I’m over the jet lag. I think. Couple of good nights’ sleep in me own bed. Comfort food. No booze. Stuff like that. Sticking with the comfort food for now as the diet starts on Monday.
Outside it is raining. As it is wont to do in autumn Lincoln. This I quite like. I like staring out at the rain. Through the open doors of the shed. Listening to it on the roof. Very relaxing.
Funny how quickly you get used to the weather back in the UK. I wouldn’t want to live somewhere that was mostly warm and sunny. Not my thing. Like it for a while, then I like the change.
The only thing I don’t really like is the low light non weather of January and February. It would be ok if it froze and we had snow and ice but that is rarely the case. Enough weather talk.
Today is Friday. You may or may not have known this. It might be relevant, it might not. Everything is relevant, in its own way. Blow me down I’ve made it through another week. TGIF. Do you still go down the pub for lunch?
Years ago when working at Marconi in Lincoln we used to nip to the Royal Oak in Aubourn for Friday lunch. I’d have the same thing every week. Jumbo ham roll and chips and a bottle of Perrier water. The jumbo ham roll really was mahoosive. When I got home I was always asked what I had for lunch and the answer was always ‘a ham roll’.
One Saturday morning, pre kids, Anne (she wasn’t known as THG in those days – we didn’t have much of a garden in Greetwell Gate) and I went out for a spin in the car. Around lunchtime we happened to drive past the Royal Oak and decided to pop in for some nourishment.
The barman just said ‘usual?” to which I nodded. We sat down, me with my Perrier water and eventually the jumbo ham roll and chips turned up. ‘Ahah she cried. ‘A ham roll!!’ I was rumbled 🙂. I hadn’t mentioned the jumbo bit nor the chips. Didn’t matter really but a nice story. The family running that pub moved on and we stopped going there.
Do people still go out for a pub lunch on Fridays?
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In other news Mac Mini sorted. Fixed itself but took ten mins or so which is a long time considering the amount of processing power it has. Anyway, done now. Just need to stick my AV gear back in the shed and then fully up and running again.
Boy does it feel good to be back with a decent internet connection. Everywhere we went it varied between non-existent to mediocre to just about ok. There was clearly a big fibre rollout going on but hotels didn’t seem to be interested. The exception was Manoir des Sines which had fttp and had v good connectivity in the main rooms but had such thick walls that there was nothing in our bedroom.