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[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been lime & chilli chicken bits in a wholemeal bap with a bag of plain crisps

Wind's getting up even more here, which reminds me that I need to put a further bedding wash on

[sadkingbilly]

got a different guest on crittercam last night:

[ladymuck]

Evening all

It's been a cloudy but dry day. Currently 12 degrees ('feels like' 10) and the high was 14. Barometer at 1022 mBar.

Sunrise 05:26; Sunset 20:31 BST

It's been a lazy and non productive day today. Caught up on Ambulance and Top Guns: Inside the RAF

[NickFitz]

got a different guest on crittercam last night:

Excellent!

[NickFitz]

The beef short ribs and stout came to fruition; I took it off the bone (easy enough, as the bones just came away) then popped it under the grill for a few minutes to make the fat a little crispy while the stout and meat juices were transformed into an excellent gravy. Potatoes roasted in duck fat and peas completed the ensemble

This was accompanied by 24 Hours: the Fall of Nazi Germany on All4, about the agreeing and signing of the surrender that ended the war. Interesting, but it was one of those that felt a bit padded out. They had several talking heads who were all saying the same stuff, and they'd got each of them to say it in several different ways then cut it all up edited the bits back together, so it felt rather repetitive at times. They could have chopped fifteen minutes off, or explored some aspects of the matter in more detail. But they probably assume we're so lacking in cognitive skills that we need to have the important points explained to us over and over again before they sink in

[NickFitz]

I managed to sort out my Swift async stuff in the course of the day!

So now I've moved on and have something else I haven't dealt with before to sort out, to wit, adding JSON encoding support to an Apple framework class that doesn't support it natively. Oh well, it's good to learn new stuff, I suppose

And this evening, I've read more of Our Spoons Came From Woolworths in which things aren't going very well for Sophia, our narrator

Back to work tomorrow. Oh well, only three days till Friday

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It's an overcast start out there, and we seem to be in a period of colder nights but slightly warmer days; it's currently 5°C but will be rising to 15° later and that's the pattern for the rest of the week, in theory. The barometers are up to 1014/1023mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc, but 4C earlier made for a rather chilly walk, with ground frost in some of the fields. Circulation is now returning to my fingers.

The garden could really do with rain, plants are drying up and water butts are running low.

All 6 eggs from the great tit nest have hatched and the parents are busy feeding them. should be about 3 weeks until they fledge.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Another night of waking at 04:00, took much longer to get back to sleep. Ho hum. More book read, followed by More More book read, the first being insufficient.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 16 deg, 15.5 in the kitchen, 13 in the leanto.

1021.5 mBar, 30.165 in Hg, 766.188 Torr, 14.815 psi, (up from 1020 last night), 57% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 14th of January 2020 Brillo, BR14, and vetran popped in, LM lived in a basement at the time so defenestration was out of the question, I watched the last Pink Panther (clip show reassembled after Peter Sellers death) followed by "The Big Heat" (Glen Ford, Lee Marvin), and NF had the last of the lamb stew followed by watching some Swedish epic or other.

Walk (unabbreviated, alternate route back) walked in the sunshine & cold wind. Warm it ain't.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: thing about Living Rivers. Y&Y phone in <click>

More potching in the garage: replaced an R7 halogen bulb with an LED version: ok. Turned it on, & the R7 LED version at the other end of the bench promptly died, so that's got a bog standard R7 halogen back in there. You really couldn't make this crap up. Not impressed.

Moved stuff about a bit, had a look in a box that hadn't been touched for a while: something had made a nest in there. Fortunately it hadn't eaten the leather welding apron or I'd have been really pissed off.

Found some more copper brake line and some nuts for same. Don't suppose it'll ever be used now. There's more of it "somewhere". Also found the reel of layflat hose for the submersible pump (Middle of Lidl(tm) of course. ). I'm sure it'll come in handy one day. .

Currently getting outside a mug of mediocre coffee. Nice enough.

Must remember that Doctor Who (John Pertwee version) starts at 17:15 this evening. What it is to have something to watch. . "Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970)". And not a snot monster or Disney in sight. .

Tea: Tesco battered haddock. Nice enough especially when leavened with a little Doctor Who.

Entertainment: The Good Doctor.

Thing on BBC4 about some chap who took photographs in Bradford.

How the Nazis lost the war. The Aryan dream. And everyone else's nightmare.