Towels have been washed.
No tea as I had a late lunch / early dinner with Mum and I'm not hungry.
No tea as I had a late lunch / early dinner with Mum and I'm not hungry.
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Today's viewing was mostly the usual chunk of Monkey Life this morning. This brought us to the end of S14, so next weekend is the first half of S15; meaning in a couple of weeks, we should be on S16, which I haven't seen before
This evening, tea was accompanied by Surgeons: A Matter of Life and Death on C5. Somehow it didn't feel as interesting as the BBC equivalents; maybe the pacing was off? Still, it was OK.
It's raining more here, and judging by the radar, will continue overnight even more heavily, as well as getting windier
Monday again tomorrow
Goodnight all
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Morning denizens
Blustery sort of day out there after a rainy night. Looks as if it'll be quite clear though, with a lot of blue sky showing through as the clouds move away. Relatively mild in theory but not in reality, being 5° but "feeling like" -4°, with 7° as the expected high point. The barometers are all the way down at 965/973mB
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Morning all
Stormy overnight again, and our water has gone off.
At least it was dry on our walk. Now clouding over again. Gloomy Monday…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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^^^ Om.
Morning.
Monday.
Damply dry.
Sunny.
Blue sky in parts.
Chilly in here at 11.9 deg, 11.5 in the kitchen, 9.5 in the leanto.
976.5 mBar, 28.836 in Hg, 732.43 Torr, 14.169 psi, (up from 975 last night: 28.79 in Hg, 731.31 Torr, 14.14psi ), 64% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 23rd of December 2019 NF added to LM's tale of deicing by relating the time his plane was deiced on the way to Aberdeen, also relating that he'd had compo off East Midlands Railways for the late arrival for the CUK do in Manchester, but was still awaiting compo for the even slower return trip, whereas I had poached egg & tomato for lunch, plus a beetroot sandwich.
Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine. Bit breezy out there.
Lunch: brunch.
Entertainment: "Shadow War". Sadly in this one we can't just tell them to feck off.
Y&Y <click>
Now wondering how you manufacture a logarithmic wirewound potentiometer. Does not compute.
Oh, they could be made but by heck they'd be expensive.
Even more expensive if you want true log rather than "audio taper".
Freecell score: 71%, running average: 81%. Zonked out rather In the Zone. Ho hum.
Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. Remind me not to use pilau rice for it again.
Entertainment: PM <click>
Book.
Trying to get label off other book: 3 types of stuff so far & none of them are touching it. I wonder if I've still got some lighter fluid.
Oak Island nutjobbery. Lead disc with two perforations: from Italy apparently. Next week it's Roman stuff again.
Secrets in the Ice. Bodies found on a south American mountain glacier: plane crash: Flight 11 & Flight 232: August 1972. Viking treasure Norway. Toronto "thunderclaps" at -30 deg C: "frost quake". Greenland: no orange mother****er mentioned. Timber eroding out. Viking era longhouse.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 27 January 2025, 22:49.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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MorningAfternoon all
It was sunny with lumps of fluff this morning but it's clouded over a fair bit since but still bright. Dry albeit damp from much overnight rain. Currently 8 degrees ('feels like' 5) and that's the high for the day. Rain expected for the rest of the day, with potentially a thunderstorm. Barometer down to 982 mBar.
Sunrise 07:47; Sunset 16:42
Busy week at work this week. Much to do before I go jetting off again.
Just about to have some crumpets for brunch.Comment
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Links are up
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Lunch: Heinz oxtail soup and white toast
Meanwhile at ClientGov, they've noticed that if the consultancy doesn't win the new contract, I'll be the only developer left on the project in a couple of months. So I'm being put in charge of a subproject with orders to extract all of the knowledge and expertise the consultancy people have acquired over the last eighteen months or so and cram it into my head, just in case
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Try making an oxtail stew. It tastes rather different from tinned oxtail soup!
One of the cheapest meat cuts and one of the tastiest. https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/oxtail_stew_91956 You can substitute brandy for red wine.
Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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The lift engineer has been, again, and fixed the lift, again. It remains to be seen whether it will remain fixed. It may even have broken again already
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