Seriously, they hate mushrooms.
I ordered 12 as part of an online order recently. 9 turned up. Each bagged separately – 6 in paper bags and 3 in plastic.
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Random thoughts on life
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Sleepless in Seattle: A Support Leads Meetup
Only my second work trip since the pandemic, and I was off to the US again – to Seattle for a Support Leeds meetup.
There was 8 of us in total, so it was a relatively small group and, is often the case when it’s this small, we made use of Airbnbs – a main “house” and a secondary one. I stayed in the secondary one.
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How do I check for broadband faults if I don’t have a landline phone number?
If you’re experiencing problems with your broadband, many of us will turn to online checking tools. Such tools are often provided by our ISPs to let us know if it’s a general fault our area or specific to our line. These tools are normally great – unless you don’t have a landline phone number to enter into the checker because you’re on a broadband-only connection.
So what do these customers do?
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The case for Artemis: Why we should go to Mars
With the Artemis I rocket hopefully making an unmanned trip to the moon, it is hoped to have astronauts on it within a few years and, within the next couple of decades, a trip to Mars.
But why go to the expense?
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Sabbatical Round-up
My sabbatical is nearly at an end, so I wanted to round-up what I did, what I didn’t and what I learnt from the experience.
First of all, let’s go through what I planned to do and not do and how that went…
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