Snippets

I didn’t go out to Elec­tun­dra last night because I broke {ariel flux} while trying to upgrade the soft­ware it runs on. D’Oh! V. annoying.

Ah well, I have a season pass and they have more stuff hap­pen­ing Wed­nes­day, Sunday and then Wed­nes­day again.

Also, for those folk who were dis­cuss­ing on Sat­urday the origin of “Bob’s your uncle”, I may have a solu­tion. From The Phrase Finder:

Another inter­pret­a­tion is that it derives from the sup­posed nepot­ism of Lord Salis­bury. Piers Bren­don, in Emin­ent Edwar­d­i­ans, 1979, writes:

“… in 1887, Balfour was unex­pec­tedly pro­moted to the vital front line post of Chief Sec­ret­ary for Ire­land by his uncle Robert, Lord Salisbury.”

Vari­ous authors have sur­mised that having an uncle Bob who was Prime Min­is­ter became syn­onym­ous with having a pass­port to an easy life.