Rowan Manning

D&D was fun this week, though I nearly killed the whole party accidentally 😬 they managed to get into a fight with a local hag who, after knocking most of them out, trapped them in her cellar.

We started this week going to see Abigail’s Party at the Harold Pinter Theatre, it was great!

Linus was in town this week so I met up with him and a few other friends on Tuesday near our old office in Holborn.

We spent a lot of the week with Charlotte’s family in Matlock, starting with a BBQ after they arrived (and just before the nationwide alert 😬) we had a lovely time and I think they enjoyed staying with us.

This week my youngest brother, George, turned 30.

It’s been a super lazy week, I’ve enjoyed it immensely.

Another milestone weeknote!

We have some new kitchen bins and it’s wonderful.

We found a pub quiz in town, went, and came second.

It was a busy social week and I’m very tired.

It’s such an incredibly dull thing to have to comment on but holy fuck has it been hot.

I spent a bunch of time this week glue-gunning LEDs into a T-shirt so I could dress up as the night sky.

This week we (Unite reps at the FT) got our first batch of flyers printed!

Our last day in Matlock was a mix of working and getting internet installed.

It’s been an intense week, but mostly in a good way.

I started this week well by meeting up for in-person boardgames as Scott was down in London, just nice to catch up really; chatting online is never quite as good for shooting the shit.

There’s some really weird stuff going on at work, pals.

I have been drinking wine and relaxing.

I’ve had an absolutely wild week of ups and downs.

I bought a spice rack, something I’ve been meaning to for a long time.

The highlight of the work week was playing D&D on Wednesday.

A short and sunny week.

Two four-day weeks in a row, bliss.

Over the weekend we went to Sheffield as a belated birthday trip, because I couldn’t eat or drink anything on my actual birthday.

D&D was really fun this week, I’m so glad I started running it again.

I spent a lot of this week being sick.

Gonna keep this short because I’m writing over lunch and I feel like not a lot happened.

I’ve been trying to divest as much as possible from US-owned tech lately so I started trying to migrate Yeehaw from Render to my little EU-owned VPS.

Adam was in London this week so I saw him a few times.

Oops I meant to write this weeknote on Monday but I was too busy doing D&D prep.

I finally had an appointment with a doctor and have been referred to a gastroenterologist, so that’s great.

Reintroductions have been coming thick and fast.

I can eat potatoes again!

The exclusion diet continues and I’ve been going for two weeks now.

Back to work again, and back to the office.

Happy New Year!

I’ll be honest it’s been a more tiring week than a festive one, I’m exhausted.

Short and sweet today, because I’ve intentionally done very little.

I was in the office on Monday this week for a team lunch.

Work Christmas Party #1 was on Tuesday and I had the best time.

I had a lovely time in Edinburgh, it was cold but festive.

This week’s poor decision was overdoing it at some leaving drinks on Tuesday.

I had a lovely time on Tuesday meeting up with Andrew, Ed, and Dan.

This week was very Union-heavy!

Blue Prince is so good, it’s very rewarding finding lots of little secrets and solving puzzles that span multiple rooms across the house.

The Celebrity Traitors is pretty good TV, isn’t it?

We took the day off on Wednesday so Charlotte could go and look at a house.

Charlotte’s not drinking in October so we went to an ideally-timed alcohol free drinks tasting.

Because we missed his party, we went for a birthday meal with Luke.

We’ve had a rotating cast of cleaners since Vanessa, our regular, moved back to Italy.