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[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken madras with rice and naan

None of the threatened rain turned up, and it seems a pleasant evening, albeit breezy and cloudy

[NickFitz]

Tonight's viewing was the first two parts (of three) of Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game which is very interesting, about all kinds of spy machinations in east and west during the 1980s

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Rainy grey start this morning. It's 13°C at the moment and not getting any higher than 16°, and the barometers are down at 988/995mB. The rain's expected to stop mid-morning, but no sunny spells expected

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Damp.

Wanly sunny.

Cool in here at 18.7 deg, 19 deg in the kitchen, 18 deg in the leanto.

993 mBar, 29.3232 in Hg, 744.811 Torr, 14.4 psi, (down from 995 last night), 78% RH (GDR hair), 73% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 28th of September 2019 various films were watched, it turned out grey dark & dank, October was imminent, and I was still actually picking up the phone when it rang from the scammers, which shows how long ago that was since I don't bother any more.

Shopping trip to Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

The walk was very abbreviated since it started picking with rain & I couldn't be arsed to get wet.

Lunch: beans on toast (cheesy) etc.

Entertainment: Y&Y phone in <click>.

The remainder of The Infinite Monkey cage "Are humans evolving". Well, looking at the Orange Moron, probably not.

Freecell score: 75%, running average: 86%.

Veronica Mars S2 E9 "My mother, the fiend": the baby abandoned in the girls bogs during the dance one.

Trip to the dentist to have the lost filling replaced: nearly fainted in the chair again. Felt almost drunk on the way back home & crossed the road to avoid the obvious drunk drunk staggering along the pavement.

"The Colditz Story (1955)" with Eric Portman, John Mills, Lionel Jeffries, Bryan Forbes, et al. Al was rather good.

Scotland Yard "Person Unknown (1956)". The Polish spy murderer one.

Maigret and the tramp (2004) S13 E5. The one where the tramp is fished out of the Seine by a bargee and is discovered to have been bonked on the head before he went in. Our hero discovers that he used to be a doctor before becoming a tramp.

Charles Craig waffling on about 1978: the year from hell. Ms Bush is doing her Quantel best.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast here, but yesterday's rain has gone and parts of our walk were on almost dry paths. 9.2km walked.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull. Raining with varying levels of vigour. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 18 expected. The rain may cease by mid morning. Barometer down to 1003 mBar.

I forgot to put the bins out last night so had to venture out in the rain to trundle the recycling and food waste bins this morning.

[NickFitz]

Lunch, when I finally had time for it, was ham toasties

The delay was due to a perfect storm of people asking me questions about different stuff. Well, two conversations in Teams and one in Slack. But one of them required me to go and check stuff in several internal and a couple of external systems to be able to give answers, one needed a bit of an explanation of the entire modus operandi of (part of) the project, and the third one required me to monitor a bunch of activity across several different services in AWS while simultaneously modifying some configuration stuff and checking some Git logs

Ah well, at least last week's timesheet, which I realised I'd forgotten to submit as I was going to sleep last night, has been approved

[ladymuck]

The rain did indeed stop and it's bright yet cloudy.

Went out for a nice lunch at a Polish place in Waterloo.

Now waiting to see a man about a bush.

[NickFitz]

Chicken and chips for tea

It's shaping up to be a rather chickeny week, as I'm finding a fair amount of various forms of it in the freezers, and I'm in the process of using up as much out of them as possible so I can sort out a good system for getting by with only the fridge-freezer in the kitchen

[NickFitz]

First on the box tonight was an old Police Interceptors

And then the final part of Secrets and Spies - or is it? Aldrich Ames still hadn't been caught by the end, and it finished with "The story continues…" so maybe there's another series, or more of this one that hasn't been on yet? Who knows

I also read a chunk of a recently-published ebook about some of the less well-known features of Swift, all of which seem as if they might come in handy at some point

Early night now, as the morning light will probably wake me up early anyway

Goodnight all