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[NickFitz]

Ham toastie for lunch

This was crafted using the white loaf that came out so well, which turns out to be ideal for this purpose

[ladymuck]

A few clouds have appeared. Not enough to cause concern but sufficient to keep things interesting.

It's been quite a pleasant temperature in my little office, which doesn't get direct sunlight. A gentle breeze has wafted in the window every now and then.

I'll be clocking off in about 45 minutes to head on over to the Barbican for a performance of some sort.

[NickFitz]

More and bigger clouds here too, though they seem to be politely keeping out of the Sun's way for the most part

I've just been into the bedroom and stripped the bed and left it to air. It's hot in there, so I'll wait until it's cooled down this evening before remaking it

[NickFitz]

Tea: lamb steaks with chips, peas and gravy

Accompanied by the rest of the Trucking Hell I watched half of last week

[NickFitz]

This evening, I watched the first hour of Netflix's documentary about the OceanGate Titan thing. It's very emphatic about the key point that the rich guy responsible was a real dick

And then I finished reading Project Hail Mary, which was excellent. There's a film of it coming out next year starring Ryan Gosling, which should be good if it sticks closely to the book

I remembered to remake the bed earlier too

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Saturday <checks clock>

Awake at 05:30 yet again.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Cool in here at 22.2 deg, 23 in the kitchen, 21 in the leanto.

1018.5 mBar, 30.07 in Hg, 763.9 Torr, 14.77 psi, (up from 1018 last night), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Freecell score: 91%, rinning average: 83%.

Walk (towpath) walked. Quite warm out there. The bike had gone.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: Digging up Britain: some mediaeval village, followed by Stonehenge.

Scotland Yard: the dead chap found in a culvert. Killed for two gold sovereigns worth £6 in 1953. One is worth £564 today. Fiat currency again.

Maigret: The Mistake (1960). No subtitles on this one. He's attempting to WFH. . Fat chance.

The London Fog of 1952. It occurred to me that one might scrub so2 from the air by passing it through sodium hydroxide in a diy respirator. I wonder if anyone tried it.

12,000 deaths from the above.

Nobody (2021). Well it's on again. . The only good Russian etc.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey start out and it's going to be a bit less warm today, with a cool easterly breeze helping. It's 19°C now and only getting as high as 24° for a couple of hours this afternoon, when it'll also brighten up. The barometers are up a bit more at 1017/1025mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all (just)

Overcast but dry. A bit of a breeze about. Currently 19 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 25 expected. Barometer up to 1027 mBar.

Sunrise 05:49; Sunset 20:21 BST

I have been up the road to the farmers' market where I bought bread, eggs and a sticky bun. It's the first day in a while where I'm on my own. It's bliss!

[xoggoth]

Just back from free lunch with woodland volunteery group. Long walk included. Snore.

[NickFitz]

Lunch earlier was a bacon bap (white)

And while keeping an eye on the wildlife stuff on the telly, I've also got some work done on the Mac app I'm writing to help catalogue my Dad's many USB drives and allow me to filter out numerous duplicate and irrelevant files. All I managed today was the bit that lets it respond and update its display when a disk is connected or disconnected. But merely getting that working involves dealing with a lot of the fundamentals of how MacOS handles disks and files, so it was a productive session if only for the amount of documentation I had to read and understand to get there