It’s an amazing vessel. If it ever comes to Southampton I hope to be able to visit. Source: work for Prysmian and it’s cool to see us “in the wild” like this 🙂🙂

https://www.prysmiangroup.com/en/new-vessel-leonardo-da-vinci

We live a mile from Carfest so I’m doing my best not to be annoyed by literally everything about it.

Otherwise, over to friends for a wedding celebration this afternoon, pottering in the sewing shed and visiting my folks tomorrow. Monday getting the house tidied for house sitters coming at the end of the week 😎

Driving up from Winchester to Edinburgh today, Seeing friends tonight and then the Tattoo tomorrow evening. It’s been about (mumblemumble) years since I saw it at the age of 6 or 7. Forecast is a bit pants though so waterproof layers will be the order of the day!

We’re not on mains water so it’s pumped up from an aquifer and stored. My limited understanding is that tank has UV filters to get rid of the nasty bacteria and those filters had/have not been properly cleaned so coliform and enterococci (I think) were detected in last week’s tests.

Further tests carried out by the council yesterday and we await results but don’t necessarily trust what the management tells us so are going direct to the council as well. We have a right to know what’s going on.

Our water supply had been severely tainted with what we think is e.coli for 3 days before we found out by accident - and another 24 hours before the estate manager decided to let us know.

Fortunately my other half had been away on business and I don’t drink water from the tap so we’re okay but our neighbours are pretty poorly.

We’re on a boil notice for at least another 4 days and the manager is bringing us bottled water which is nice but considering this is their fault in the first place it’s the least they could do.

And no word whatsoever from the landlord, WHO ALSO LIVES HERE.

Fucking raging.

Was staying in a hotel on a work trip. We arrived late, tired, busy day ahead. The bed was made up with the sheets all stupidly tight and I didn’t yank them off as normal but got in and fell asleep. I never sleep well the first night in a new place, I obviously turned over in the night and my foot was pinned by the sheet.

Was a fun few days trying to coordinate a conference while unable to walk.

Sprained my ankle lying in bed. On my own.

It is in farmland, but it’s also smack next to one of the country’s major arterial routes to the southwest, and a two-lane road (one lane in each direction) at that. So the traffic buildup at peak season can lead to terrible delays. Add to that the gawpers who slow down to look at it, the coaches and tourists and it’s just always been an absolute nightmare. If you ever find you might need to be on the a303 in that area after 4pm on a Friday or Sunday in the summer, change your plans.

A short term and way cheaper potential alternative would be putting up the green fencing you see alongside airports - make it Impossible to see the stones from the road and you’ll solve a good deal of the problems.

This has been going on for decades and will likely go on for a few more. I dont think this is the best use of money when half the country is wondering how they’re going to pay the mortgage next month.