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[WTFH]

Morning all
Misty out, but at least it wasn't raining.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Damply dry.

Wanly sunny.

Chilly in here at 16.8 deg, 17 deg in the kitchen, 14.5 deg in the leanto.

1019.5 mBar, 30.1 in Hg, 764.68 Torr, 14.786 psi, (up from 1017 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 25th of November 2019 there was much discussion of foods for tea, whereas Brillo was comforting some young lady on a bridge somewhere. He didn't marry her.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine.

Lunch: there was brunch.

Freecell score: 96%, running average: 79%.

More gardening: the pile o'tulipe is growing ever bigger. Roll on November 5th. .

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM.

The Bad Skin Clinic: embarrassing parts special: lady with a lump on her labia. Lady with hailey hailey disease. Chap with a sebaceous cyst on his arse, plus a hydrocele on his left nut (lucky it wasn't something more serious considering how long it had been there). Chap with unpleasant skin problem around his groin.

Digging up Britain's Past: Silchester.

My dear niece wants my late mum's cookery recipes so I've been looking through the 8" pile of paper to see what's there.

Already found a fine selection of destruction manuals for washing machines, cookers, microwaves, and iRons that will meet the recycling on Thursday.

And shedloads of receipts dating from mid 90s to 2010 or so.

Plus some sort of record of the results of the annual marmalade manufacturing frenzy.

And a recipe book from the 1940s that belonged to my (very) late aunt Ruth who popped her clogs due to heart problems brought on by rheumatic fever. She spent some years in bed in the downstairs front room and was popular with the bus drivers who always waved as they drove past. If she'd lived a bit longer they might have been able to fix her heart but it was not to be.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and damp start to the day but it seems to be brightening up a bit. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 16 expected. No further rain forecast. Barometer up a smidge to 1023 mBar.

ConsultancyCo has hired a permanent person, due to start in January, which I think will definitely mark the death knell of my engagement with them. Clock's a ticking to get another role lined up.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: pâté on white bloomer toast, again because there's enough for two lunches in the pack and it expired today

Managed to do some actual coding this morning. But now - well, at 13:00 - we've got the fortnightly "retrospective", to which I shall most likely have nothing much to contribute

I just hauled Henry out of his cupboard and gave the hall a quick go over as there's a fire safety flat door inspection tomorrow, so I need to avoid the shame of letting a stranger see any stray bits of fluff on the floor

This inspection was supposed to happen about six months ago, but nobody knocked that time, so I assume it got rescheduled. Anyway, they just want to be sure I've still got the fire door that was installed about six years ago and haven't compromised its integrity by knocking holes in the inside or whatever, so far as I understand

[NickFitz]

Just ordered the new Mac Mini with all the options turned up to the max

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb steaks with chips and beans

[NickFitz]

Just switched the forum software's system cache to use memcache instead of the database. Let me know if anything even more obviously stupid than usual happens

[NickFitz]

Got the news section of the sidebar updating again too!

Well, I've got it to update once; I'll have to wait for them to publish some more news to be sure it's working properly

[ladymuck]

Watching some ghost story nonsense on iPlayer. It being that time of year and all that.

[NickFitz]

There was a new Police Interceptors earlier

And later, I started reading Casino by Nicholas Pileggi, on which Scorsese's film of the same title is based

Wednesday tomorrow! Only got to get through that and Thursday and I can have a rest

Goodnight all