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[sadkingbilly]

Afternoon all
After a bit of general pottering and hydraulic engineering around the garden, lunch was a ginster's cornish pasty.
wiv lashings and lashings of manly HP sauce.
lovely day, - CBS, but the wind is decidedly protestant.
Start project #3 tomorrow, I wonder if I'll ever get round to retiring again?
we'll see...................

[xoggoth]

Took ghastly old ll2 to garden centre to look for a parasol. Waste of time, she didn't see one she liked.

[NickFitz]

Delicious aroma in the kitchen

Unfortunately, it’s coming in through the window. I’m considering going round knocking on doors until I find out which neighbour it’s from and asking for the recipe

[NickFitz]

Tea has been shepherd’s pie out of the freezer

Accompanying this, What Happened at Chernobyl? on iPlayer, which featured much of the same contemporary footage as the programme last night, but less of it because it’s thirty minutes rather than two hours. There’s also interviews with various people involved in different aspects of the matter and a look around the place now, including inside the New Safe Confinement and the control room for Reactor 4, where it all started

My TV went mad earlier, with the things in the so-called “Smart Hub” (the foolish name given to the main menu) becoming disassociated from the things they claimed to be: selecting TV started iPlayer, the iPlayer button started the Blu-ray player, something else would start the Apple TV, and so on. I had to dig through the settings menus until I eventually found a way to reset the menu without resetting everything else, then set it back up again

[ladymuck]

There was some accident on the M25 this evening that brought it to a standstill. Both sides by the looks of it but I think all the real activity was on the other side.
EDIT: according to websites that seem to track such things, there was only congestion today anti-clockwise, nothing clockwise, and nothing to support the 'slow down incident ahead' signs on the gantry.

On setting off again, my clutch started playing up with the pedal not feeling right and then developing a nasty clunk noise. I pulled over at the first lay-by on the A30 after getting off the M25 and called my brother who posited a few theories but ultimately reassured me that I'd be safe to drive home. It got better as I drove but will take it for a spin in the week and see if it persists. Yea olde jalopy tripped over to 99k miles when passing through Dorking on the way home; maybe it's in shock.

[NickFitz]

There was some wildlife stuff on around teatime, to keep the apes happy

Tonight, I’ve read quite a chunk of SS-GB. He has a way of drawing you in, this Deighton chap

Monday tomorrow, and back to work. I switched over to the work laptop for a quick look at Teams late last week, and the tricky end-of-year stuff that was causing so many problems was sorted out by the other dev, so I’ll be able to get back to the thing I’ve been working on. And next week is a Bank Holiday, so there’s that to look forward to

Goodnight all