On This Day…
As you can see from the post above, we are a year old today. That’s quite a lump of work that will hopefully still be there long after I’ve gone. We’ll see.
Yesterday was pretty uneventful although it had been incredibly busy on Northern’s web site over the long weekend, so that was a good thing to go back into.
Have a faulting smoke detector upstairs which decided to go off at 4am this morning. These are ‘plumbed’ in to the mains electricity with battery back up so it is tough to switch them off. Equally it is quite a start to wake up to the shreak of the detector and wondering if we were actually on fire. Emma didn’t stir. No change there then.
It’s nice to think today that we are already halfway through the week.
Someone is coming to look at Jo’s car today with a view to buying after I reduced it a couple of hundred pounds at the weekend. It will be great if it goes for an extra few hundred pounds than the dealer wants to give me, but could give me a challenge with collecting Auntie Avril and Tricia to show them around down here this weekend.
On this day…
- The driving test is introduced in the UK (1934)
- Auschwitz receives it’s first female prisoners (1942)
- Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine (1953)
- The Melissa Worm is unleashed (1999)
Hatches, matches, despatches…
- Leonard Nimoy born (1931)
- James Caan born (1940)
- Diana Ross born (1944)
- Friend Patrick Hirst born (1956) (Thanks Nick!)
- William Hague born (1961)
- Ludwig Van Beethoven dies (1827)
- Cecil Rhodes dies (1902)
- David Lloyd George dies (1945)
- Noel Coward dies (1973)
- Wilfred Pickles dies (1978)
- Jim Callaghan dies (2005)
Quote of the Day:
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
–Dr. George Washington Carver
Weather = 
It’s clear and cold, should be warm later…get those mowers out (and break them!)
Mood meter = 
It’s not good living with Jo when she’s tired…boy she’s mad this morning!
