{"id":8950,"date":"2022-04-17T21:33:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T21:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/?p=8950"},"modified":"2022-04-17T21:33:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T21:33:04","slug":"weeknotes-164-evaporated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2022\/04\/17\/weeknotes-164-evaporated\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknotes #164 \u2014 Evaporated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><div id=\"attachment_8947\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8947\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8947\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-37-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Bristol\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-37-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-37-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-37-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-37-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-37-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-37-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-37-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-37-700x700.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bristol<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Although we were no longer on <a href=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2022\/04\/11\/weeknotes-163-malaga\/\" title=\"Andrew Doran: Weeknotes #163 \u2014 M\u00e1laga\">a \u2018proper\u2019 holiday<\/a>, I had another week away from work. This one seems to have quickly evaporated without me making much headway into my personal to-do list.<\/p>\n<p>A week in which I:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Took my youngest boy for an eye test and booked myself in for one, the first since before the pandemic.<\/li>\n<li>Had two visits from our plumbing insurance company to try and resolve the issue with our immersion heater electrics. The first guy turned up to tell me that he didn\u2019t fix \u2018unvented\u2019 things (like immersion heaters), only \u2018vented\u2019 things (like boilers). This resulted in a second guy turning up, who took a look for two seconds and then told me the electricity supply to the immersion isn\u2019t covered under our insurance. What a waste of time.<\/li>\n<li>Took a trip to Ross-on-Wye to see my wife\u2019s parents for the day. We stayed overnight and travelled to Bristol the next day to visit my brother-in-law, his wife and our newest nephew. Children <em>really<\/em> grow up quickly when you don\u2019t see them day-to-day. He\u2019s six months old already and so different to when we saw him last time, with his lovely smile being beamed to everyone. As we went to find a spot to eat <a href=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2022\/04\/14\/8934\/\">our lunch<\/a>, we couldn\u2019t believe our eyes when we saw a giant seagull take someone\u2019s wrap from their hands as they ate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_8945\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8945\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8945\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-1-2-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Stuff in the muddy riverbanks in Bristol\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-1-2-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-1-2-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-1-2-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-1-2-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-1-2-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-1-2-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-1-2-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-1-2-700x700.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stuff in the muddy riverbanks in Bristol<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Travelled into London to see <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macbeth\" title=\"Wikipedia: Macbeth\">Macbeth<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shakespearesglobe.com\/\" title=\"Shakespeare\u2019s Globe\">Shakespeare\u2019s Globe<\/a> theatre. Trains into and out of Euston were cancelled all weekend due to engineering works, so we planned to go into town via the tube from Chesham. But when we got there, the line had stopped running due to an incident. Our only choice was to bite the bullet and drive in, paying the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London_congestion_charge\" title=\"Wikipedia: London congestion charge\">congestion charge<\/a> and parking as close to the theatre as we could. The venue is <a href=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2022\/04\/15\/8942\/\">lovely to look at<\/a> but let down by modern impracticalities \u2014 the un-amplified voices of the actors were regularly drowned out by the sounds of passing aircraft and helicopters, and as it was so hot we saw four people in the audience collapsing and being taken out in wheelchairs. It was fun to go once, but I won\u2019t do it again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_8948\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8948\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8948\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-2-2-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"London was busier than I have seen it in years\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-2-2-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-2-2-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-2-2-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-2-2-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-2-2-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-2-2-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-2-2-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-2-2-700x700.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">London was busier than I have seen it in years<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Paid a visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decoaudio.com\" title=\"Deco Audio\">Deco Audio<\/a> in Aylesbury to pick up my repaired CD player and browse the second-hand vinyl. I was very restrained, picking up only a couple of records. I\u2019ve wanted to get the player up and running again as quite a few boxed sets I\u2019ve bought recently have included CDs. Playing them over the air in the house isn\u2019t quite the same as settling down to listen to something physical.<\/li>\n<li>Had a sunny Sunday lovely afternoon at a friends\u2019 house, with drinks and nibbles in the back garden.<\/li>\n<li>Spent a lot of the week exercising. I feel like I\u2019ve been overdoing it a little bit and could do with a lie-in, and Strava seems to agree. But I\u2019m also conscious that I will be back at work next week and won\u2019t be able to exercise on the days that I go into the office. Ideally I\u2019d like to keep up the running habit that I got into in M\u00e1laga alongside my bike riding. It has been brilliant to get back out riding outside on multiple days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_8944\" style=\"width: 1180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8944\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8944\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-3-1.jpeg\" alt=\"This week\u2019s efforts\" width=\"1170\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-3-1.jpeg 1170w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-3-1-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-3-1-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-3-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-3-1-700x467.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This week\u2019s efforts<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8946\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8946\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8946\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-4-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Riders passing us on Saturday as our group stopped to solve a puncture\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-4-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-4-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-4-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-4-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-4-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-4-1-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-4-1-700x525.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riders passing us on Saturday as our group stopped to solve a puncture<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8949\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8949\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8949\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-5-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A beautiful place to stop\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-5-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-5-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-5-1-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-5-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-5-1-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-5-1-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-5-1-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DraggedImage-5-1-700x700.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A beautiful place to stop<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Next week:<\/strong> Seeing my brothers and their families for the first time in a long time, a couple of album club evenings, and 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This one seems to have quickly evaporated without me making much headway into my personal to-do list. A week in which I: Took my youngest boy for an eye test and booked myself in for one, the first since [&hellip;]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-weeknotes","7":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9910,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2023\/02\/12\/weeknotes-207-mechanicals\/","url_meta":{"origin":8950,"position":0},"title":"Weeknotes #207 \u2014 Mechanicals","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"12 February 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"A really busy week that zipped by. 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