# ✧ Wednesday, February 18, 2026
[[2026-W08|]]
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### 📋 Today's Schedule
| Time | Activity | Location |
| ------------ | --------------------------- | ------------------------------------- |
| 9:30 - 12:00 | Wakehurst Bonnies Adventure | Wakehurst National Trust, West Sussex |
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### 🌤️ Weather
**Burgess Hill — Wednesday 18th February 2026**
🌧️ Moderate Rain Expected | 🌡️ 4.4°C now (High: 6.9°C / Low: 2.4°C) | 💨 Wind: 20.1 km/h | 🌂 19.4mm rain forecast
Wet and blustery day ahead — definitely pack waterproofs for Wakehurst. A proper British February.
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### ✝️ Thought of the Day
> *"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands."*
> — Psalm 19:1
Even on a grey, rainy Wednesday, creation is telling its story. A good reminder to look up — whether it's a drizzly woodland walk with Bonnie at Wakehurst or a quiet moment at home. His fingerprints are everywhere.
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### 📺 Tonight's Viewing
**A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms** — Season 1, Episode 5: *"In the Name of the Mother"*
🔗 [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32314204/) · ⭐ 9.8/10
The penultimate episode of the season — and what an episode. It opens with a flashback to Dunk's origins in Flea Bottom, where he and Rafe were nothing more than poor orphans scraping by in the aftermath of the First Blackfyre Rebellion. Then it's straight into the main event: the **Trial of Seven**, with Dunk's faction — including the noble Prince Baelor Targaryen — squaring off against the brutal Prince Aerion's champions. Death is everywhere, backstory is delivered hard, and the episode earns its jaw-dropping 9.8 IMDB rating. Viewers are calling it the best duel ever put to screen in a TV series — on par with Game of Thrones' Hardhome. One episode left in the season.
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### 📝 Today's Accomplishments
- 🧠 **MEMORY.md** trimmed from 8,437 → 3,354 chars (was over the workspace limit) — all key info preserved
- 🎲 **D&D Episode 17** — "The Pink Flumph's Secret" written up in Kozu's voice and saved to [[Episode 17]]
- 🌅 **Morning routine** completed — weather fetched, Psalm 19:1 reflection, voice briefing delivered
- ⚙️ **OpenAI API** added to OpenClaw config — GPT‑5.2 registered as fallback model (alias: `gpt`)
- 🔍 **memory_search** switched from Gemini → OpenAI embeddings (`text-embedding-3-small`) — now returning real results from memory files
- 🌿 **Wakehurst** visited with Bonnie — 535 acres, Millennium Seed Bank (2.3bn seeds, 40,000 species), oldest tree a Yew from ~1391
- 📋 **Outstanding tasks logged**: 15th Feb tournament results still to send to TTE and players; moonstone necklaces to collect from Zobolop; Kozu's purple cloak with Sarah at market square
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### 🌿 Wakehurst — Bonnies Adventure
A grey, drizzly February morning — exactly the kind of day that could have felt miserable but didn't. We headed out to Wakehurst National Trust with Bonnie for the Bonnies Adventure trail, and honestly it was brilliant from start to finish.
The grounds were quiet in that lovely winter way — bare trees, muddy paths, cold air — but full of life once you knew where to look. Wakehurst is a stunning 535-acre estate managed by Kew Gardens, home to the **Millennium Seed Bank** (2.3 billion seeds from 40,000 species, stored underground as a global insurance policy for plant life). There's a Yew tree on the grounds that dates back to around 1391 — older than the Tudor dynasty. That kind of scale puts things in perspective.
The real star of the day for Bonnie though? **Aardman's 50 Years of Clay** AR experience. Scattered across the grounds, you could point your phone and find Shaun the Sheep, Bitzer, and Wallace & Gromit characters appearing in the landscape. Bonnie was absolutely in her element hunting them all down.
**Highlights from the AR trail:**
- 🐑 Shaun and Bitzer posing together in the field — Marrie pulling jazz hands behind them
- 🐑 Shaun rolled into a giant mudball, covered in clay splatters — peak February energy
- 🧀 Bitzer surrounded by an explosion of Wensleydale cheese splats — the orange blobs were everywhere
- 🐑 Shaun standing triumphantly on top of three wooden barrels, with Marrie doing the perfect "yeah, that's my sheep" side-eye pose
Cold, muddy, and wonderful. Exactly the kind of Wednesday morning adventure that makes you glad you went. 🐑🧀
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### ⚡︎ Tags
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#progress #schedule #idea #completed #daily
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>[! journal]- This Note From Different Years
>```dataview
TABLE alias
FROM "0-TIME GARDEN/01 Daily"
WHERE dateformat(date, "MM-dd") = dateformat(this.file.day, "MM-dd") AND file.name != this.file.name
SORT date DESC
>```