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[xoggoth]

Walky was 20s short of an hour from pedometer. Boring lawns mowed.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken thighs, roasted with herbs and spices, and chips. I've managed to come up with some not particularly nice variations on this theme before now, but today's effort was very tasty

This was accompanied by S1E2 of Critical: Between Life and Death on Netflix, in which we got to watch a max-fax surgeon peel away the face of somebody who'd been hit in the head with a metal pole - only as a temporary measure while they rebuilt his eye socket, though

[NickFitz]

In A for Andromeda, I suspect they're in for a bit of a surprise when they switch on the big computer they've built based on instructions from outer space

Monday again tomorrow. A lot of the team are heading to London, as Tuesday is the big annual conference thing that I've managed to avoid every year, either by being in-between projects or by claiming pressure of work. Neither of those apply this year, so I just told them I'm not going and left it at that

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Happy Autumnal Equinox!

It's a clear blue sky but on the chilly side here at 6°C, though the sun will supposedly warm it up to 14° for a few hours this afternoon. The barometers are up to 1016/1024mB, and the weather is expected to continue in much the same dry and mainly sunny vein for the rest of the week

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Dry.

Sunny. .

Chilly in here at 17.3 deg, 16 in the kitchen, 14 in the leanto, 8 in the saltinghouse. Condensation on the windows for the first time in ages.

1023 mBar, 30.21 in Hg, 767.3131 Torr, 14.837 psi, (up from 1019 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 18th of February 2020 Brillo popped in, as did LM, WTFH (and his non furry pita bread), NF, and eek (whose daughter had an interview at some uni or other 90 minutes earlier than she'd expected), whilst NF wondered why there were no sardines in brown sauce.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Walk (towpath, unabbreviated) in the sunshine.

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

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about the Deliveroo scam, the Thames Water scam, and the difficulties of flat share finding.

Those cottons which were dry and the shirts met the iRon and are now airing upstairs.

Entertainment: The Infinite Monkey Cage waffling on about Potatoes. They didn't mention that the fruits of potatoes are more than slightly toxic.

Following on from which: the denouement of last evening's "Sergeant Cork" was Datura poisoning: another member of the nightshade family.

A helicopter SRG387 from St. Athan just flew overhead: at the same time about 1000 feet higher was some chap or chapess in a paraglider. Bet he/she/it was happy that the helo wasn't any higher than it was. .

Said helo flew up to Seven Sisters & presumably landed since it disappeared off FR24.

Washing frenzy complete with the last of the cottons duly iRoned and airing upstairs.

Spent some time out in the sun watching the bees and that funny little nest in the compost heap that the ?wasps? are flying in & out of, also the bumble bees on the fuchsia. Seems to be spider city out there at the moment.

Tea: chilli con carne (Morrisons version for a change) with rice etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: the kitchen cabinet waffling on about rabbits and broccoli.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[sadkingbilly]

Sunny here in Glasgow. Cool at 13 degrees but it feels nice and warm when in the sunshine.

There'll be a few denizens runnin' aboot in shorts an' string vests then???

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a Pukka steak slice

Some little fluffy white clouds have arrived to adorn the clear blue sky from this morning

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Started off with blue skies but now it's clouded over. Currently 14 degrees ('feels like' 12) and that's the high for the day. Barometer at 1028 mBar.

Sunrise 07:03; Sunset 19:16 BST

Busy morning prepping for a meeting that then got delayed an hour. Another meeting has been postponed to this afternoon but clashes with other clientCo so I won't be attending that.

[NickFitz]

Day done and before settling down, I remembered that I meant to make some more bread, so the breadmaker has been activated in the cause of a white loaf

I'm using 400g of flour this time as the loaves I've been making with 500g are too big - the slices won't even fit in the toaster, which I bought specifically because it's designed for bigger bread! I figure making a smaller loaf is probably the easiest way to deal with this

Tomorrow, the rest of the team are at the annual thing that I don't go to, so there's no meetings at all