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  This weekend, I have been in London. I did a circular walk from Southwark to Fleet Street, through the Strand to Covent Garden, Leicester Square and Piccadilly, back to the National Gallery and then back to Southwark.

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  This week's blog is born out of sheer frustration with automated helplines - https://awfulrigourswretchedpay.com/2026/03/27/when-helplines-fail-to-be-helpful/

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  This week's blog post - still at it - this week's blog post: https://awfulrigourswretchedpay.com/2026/01/09/2025-in-review-part-3/

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  Can I have a rant about UI design? Years ago, I studied, and taught, this as an HND module. It seems that since this time, in the early noughties, we have thrown the usability rules out of the window. Yesterday, the new incarnation of the Met Office app was dropped on my phone, fancy graphics but I can't find anything. This morning, in my husband's car, we couldn't turn off the route planning app, still routing after a previous journey. To exit a route was 3 clicks away.

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  The final piece of my review of 2025 is here https://awfulrigourswretchedpay.com/2026/01/16/2025-in-review-the-finale/

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  This week's blog post: https://awfulrigourswretchedpay.com/2026/01/24/six-months-of-theatre-trips-july-to-december/

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  These are a few of my favourite things https://awfulrigourswretchedpay.com/2026/01/30/these-are-a-few-of-my-favourite-things/

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  Thomas Mallyon was an agricultural labourer from Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire, and also my 3x great grandfather: https://awfulrigourswretchedpay.com/2026/02/07/thomas-mallyon-agricultural-labourer/

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  In this week's blog post I was thinking about my Nan. She was a lovely lady. I had a rough week last week so she came to mind. This photo was taken in 1921 when she was just 17 years old https://awfulrigourswretchedpay.com/2026/02/13/daisy-betts-nanny/

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  Why, oh why, oh why...is it so hard to share a video using MS Stream within your own organisation. It used to be one button!! Now they say "only in Classic Stream" . Grrr. Office 365, you have my hate tonight 🤬

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  This week's blog focuses on my Grandad who led an interesting, if quiet life. He died when I was quite young, but I have found out more about his life since https://awfulrigourswretchedpay.com/2026/02/20/albert-taylor-the-patients-friend/