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[NickFitz]

Tea has been the last bit of the chicken curry thing I made from the Madhur Jaffrey book the other week, with rice

To watch along with that, What Happened at Hiroshima on iPlayer. It's only thirty minutes long, which doesn't really seem like enough time to do justice to such a weighty subject

[xoggoth]

Moved the big old cast iron chiminea to a better place in the garden. Reminds me how old I'm getting, wasn't anywhere near so difficult when I moved it a much longer distance from the garden centre to me van when I brought it about 15 years ago.

[WTFH]

My photography student contacted me earlier. While out on a shoot, he managed to get the camera “a bit wet and it stopped working”. Brought it round to me. I think it may have been dropped in a river, based on the amount of water in the lens.
Currently trying to dry out the lens, which would cost around £15k to replace with the new equivalent (but I think might be OK), and the body, which is only about a tenth of that.
Teenagers, eh? Good job he bought the lens off me a couple of weeks ago, or his dad would be strapped for cash right now.

TFBSZ.

[NickFitz]

Further viewing this evening, also on iPlayer, was Kamikaze: An Untold History. Very interesting, drawing on archives that have only become available in recent years and interviews with people involved, relatives, descendants, and so on.

Later, I finished reading Artemis. Excellent climax to the tale

I might go shopping tomorrow. No need to wait until Friday, and it'd get it out of the way

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Well I suppose I did manage to stay asleep until about 06:30ish.

Wet.

Drizzly.

Grey.

Windy.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 20 deg, 20.5 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto.

1008.5 mBar, 29.78 in Hg, 756.44 Torr, 14.63 psi, (down from 1011 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 6th of February 2020 NF was watching yet more STNG, Brillo popped in, LM was irritated by some oik who'd "tidied stuff up" and broke it, having done something similar previously, whereas I found the morning sunny.

Lots of horizontal drizzle impelled by the wind.

Freecell score: 60%. I gave up. Just kept getting worse & worse. .

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the autism thing. The Chief Autist made a very brief appearance.

The drugs of hallucination thing. Didn't know that shrooms were Class A. Or if I did, then I'd long forgotten it.

Freecell score: 88%, running average: 83%. That's a bit better.

The thing about The Heroes of Telemark on one or other of the sat channels.

Some minor potching in the garage to relieve the boredom of existence.

There's a different pair in next door today. WTF is going on?

Thing about "Who put Bella in the Wych Elm" on That's. 2018. Watched it before. Woman's body found in the centre of a wych elm in Hagley Wood in 1942.

Tea: beans on toast etc.

Entertainment: PM. 18 o'clock news.

PBS Thing about post WWII France: rationing ceased in 1949. Lucky bastards. Included a clip of some poor bastard being lynched in 1944.

Foyle's War S7 E1. And back he comes from SepticLand. And into MI5.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Shorter (8k step) walk this morning. Overcast & murky out.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and cloudy. Currently 18 degrees ('feels like' 22) with a high of 22 expected. Cloud to remain for the rest of the day. Barometer down to 1015 mBar.

Sunrise 05:34; Sunset 20:39 BST

Prepping for the weekend's BBQ continues apace. Well, HWMBO is doing most of it. I'm just working out if I have enough plates, cutlery, glasses, etc. as the number of attendees has swelled to 10. I know I don't have enough chairs.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy day today, and still with a bit of a breeze it seems. As a result, the present temperature of 17°C apparently "feels like" 12°; still mild enough, and getting up to 22° later. The barometers are down though, at 1001/1009mB

[xoggoth]

Mahjongy thing with old farts this morning. Now need to plan me walky. Not sure whether to bother doing same walk to try and find my little USB voice recorder I lost yesterday, rather small to spot and was only about 12 quid.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been cold chicken in red wine sauce, as there was a bit left over from the other evening that wasn't big enough to bother freezing

This morning's activities have been reasonably productive, involving getting a new Django project set up and ready to start work on

Part of this involved contacting Mythic Beasts support. They offer PostgreSQL databases in place of their default MariaDb (i.e. MySQL) but you have to ask specially, as they don't have anything like phpMyAdmin for managing it over the web, so you need to know what you're doing - including knowing to ask, I suppose! Anyway, I asked if four of the five DB instances on one of my hosting accounts could be changed over, and they'd done it within the hour

So then I was able to use an SSH tunnel to hook PyCharm up to it, and can now see the production database from here. Not that there's anything in it yet, but at least I know it's there