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  • NickFitz
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    Morning denizens

    It’s a snowy start, though it seems the overnight snow must have turned to sleet or rain as some of the snow that fell in the evening has been washed away and the drive is slushy rather than icy. It’s 2°C (“feels like” -8°) and won’t get above 3° and, though no more precipitation is expected, it’ll remain windy. The barometers are, as could be expected, well down at 982/990mB

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  • WTFH
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    Morning all
    TFIF, etc.
    The storm blew through, a lot of rain/sleet fell. Worst damage I have found so far is that one of our (empty) wheelie bins blew over.

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  • NickFitz
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    Tonight’s viewing was The Perfect Neighbor (2025), a documentary film on Netflix about an obnoxious woman hassling all her neighbours, ultimately shooting one of them because she was annoyed about her kids playing near her house. It’s largely made up of body cam footage from the local police, because she called them so often to make spurious complaints and unfounded allegations about the neighbours. Horrible woman

    And speaking of horrible people, Sam Pepys really isn’t doing himself any favours by keeping that diary of the things he gets up to

    I also managed to get the mundane laundry done during the evening

    Meanwhile outside: snow! And plenty of it. But the last time I checked, it had gone back to sleet. Looks like a heavy band of whatever it may be is circling back around to us now though, so it’ll probably still be very white out there tomorrow

    Goodnight all

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  • ladymuck
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    Twice recently I've noticed expensive items that I haven't looked at, or even considered looking at, added to my Amazon basket! This evening it was a HP printer. The first time occurred while I was at HWMBO's; it was some games console. It's all very peculiar.

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  • ladymuck
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post

    Meanwhile on the 10th of March 2020 ... LM was going out to the theatre later.
    I went to see Message in a Bottle at Sadlers Wells' Peacock Theatre. A dance thing set to a number of Sting's songs.

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  • NickFitz
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    Tea has been lamb steaks with chips and beans

    Casseroles and stews and so on are all very nice, but sometimes you need a chunk of fried, grilled, or roasted meat

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  • NickFitz
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    Heavy rain here too. If I’m interpreting the symbols correctly, this will turn to sleet in a couple of hours, and then snow

    But: it’s Thursday, and I’m done with work for the week!

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  • ladymuck
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    Much rain, which I was unaware of until I left the office. Many large puddles on the drive home.

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  • WTFH
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    Meeting ended an hour early and the rain had eased, so I decided to take Max out for a walk. About half way round, the rain got heavier and then turned to sleet. Now drying off. Max has his smoking jacket on.

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by WTFH View Post

    I found it sometimes got stuck when playing on Safari, I just went for the standard IT solution: close down web page, close Safari, reboot machine. That worked most of the time for me.
    I got an email from him late last night so I checked on Chrome and Firefox, where it worked. Then I tried on Safari in a Private Browsing window, and that worked too. I then cleared the cache, but a normal Safari window still didn't work. So I advanced the hypothesis that there's something in the data held in local storage (or a cookie, but that's unlikely) that's incompatible with some recent change he made

    Editing to add: I just went and checked my MBA while waiting for a container image to build, and it's working again in Safari! He said he might roll back to a build from a few days ago, so maybe that's why. Or maybe he found and fixed it, or maybe it was just Safari being weird
    Last edited by NickFitz; 8 January 2026, 14:53.

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