Following two nights with the CPAP machine, the watch said this morning:

Although I didn't feel that good today. The SpO2 graph had a few dips and the snoring time was low:

Deep sleep was good, so actually the thing that correlates with feeling better was lack of deep sleep …

I hope you don't mind me going on about my sleep, but I do find it useful to set things down here.

Following on from my previous post, I tried using the CPAP machine last night, and felt better today. The SpO2 graph was:

So not too different from 1st …

I felt that there was something wrong with my sleep, so I bought a Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 to monitor myself. I asked it to check for Obstructive Sleep Apnoea, which it did over the previous two nights (28th Feb and 1st March) and came back this morning saying that …

Inspired by a recent BANES Liveable Neighbourhoods workshop, here are my four suggestions for minor changes that could greatly improve things for the walkers and wheelers of Oldfield Park. The map images below are clickable, taking you to the actual map.

Junction Of Oldfield Road And Wells Road

People walking …

I became concerned that despite their appalling and illegal rule, failing to recognise the de facto Taliban government of Afghanistan was doing more harm than good, so I wrote to my MP, Liberal Democrat Wera Hobhouse:

From: Tony Locke
Sent: 7 February 2022 08:23
To: Office Of Wera Hobhouse …

I seem to remember that these two quotes are from Daniel Ingram:

• If there's one thing guaranteed to make the heart sink it's someone saying to you, 'Let me tell you about my spiritual journey...'.

• There are all sorts of good ways of learning the dharma: books, teachers etc. the …

I'd picked up Phineas Redux at a charity shop and was about to read it when I read somewhere that it was important to read Phineas Finn first.

Reading Phineas Finn, I came across the following speech:

"...Many who before regarded legislation on the subject as chimerical, will now fancy …

Not sure when this was taken but it's our dog Roger, who died a long time ago.

I often boldly state, as an iron law of history, that you don't get civil war in a democracy. Putting it more cautiously, I just think that civil war is less likely in a democracy.

By Charleston Mercury - Public Domain

The counterexample that most people come up with is the …