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[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy but plenty of blue poking through. Currently 17 degrees and that's the high for the day. Might rain overnight. Barometer down to 1007 mBar.

Sunrise 07:02; Sunset 16:27 GMT

Busy morning. Meetings, nagging people, etc.

Time for some lunch methinks.

[xoggoth]

Old farty history group meet at cafe this morning. Off to do some more toothpaste inspections soon.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

I seem to have neglected to post this morning!

I was a bit distracted by having to load the dishwasher, which I emptied last night - I kept forgetting to run it over the last few days so a fair few dirty pots and pans had built up in the kitchen, to the point where I had to get them out of the way to be able to make breakfast

Anyway, it’s a grey day yet again. Not quite as windy as it was though, and no rain expected. We’ve reached the day’s high of 17°C and the barometers are down a touch at 994/1001mB

Lunch has been a roast pork bap (wholemeal) with apple sauce

And shortly before lunchtime, I developed a migraine. It’s a rare thing for me, and nowhere near as bad as some people get it, but not at all enjoyable

[NickFitz]

You can tell that I’m enjoying the work on this project a lot more than the previous ones because it’s the second day in a row that I’ve worked an extra twenty minutes or so because I wanted to get something just right

[NickFitz]

Tea has been the lamb tagine I made a while ago, with experimental spicy rice

The tagine was a bit too rich, I thought when I first made it; I was probably using a recipe for more lamb than I had, so it ended up too concentrated. But it went well with the rice, which cut the flavour a bit while adding some of its own

[ladymuck]

Ents has been the Great British Bake Off final, and now Surgeons: Life in Their Hands.

My Next Episode app informs me that the 13th series of TCoOI has just started

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s viewing was the rest of the Traffic Cops I started watching last night

Same bug with the ads. I think it comes from stopping it just as the ad break starts, so it can probably be avoided by stopping just before the title card disappears

Made some good progress with the CoreGraphics stuff. I think I must have being doing it in a “Swifty” way as lots of things are coming together nicely, such that stuff that one would think would be complicated turns out to be very simple

And I finished Ambient, which was very good. Next up is Terraplane: second to be written, fourth in the timeline

Thursday tomorrow! It seems to come around quicker every week, possibly because I’m enjoying work so the days aren’t dragging

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Gloomy grey morning after a drizzly night, it appears. The drizzle should stop soon though. It’s still quite mild at 13°C with an expected high of 16°, and the barometers are much the same at 993/1001mB

Thursday!

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast and 13C earlier, no breeze and not quite as humid as yesterday. Walking in a T shirt and light jacket in November.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday apparently.

Grey.

Damp.

Water receding in next door's garden.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 17.8 deg, 17 deg in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto.

998.5 mBar, 29.486 in Hg, 748.9 Torr, 14.48 psi, (up from 998 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile onthe 28th of February 2020 AndyGarbs, BR14, Brillo, and DaveB popped in, as did NF. Apparently there was a millennium looming.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom. Canal a lot lower today.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: stuff on R4 including bottom line, sliced bread, TWATO.

Raining. I was going to address the quantity of live brambles in the greenhouse. I may do so still if I can be arsed.

It stopped. Brambles in greenhouse duly dealt with ready for the next bonfire. Ashes from yesterday's added to the "compost heap" which will probably upset some worms.

Pane of glass in roof of greenhouse noted to be cracked with a piece missing. Dunno when that happened.

Worked up quite a sweat on my brow. Now that doesn't happen often. .

Last time was in the summer when I was repairing the two drawer unit thingie that fits under the work bench.

Tea: beans on toast etc. Enhanced by adding everything I could think of to the bland tasteless Morrisons low everything beans. Must make sure I never ever buy those again.

Entertainment: the science thing. PM. <click> when Lammy came on.

Nazi programme: Japan.

Classic movies: Highlander.


BBC2: Once upon a time in Space: cooperation with Russia. .