What a lovely day. Here's my bottle of Henderson's Relish that was in my desk drawer that I couldn't find the key for. Amusingly access was gained by lifting up the top of the drawer, rendering the lock useless...

I gave the bottle to a colleague on my last day, 28 February 2025. Take a look at the Best Before date.

*edit - this is a limited edition bottle from The Rutland Hotel on Glossop Road, 5 minutes from my former office.

The tyranny of the leaf-blower.

I've seen the elderly chap diligently blowing the leaves from the pavement, and the bit of grass-verge in front of his house, into the road and also further up the pavement to the boundary of the next house. The futility lost on him as with the next gust of wind it'll all be rearranged.

I heard a professional gardener talking about research that says a rake requires only slightly less effort, plus you can create leafmould to use a soil conditioner.

Watching the European TramDriver Championship. It is great.

Twenty-six teams from twenty-one nations compete in six disciplines for the popular Cup. In addition to titleholder Vienna and host Frankfurt, teams from Barcelona, ​​Birmingham, Bratislava, Brussels, Budapest, Dublin, Edinburgh, Gothenburg, Kyiv, Krakow, Leipzig, Luxembourg, Lyon, Milan, Oradea, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Rotterdam, Stockholm, Tampere, Zagreb, and Zurich take part of the competitions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nWeSxnFALo #tram