Breakfast, or possibly brunch, was a couple of croissants with my morning coffee 
No strawberry jam on them today as it had gone mouldy
No strawberry jam on them today as it had gone mouldy
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afternoon
paid ontime, new invoice raised, 21 days to go
oh, i appear to have upset the Blessed Bishop of Basel's snowflake sensitivities again.
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Just about to leave Amsterdam to meet HWMBO in Madrid. All uneventful so far.Comment
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Forgot to say: it's 22 degrees ('feels like" 25) and cloudy here at Schipol.Comment
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Tea has been Chinese leftovers
Accompanied by a bit of Police Interceptors though I'm not too sure if I've seen this one before - let's face it, there's not a huge variety of things that happen in them
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HWMBO and I arrived in Madrid within 5 mins of each other despite us both experiencing weather related delays.
On our stroll.back from dinner, I noticed the bar next door to our hotel had a good selection of gins. One of which being HWMBO's favourite. So we stopped in for one. The free pour was exceptionally generous and with a whole bottle of tonic was still "strong". At only €12 a drink, it's now our official gin joint for the next couple of days, until we move hotels and it becomes less practical.Comment
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Time for a change from sci-fi, so tonight I started reading The Collected Stories of Rumpole by John Mortimer. The title is something of a misnomer though; according to the introduction there are four novels and eighty short stories, and this contains twenty short stories. So they only collected a few
Anyway, it's quite entertaining. I'd never read any before, and nor have I seen the TV programmes. I always assumed the TV stuff was adaptations, but it turns out the Play for Today in the mid-1970s was actually the first appearance of the character, with the written versions following from that
Monday again tomorrow, and my first Monday working since the end of July. But as I mentioned the other day, I think the stuff I'm working on now will be more enjoyable; we shall see
Goodnight all 
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