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    #id
    Originally posted by Pondlife View Post
    In completely unrelated news the local WI have just had one of their "evenings"
    Was it run by that nice Ann Summers?

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      #id
      In other news, I've just returned from Cardiff having affirmed that I am who I say I am and probate should be given.

      Alongside ZeitSis, who also affirmed the same thing.

      It took at least five minutes in the probate registry, whereas the travel to & fro took two hours and the beer down in the bay took another hour.

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        #id
        Originally posted by zeitghost View Post
        It took at least five minutes in the probate registry, whereas the travel to & fro took two hours and the beer down in the bay took another hour.
        Eli Jenkins? Or the newly renovated Dock?

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          #id
          Originally posted by Pondlife View Post
          Eli Jenkins? Or the newly renovated Dock?
          Pub by Techniquest, can't remember what it's called, it's a Wetherspoons.

          The Mount Stuart. Apparently.
          Last edited by zeitghost; 19 May 2016, 16:44.

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            #id
            While it was dry in Swansea, there was a shower of rain in Bridgend, it was dry in Cardiff, though picking a bit, by the time I got back to sunny Neath, it was pissing down.

            It's verging on murrain of beasts at the moment.

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              #id
              Home!

              I almost made it there for half eight today, but I forgot my sandwich so I stopped off at a petrol station (incorporating M&S Food Shop) nearby, which meant I got there nearer quarter to nine. On reflection, it's only a few minutes away from ClientCo on foot, so I should have walked there during my lunch break.

              They expect the permies to do an eight hour day; another example of their slightly postwar mentality, along with the clothes issue. They also say "it's the law" that one has a half hour lunch break, so I can't pull my trick of having no lunch and leaving early.

              But at least they say contractors (of which I'm the only one) do seven and a half hours. So if I get there by half eight, I can be out the door at half four, which is the end of their only-marginally-flexitime core hours

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                #id
                Checking the map, it turns out there's a footpath along the brook that runs at the back of ClientCo that comes out just by the petrol station - Google Maps reckons five minutes on foot, so I'll definitely explore that when the weather's a bit better

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                  #id
                  Originally posted by zeitghost View Post
                  Pub by Techniquest, can't remember what it's called, it's a Wetherspoons.

                  The Mount Stuart. Apparently.
                  I know it. You're correct, it's a wetherspoons.

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                    #id
                    Chicken casserole from 23rd March out of the freezer for dinner. With rice. I couldn't be bothered with anything that would take more effort than that, but it was OK

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                      #id
                      Goodnight all

                      Friday tomorrow!

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