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[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a bratwurst with the usual trimmings

Cloudier now than it was, but still some blue bits here and there

Earlier, there was a kerfuffle between a crow and a magpie. I think the crow had gone poking around at the road end of the block opposite, and the magpies nest in one of the trees there. I was only in time to see the magpie chasing the crow away, both of them settling on different levels of the front of the block with the magpie taking the high ground. So I don’t know if the crow had been attempting to plunder the magpies’ nest, or if it just got a bit closer than they liked and was chivvied away out of an abundance of caution

I felt a bit sorry for the pigeon that was just flying through there and got caught up in the middle, with the crow and the magpie swooping around on either side of it. It looked quite taken aback as it took refuge in the trees along the edge of the big lawn

[NickFitz]

Beef and Gunness casserole with chips for tea

Quite a pleasant and fairly sunny evening out, though a bit breezy

[NickFitz]

I finished Goodbye Mickey Mouse. It’s good; a kind of USAAF counterpart to Bomber. Then I move on to his XPD, which is one of his spy stories

Thursday tomorrow!

Despite having Monday off, this has felt like a long week. I need another holiday

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all

Light cloud, but a pleasant temperature for the walk.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start with just a few wisps and strands of cloud here and there and a distant clump of cumuli, low on the southern horizon. It’s 7°C with an expected high of 15°, and the barometers are nominally up (but hovering around the same sort of level) at 1004/1012mB

Thursday!

It’s tech debt day, so the morning will start with a chat about this and that across the wider team, followed by any important security updates to our app’s dependencies. After that, I’ll let the other dev decide as it’s her last one of these. There’s almost certainly some aspects of the app that she’s wanted to get tidied up but never had time for, so it would be good to deal with them as they’d be a useful way of picking her brains about various aspects I’m not as familiar with

Though all that is assuming the wider team doesn’t suddenly decide we should all focus on some big issue thing that affects the lot of us, like standardising our Continuous Integration configurations or something

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Vaguely sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

17.2 deg in here, 17.5 in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto.

1009.5 mBar, 29.81 in Hg, 757.2 Torr, 14.64 psi, (up from1009 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of March 2020 NF, LM, quackhandle and I popped in, NF had cracked hands due to all the hand washing mandated by Bunter & co.

Woke at 05:00 yet again, read book, read other book, returned to the land of nod. Curiously the dream before waking included a smell. I can't remember dreaming a smell before. It was a smell of, er, sweat. From, er, a lady. .

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine.

Lunch: brunch. Light in the meekrowavey worked ok this time. .

Entertainment: Scamwatch. Sliced Bread: one related to we keyboard warriors: ergonomic keyboards and mice.

Judging by the ergonomic kb I bought from Maplin 15 years ago, they ain't much good.

Developed a ganglion on my right wrist 20 years ago and used the experience to learn to use a mouse left handed.

Fixed the turntable motor on the old microwave, so its turntable duly spins.

Got the old old microwave up from the garage & fixed its turntable motor so that now duly spins.

Just need a new bulb for said oven & it's all done & dusted, washed, dried sanitised & put away.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with many lumps of fluff cluttering up the sky. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Warming is expected over the next two days. Barometer up to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 05:22; Sunset 20:34 BST

A quiet day, meetings wise. Might have to do some work.

[ladymuck]

Car Tax is due on 1 June. It seems to be going up £15 a year. Now up to £445 for the pleasure of all those pot holes.*



*yes, I know car tax isn't spent on the roads and it just goes into the general pot so it can be spent on consultants

[NickFitz]

Fish finger bap (wholemeal, red sauce) for lunch

Still sunny but the cumuli are increasing in both number and volume

I was going to dash down to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s to do the shopping over lunchtime, but then remembered I’ve got a parcel from the Folio Society due any time now. Might go this evening instead, or might just leave it till tomorrow