Tuesday 16th January 2021

Tuesday.

Where to start?

Well, I can tell you that the rain fell again

And I had a meeting at seven, so there was no walking for me to do, just not enough time, and Jools went straight to work, leaving me to make a second coffee and prepare for another couple of meetings.

As is usual, there was our boss and a specialist from Denmark, all working from either their living room of home office. Same for my former colleagues, then there was our Indian colleagues in Chennai. That we were all able to talk, share video and desktops is a pretty remarkable thing to be honest.

We talk for two and a half hours, by which time it was gone nice, so I have breakfast, more coffee. I look out the window and the rain was still falling, a drainpipe had come away from the guttering, and a steady stream fell on the plastic roof of the car port with a regular drum beat.

There is the usual IT failure. The glorious Friday morning last week when we had access to all systems is now a distant memory, as we stare at blank screens, or the failures to log on. We are supposed to be doing gap analysis, but can't as we can't look at the documents on one side.

So it goes, so it goes.

I get some salt beef out of the fridge to have with the bread I made monday, I cut it think, use mayo instead of butter, and find a jar of ancinet whole grain mustard to smother it with.

Lunchtime morphs into afternoon. It seems to be already getting dark, I do some reviews of documents, and the afternoon passes into early evening, and having started at half six, I finish at half three, wrapping up and slumping on the sofa for some oNly Connect action.

Dinner was dirty food; kofte kebabs, fried potatoes, garlic mushrooms with peppers and frozen corn. Nice and dirty.

And I had a good slug of wine, which was rather nice.

After watching some train videos and writing, I listen to some radio, keep an eye on the football results, and that's that. I go to bed at nine, leaving the football to play itself out, unseen.