the delights of going up to Waddington to collect signals to deliver to Digby
The same happened at Finningley where the OO had to travel to Bawtry to get the signals. On the night that Skylab came back to earth, the projected impact point was sent on the hour every hour as a classified priority signal meaning that the poor OO had to drive to Bawtry and back at least once per hour throughout the night to discover each time that Skylab would go plop into the Pacific.
On the subject of the Friday night "unimportant" priority signals, I heard the (probably apocryphal) story that one OO used to send an immediate confirmation of receipt signal for personal attention of the originator, thus getting his own back. This story came out after one OO at Valley was dragged out of bed at silly o'clock to find an immediate correction to a signal for the families' officer which read "for 1953 married quarters read pre-1953 married quarters".