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12:11am on Friday, 17th October, 2025:
Anecdote
Unlike modern people, who use computers and phones, I make a hard-copy note of all my appointments and meetings in a paper diary. This is so I don't have to synchronise across multiple email addresses, and I can check when I'm free without having to jump through software hoops.
For the past eight years, I've been buying a two-days-per page pocket diary from W H Smith. There's a warning in these telling you to go buy a replacement in October, so when I was in town today buying some zloties I sought one out.
Hmm. It turns out that they no longer do two-days-per-page diaries. They do one-day-per-page and one-week-per-two-pages, but not the two-days-per-page version they've sold me for the past eight years.
Oh well, with no lectures and meetings with students to record, I guess I can cope with one-week-per-two-pages. It's annoying, though.
Also, the foreign exchange desk that's in the post office operating in Colchester's W H Smith was closed, so I had to buy my zloties from a foreign exchange shop instead.
There's another irritating story behind that, but I'm too annoyed with W H Smith to anger myself further by repeating it.
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