Week 230: Beanz

A week of shandies in the sun, client-side metrics, sick grandmas, hospital visits, cancelled plans, a lot of DIY, and far too many baked beans.

Posted on 23 March 2025 by Rowan Manning .
Tagged with Social, Work, Family, Health, Food

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Tuesday drinks again because it was sunny and Emma’s out of the country for a few months. A shandy in the sun is a beautiful thing, the sunny socials remind me why I love living in London. Both of my office days this week were without a coat, it’s so freeing ❤️
I’ve been working with AWS CloudWatch RUM a bit lately. It’s quite good. I think I’m already the authority on how it works 👍 Gonna build some tooling around it which will be fun and allow us to roll this out to teams quickly and effectively, giving us better visibility of client-side errors. IMO it’s a really excellent idea to have a team dedicated to site reliability.
I took a very last-minute day off on Friday to go and visit Grandma who’s still in hospital. She has carpal tunnel in both hands and is waiting for surgery on a heart valve, all very worrying for a 91 year old but I’m glad I visited and trying to stay positive. She’s still in good spirits despite being a little bored, we went for a coffee and did a crossword together. The staff at L&D are wonderful.
Our main Saturday plan, a treasure hunt, was cancelled due to injury (not ours). We went for lunch with Charlotte’s mum instead and regretted being near Tottenham Court Road.
On Sunday we popped over to Alison’s to help with some DIY stuff. A washing line, bathroom lock, mirror, and (with help from a local dad) long curtain pole went up. I finally reclaimed my drill which has been over there for about six months.
As a reward, we did a taste test of 6 new baked bean flavours from Heinz, stocked in our local Iceland. It’s a mixed bag. My ranking from best to worst was: Peri Peri, Tikka, BBQ, Chilli, Cheese, and Jalfrezi. Don’t they look appetising?