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[eek]

In other news in Romford for a third nice as the ECML was up the creek and it's easier to let them get on with it. Should be home tomorrow afternoon after a leisurely morning.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey sort of start, though it's the kind of overcast that looks as if it'll probably thin out a bit before too long, possibly aided by the windy conditions expected this afternoon. It's turning milder though, being 9°C with a high of 16° later in the day. The barometers are down but hardly at all, at 999/1007mB

[NickFitz]

Well my friend got royally shafted by the Met Police & CPS. The min sentence was 12 weeks custody, reduced to 8 weeks for pleading guilty. This was suspended for 18 months and ordered to do 120h community service.

Sends the message that no-one takes domestic abuse seriously. Absolutely livid.

The CPS are terrible. Why on earth would they discard evidence of years of offending and just present a few weeks' worth to the court?

[NickFitz]

Breakfast: a hot cross bun, slathered in butter

I didn't bother with the fancy flavoured ones this year, sticking with the traditional sort

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Wet.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 13.9 deg, 13 deg in the kitchen, 12.5 in the leanto.

1002.6 mBar, 29.606 in Hg, 752 Torr, 14.54 psi, (down from 1008 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 10th of January 2020 NF finished watching "Hanna" only to find that there was a 4k offering as well, BR14 popped in as did Scruff and Brillo, DaveB's knee was recovering, eek popped in, WTFH was looking after the creatures while his Mrs was away, and I was listening to the pipes banging away as the WM did its thing. There was a chicken house vid but it doesn't work any more.

Pissing down.

Freecell score: 60%, running average: 82%. Should have given up when it was 80%.

Still pissing down.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: bollox on R4. <click>.

Repaired the Farnell power supply I broke the day before yesterday during the cleaning frenzy of The Great Spider Hunt.

Had to find the 4BA nut spinner since nothing else in the metric selection deigned to fit, only to discover that said nut spinner, in a fit of pique, had welded itself to the floor of the tool tray it lives in, the 6BA spinner had done the same thing. Some sort of plasticiser migration thing, as seen with polystyrene and pvc at a guess.

Following that excitement the tool bags were duly vacced and sorted, happily enough none had suffered apart from the Xcelite screwdriver handle which has gone white (presumably mildew or similar): not mildew, it's a reaction between the plastic Cellulose acetate butyrate & moisture: fortunately it doesn't smell of puke. It must be said that those Xcelite tools do stink.

Then looked and sorted some electronic service sheets from the days of yore. I suppose someone might want them but I won't be sticking them in a parcel, far too heavy.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM. It went <click> several times due to irritation with the presenter.

The Long and the Short of It: BBC2 NI: the border.

Bits of Repair Shop.

Abandoned Engineering: El Paso / Juarez Caples Building, Laudry. Taft Diaz meeting. Madero. Pancho Villa. Watching the Mexican civil war 1911 from the roof of the Laundry. East Germany: Sperenberg Airfield. Erich Honecker. Duckett's Grove, County Carlow, Ireland. Duckett treated his tenants well so the locals asked the IRA not to burn it down & it was used as a training base. Burned down in 1933*. Spain: town ordered to be abandoned by Franco so a dam and reservoir could be built. Town wasn't flooded but ended up on a peninsula.

*"The angry shilling": the amount left by Duckett's widow to his step daughter Olive. Court case over it in 1939 Oooo, that's given me an idea for my will. . (Actually I'd thought that one up on my own).

Person of Interest S1 E1 5USA. Got the dvds upstairs so no point in watching it on air.

PBS: The 100 days that defined Modern History: Gulf War 1.

Mysteries from above: more bollox on Blaze. Yamal crater, Siberia: ?methane eruption?. Yemen: the well of hell: sinkhole. Greenland icesheet: lots of holes with black sludge at the bottom plus algae and tardigrades: cryoconite, dark zone, etc. Antarctica: hole in the sea ice over the Maud Rise sea mount: unusual ocean currents bringing up warmer water thusly melting that spot.

[NickFitz]

CloudFlare seems very keen on hunting robots at the moment

I wasn't sure if I was supposed to be meeting the rest of the family for lunch on Easter Sunday. We always have done but it was more of a thing for our parents, really. We've already arranged something for early May as my nieces can't do this weekend.

Anyway, I just checked with my sister and it turns out we aren't doing anything this weekend, which TBH is a bit of a relief as I'd rather just chill out here than have to drive down there and back

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with lumps of fluff lazily drifting by. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 16 expected. Looks like the cloud will increase with a chance of rain mid afternoon onwards. Barometer down to 1011 mBar.

Sunrise 05:59; Sunset 20:03 BST

My friend is making a formal complaint about the mishandling of her case. Her ex's current partner is gutted he didn't get sent down as he's making her (and their toddler's) life hell and even just 8 weeks custody would have given her opportunity to escape. I'd forgotten to tell my friend, until I saw it mentioned in her complaint, that the CPS told the court she wasn't after a restraining order as that was being dealt with in the family court. Not true. So she's rewording that part.

I shall now stop banging on about it here and direct my anger into supporting my friend.

In other news, I'm working a half day today. A few things need to be wrapped up to make for a smoother start next week.

[xoggoth]

Got another date with new loony lady next week. Right, must stop farting around on the PC and get some gardening done.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a chipolata and bacon baguette with red sauce

Well, half of one, as I managed to exercise a little self control and will save the other half

[xoggoth]

Boring tidying up (a bit) of front garden done. Must think where to go for a wonky.