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[ladymuck]

My parcel was delivered shortly after 12.30 pm. Therein concluding the Uninteresting Parcel Saga.

Interesting meeting this afternoon. Due to the small attendee list and certain people not being present, it only overran by 8 minutes and the overrun was not due to superfluous chit chat or obscure tangents being taken.

[NickFitz]

Work done, timesheet approved, and… WEEKEND!

Today was reasonably enjoyable actually, though I still find the project as a whole somewhat tedious

[ladymuck]

Raining.

I see there's a storm a'brewing, set to cause havoc this weekend

[NickFitz]

Raining.

I see there's a storm a'brewing, set to cause havoc this weekend

It's very windy already, with rain from time to time. Does this mean it's going to get even worse?

Tea has been shepherd's pie, there having been a bit of it left in the freezer

[NickFitz]

Tonight's viewing was the latest episode of 24 Hours in Police Custody in which we discover that Biggleswade is apparently a hotbed of crime

And in addition to a bit of mucking around with SwiftUI stuff, I read a couple of chapters of MI9 by Helen Fry. She's a proper historian so it's a bit dry at times, but still interesting

Early night now so I'm ready to make the most of Friday!

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all
A bit wet and windy over night, but CBS, etc this morning and a nice sunrise going on.

TFIF, etc

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

After the wind and rain of last night, today's a sunny start with a few wispy strands high up in the sky. I assume this is the "calm before the storm" one hears about. It's currently 6°C and "feels like" 2° and while it'll only get to a high of 8° this afternoon before dropping again, it then starts to crank it up as more wind and rain moves in during the hours of darkness, reaching 11° by midnight. The barometers are up to 1005/1013mB, though I don't suppose that will last

Most importantly, it's Friday! I need to decide which Sainsbury's to go to and whether to visit M&S as well if I go to the big one

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with wisps here and there. Still damp in some corners from last night's rain. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 5) with a high of 9 expected. Light winds from the west. Cloud cover set to increase as the day progresses with rain forecast from 6pm onwards. Barometer up to 1018 mBar.

Quiet day at the coal face as ConsultancyCo has their Christmas do today, which I opted out of.

[NickFitz]

It was M&S then Big Sainsbury's in the end and I was able to get everything… everything I remembered to get, at least

The maze of car parks around M&S and the other emporia was getting Christmas-crazy with people, but I managed to find a space very close to the shop. It was one of those right next to a trolley shelter with somebody badly parked close to the line on the other side, and a couple wouldn't want to park there because one of them would be unable to get out. I must remember to look out for that combination in future, as it's fine if there's just one of you

And after a brief visit to M&S it was over to Sainsbury's where I managed to get a good space again, despite it being busy there too. I didn't need much really as I'll have time to go at less busy days and times after next week, so it was mainly just food for the next week.

Time for lunch now. I didn't get anything from the hot food counter as there's stuff in the fridge that Needs to be Eaten™

[NickFitz]

Quiet day at the coal face as ConsultancyCo has their Christmas do today, which I opted out of.

We'll have a few quiet days next week as the consultancy all the others work for is doing a three-day "workshop" on Writing Clean Code which a bunch of them are attending. IIRC there's already a book on the subject, so to my mind it would make more sense to just send them a copy of that and let them spend three days reading it. But I tend to side with my friend who said many years ago that he distrusts any use of the word "workshop" other than in the context of light engineering