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This was the last week of the school holidays. Everyone except me is returning or starting at school next week, including L’s first term back as a teacher since the children were born. All change.To give L a day’s rest/prep for school, on Bank Holiday Monday I took the boys to my parents’ where my sister and her two children were waiting. The cousins all get along very well and they enjoyed a day of swings, trampolining, Nintendo Switch and ice cream.My team is hiring for software engineers. I’m taking the opportunity to redesign our process from our job descriptions through to our interview structure.By our front door is an intercom buzzer installed by the previous owner, but the button seemingly does nothing. Curiosity got the better of me this week. I unscrewed the faceplate, reattached a broken wire, but there was still no sound. I found the manufacturer’s name, Bell Systems, and hypothesised that it may be connected to a phone line. I plugged my grandmother’s old-school telephone into an unlabelled phone extension in my server cupboard and… brring brring! This made me very happy.I also somehow triggered the house alarm’s tamper switch while investigating cabling, so it wasn’t entirely successful.In further home news, L has finally found a buyer for her antique wardrobe that had accompanied us through four moves, never once matching the decor. We now have a huge empty space in the hallway for a big mirror (purchased three years ago!) and some sort of table for family junk.
Posted with Monocle at 2022-09-08T14:38:35Z in Everything