It's chucking it down outside.
Despite this, I have ventured forth for various odd bits of shopping. I ended up heading for the opposite side of the city at around the same time as chucking-out at the rugby ground, so progress was rather slow.
I was waiting in a queue for a couple of minutes next to the place where I first worked after leaving uni, doing the Teletext stuff in Forth. It's all shabby and derelict now. The offices wherein the directors used to lurk have lost the glass from their large windows. I wonder if the plaque is still up in Reception commemorating the time Princess Margaret visited, for reasons that were never clear to me.
The Royal Visit was a number of years before my time, but there was a persistent legend that the reason the walls of the engineering departments (h/w first floor, s/w second) were painted a particularly vibrant shade of yellow was because it was her favourite colour
The company relocated to Nottingham in the late Eighties. I looked it up recently. It moved into things like equipment for CCTV control rooms for town centres, and some kind of defence-related work that doesn't seem to be clearly described anywhere. It finally went bust in the 2000s.
It was thirty years ago this month I started there. Sic transit gloria mundi, and all that.
Despite this, I have ventured forth for various odd bits of shopping. I ended up heading for the opposite side of the city at around the same time as chucking-out at the rugby ground, so progress was rather slow.
I was waiting in a queue for a couple of minutes next to the place where I first worked after leaving uni, doing the Teletext stuff in Forth. It's all shabby and derelict now. The offices wherein the directors used to lurk have lost the glass from their large windows. I wonder if the plaque is still up in Reception commemorating the time Princess Margaret visited, for reasons that were never clear to me.
The Royal Visit was a number of years before my time, but there was a persistent legend that the reason the walls of the engineering departments (h/w first floor, s/w second) were painted a particularly vibrant shade of yellow was because it was her favourite colour
The company relocated to Nottingham in the late Eighties. I looked it up recently. It moved into things like equipment for CCTV control rooms for town centres, and some kind of defence-related work that doesn't seem to be clearly described anywhere. It finally went bust in the 2000s.
It was thirty years ago this month I started there. Sic transit gloria mundi, and all that.
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