Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.

[Gramaisc]

Ordered a wardrobe from IKEA. I had a quick look at the assembly instructions and think I will need to book a couple of days off work!

A friend of mine bought three quite swish ones, very cheaply, as the instructions were known to be wrong.

There was a single small error on a picture quite early on, but it buggered up the whole assembly. Once that was discovered and rectified, the other two went together with no problem.

 

[staffordjas]

After a nice night dining out at our local with son , enjoyed a really good day today as well.

After my Pfizer booster at the Kingston centre , enjoyed a quick chat with @FooFighter on the way out before a drive to the chase with hubby and son. Lovely walk spotting snakes and deer , but now worried about the stag who was limping badly .

Watched a caterpillar crossing Camp road , willing it to get to the grass verge before any vehicles squashed it. Now got a video of me on instagram , running back up the road to see if it had survived the passing car .

 

[Thehooperman]

Enjoyed a blowy stroll around Essex bridge area at lunchtime.

And my furry companion enjoyed a forage through the woods for stickies.

 

[Thehooperman]

Noticed the repair job on Essex bridge where the car was driven into it last year. A job well done by the look of it.

Also spotted this Network Rail access point onto the railway.

Surprised it is allowed in this Health and Safety crazy day and age but it is still an official access point.

 

[Gramaisc]

And the nearby bridge location is incorrectly spelled - although, I suppose it's the number that really matters - and it seems very unlikely to be struck by a road vehicle at any sort of speed.

 

[Gramaisc]

I'm drinking a rogue bottle of beer* that I found hidden away - to celebrate filling in my tax form online.

The people who produce these systems really are 'special'.


* Mentioned elsewhere.

 

[BobClay]

Last night's mayhem ...

 

[That-Crazy-Rat-Lady]

Today I have bashed my eye on a door knob and smashed my head on the corner of the little freezer - they say things come in threes so here we go...

Also finally manged to get the forum on my new work laptop - no stopping me now!

 

[Trumpet]

Frost in Willenhall this morning.

 

[Lucy]

Frost in Church Eaton too.

 

[littleme]

Can anyone tell me the name of the documents in the library that we had to use to research school projects in the 1980's/90's.....it was in a light projector type thingy.... It showed newspaper clipping style stories.... That I know as 'microfleiche', but googling it brings nothing up..... And, have these been replaced with computerised data?

 

[YorkshirePud]

microfiche ? It may depend on what you want to look up, and where, as to whether they are still in use. I don't recall seeing any in the new Stafford Library, but they might still be in use in the William Salt Library.

 

[Noah]

If you used a rectangular thing with a lot of pictures of pages then a microfiche reader, if you fed 35mm film through it then a microfilm reader. For much of the stuff that was on fiche or film then yes it may well have been digitised for computer use.

 

[littleme]

Thank you @Noah & @YorkshirePud neither of us lived in Stafford at the time, me in Coventry, and him in Stoke.... Who knew, an extra 'L' would mess my search up so much?

 

[Noah]

I've used microfiche and microfilm readers all over the place. Digitised stuff is usually much easier Is there anything in particular that you want to look up?

 

[littleme]

I've used microfiche and microfilm readers all over the place. Digitised stuff is usually much easier Is there anything in particular that you want to look up?

No, we were just talking about the struggles *researching as a school child in the 80's compared to kids research now....

Library only open Monday to Saturday, school every weekday, which left only Saturday* to scroll through reels and reels of microfiche to look for what you wanted....

*but Saturday mornings were taken up with swimming in the morning, then roller disco from 12pm.....

 

[Gramaisc]

Microfiche?

You were lucky.

 

[staffordjas]

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Microfiche?

You were lucky.

We had to go to the library and read books in the 60s/70s (in the hope no-one else had taken out the one available one at the time)

 

[PeterD]

Microfiche?

You were lucky.

Stone tablet?

 

[littleme]

Where can I buy fresh Gulab Jaman/Dewalli sweets tomorrow in Stafford? Mill Street International Supermarket!?