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[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

[NickFitz]

With the rollout of digital lines and exchanges, I suspect geographic numbers could become a thing of the past as you can port your number to any address IIRC

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

[ladymuck]

It's entirely their fault though. I'd expect a Bedford firm to have a Bedford phone number, and this had an area code which turns out to be Milton Keynes, where their head office is located. Businesses need to realise that for those of a certain age, geography is an important aspect of telephony

With the rollout of digital lines and exchanges, I suspect geographic numbers could become a thing of the past as you can port your number to any address IIRC

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny with barely a cloud in the sky. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 16 expected. No rain forecast. Barometer way up to 1026 mBar (1029 mBar according to my weather app). Next week is looking warmer.

Interview date/time confirmed this morning. I have four days to coach myself into all the right things to say.