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[WTFH]

another £125 of interest this month

For the calendar year that's £750, which I won't complain about given that I only had £1000 invested at the start of the year, but have been building it up all year.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny, blue sky, occasional wisps. Currently 9 degrees ('feels like' 6) and that's the high for the day. Barometer down to 993 mBar.

Sunrise 08:25; Sunset 15:48 GMT

No dramas here. Just pottering about keeping the lights on.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a bit of pork pie

Still sunny here, with only the merest wisp of cloud over beyond the big sycamore

[xoggoth]

another £125 of interest this month

Yeh, got qute a lot in cash ISAs/savings not checked. In more typical grumpy mode, darn HMRC say I have underpaid tax by £53, not a huge amount but I hate paying tax at all.

[NickFitz]

Another working day done, and only six more this year!

The other dev and I were just having a discussion about where we are and what to focus on, as the DM has started suggesting that some additional thing (or two!) could be squeezed in somehow before the New Year. There’s loads left to do on the big thing we’re working on, and only the other dev available after I knock off next week, and she’s also got a couple of extra days of leave booked before she also knocks off until next year. So we reckon that we need to point out that there isn’t really any way of squeezing anything in, because there’ll be nobody there to do it and no working days to do it in

[NickFitz]

Tea has been homemade pork chow mein

Rather than chucking the ingredients together with a vague degree of eyeballing, I tried doing a bit more measuring to get things in the right proportions, and it turned out really well. Who knew!

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s viewing was the rest of Downfall: The Case Against Boeing on Netflix, which I started watching the other evening, all about the 737 Max debacle

And in The Forgotten Soldier, the retreat across Ukraine continued, enlivened by a case of dysentery. Having been given convalescent leave when that had been treated, he made it as far as eastern Poland where all leave was cancelled and he was sent back to the front, roughly in the region where he’d been hospitalised

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Foggy start here! Not very warm either: it’s 3°C but “feels like” -1°, and it’s only aiming for 8°. The barometers are up a bit at 995/1004mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Grey.

Hints of wan sun.

Chilly in here at 13.9 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 10 in the leanto, 7 in the saltinghouse.

1002.5 mBar, 29.6 in Hg, 751.9 Torr, 14.54 psi, (up from 1000 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 4th of March 2020 Brillo popped in a lot, but not enough to stop LM bagging a ZenChury despite being rained on.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Freecell: 83%, avg: 84%.

Washing frenzy in progress. Well that ended well, not: in off the line at midday & the rest of the afternoon spent feeding stuff through the TD. All airing upstairs now.

Entertainment: Infinite Monkey Cage S2 E1, E2.

Freecell: 100%, avg: 84%.

Despite much potching about & running checkers Win 98 box still falls over: not with BSOD: just stops. Very irritating.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM.

Scotland Yard: 1954: the dead woman in a trunk case: apparently London Tokyo is only 3000 miles. . It took 36 hours and 9 stops to fly there on a Comet 1 rather than the turboprop shown. They did show a Comet for the London to Capetown trip which took a mere 23 hours.

Yesterday: Abandoned engineering S15 E2 "Hitler's fortress of fury": some unfortunate Native Americans being screwed by the US government. Nothing new there then. . The 1975 occupation of the Alexian Brothers Novitiate in Gresham, Wisconsin, by the Menominee Warrior Society. France: Joseph Kennedy Jr. and the attempt to blow up Hitler's V3 big feckoff guns. Farm in Spain built by monks that eventually ended up as a set in "A few dollars more" and "The good, the bad, and the ugly". King Zog of Albania.


David Jason invention thing. Armstrong's Cragside and Swan's lightbulb. Baird's Televisor. The lawnmower. The Bell Telephone. Well he was Scottish even if he invented it in SepticLand with donations to a bent as a butcher's hook patent examiner. Ah, the vinegar has replaced the original pool of mercury. Odd that. Some lunatic who seems to have built a bomb shelter as a man cave.

u&w: Elementary S1 E5. "Lesser Evils". The Angel of Death one.

[xoggoth]

Not much old farty stuff on today apart from local history group party this evening. I know sweet FA about history but am on committe as I did the website.

PS Just got Wordle in two gos. Lucky day?