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[NickFitz]

First day back done!

Only three more days until the long weekend

Today wasn't too bad though. Still on the same project and probably will be for a while yet, but I was left to my own devices and things went smoothly enough

[NickFitz]

Tea has been the spicy Turkish chicken and potato thing, out of the freezer

This was accompanied by the CID thing on 5; I seem to have finished the Norfolk series, so it was further up the east coast on Humberside this time

[NickFitz]

In Story of a Murder, Scotland Yard have found the remains of Belle Elmore, aka Mrs. Crippen, under the cellar floor! More precisely, they've found what remains of her remains: Crippen had deboned her, burned the bones, and ground them to ash which he put out with the rubbish. But he buried the soft tissue in the cellar with quicklime, and it turns out quicklime can actually act as a preservative when damp. All very ghastly

Meanwhile, Crippen and his typist/mistress Ethel Le Neve, having fled to the Netherlands and then Belgium, have taken ship for Canada. But the captain, becoming suspicious of Ethel's disguise as Crippen's teenage son, has identified them, and sent a message to his shipping line via the Marconi wireless telegraph so they can alert Scotland Yard

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start again, though as with yesterday there's a haziness, and today this may increase to actual cloudiness around lunchtime. But it's already 12°C and expected to peak at 22° from mid-afternoon to the evening. The barometers are steady at 1015/1023mB again

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc.
I was going to say that I overslept, but that's not true, I didn't get up until the alarm went off.
The walk was considerably shorter than yesterday, only out for an hour, but plenty more steps to be done today as I suspect I won't get parked close to the medical practice at lunchtime.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday according to reports.

Dry.

Sunny.

Almost not chilly in here at 16.9 deg, 17 deg in the kitchen, 15 in the leanto.

1020 mBar, 30.12 in Hg, 765.1 Torr, 14.794 psi, (unchanged), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 13th of January 2020 WTFH was about to leave on a jet plane, couldn't drink because of imminent meetings at the other end, LM had set up her telly pc and downloads, BR14 was waiting for the boiler service engineer, opm popped in, and I found the weather tolerable whereas NF found it cloudy and cold. LM's student neighbours had the privilege of a firealarm turf out and were standing on the pavements outside wondering what had hit them at 06:30 of a morning.

A curiously satisfying sleep which made a pleasant change. Must have been saving it up from all the poor sleep of Friday & Saturday nights.

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

Lunch: brunch. Stone me, that was a bit thicker than usual. Should keep me regular for days.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about decluttering: nothing so far about Dead Men's radios, ancient hobbies, ancient computers, The Middle of Fecking Lidl tools tools & more fecking tools.

Though someone did mention books: I'm well on the way to dealing with those. Got to read quicker.



Oh, they did mention Dead Men's Nails and Screws. Of which I have thousands.

Washing frenzy in progress. Some of that stuff is well rank. Some of my tatterdemalion finest. .

All hanging on the line in the unbearable heat of the afternoon sun.

Strewth it's a bit warm out there Bruce, hot enough to boil a monkey's bum & no mistake.

More potching in the garage, putting another plank along the top of the workbench to prevent stuff falling down behind it as happened yesterday. This just means stuff will fall down behind over the top of the new plank.

The japanese honeysuckle has just received the kind attentions of some agent orange. We shall see if it's effective in a week or so. The last lot seemed effective enough.

Strewth, and I thought I had problems:

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Tea: Tesco battered haddock. Nice enough despite being a bit overcooked (due to neglect).

Entertainment: PM.

NCIS S17 E15: the one where Gibbs' mate dates a serial killer or something.

"How the Nazis lost the war". The list of Hitler's talents exactly match those of the Orange Moron. What a surprise.

There's a Bruce Willis epic on one of the channels: it's one of those he made as his disease progressed, poor sod. Just paid so they could put his face on the dvd label. Sad.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny. No cloud from my vantage point. Currently 21 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 23 expected. Barometer at 1026 mBar.

Sunrise 05:37; Sunset 20:22 BST

Yesterday started off well. I felt better from all the various ailments I've had over the past two weeks and was on course for a productive day. Then, shortly after 3 pm my eyes went all funny and I thought "ooh a migraine precursor, best have something to eat before my next meeting". Then about 15 mins later I got pins and needles in my left hand. I took some ibuprofen as that was what I had to hand, being in the middle of a meeting at the time. Luckily, this was a Client2 meeting and no-one puts their cameras on, so I could sit and listen with my head in my hands as I couldn't see very much. As soon as that meeting was over, I went for a lie down in a darkened room and then spent the rest of the day counting down the time between doses of soluble solpadeine max.

Today I have a fuzzy head. I will be heading up to Glasgow with HWMBO this evening to spend a few days up there for his birthday.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some Saturday night leftovers, a few chunks of chicken 65 and some spicy potato thing, reheated in the air fryer. Very tasty

We've got the fortnightly team retrospective at 13:00. I can never think of anything to contribute to these things and, having been off, have even less to say. But I'm trying to work out a tactful way of saying that I'm getting more done, solving problems faster, and understanding how it all works a lot better now I'm working alone

[WTFH]

But I'm trying to work out a tactful way of saying that I'm getting more done, solving problems faster, and understanding how it all works a lot better now I'm working alone

"I've noticed efficiency gains since streamlining the process"

[sadkingbilly]

"I've noticed efficiency gains since streamlining the process"

managementspeak at it's best