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Recorded daily weather on sheets of paper or in a notebook from when I was a child as despite being brought up in a city I found weather fascinating. I did not have enough knowledge to get into it as a professional career, and my notes relied on instruments sold for gardeners, not to quality needed for professionals.
 
On retirement, I bought myself a Fine Offset Weather Station, used since early 2009 (although some parts have been replaced).
 
Started using Cumulus 1.9.2 (build 1017) just because I wanted something that ''would produce web pages that I could experiment with'' (as I had decided to learn HTML 5, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP and MySQL; initially because I thought it gave me a saleable skill for my retirement). People described me as "Stupid Fool with Weather Station" and that made me register as SFWS! To thank Steve Loft, I agreed to finish off work started by others on documenting the original Cumulus software.
 
For a few years, as a full-time carer, I whilewas away from home (and weather station), and (as a full-timeway carer,to unwind from those tiring emotionally and physically) I learnt about '''METAR usage in all countries of world'''.
 
When I got back to my home, after the last of my relatives died, I focussed on outside pursuits, and usage of any computer virtually ceased. I have moved twice since, so packing up, home-hunting, and subsequently unpacking plus home renovation diverted me from working on this Wiki.
When I got back to my home, after the last of my relatives died, I became busy with outside pursuits, abandoning usage of any computer.
 
I have moved twice since, so packing up, home-hunting, and subsequently unpacking plus home renovation made me take another break from running weather station and from working on this Wiki.
 
I eventually brought a property with garden, which had been neglected by elderly previous owner, where I hope to see out my days. Consequently, the property required a lot of remedial work to bring it back to being a home! The Covid-19 pandemic has made my plan to employ contractors to remedy the serious faults, leaving me to struggle alone.
 
In early 2020 I restarted using Cumulus 1 at my latest home in a village bungalow with garden where I hope to see out my days. When I decided to test out MX, I documented my experience and later documented my swap to Raspberry pi,. butBoth theWiki Covid-19pages pandemicwould hasbenefit madefrom mysomeone planelse tomaking employthem contractorseasier to remedy the serious faults in the previously neglected property I bought, raving me to fix what I canfollow.
 
The newer features of MX are irrelevant to me, so someone else will need to finish off the MX documenting.
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