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Not a travel experience as such but it wasn't that long ago that there were all sorts of horror stories about how long it takes to renew passports. I was initially worried as I knew I'd need to renew mine before going to the US in June but was already committed to a few trips this spring. So, on Wednesday last week, I applied for a new passport. On Thursday, I posted them the expiring one. On Friday I got a message saying they'd received both and has started the process. Yesterday morning, my new (blue) passport arrived. Shocked and stunned. The only drawback is I'd promised to take herself to Paris for the weekend and with the passport uncertainty, I thought I was off the hook until much later this year. She's already looking at restaurants now and thinks we are going in May!

Gentrification for the win! My OH is in the Butler's Wharf building. All very fancy. She's in for a shock when she moves to mine in Isleworth next year.

Good tip. Only a mile or so away from where I am in Bermondsey so will have to check it out at some point.

Surprised by Sugar on Appletv. Colin Farrel as a private detective, very noir but four episodes in so far and really enjoying it.

The thing I don’t get is the presumably london-based guys who are commentating on the match from the gaming chair in the flat. You’re that much of a fan that we should listen to your opinion but you only ever see them on telly. A truly baffling recent development.

I put together a broking website using Dreamweaver back in the day. I had no knowledge of website building and had to teach myself as I went. My company ran that site for about 5 years, I think. It only died a death when I left and nobody had a clue how it worked. To be fair, neither did I!

Didn’t look too sad last night.

I’m in the same boat. The only difference is that I work with a bunch of gooners. However tired I am, it’s going to be glorious when I get to work tomorrow.

Seems to have the same reputation that SharePoint used to. So many bad implementations of it means that most people have a bad experience of it. If implemented well, it can be amazing.

Villa Stella Balti. For many (many) years, I’d presumed the guy who owned the flag was married to a woman called Stella.

Somewhat surprised that Civil War is getting such mixed reviews. Saw it at IMAX today and thought it was great. Not perfect by any means but a thoughtful film with some really good set pieces.

8 Episodes available so far. Google suggests that's the full season from what I can see.

Only vaguely familiar with the game but after 3 episodes, I'm all-in on the TV series. It's really good so far.