Bit busy for regular updates, and when I do get time to sit down and write something the broadband is down and that messes things up. It's behaving right now so we'll see...
Weekend started with a bit of a bump. Just starting to wind down and got a call from my manager starting "There's nothing to worry about...". Now is there anything more likely to make someone worry? Hopefully there is nothing to worry about, just a reorganisation at work. Wonder if I can get myself reorganised out? I was talking aboout retiring this week, mostly about how I hoped I'd be retired before AI could do my job. I thought yet, my manager not so sure.
After that, to the pub of course! We all walked to The White Hart in Hythe and had a nice sit in their courtyard playing cards. It's possibly the oldest pub in the area, but many places claim that in every town don't they. From there on to The Potting Shed, just me, Clare and the boys went home. I stayed until kicking out time, a very respectable nine pm. I got my semi-regular vegan chicken and rice noodles Singapore-style and walked home. Sat up a bit too late watching TV, but still got up for parkrun in the morning.
Was a hot run, just avoiding the rain. Lots more rain over the weekend.
Saturday afternoon we went to Wickes to see the bathroom design guy. It's complicated and gets more expensive every time we look, but we might have settled on something. Can get it interest-free over three years, so don't need to cash in premium bonds or anything, can keep saving as I keep paying for it. Just slighty concern that he has mis-measured and the extra storage Clare wants won't fit in. I think there has to be a lot of renegotiation and fiddling about once it gets handed over to a fitter. I'm partly expecting the fitter to be one of the other people who came out to give us quotes in the first place. I think you definitely pay a big premium for going to a place with a showroom.
I have given Trooli notice, prepare my final bill including any contact release fee, I can claim that back from the new provider EE, up to £300, and it should not be that. New kit is coming from EE this week, engineer coming Thursday.
Of to cinema today to see Superman, and then for a Nandos. Well, it was pay day.
Oh I was possibly at a David Devant gig a quarter of a century ago today, but I can't find it now 1.
Thundery showers and a moderate breeze, 15 - 19℃.
⬅️ Health stats 20/7/25 :: Pondering a new bag ➡️
Paul Clarkeʼs weblog - I live in Hythe in the deep South. Married to Clare + father to two, I'm a full-stack web developr, + I do js / nodejs, some ruby, other languages ect ect. I like pubs, parkrun, eating, home-automation + other diy stuff, history, tree stuff, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, and TIME TRAVEL.
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Yep, deliberately unstyled.