the soil in the lower bed in front of the wall. Much more needs to be done in this bed but it is slowly taking shape having been neglected because of the volume of work we have been doing elsewhere. After our evening meal both E and I were in the rear garden and I happened to glance over the garden wall whilst standing on the patio. Our neighbour was riding around her garden testing out her bicycle. I waved to her and she came closer and asked how we were getting along with the patio. I invited her to call around and see for herself. We hadn’t met socially before and we didn’t even know her name even though her garden adjoins ours. Her house is on the main road which is about 100 metres away so although we are neighbours we are not exactly close! To my surprise she took up my offer and called around five minutes later. She was very impressed by what we had done in the garden as we showed her around. It turns out that her house was built in the year 1872, fives years before ours and that the ground on which our house is built actually belonged to the owner of her house at that time and was used for the stabling of horses. The land was sold off to pay a debt and our house was built there in 1877. Her house, which is now split into two homes, used to be just one very large house before it became a semi-detached property in 1920. I often wonder what it must have been like in the area when these houses were built. Local history is fascinating to me. So many changes have been made over the years to the various properties around about, including ours!
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on June 8, 2011
Yesterday I had an electrical job to do a couple of miles away from home. Today I have a similar job to do somewhat further away from home. If todays job is anything like yesterdays then I am in for some more hard work! Although I had a job on Monday and a couple last week it has been a rather lean time recently on the job front. I hadn’t minded that much as it enabled me to get on with work at home however, much of that work at home has been gruelling so it is a welcome change to be able to take on board some electrical work, as I said to the joiner who was working in the same house yesterday, ‘It is nice to come to work for a rest’! Well a change is as good as a rest they say! Yesterday E’s nephew and friend came to start the laying of paving slabs in the rear garden. They will be returning this morning as I go off to my job. I will have to wait and see what progress they have made when I return home later.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on June 7, 2011
The day started early for me as I dragged myself out of bed to get ready for work. I had one job to do locally which turned out to be two jobs albeit at the same address. Even so I was back home just after ten o’clock! I wasn’t in the mood for work but today and tomorrow I cannot afford such luxury as I have two separate jobs to do which will take me the morning to do in each case. When I got home I washed my van, the first time in quite a few weeks as I have been too busy elsewhere. Later and before lunch I had some housekeeping to do and I spent some time on the treadmill but after lunch I’d simply had enough of work and exercise. There were things to do and there still are things to do but I wanted to rest instead. The morning wasn’t too bright but by noon the sun began to shine and it remained sunny all afternoon. I grabbed some beer (lager) and my guitar and went outside to sit in our new patio. after a while I took the guitar indoors but returned to just sitting quietly in the patio whilst appreciating the scenery. E had gone out for a couple of hours and there was no-one else in the house. Today we are expecting E’s nephew and his friend to turn up to lay the remaining paving slabs in the rear garden around the patio. Later, probably Wednesday and Thursday, we are hoping they will finish laying paving slabs in the front garden too. We are also expecting two deliveries this week, the first will be the materials and furniture for our proposed re-vamp of the downstairs toilet/cloakroom and the second will be the delivery of the windows for the new(er) garage. Of course this means more work so it is nice to be able to sit around occasionally, ‘Lazin’ on a sunny afternoon’.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on June 5, 2011
Yesterday morning I got stuck into sifting more soil. After around three hours it was time to stop and have a quick lunch and then back to sifting. A further hour or so saw the soil we wanted sifting all done. There is more soil to do at a later date in the area immediately behind the garage. We haven’t decided what to plant in that area as yet and we probably will leave it as it is for now. The area is totally shielded from the direct rays of the sun but is still suitable for growing some plants species. After I had completed my work E was able to plant out the twenty-four beetroot plants she had been growing in pots in the greenhouse. We now have two rows of beetroot, one of carrot, one of onion and a half-dozen gooseberry bushes growing in the vegetable plot, well half of it! We have potatoes growing between the greenhouses and elsewhere in the garden as well as strawberries, more gooseberries, more carrots, rhubarb, raspberry, and a little mint. Inside the greenhouses there are cucumbers, tomatoes chilli-peppers and capsicums. There are a couple of aubergines too. Apples are starting to grow now as are the plums and cherry. The garden now looks more like a garden that the half-wilderness it once looked like. It was early evening when I suggested we have an impromptu barbecue. E was all for it so we got the barbecue out of storage and cooked ourselves some steak and lamb. We made a quick salad to eat with it and a couple of soft drinks. After an hour or so we tidied up. E went indoors but I stayed outside to water the garden and lawn after which I went to the front garden and watered the plants there. I returned to the rear garden with my guitar and sat playing in the cooling evening air for an hour before finally going back indoors. All in all it had been a rather pleasant day.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on May 26, 2011
I have soil erosion! The soil in my garden is slowly eroding my sanity! Now that most of the patio is completed, (we need only to paint the concrete), I set about doing more soil filtering in the vegetable plot. Whilst other works have been going on we have not been able to filter much soil. On Monday E planted out onions and carrots in the vegetable plot but she needs to plant out beetroot soon. I spent most of yesterday filtering out the main part of the plot but although that area is now complete the soil level has dropped and will require another cubic metre or two to make it level enough for planting. If you can imagine a square in four sections we have completed approximately three of those sections. The remaining section (quarter) has bags of unfiltered soil and some debris stored upon it but it will not be finished until we can build a small brick platform on the concrete base on which the water-butt will sit. That’s the way things are, one job awaits another before progress can be made. I am pleased to say that the major works in the rear garden (this time around – there will be more later) have now been completed. There are some minor jobs to do as we can fit them in. It has been hard work all along the way but it certainly has been worth it to see the difference it has made and to make working and relaxing in the garden a much more pleasant experience. E’s nephew and his mate have given us a date for the completion of the paving stone pathway around the patio and the laying of paving under the window at the front of the house. That will be 7th June if all goes to plan.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on May 25, 2011
The patio is nearing completion now. All we need to do is to paint the concrete but that has to wait until we get delivery of the paint and a day or so of dry weather. Yesterday I completed the electrical installation. We now have three twin power outlets and three lights all fully working. In the morning I popped out to look at a job and when I returned we both applied the sealant on the concrete. After lunch and an hour or so later I applied a second coat of sealant. Normally three coats would be applied but as we are painting the concrete that won’t be necessary. It was another sunny day yesterday and still quite windy but it gave me the opportunity to finish off the electrics whilst E began planting out her onion and carrot plants she had been nursing in the 
greenhouse. 
In the photographs you can see the three lights and three power outlets together with the switch for the lights (the smaller of the two boxes on the left under the archway in the first and third photos). The third power outlet is shown in the first photo behind which is the light on the other side of the wall. You can enlarge the photos by clicking on them.
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