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[ladymuck]

Happy Birthday TPD and all who sail in her!

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky poking through the mix of wispy and fluffy cloud. Currently 15 degrees and that's the high for the day. Cloud cover set to increase as the day progresses with the chance of showers also increasing. Barometer continues upwards to 1012 mBar.

Sunrise 07:00; Sunset 16:29 GMT

Feeling uninspired this morning. Will have to see what the day brings.

I did remember to put the bins out (recycling, food waste) yesterday so I'm off to a good start.

[NickFitz]

I did remember to put the bins out (recycling, food waste) yesterday so I'm off to a good start.

Our council's introducing food waste bins next year. I'm curious to know how that's going to work for somewhere like this. We have a whole bunch of communal black (general waste) and orange (recycling) bins, and the bin paddock is only just big enough to contain them. I suppose fewer black bins will be needed, but I wonder how getting food waste from around fifty flats into one or more bins is going to be managed?

Then there's the additional complication of the management company collecting from our flat doors three mornings a week. I doubt the overall hygiene of the place will be enhanced by people leaving food waste in the hallways overnight!

If the idea is that each flat has its own food waste bin, then I feel sorry for whoever has to take them all out for bin day then bring them all back again. Or will we be expected to each take and retrieve our own? The pavement isn't really wide enough to have fifty or so bins stacked on it, not even quite small ones. And there'll always be someone who claims that their "better" bin has been taken by a jealous neighbour and an inferior bin left in its place, even if they're all identical

[NickFitz]

Lunch: ham toasties

These were made with the loaf that baked as I slept, which seems to have turned out very well

[ladymuck]

Our council's introducing food waste bins next year. I'm curious to know how that's going to work for somewhere like this. We have a whole bunch of communal black (general waste) and orange (recycling) bins, and the bin paddock is only just big enough to contain them. I suppose fewer black bins will be needed, but I wonder how getting food waste from around fifty flats into one or more bins is going to be managed?

Then there's the additional complication of the management company collecting from our flat doors three mornings a week. I doubt the overall hygiene of the place will be enhanced by people leaving food waste in the hallways overnight!

If the idea is that each flat has its own food waste bin, then I feel sorry for whoever has to take them all out for bin day then bring them all back again. Or will we be expected to each take and retrieve our own? The pavement isn't really wide enough to have fifty or so bins stacked on it, not even quite small ones. And there'll always be someone who claims that their "better" bin has been taken by a jealous neighbour and an inferior bin left in its place, even if they're all identical

It's a difficult one for large blocks of flats. My place is just a house converted into two flats so it's not onerous to have two small bins. When I lived in RBKC, the council would only collect food waste from houses.

Glasgow used to do food waste collections from all property types but they stopped them because too many people were contaminating the bins with non-food waste. I should ask HWMBO was the collection arrangement was.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been beef & Guinness stew, mainly because I’d made more of it than I could fit in the freezer

This was accompanied by a bit of new Traffic Cops

[xoggoth]

As expected, took ages setting up Roku stick for loony lady 2 and trying to show her how to use it. I expect I'll be getting lots of text messages asking how to do this and that over the next few weeks.

Really odd, there's a wrecked car in the woods near me and I can't see how it got there, it's right up a steep slope, and the trees between it and the road appear undamaged. Can't see any tracks nearby.

[NickFitz]

Much confusion over the Swift language not doing what I expected, until I remembered that structs aren’t reference types. Changed the relevant thing to a class and now it does what I’ve spent a couple of hours trying to get it to do

The interesting thing is that I have a load of types that conform to one protocol, and I can leave the rest as structs because they don’t need to have their values changed after they’re created. It’s only things that I want to modify later in response to user interaction that need to be classes

In Ambient, the plot continues to thicken, generally with extreme violence

Wednesday tomorrow! That means I’m already halfway through the working week

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all
Wet and windy overnight, but it stayed dry on our walk earlier. Quite warm (14C at 6am) and humid out there. If it stays like that I'll be back to short sleeves again.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Well there's a lot of water at the bottom of next door's garden. Again. Didn't realise it had rained that much.

Damp.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 17.5 deg, 16 in the kitchen, 15.5 in the leanto.

998.5 mBar, 29.486 in Hg, 748.9 Torr, 14.48 psi, (down from 999 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 28th of February 2020 Churchill, LM, xogg, and Brillo popped in, whilst AndyGarbs got an OM & crowed about it. .

Walk (towpath, slightly abbreviated) walked in the grey gloom. Signs that the canal had overtopped the bank in places.

Transpires that the water is about 8" deep in next door's and is a couple of inches deep in my pigsty, but insufficient to drown any pigs that might be there which definitely wasn't the case 32 years ago.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about electrik cars. Cue bacon sandwich man telling us how wonderful it will be when the entire country is covered in windmills and solar farms. Oh, and loss of mobile signal in Hebden Bridge.