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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and cloudy. Currently 9 degrees ('feels like' 7) with a high of 14 expected. There is a chance some sunshine may poke through the cloud cover. There's also the ever-present 10% chance of rainfall. Barometer at 1025 mBar.

Sunrise 05:24; Sunset 20:33 BST

Another headache. Started last night with wobbly vision again but didn't develop into a full-on migraine. Maybe I took the drugs early enough, maybe it was never going to go that way. Still headachy this morning. I have 4 hours of meetings today. Not my idea of fun at all.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: same as yesterday, as the lime & chilli chicken needed to be finished off - in fact, its use-by was yesterday, but it seemed OK

Too many meetings (three) this morning, and another one starting shortly. I might be able to get some work done after that

[ladymuck]

Late lunch was a three egg omelette, using up the last of the eggs.

1.5 hours of meetings remaining today.

[NickFitz]

Tea: homemade pork chow mein

Accompanied by the second half of a motorway-adjacent cops thing that I apparently hadn't finished watching

[eek]

Think I might have been at this hotel too often

Arrive at hotel, receptionist on the phone, 2 people queuing ahead of me.

Receptionist looks up from phone and hands me my room key..

[NickFitz]

Tonight I finished Our Spoons Came From Woolworths. A beautiful and rather strange book, and I have a few more of hers to read now

And I also managed to make progress on the Swift stuff I've been mucking about with. I went down a bit of a blind alley with the reflection APIs for Objective C class instances, but it turned out I didn't need it - I could just use the key-value coding stuff that I should have remembered about. Shows how rubbish Google is nowadays that it didn't come up with that in response to some queries that should have had it at the top of the list. Anyway, that stuff works so now I can get on with the next bit

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

A bit cloudy, yet also a bit sunny out; it varies from minute to minute. Getting a little warmer, being 8°C now and rising to 16° later, though the barometers are down a notch to 1013/1021mB

There's a bunch of pigeons that often visit the lawn around this time, identifiable because they have the confusion of markings and colouration often visible on town pigeons, making them distinct from the standard wood pigeon plumage that most of them have hereabouts. Today, they all showed up and rather hemmed in one of the magpies that was browsing along the hedgerow. In the end, the magpie made a run at the middle of the group then took off for the tree in the central flowerbed, scattering them. This split them in two directions, and then the magpie swooped down and ran at the ones furthest from the hedgerow, making them scatter back towards the others. Having apparently rearranged the pigeons to its satisfaction and secured a good bit of lawn for itself, the magpie then went back to browsing about for whatever it is they browse about for

It's the first time I've seen one of them do that, though to be fair, it did look very hemmed in at the start and I did wonder if it was going to allow itself to be squeezed like that on its own lawn by a bunch of pigeons that don't even live here

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc, no sign of any rain
6C when we went out earlier, good job I had a jumper on.
Getting wired up later this morning to see if they can get a better handle on what's going on, so that will be fun, I'm sure.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 16.1 deg, 16 in the kitchen, 14 in the leanto.

1020.5 mBar, 30.135 in Hg, 765.44 Torr, 14.8011011 psi, (unchanged), 59% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of January 2020 BR14 popped in, scruff popped in, vetran popped in, LM was irritated by the way that wandered about in the list & NF explained why it did what it did, whereas eek suggested typing : wave : instead (which is wot I do).

Thing on R4: "Halflife". Well that was a surprise.

Walk (unabbreviated, alternate route back) walked. Walking group going in the opposite direction.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Y&Y <click>

Thing about autism at 13:45.

Bit of potching about in the garage.

Bored with that so cut my half of the privet hedge in the front garden. .

I await the results with innerest since it grows rather fast.

The rambling rose along the fence on the other side of their front garden has blown away from the fence & is covering the front garden path. Oh dear, how sad, never mind. .

I await the results of that with even more innerest since it grows even faster & longer than the privet. .

Now getting outside another cup of mediocre coffee before venturing back down to the garage for a little more light potching.

More potching in the garage.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: PM. Doctor Who and the Silurians. The plot thickens. One sees where Terrry Nation found the plot for "Survivors"..

Doctor Who and the Ambassadors of Death. E1.

Repair Shoppe: the VE day one: aircraft clock: I do so hope they remembered the radium.

Maigret and the rich (2000). 6.33 mm pistol mentioned: there is one: the Mann 6.33, long obsolete. Maybe it was a mis-subtitle for 6.35 (.25ACP).

Just killed the first moth of the year.

[WTFH]

Getting wired up later this morning to see if they can get a better handle on what's going on, so that will be fun, I'm sure.

"We need to carry out more tests"
When I asked had she found something wrong, she replied that these tests showed no issues so they needed to look elsewhere.

But at least one thing has been rules out.