I seem to have given up social media for Lent. I wasn’t planning on doing so, in fact I was going to pick something else, but I absent-mindedly uninstalled all the apps on the mobile phone on Ash Wednesday. I was probably pissed off with something I’d seen, but it seemed somewhat co-incidental so I’m going with it. To be fair, I haven’t really missed it and I have appreciated using the time saved to read instead. I’m keeping it purely to social media on the phone only; if there’s something that really needs doing then I will log in on the laptop instead.

After not having done so for over nine months by my reckoning, I had to fill in three report forms at work for three moronic incidents:

• Someone off their face on something (probably the White Lightning cider in their bag) having to be carried off the train at Sheffield.
• Some lass falling over and splitting her shin open.
• A group of lads fighting on the train. The argument began about crisps, I shit you not.

After the shenanigans of the camera memory card getting corrupted, I’ve discovered Canon have a cloud service where you can upload directly from the camera onto their server where it will be saved for a month. I’ve set this up and will see how it goes. It might be easier for retrieving pictures later on, as I could download them and save straight into the instance of Immich I have running locally, rather than farting about with cables and card readers.