In an effort to get out of the office for the day and collect some freebies, Cormac and I journeyed to Birmingham and I also met the Fotopic crew.

We took out the old comms cabinet which also serves as our PoP onto the network yesterday. We were off the net for 26 hours while we took out the old one, had the benching cut away (hammer, chisel, angle-grinder) and the new one put in place this morning. The angle-grinder nearly didn't cut it (no pun intended) so they're using cutting torches on the other solid steel supports in the room.

Finally there was enough snow over night for it to settle. After the fun of cycling to work (I do enjoy cycling in fresh snow) I spent ten minutes or so making a snowman at work. I was asked to come back in just after I'd finished but other people from work went out throughout the morning and added other little bits to it. There was enough snow to allow it to remain after all of the rest of the snow had gone days later.