Sidra

Back from Convention!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNusMa-FQo0&list=PLh34tOVCkOjNbBaM8AqvKbIECeg81TU7F&index=13

Despite a slow start—with the first of three trains on Friday being cancelled ten minutes after it was supposed to have set out—it was a good weekend. My chorus did not win any trophies, but we upped our score by 2.4 percentage points, which is *hard* to do when you're already at over 70%. We were the second most improved chorus, and also got certificates for third-most in improvements in all three judging categories. And came third in our Division.

I had about 50% participation in Convention Stuff—there is only so much barbershop I can deal with at once—and that was enough for me. Sadly, it wasn't possible to go around Harrogate's lovely shops or visit the RHS garden, but I did have a lovely mid-afternoon lunch/dinner with my gorgeous niece, who is living and working in Harrogate for this year, before she resumes her degree and goes off to Japan for next year!

Beast texted me the horrible news about the knife attack on a train yesterday, and even offered to drive up to Harrogate to bring me home, which I declined. Our train journey home was very calm and straightforward to Peterborough, but Beast was able to drive there and collect the three of us travelling together, thus sparing us the undoubtedly less calm and straightforward bus replacement service, and delivering my travelmates direct to their doorsteps. We then went on to Bun's place to feed her cats and put eyedrops into one of them, then home for a curry and a bit of vegging.

As of this evening's AGM, my Beast is this year's Clubman of the Year, and has acquired a handsome shield with his name on it. *pride*

Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!