And as the end of another day draws to close, I leave The Parents to squabble over why the curtains in their bedroom fail to do just that. It's a petty argument although an ongoing one for the best part of thirteen years, and it is pretty much The Father versus the rest of the family. It turns out that the Father has this absurd idea that all curtain rails have to be incredible feats of engineering, and only systems that would have made Brunel weep in confusion are suitable for the simple task of pulling two pieces of cloth together or apart.

The rest of the family are happy to make the metre and a half journey across the window to pull the second curtain in, but the Father insists this is unnecessary and made sure that the house was fully rigged up with the little string-pulley-curtain-parting contraptions. I broke the one in my room broke years ago by over-exertion and I gleefully treasure my prize of free-moving curtains while the rest of the family struggle on with their ever-jamming cords, weights falling on their feet and curtains that never quite meet in the middle. Tonight the whole furious debarcle erupted again when The Mother went to draw her bedroom curtains from the middle which proved too much for The Father to stomach.

Aside from mundane battles with household furnishings, today has been fruitful and as you can see from the picture, the Old Edwardians now have a vague skeleton of a website. There has been progress on the Askyric front as well. I am pleased with some more code related revelations, despite how incredibly bored you would become if I relayed them onto you.

There was some time for Tours4 related activities, and the day was punctuated by a trip up to that jewel in The Lye's crown, the OK Diner, for lunch.

Despite a high level of productivity, my desk remains looking not too unlike what Staples would class as significant competition. I cannot go on peeling items from out under this pile on request; the problem is that I've started recovering things that I don't remember putting there which shows how deep the pile is. I need a system or a bonfire. Either or. Hmm.