Tamara Causes the UK Water Shortage

Well today’s article is a little late. We’ve been in labour since early this morning, suffering serious delivery pains whilst dealing with a particularly complex area of the our web site.

Now would be a very good time to administer an epidural direct into the brain, or perhaps an injection of Novocaine in the posterior.

There must be several thousand pieces of information that must be carefully collated, analysed, and fed slowly into the system, so that each snippet arrives at the correct place and appears on the site when and where it is supposed to.

Tamara has a Midas touch for detail. The only way to describes Marcus’s talent in this area is: ABSENT!

After several years of punishing effort, he has learned to check things over more than once, and still manage to screw things up.

It's not deliberate. Some people CAN, and some people WANT TO very much, but still CAN’T.

It would be interesting to hear other people’s thoughts on this area. The practicality of building web sites with complex data bases, with endless options for the same item, must cause plenty of sleepless nights. One tiny, incy weenie, little bit of information in the wrong place, and when Mrs Jones of Birmingham orders a brown leather chair with legs in oak to match her oak table, and that option does not exist, boy does the shit hit the fan.

Funnily enough, actually committing these thoughts to the computer is relieving some of the anxiety. It’s like talking to a psychiatrist, and off-loading the pent up aggravations of the day.

Tamara retires to a very hot bath and puts on a mud-mask every time the stress builds up beyond a certain point. It is possible, no probable, that she on her own has created the current dreadful drought in the UK, and most likely the energy crisis facing the world.

Well tomorrow’s another day, and has some potential to be better than today. Tamara’s best friend’s daughter from Canada is due to stay with us for the weekend. We will be busy entertaining, instead of working.

That should relieve the water shortage temporarily.

Marcus and Tamara