So if this is a sort of diary....

I ought to update it every day?

OK, yesterday's later learnings:

1. If offered a chance to escape early, TAKE IT. Hanging around and attempting to be diligent will be punished, e.g. by the phrase "Oh all that work you've helped us with? It's all broken...". As an example.
2. Hanging around on a Friday will inevitably lead to packed trains, and thence to Chaos. Like track failures meaning what was already a long journey turned into an outrageous one. Didn't get home until 23:00 in the end. Not fun at all.
3. At least East Coast Main Line has power points. If the iPhone had died a battery death (and it wouldn't have lasted the 4.5hrs that train took the way I was using it...) I'd have been a very bored and unhappy camper indeed.

Today's going much better though. Got an unexpected Free Gift Lie-In from Dearly Beloved, both Kids have disappeared for much of the afternoon, and we've booked a spoil-ourselves-rotten weekend for next month, all on points and gift vouchers. Later we shall be dining out.

Today's learnings?

1. Passive-Aggressive control freakery is embedded in my genes, based on the greater or lesser degrees to which I observe it expressed in ancestors, siblings and offspring.
2. Sex Bob-omb are named after side-characters in Mario Bros 2. And "Scott Pilgrim vs the World" is a far, far geekier film than I'd even guessed...

Really?

So it turns out that just because mon pere created a blog (and, it appears, promptly forgot about it), I've become pressured both mentally and by Blogger's dashboard's honking great "Press me To Create A Blog!" button every time I go to find his Blog, into creating one of my own.

Despite having no need, interest or purpose in doing so. What a waste of space and time.

Let's see if we can do something better with it than that.

Things I have Learnt Today:

1. Never trust a Met Office that forecasts rain without pointing out the winds and the cold. Bring thicker jumpers as well as raincoats
2. Certain hotel chain's in-room tea-making facilities can be abused by bringing the teabags and milk cartons to work for when there's no local capability.
3. I missed my calling in life and based on the last 24 hours I should have been an Apple salesman...
   

(I didn't say they'd be interesting things I'd learnt, did I?)