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Our shop is busy on Fridays and Saturdays, modest on weekdays and nearly empty for the first hour of Tuesday mornings. Extended opening hours sound customer-friendly, but staffing an empty room isn't free. I'm considerin...
The cheapest long-haul ticket has a ten-hour daytime layover in a city I've never visited. That could be a bonus mini-trip, or a miserable stretch of security, luggage and transport stress. The airline offers no organize...
I arrive twenty minutes early for an appointment and spend the time sitting awkwardly outside. A friend arrives exactly on time and appears completely relaxed. I say I'm avoiding stress, but I've just moved the waiting i...
After searing lean meat I sometimes have great fond but almost no fat. I usually add a little butter, soften shallot, then deglaze. Is there any reason not to deglaze first and add butter at the end, apart from needing s...
I find simple “two hours of screens” rules harder to apply now because homework, messages from friends, drawing, videos and games all happen on the same device. We are experimenting with limits around activities rather t...
Tried a half-day walking tour on a solo trip and loved the amount of commitment: talk to people for three hours, learn something, then everyone disappears at lunch. One group activity every few days may be my ideal level...
Travel advice sometimes makes ordinary cities sound like obstacle courses: never look at your phone, never speak to strangers, never go out after dark. I take basic precautions and avoid wandering into unfamiliar areas w...
I have four sensible savings goals: emergency buffer, a replacement laptop, travel to see family and a future move. Splitting the spare money evenly makes all four grow painfully slowly. Putting everything toward one goa...
I open documentation for a JavaScript library and the first example already assumes I understand promises, modules and several build tools. I'm trying to solve one small problem, but every paragraph sends me to another u...
I understand what a web page does but HTTP still feels abstract: requests, headers, status codes and JSON appear in tutorials as though everyone already knows them. Rather than build another full-stack app, I'm thinking...
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