AmazingMeagen

Trying to update my UK driving licence legal address.

Being nearly forced to use the Gov.uk One app.

The alternative ID verification process failed. Surprise, surprise, surprise!

I don't want a government app on my phone. I do not want to have my identity information processed by two different companies to tell the UK government who I am.

#enshittification

#ThreeGoodThings

- ss Great Britain museum, Bristol UK, is so worth the morning visit
- very good pistachio ice cream in sunny, warm weather
- good bookshop visit

Booking tickets in a train quiet carriage is a perpetual act of optimism.

1 out of n successes so far.

#Transport
#QuietCarriage
#Train

Day 2 of the #Archives and Records Association conference in #Glasgow

Highlights of day 1 included:

• Seeing @curatedjenny@glammr.us
• Completing the panel discussion on storage solutions - lessons learnt from infrastructure changes to library and archive collection stores
• Finding out about the secret cache of Japanese tissue

#ThreeGoodThings #CollectionCare

Day 2 of the #Archives and Records Association conference in #Glasgow Highlights included:

• Seeing conservation decision making promoted during today's plenary session
• Demo of a potential piece of software being implemented. Relief at the interface
• Fabulous talk about reflection on previous conservation treatments and questioning professional practice by a alumni acquaintance who nailed the talk #ThreeGoodThings #CollectionCare #Archives #ARA2026

#3GoodThings

• propped up the wardrobe so I can do the next stage of organising

• enjoyed my homemade banana and blueberries smoothie

• watched in The #Odyssey with popcorn

#3GoodThings

• Completed the big thing that is due this week

• Remembered to buy AND post the birthday card

• Got to see and compliment a mentee on the completion of her Master's degree final project. Well done A.

#3GoodThings

• a very good, albeit brief, visit with a couple former colleagues
• Tried an historic wine place that I've meant to go for years, nay decades (eek) - El Vino, Blackfriars
• Tried a newly reopened historic pub that was saved from redevelopment while surrounded by very new buildings - Hoop and Grapes, Ludgate Circus

#3GoodThings

• walking in the sunshine hand in hand to an APPOINTMENT
• first time riding in a Chinese produced electric car with different back door handles
• being taken care of

#3GoodThings

• A burst of late summer
• A walk along the south bank of he Thames
• wandering through the Kahlo exhibition

#3GoodThings

• a really excellent group of colleagues onsite today
• beautiful weather enjoyed during lunchtime in the local park
• a swift commute home