Feeling a bit frazzled on the shopping front this week - was not able to get a delivery slot in spite of obsessive refreshing, not exactly conducive to getting on with anything else with any concentration.
In the case of other things besides routine grocery shopping - and honestly, navigating round online supermarkets is a bit of a faff, I think it ( Read more... )

Well, this week has been somewhat fraught as either there were no Ocado slots to be had or I was missing the nano-second when they were released in spite of obsessive refreshing of the page at regular intervals.
However, today while waiting around for something else I took a look at Waitrose, not expecting anything, and mirabile dictu, there was a ( Read more... )

Came back from hols last week and had the usual massive amount of washing etc to catch up with, plus final opportunity to meet up with old acquaintance from the antypods temporarily in UK promoting a book, and the symposium of Learned Soc heretofore referred to.
And then finally got on to various outstanding things that had been hanging over my ( Read more... )

It's all very well going away and having a change and so on, but then there is coming home and having stuff to catch up with -
And that's before finding on the shelf in the hallway 2 cards for packages not delivered to be collected from the local PO sorting office, which is a hike away.
And perhaps I would feel in less of a frazz if we were not ( Read more... )

Okay, it started as looking like that thing that happened last year when my provider kept telling me I needed to top up even though I had plenty of saved credit, which eventually popped up, but not until I had faffed around topping up -
- but no, this was a new and different thing, whereby I thought I had turned off Data Roaming, but the system ( Read more... )

Am in departure lounge at DIA, after pacing up and down fretting about the shuttle (it did come), and having to join a long queue to check my bag at the BA counter even though I had checked in online and printed out my baggage tag at a self-service terminal WOT.
Security however was relatively expeditious. Also! Free and unfaffy Wi-Fi, and some of ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had a meeting with some meedja people who are making a programme that impinges upon one of my areas of expertise. And in spite of the fact that I had had to get up earlier than my wont after a not very brilliant night's sleep, and then got to the Tube station and found that there were no trains (and of course buses were sailing fully ( Read more... )

Honestly, I've no idea what's been up with Dutch Railways the last couple of days, but, seriously, AAAAAAAARGH.
So today we were going to do the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam and some more general sightseeing before getting the train to Schipol.
This plan was somewhat stymied by my pulling a muscle (or one that I pulled some while ago ( Read more... )

In a slight frazz about getting a v short piece of motor-horn honking written for Friday evening - there was no way this was going to get done before I went away (in fact the topic hadn't even been firmed up) and then there was jetlag, and then last week I thought I had set aside a clear evening to get started and that got eaten by making the ( Read more... )

Got to the station in more than good time, got the train, the train was not a problem (though I do think that they might provide power sockets along with the wifi, no?).
As we came into Toronto it started to rain, and by the time I found my way out of the station (building works...) it was chucking it down. There was a sign among the building work ( Read more... )