In a tapas bar with four drinks on the go at the same time – next we’re heading to see Echo and the Bunnymen 🎵

Checked in at Bar 44. Tapas.

A day in Manchester City Centre

Checked in at Gino D’acampo My Pizza & Prosecco Bar

Ceiling selfie

Checked in at Britannia Country House

Pint of Titanic Cherry Dark 🍺 in The Salutation – it was on these premises in 1846 that Charlotte Brontë started writing Jane Eyre 📚

At Manchester Metropolitan University Open Day – my daughter considering a Psychology course here.

Checked in at MMU Brooks Building. Manchester Metropolitan University Open Day

Checked in at Simon Building

Mentioned this in a previous post, but just seen this in The Guardian, which has a little more detail – Never mind GDP – make free time the measure of UK wellbeing

Sian Berry, the Green Party’s co-leader, made some really good points on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning - Free time should be measure of UK’s well-being

16-bit Intel 8088 chip

It’s National Poetry Day, so …

16-bit Intel 8088 chip

with an Apple Macintosh
you can’t run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can’t read each other’s
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can’t use most programs produced for
the IBM Personal Computer
unless certain
bits and bytes are
altered
but the wind still blows over
Savannah
and in the Spring
the turkey buzzard struts and
flounces before his
hens.

Charles Bukowski

I enjoy a Macallan malt, but maybe quite not this much – Bottle of whisky sold for world record £848,000 – the label does look very good though…

Spot our cat 🐈 !