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To me this is a key change in a direct reports development.

When they first start they need to be told what tasks to do; then they develop to asking for permission to do tasks that find or know need to be done; and finally they are telling me they are doing a task so I know we are going in the right direction. These changes give much better autonomy within the team and I am know longer the blocker to progress. It also means I can get on and do more interesting tasks myself while working with the junior members of the team.

it is full of bugs. on my tablet on YouTube I can't leave comments until I have tapped 20 odd smiley faces and waited 20 seconds to 2 minutes.

Always have blue ink on the side of my hand where I have dragged my hand across the page and through my writing. Fountain pens were particularly messy.

I am so glad Titchmarsh's trousers are a threat to the North Korean regimes hold on it's people. What else can we throw at them, Angela Rippon's legs?

Not even comparable. The amount the water companies have been draining into rivers and the sea around the UK is embarrassing, especially when they still pay out dividends to share holders while claiming they need more money for investment in the infrastructure to deal with the sewage spills, while barely being able to service their loan obligations.

In the southeast of England where would this storage reservoir be?

I filmed it on my phone so I can watch it roll over later...

Why am I not surprised.

Yes the days of SCOC were great but the days of SCOX were dark. I left just before the Caldera take over.

At last some sense. You also cannot build your way out of a housing crisis. Something the UK government and local councils haven't yet understood.

They (imho) ruined Spitalfields market when it was developed a decade or so ago. A similar large open space market that used to serve indoor independent food stalls; a market and indoor 5 a side football. Half of the market was lost to office buildings and most of the food became chain restaurants. The market does still exist but the overall elegance of the historic building has been desecrated.

Never really felt the need but I suppose there has always been an updated_when field, so for something that is deleted the updated_when provides the time stamp.

I agree, programming is still fun. Problem is my job has changed due to my age and experience and has migrated into something I don't want to do or can't do that well, managing others and the project as a whole. I get to do less of what I do and what I do well.

'A'gile is broken and should be stopped. I am seriously considering doing something else than the job I love for the reasons in this post.

I think it is as much as where you consume it. Supermarket prices for alcohol have increased but no where nearly as much as in pubs and bars. So the drinking is happening somewhere else and not in pubs.

The increase in prices can probably mostly be laid on product cost and business rates. This is also being reflected in other retail sectors. There are many store closures in both the high street and in out of town retail parks.