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[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc.

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^ I suppose you've checked everything for hidden pound notes? I found £500 hidden in various places before next door was cleared.

Morning.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Dry.

NotSoCold in here at 15.4 deg, 16 deg in the kitchen, 13.5 deg in the leanto.

1025 mBar, 30.268 in Hg, 768.8 Torr, 14.866 psi, (unchanged), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 13th of November 2019 WTFH was off to the dentist, I was in with the hoi polloi in the old Library computer room expecting it to be raining by the time I left, whereas NF was watching "Edge of Darkness (BBC version)".

[NickFitz]

Tonight's major motion picture was War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) which is, of course, excellent. And with the trilogy rewatched, I am able to embark upon the new one, sure in the knowledge that the back story is clear in my memory

And then S6E2 of The Wire

Still not feeling 100%, so I'm not sure I'll be heading south tomorrow. It occurred to me that the new owners have accepted our offer to leave the conservatory furniture for them, so any bits I want can be stored in the conservatory as the clearance people shouldn't be going in there anyway. That makes getting stuff slightly less urgent, though I still need to pop down and get some of it and put the rest in there. It means it's less of a rush job though, so I'll probably go down either Sunday or Monday - they won't start clearing stuff until Monday afternoon anyway

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Already billed for 4hr tomorrow, if I turn on my PC at 7am and take the dog out, the it’s off by 11am.

TFBSZ.

[ladymuck]

I have had to report two maintenance issues to my landlady in recent weeks: overflowing guttering and the growing crack in the garden wall.

The former is going to be resolved tomorrow morning, 9.30 am.

[ladymuck]

Lots of The Repair Shop has been watched this evening. And the latest Only Connect.

[NickFitz]

Tea: pork cutlet with chips and beans. Very nice too

[NickFitz]

The initial (area) bit of a post code determined the major postal centre the post was sent to - so Bedford post would be centrally sent to Milton Keynes from where it was sent to the local sorting offices.

Nowadays a number of those centres have been merged, so the central hub for the North East is now a single one on Tyneside where previously there were ones in Boro (TS), Darlo (DL), Durham (DH), Sunderland (SR) and Newcastle (NE).

That's the theory but even by 1979, post for Bedford was being routed directly there. I know because I worked the Christmas post that year and spent my afternoons in a warm hut on the station platform, popping out once an hour to load or unload mailbags from the trains on the Midland mainline

There's probably a hub over in MK now though.

[ladymuck]

Current project is with a telecom firm. When you register a number nowadays you also need to provide the location so you can be using a London number in Glasgow (say). What I suspect would happen is that you would get routed to London's emergency centres who then has to transfer the details to Glasgow

When I had my BT digital line, they regularly nagged for me to make sure the registered address was up to date.

Felt rather pointless as I could install the Cloud Voice app on my phone and use that to call from anywhere...

[eek]

Yes, I thought that was odd when we moved there in 1971 - Milton Keynes had barely even been started by then, still consisting mostly of a bunch of villages and a few very small towns

The initial (area) bit of a post code determined the major postal centre the post was sent to - so Bedford post would be centrally sent to Milton Keynes from where it was sent to the local sorting offices.

Nowadays a number of those centres have been merged, so the central hub for the North East is now a single one on Tyneside where previously there were ones in Boro (TS), Darlo (DL), Durham (DH), Sunderland (SR) and Newcastle (NE).

[eek]

Current project is with a telecom firm. When you register a number nowadays you also need to provide the location so you can be using a London number in Glasgow (say). What I suspect would happen is that you would get routed to London's emergency centres who then has to transfer the details to Glasgow

My conclusion was always use your mobile when calling 999 as that uses the mast to work out where to route the call.

[eek]

The rot set in when they got rid of exchange names, like MUS for Bloomsbury, or WHI(tehall) 1212 for Scotland Yard

Current project is with a telecom firm. When you register a number nowadays you also need to provide the location so you can be using a London number in Glasgow (say). What I suspect would happen is that you would get routed to London's emergency centres who then has to transfer the details to Glasgow

[jamesbrown]

Yes, I thought that was odd when we moved there in 1971 - Milton Keynes had barely even been started by then, still consisting mostly of a bunch of villages and a few very small towns

There's probably a vaguely interesting story behind it. I think postcodes were rolled out nationally in the early 70s.

[ladymuck]

I had a hankering for eggy bread, proper version not that over sweet French toast muck. So, that's what I made. I realised too late that I could have clogged up a few more arteries by turning it into a eggy bread bacon sandwich. Probably for the best that I didn't do it.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a cold chicken leg with a bag of plain crisps

Still feeling a bit below par, which is quite annoying as I felt fine for the first couple of hours after getting up