Isobel

Banbury, June 3rd

This weekend was spent in Banbury with sister, bro-in-law, niece and nephew helping with some house-rearranging stuff and getting some quality family time as summer kicked in. It was all good if somewhat exhausting and as usual it took me a couple of hours on returning home to switch down the gears to the normal Bournville pace. All is well there. Izzy is turning into a real person and I’m finally seeing why people say Spike looks like me – I hope his huge grin doesn’t morph into quite the frown mine did.

As seems to happen every time I visit the various strands of my family I came back with a boot-load of stuff, specifically electrical equipment they’re no longer using which wouldn’t be worth taking to Cashconverters, though it’s still way better than the ramshackle stereo system I’d cobbled together. I’ve also got semi-perm loan of Jeff’s old mixing desk, a Mackie 1402-VLZ, which should be fun to play with as I have some half-arsed notions in that direction.

Also of note was the arrival, via post, of a large cardboard tube from Photobox containing two giant 30″ x 20″ prints of these two photos. These would normally cost £18.99 but they’re doing a special offer this month at £5.99. And by fuck are they fantastic. Not only that but you’ve got to love a company that warns you of a (quite reasonable) 5 day processing time for posters and then has them on your doorstep within 36 hours.

In work news, still no news about the perm position but I did figure out how to adjust the door armatures today. If you work in an environment with doors than slam loudly all the time get a couple of screwdrivers and remove the metal box attached to the arm. There should be a few control screws in there, one adjusting the general speed of closure and another for the final few inches into the frame. Playing with these will make things better. In theory.