Getting towards the end of a jar of marmite in the course of the teatime crumpets (from Warburtons via Costcutter, not the sort at reference 1), I started to wonder about sell by dates. So BH extracted the new jar from the cupboard and I started to look around for new sell by dates while she looked for old. Reasonably quickly I found 'AUG19' which the brain interpreted as 'August 19th' and carried on looking for the year bit in the small print portion to the right, which I failed to find. Eventually BH explained that the '19' bit probably stood for '2019'.
Brain clearly in feed forward mode. Once it had decided that '19' was day in month rather than year in century, there was no going back. It was stuck with its mistake.
The old telephone did a reasonable job on the snap above, but not as good as the new telephone would have done on a good day (still with the menders just presently). I think the new one is more sophisticated in the jitter department, being better able to deal with the hand holding the telephone not being terribly steady and with the tap on the screen needed to make it snap making it even less so. Makes one realise how much computing power can be built into a very small chip these days, with dealing with jitter on megabytes worth of picture being megaflops greedy.
Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/third-attempt.html.
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