{"id":2516,"date":"2014-08-24T08:53:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T08:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2014-08-24T08:53:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T08:53:17","slug":"money-for-nothing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=2516","title":{"rendered":"Money for Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sitting watching my item on Ebay, waiting for it to reach the end of its auction.\u00a0 Numismatists and the very bored will know that coins are traded on the interweb, and since some foul, dastardly, evil minded person at\u00a0 the Royal Mint came up with the idea of pretty folders to hold your coin collections, there has been renewed interest in completion of sets.\u00a0 Currently selling a London Olympic 2012 Triathlon 50p., very kindly spotted for me by Rosemary, and the price just now is \u00a34.80.\u00a0\u00a0 Laugh if you will, but try finding an interest rate like that on the high street without involving a loan shark.<\/p>\n

For everyone who pointed out that Mincers’ website was down, it’s back now.\u00a0\u00a0 I shan’t bore you with the technical detail but we did have to unplug a thing and then plug it back in again.\u00a0 The server is a Raspberry Pi and I think it was just needing its tummy rubbed.<\/p>\n

Other things I have found out this morning – for genealogists, if you are Scottish, or with antecedents who mainly resided in Scotland, ignore the plea from Genes Reunited for extra money because their records are mainly for England and Wales.<\/p>\n

First week in new office!\u00a0 We all felt like the new kids at school.\u00a0 See me personally for my rant about the walk from Haymarket \u00a0 I have now abjured the Mo Street dash and adopted the West Maitland Street stroll.\u00a0 Slower but more dignified and there is less chance of being mown down.\u00a0 I had little idea of the of sheer number of people working in that small area, a bit like London’s Square Mile.\u00a0\u00a0 I like walking through Rutland Square, past the Royal Society for the Relief of Indigent Gentlewomen of Scotland,<\/a> with their well worn but brightly polished brass plaque.\u00a0 And of course there is the Eoghan Bridge statue Horse and Rider,<\/em> to make up for not seeing my giraffes* every day.<\/p>\n

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Horse & Rider, Eoghan Bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Watched the Doctor.\u00a0 #chipsandcoffee<\/p>\n

*Sculpture at the OMNI, not a disguised call for help<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sitting watching my item on Ebay, waiting for it to reach the end of its auction.\u00a0 Numismatists and the very bored will know that coins are traded on the interweb, and since some foul, dastardly, evil minded person at\u00a0 the Royal Mint came up with the idea of pretty folders to hold your coin collections, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-after-8-mince","category-numismatics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}