Mundane News

[biggs682]

Time for a few minutes away from the computer screen

 

[cookiemonster]

Xmas, New Year and Chinese New Year, all within a month of each other.

This is not doing my waistline any good.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Lots of libraries do ebooks now that you can read on a tablet.

A while ago I became suspicious that our council was planning to close our local Library. This happened after my membership card stopped working a couple of times and I found out I had been deregistered. I got the Librarian to reactivate my card and all was well. I noticed the Library has a break beam device just inside the door which counts the people entering and leaving. Every tiome I pop up to the shops I make a point of visiting the library, and standing just inside the door randomly swinging my arm across the counter 😁

 

[Mo1959]

A while ago I became suspicious that our council was planning to close our local Library. This happened after my membership card stopped working a couple of times and I found out I had been deregistered. I got the Librarian to reactivate my card and all was well. I noticed the Library has a break beam device just inside the door which counts the people entering and leaving. Every tiome I pop up to the shops I make a point of visiting the library, and standing just inside the door randomly swinging my arm across the counter 😁

A good Harry Worth impression?

 

[tom73]

A while ago I became suspicious that our council was planning to close our local Library. This happened after my membership card stopped working a couple of times and I found out I had been deregistered. I got the Librarian to reactivate my card and all was well. I noticed the Library has a break beam device just inside the door which counts the people entering and leaving. Every tiome I pop up to the shops I make a point of visiting the library, and standing just inside the door randomly swinging my arm across the counter 😁

They use a lot more data than that when planning changers to library services. When I worked as part of the main management of the service it open your eyes to the total mess they are in. Trying to being then upto date or make them really work is always met with problems Councillors more often only hear vocal Libraries users then they become sort of preserved in aspic. Many just are not fit for purpose , in the wrong place due population chargers or simply impractical. But try and close them , move them or radically change them and uproar. it's most often the building that people are more bothered on about. "It's always been the library" never mind if moving it to the community centre down the road means people actually will use it. We moved one once it was hardy used before next minute everyone out having a go "your closing our library" all we did was move it down the road. When we had to close the mobile one they all came out complaining. It simply was just not viable I spent a few days on it. It was a joke pepole use to drive to it park up get books and drive off. (not talking about disabilities ect) Some stop off points less than 1 mile for the nearest one the list went on. We did and still have library at home service so access is not a problem. We just found better ways can found that really work for people.
libraries really only get truly free when the community take them on and do what the wider community really want.

 

[tyred]

Wind and rain again.

I've re-purposed an old worn cantilever brake block to stop the lid on my post box blowing open. Recycling.

 

[oldwheels]

Lots of libraries do ebooks now that you can read on a tablet.

They do an ebook service but the choice is extremely limited and 99% of the books listed I am not be interested in.
I did request travel books for example and all they could think of was Lonely Planet guides to a variety of European cities. I did get one or two requests in book form of cycling books but that subject is a great mystery to them and one I requested to get a second time had been pulped after 6 months.

 

[Illaveago]

Could you claim for a book of fiction being sold as non fiction under the Trade Description Act ?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Blustery and damp , got an hour ride in today.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

one of my best friends has 3 names all beginning with "M". in high school I nicknamed him "M cubed"
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Did he form the company 3M?

 

[Reynard]

Mild and blustery here chez Casa Reynard, though it looked like it rained overnight.

Slept well and slept in, and I have decided to have a nice quiet day (mostly) working on the archive. Might do some writing later too. For some reason, there is an astonishing amount of gack taking its leave of my sinuses and lungs today.

Am currently watching Ronnie O'Sullivan v Mark Williams in the Masters Snooker.

It is almost time for luncheon.

 

[Reynard]

Nah. it's OK. I have ple3nty of authentic recipes, - I just CBA baking such things when its only me here, and almost everyone else - except at choir! - seems tp prefer mince pies and the like. But thanks.

Of course commercially-made stuff is always sweeter than home-made - apart from the fact that it's cheap , sugar - of all sorts - increases shelf-life and bulk, so it's an obvious ingredient even in the'genuine' ie german-made -article. Ah well.

Lebkuchen is for life, not just for Weihnachten If you change your mind, give me a yell. I have about 300-odd different recipes, some dating back to the late 1800s. My go-to ones date mostly from the 1930s.

Sure, there's a lot of sugar and honey (or golden syrup) in the home-baked ones as well, but the problem I had with the Tesco stuff was that the ONLY flavour was simply overwhelming sweetness. There was no tang of citrus or zing of spice worth mentioning.

 

[Reynard]

They use a lot more data than that when planning changers to library services. When I worked as part of the main management of the service it open your eyes to the total mess they are in. Trying to being then upto date or make them really work is always met with problems Councillors more often only hear vocal Libraries users then they become sort of preserved in aspic. Many just are not fit for purpose , in the wrong place due population chargers or simply impractical. But try and close them , move them or radically change them and uproar. it's most often the building that people are more bothered on about. "It's always been the library" never mind if moving it to the community centre down the road means people actually will use it. We moved one once it was hardy used before next minute everyone out having a go "your closing our library" all we did was move it down the road. When we had to close the mobile one they all came out complaining. It simply was just not viable I spent a few days on it. It was a joke pepole use to drive to it park up get books and drive off. (not talking about disabilities ect) Some stop off points less than 1 mile for the nearest one the list went on. We did and still have library at home service so access is not a problem. We just found better ways can found that really work for people.
libraries really only get truly free when the community take them on and do what the wider community really want.

I did use to use the libraries here - the one in the village when we had one, and the one in Ely. The village now has a Book Cafe and also a Book Swap thing in the bus shelter outside the village hall. There was a mobile library at one point as well.

Though with all of them, it's the age old problem that I can't get much that interests me, as they all cater for the tastes of Mr & Mrs Provincial Average. It's got very marked over the last few years as the sports, military history and sci-fi sections have shrunk to almost nothing.

I guess I was VERY spoiled with the academic libraries during my undergrad and postgrad days. When I was at Imperial, I had access to the impressive Haldane Collection, as well as the libraries of the Science, Natural History and V&A museums.

But I'm lucky that a bestie owns a book selling business, so I buy stuff off him. And fanfiction.net takes care of a lot of my sci-fi cravings.

 

[rockyroller]

Did he form the company 3M?

hehe I wish!

 

[rockyroller]

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OK, starting to understand the establishment now