Mergers won’t be a good answer to the HE sector’s expected troubles - clear and well written from Nigel Driffield Diana Beech and Koen Heimericks. Higher Education Policy Institute hits the mark again. hepi.ac.uk/2020/06/05/les…

As spotted on Orange County ARES Facebook. Pretty country universal in as much as for the UK change ARES for Raynet and add the ubiquitous egg stained sweatshirt!

In the morning I will be in my Eastern Orthodox Christian chaplain role at my secular employer City, University of London, offering a reflection at our Remembrance event. @ian_worsey74 and I collaborating along with our President Anthony Finkelstein to offer this to our colleagues.

Got to give Community Fibre complaints team their due. After they intervened in my problems they sent out an excellent engineer who worked out immediately that the issue was a bad optical splice by the subcontractors. He sorted it and then got the 3gbps gear and ATA for phone in

Oh dear Affinity Water 🦆 not the world's best CS email. There is an issue about which we provide no details, and when I ring it might be about a meter which I don't even know has been changed, given it is outside my property boundary. 5 days before email reply. hope hear before!

Can someone come and resolve the blocked drain Enfield Council outside the Nandos at Southgate Circus. The pavement and road have flooding on them and it impacts on the parking there.

Had to be in the Cheltenham area today as was supposed in my voluntary role to be doing the services at the Orthodox Church nearby. I'm driving to Malvern instead. Had to come to the spiritual home of HE Statutory Returners while I was here. Shame it was closed for the weekend

Please Moonraker Online fix your website. I really prefer to shop with you but as with previous attempts an attempt to pay with valid information failed this seems to throw the stock out of kilter and also you lose watts. Then nothing will process. Even says I have no last name

hey Ricardo Guzman CA2RXU getting a stationMode error having compiled and uploaded the filesystem and firmware. Need to use 1 here and I get "stationmode not valid" when starting the igate. Will log if not known issue currently.

Time for #DataFutures to begin again. Any of my X HE colleagues made a start yet? We got SITS in gear and managed to upload a first run to HESA UK . Got some SITS stuff to iron out and some new gotchas from migrating to UCAS XML-link and MCI but we're on the move! Bring it on!

Switched my Quansheng UV-K6 across to F4HWN Λrmel 🔭 📡 💻 's version of Egzumer. Nice. Very nice. Need to tweak the squelch levels on that radio. 1 and 2 should open the squelch a lot more easily than they do. Really appreciate Armel's extra on screen detail with his firmware.

Don't use Parcelforce Worldwide if you don't have to. Second occasion now where despite instructions they've messed up. First time messed up a redirection. This time marked something I asked for deliver to PO as refused delivery and its been returned to sender and was urgent...