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@Olly398
One forgets MV, it was a year or three ago and I never kept meticulous dev notes.
Knowing me, it was ID-11, stock, recommended time, and agitate every 30 seconds.
In the early days, reading Adams and various commentators, I became very enthused about the zone system, bought a couple of meters and started tweaking development times to account for contrast. Whilst results were good, I came to accept that this rarely suited my preferred style of photography, which is impulsive and features few static scenes. I decided then to always use the cameras' onboard TTL meters, shooting in aperture priority (occasionally I will use exposure compensation for a backlit scene or suchlike) and always develop the films using standard times and conditions. I found this very liberating and have rarely been let down by the results.
In the same vein, I shed many of the lenses I had acquired for the minolta system, (17mm rectilinear? 70-210mm f/3.5 tele? was never using them), got shot of the cokin filter system and usually leave my tripod at home. This means I take the camera with me more, and take more photos. To each man, his own. :-)