A better day

The Ongoing Work Crisis continues to ongo, but somehow today still felt a bit less fraught. And I sat down this morning, looked at my diary for the rest of the week, and blocked out every gap of an hour or longer with one of the things that I really, really need to get done this week. Amazingly, by the time I left today I had actually managed to do three of them, as well as emailing someone to explain that no, they can't just say that they are going to shift the second year of a two-year commitment back a year...

Also, apparently the one thing that is guaranteed to get me to leave work more or less on time is the Parks closing at 6pm, which means that I have to be out of work by quarter to if I don't want to risk not making it through before the gates are locked. Sadly, this only happens for a week in autumn (and sometimes not even that) and a few weeks in the spring, but it is helpful while it lasts.