- Hullo đź‘‹
- The new batch of Kombucha has brewed and it’s very fizzy this time, probably because it’s been warmer in the kitchen. I think I’m going to do a second ginger brew next.
- The peas are in the ground and looking good. Tomatoes, lettuce, beetroots, and squash have all germinated and are chilling in the conservatory. Massive pink blossom tree is doing its annual thing.
- I read this thing about all the cyber attacks that have happened in the last 4 months. Both fascinating and terrifying in equal measure LINK. Absolutely love living through a paradigm shift!!!!
- On Wednesday my previous ride-or-die WBF (work best friend) Debbie visited the RM offices for NOW/NEXT/PRODUCT and blew everyone’s socks off with what she’s been up to at Loveholidays. Then we went to Forza Wine and had a cocktail and some soft-serve. Then I got very stuck getting home because, as happens about 50% of the time when I’m getting a late train, the trains were wrecked by some unknown problem on the line. Did bump into Chetan though so… not all bad.
- Please enjoy the Gnomes in the background of that photo of Debbie - when people have worked at RM for 10 years they get a “Gnomified” and put on that shelf.
- Alex and Graham finally unsubscribed me from STATUSPAGE updates about the FT :((((
- I still hate driving but this weekend I had to use the car to do a local errand and it made what would have been quite hard (getting the kids between play-dates and birthday parties) very easy, and I didn’t feel completely out-of-body anxious while I was at the party knowing I had to get back into the car to drive home.
- [Book binding] The printed book pages arrived but I had gotten the page orientation wrong meaning they were completely useless. >:( Since I had to print them all again anyway I decided make some more adjustments.
- Include some photos from Instagram at the corresponding weeks
- Make it 100 weeks per book instead of one per year
- Adjust margins so the side near the spine is wider
- Render the PDF automatically, and do a conversion direct from Markdown to PDF instead of HTML to PDF.
- Extract links to a list of references at the end of the week so they don’t clutter up the body text.
- Resize and optimise images for black and white printing.
- Swap out the emojis for a black and white version, which I hope will fix the fact that they didn’t print at all in the last print out.
- This delay also gave me the opportunity to re-bind the very knackered Meera Sodha Fresh India that was falling apart as a practice.
