Time_Shift

It seems that the three days of a Bank Holiday Weekend only occupy the same time as a normal two-day weekend – a sort of musical triplet of three into two. So sometime on Saturday you tell yourself that this is really the equivalent of Friday Night and then before you know it you are half-way through Monday and thinking about remembering to set the alarm for the next day. Where does it all go and who is saving up these extra days that do not really exist? Anyway, we have been on no major expeditions but it has been full and fulfilling, even if some of the fulfilling has been through busman’s holiday type support and some real out-of hours work on (shh – swear word coming up) excel VBA. I personally think that any large company should disable the use if VBA in Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint etc because that just tempts people to use it. I have been on the receiving end of many Excel and Word “improvements” that have just been thrown together and fail all over the place. Some of them just produce results that are plain wrong and no one has noticed. I have probably told you about the time I wrote a summary report of units travelling through a Work-in-Progress system and to show off my O-Level statistics I added the Standard deviation to the output. The shop-floor staff said they had no idea what standard deviation actually meant but that they had a feeling when it was bad and when it was good.

Anyway, these distractions aside, we have been to Southport, down to see the Iron Men of Crosby (Not Marine Football Club) and played with the new scanner. The youngest has probably put away a whole box of chocolate fingers though not all of them went into his mouth. Daughter has tidied her room without asking because the grandparents visited so that Grandma would spend time amongst the pink and fluffy grotto that is the natural environment of the seven-year-old girl these days and always. Much Wallace and Gromit has been watched and repeated … and repeated.

I actually managed to get to the scrap-book, the results of which are below, along with a number of other things you may or may not find interesting.





So you see, I was slightly less sad than the poor sap who spent the extra day tidying his Penguin Shelf – though as you can see I did that too.