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    Just back from just under 2 hour walk doing a toothpaste, I mean footpath, inspection for council. Now got to get photos and GPS tracks off me phone, and put me notes in a spreadsheet before I forget what my illegible scrawls mean. Glad I didn't volunteer to do as much as I did last year.
    bloggoth

    If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
    John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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      That’s Monday done and dusted!

      I reckon the thing I’ve been working on is just about there now, though the intended users will have to have a play and decide if it’s fit for purpose, I suppose

      Today was largely spent fiddling around to make it look like the designs; left a pixel here, down three pixels there, make that a different shade of grey, and all that kind of thing. It’s a fairly restful way to spend a bit of time

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        Tea has been chicken in red wine sauce with chips and peas

        I had to have the chicken because there isn’t enough room for all of it in the freezer. I need to use some stuff up

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          This evening’s viewing was the latest Forensics: The Real CSI, about tracking down a gang that was doing over cash machines. It was a good one; I particularly enjoyed the bloke scoffing “Gloves are only a quid” as the police took his fingerprints. Guess how they pinned it on him? He now has ten years to contemplate the price of gloves

          And later, I finished The Dark Forest which had a really unexpected and clever ending!

          On to the final volume in the trilogy, Death’s End, next

          ​​​​​​​Goodnight all

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            Morning all

            Overcast out, and on our way back in from the walk the wind picked up (no, not from Max) and the clouds were gathering to the south west. I suspect rain may be on the way.
            …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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              Morning denizens

              Grey day out and windy too, so the current 10°C “feels like” 3°; the target is 13°. The barometers are heading down at 1001/1009mB

              I awoke too early today, having raised the blind too high and let too much light in. I then struggled to get back to sleep so got up about twenty minutes earlier than I ever normally would. Still, I had to empty the dishwasher so at least I wasn’t bored

              I had been happily going about my business believing we get an extra hour’s sleep this weekend, but thinking about time and alarms made me realise that’s wrong, and we actually lose an hour! I am not at all happy about this, but maybe I should continue getting up early for the rest of the week to get used to it, as I’ll have to do it next week anyway

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                Morning.

                Tuesday. <checks clock>

                Wet.

                Windy.

                Horizontal drizzle.

                NotSoChilly in here at 14.5 deg, 13 in the kitchen, 13 in the leanto.

                1011 mBar, 29.855 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.663 psi, (down from 1014 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

                Meanwhile on the 22nd of March 2020 Brillo popped in a lot (zenchury), AndyGarbs made an appearance, and I bought 18 bogrolls from Morrisons to tide me over, like, whilst quietly lusting after the lady on "In Search of Mediaeval Britain" as one does.

                Can't see the other side of the valley boyo. There's tidy then.

                Ongoing horizontal drizzle.

                Lunch: brunch: early since there's nowt else to do since I'm not going for a walk in this.

                Entertainment: R4 thing about linking up music. Unexpectedly began with AC/DC. Had look through a dozen or so of the previous editions and found "We don't need no education" and "Overkill", plus "Only look on the bright side of life" and "Sweet child o'mine".

                Book.

                Filled in the statistics thing for gov.uk, though I'm not sure the limited amount of info they wanted is particularly relevant to anything much. Included my last job title & what it was.

                Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: bit of the doctors thing followed by PM.

                The last 25 minutes of "The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947)".

                Sky Arts: thing about the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo, and the Branch Davidians.

                PBS: Thing about the American Bison: what a waste. However, unlike the Passenger Pigeon, there are still Bison in the world. <click>.
                Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 25 March 2026, 09:28.
                When the fun stops, STOP.

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                  Morning all

                  Overcast but quite bright. Dry. Currently 13 degrees ('feels like' 9) and that's the high for the day. There may be some rain later. Barometer down to 1015 mBar.

                  Sunrise 05:55; Sunset 18:21 GMT

                  Busy morning of meetings. HWMBO is heading down for a visit.

                  Cocoa Shreddies for a mid-morning snack.

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                    Lunch has been the small amount of leftover lamb tagine from the other night. Nice and zingy

                    The designer was pleased with the various bits of tidying I’d done to the layout of the thing yesterday, bringing it into line with his vision

                    Still windy and grey and getting gloomier out. No rain expected before around eight this evening, though

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                      Arty farty thing ths morning. Venue was bit crowded as nearly everyone turned up for a change. Karaoke this evening if I can be bovvered.
                      bloggoth

                      If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
                      John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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