...will follow when I'm back online at the end of the week. Until then, here's some music (there are around 80 tracks queued up behind this post and an index around day 100)

UPDATE: We're back with a proper connection that has few if any spinning wheels... So, let's catch up...

Friday July 18 - DAY 116

Text received from Virgin saying they couldn't connect to our phone and our Hub isn't set up.
At practically the same time, so I maintain without...

Cormack

Hospital. Blood clinics have been rearranged from outlying facilities to the two bigger, more central sites and are walk-in, 12 until 4 on weekdays, which is clearly to reduce risk and limit possible transference.

Masks are mandatory in the building and there's a boxed stack of disposables at the door. Sanitise in, sanitise out. Bloods were on the ground floor so there was no call for lifts or stair etiquette. People sat in the corridors were separated one per bank of three...

Cormack

Good day at work where I actually got my head around a couple of unfamiliar things and ran a few systems which provided slightly different results but landed on the correct one when reverse engineering previous results.

Well, it made me happy. Mrs C spent her day on Teams so I was marginally restricted in what I could do so left it until late on, whereupon I crashed out shortly after I finished. I did have a huge piece of a phenomenal fish pie, mind, so that's going to be a factor......

Cormack

Very late to the parade after flaking out on #114 (to follow) as I was burning some evening oil.

A pretty quiet day with little to report. Daughter had to go for jabs which passed without incident and I built a fish pie. Not made, built. I started the night before and progressively worked through it. Cod, hake, haddock and salmon, all sorts of veg, hard boiled eggs, a lemon, bit of chilli and some flakes, proper vintage cheddar on the mash. Da bomb. I believe.

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Cormack

Back to the working week. I was shot to pieces today, aches and pains everywhere and skin not exactly a whiter shade of pale.

Recommended listening - Procol Harum, A Whiter Shade of Pale



Yeah, sue me.

Mum is up for a cast removal and assessment on Wednesday, fingers crossed for a move so she's at least nearer home and able to wear her own kit.

Son is bubbling with enthusiasm over the cricket and had another good...

Cormack