Wandering Around Kings Cross
I took these pictures as I walked around Kings Cross.
Some of the first pictures were taken from a 390 bus.
Things are certainly happening!
How Does Switching On My LED Lights Warm The Room?
At about 17:30 with the lights off in my living room the temperature was 25.5°C with a humidity of 41%. I switched on the LED lights and by 19:00 the temperature has risen to 25.8°C with a humidity of 42%.
I thought it might have been some external factor, like the weather.
So I then switched the lights off and now the temperature has dropped to 25.3°C with a humidity of 42%.
I suspect Jerry used drivers that are little better than radiant heaters.
A Quote From Baroness Trumpington
She has just said this on the BBC.
If you don’t have a bit of guts, you’re not going to get far in life!
Long may she continue to be so forthright.
Getting Rid Of Useless Foreign Currency
I travel a lot and the small change from my Icelandic holiday is annoying me, as is the monetary detritus from trips to Poland and Scandinavia.
So I have now collected it together, with all the Eurotrash with a value of less than a euro. The total weight is just under half a kilo.
But what to do with it? I searched and found this page, which has a lot of good ways to give it to charity.
I have the money, now I’ll make my choice!
Would We Benefit From More Female Builders?
Over the years I’ve employed about half a dozen or so builders and rarely has progress been at the speed they said they would manage.
Usually, this seems to be because, the exclusively male person in charge, tends to muck up on the project management and some minor mistake causes a major delay in the work.
As the documentary on Crossrail showed some high level project managers in large construction projects are now female.
Could it be that the supposedly superior multi-tasking ability of the female of the species makes them good project managers, when they get the chance, as project management is often effectively juggling several balls with one hand?
Hence the title of this post!
But having been around project management for forty years, my gut instinct says that if more small builders were female-led, we would see an improvement in the performance of the building industry.
The odd fact about builders in my experience, is that whereas builders generally muck something up, decoratprs are usually much better with performance.
Is it because you’re dealing with a craftsman, who likes everything to be as good as possible?
A Design Crime – How Not To Design A Connector
This is the connector to get power and my computer connected to my Samsung Galaxy S5.
How Not To Design A Connector
Note the flimsy cover that clips over the orifice.
I doubt that it’ll last the life of the phone.
There is no excuse for crap design! Except perhaps in a piece of sit-upon sanitary ware!
Isn’t it about time, that all mobile devices had the same power connections?
Marks And Spencer Now Do Goats Milk
My food shopping, has got a bit easier, as I’ve now found that Marks and Spencer have been stocking goats’ milk for some time.
Marks And Spencer Now Do Goats Milk
This now means that the only staple I buy that is a bit difficult to find is my preferred Breakfast Cereal, which I can get in most Sainsburys’ stores and the excellent Waitrose at Canary Wharf.
So now most of my shopping can be done in one place, either a good Marks and Spencer or a larger Waitrose.
They may be nice people in Waitrose at the Angel, but I shan’t be sad if I don’t visit again, with its difficult to use plastic bags on the self-service tills. If I need to shop at the Angel, there’s always the small Mark and Spencer there, with its gluten free quiches and scotch eggs and excellent bakery products.
Over The River For A Tea And An Ice Cream
I walked over the footbridge on Fulham Railway Bridge, where I got a of tea and an icre cream in the Carluccio’s on the south bank.
It’s rather a large cafe and it sits right on the river. Their web site describes it like this.
Located on the riverfront, east of Putney Bridge and a minute from the High Street, the caffé boasts a huge riverfront terrace for sunny days.
I wouldn’t disagree and it would be a good pit stop on a walk by the river in the area. Perhaps, you might start at Putney Bridge station and walk across the railway bridge.
The First Off Licence In Frinton
Frinton had a reputation that it was a town, where the buying of alcohol was difficult and there were no pubs or shops selling the demon drink.
In the early 1980s, C was a pupil barrister in Ipswich and she was asked to do a case, where normally barristers would not be required.
She was asked to do an off-licence application for the Co-op, who were opening a small supermarket in the town. They thought that they wouldn’t get the licence, so that had approached her Chambers for some heavy weaponry to do the necessary.
When she met the man, who would actually hold the licence, she knew it would be a forgone conclusion.
He was a charming man, of Asian origin, who had been chosen well by the Co-op to knock down the barriers in the oh-so-genteel town of Frinton.
Whether she played the race card in Court, I do not know, but from fellow lawyers, who’d faced her in various cases, I know she had a subtle skill with words, that told those that matter, what she would do if she lost.
That was the last she ever heard of the case after the application for an off licence was approved.
Water In Glasgow City Centre
In this hot weather, I like to travel with a small bottle of water, so I went into this Co-operative store by Glasgow Central station.
It was the weirdest shop I’ve ever been in as everything was behind glass partitions. As I couldn’t find any water and a couple of other things I needed, I gave up.
So I went round the corner to a Tesco Express. That was weird too, as it seemed to be full of alcohol and chocolate. I did get my bottle of water though, and I was able to eventually find some EatNakd bars and some tissues.
As in the Co-op, there seemed to be several visitors to Glasgow, wandering aimlessly around looking for what they needed.
The Anonymous Widower 