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[ladymuck]

Om!

[sadkingbilly]

[NickFitz]

I sat down to work this morning only to find that it had been abolished and there was a new department with a similar name in its place

It’s the second time that’s happened since I started there!

[NickFitz]

Ham toasties for lunch

[ladymuck]

Pesto has been made.

It didn't make quite as much as I thought, by the time I'd pounded all the ingredients together. But there's definitely enough for several portions of pasta.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Barnsley chops with chips and beans

I got those chops off the market back when the car was having its MOT, so they’ve been in the freezer since then. Very nice, they were

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s viewing was Murder 24/7 on iPlayer, about a bloke who stabbed his wife. Well, he insists he didn’t, and it’s a two-parter so that’s as far as they’d got; but he blew it right at the start of his interview by giving an account that was completely different in every respect to what he’d said when he dialled 999, and had then said again to the first police officers to arrive on the scene, recorded by their bodycams. I mean, it wasn’t just a few details, it was every single thing!

And later, I finished One Two Three Four

I wonder if the department will have the same name in the morning? Last time, we had to wait a few days for the Cabinet Office to decide what the acronym should be, so there’s still a chance they might change it to something snappier

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Some mackerel sky out, along with some slightly thicker cloud, meaning it’s not quite sunny and probably won’t be. It’s 16°C and intends to get to 25°, with the barometers down to 1015/1023mB. It was getting quite breezy last night, but this has dropped off a bit

Apparently the haze yesterday morning was smoke from the fires in North America

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc. Was 15C at 05:30, but warming up now.
Builders finished about 19:00 yesterday, the house is looking a lot smarter.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday apparently (checks clock).

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Blueish sky with high haze.

22.7 deg in here, 24.3 in the kitchen, 22 in the leanto, 18.5 out the back, 20 in the saltinghouse.

1020 mBar, 30.12 in Hg, 765 Torr, 14.79 psi, (up from 1018 last night), 57% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of April 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, and vetran popped in.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Shopping trip to Aldi done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. Shanks' pony to see if the legs would tolerate it, which they did. .

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Rebecca Stott waffling on about antedeluvian mud (i.e. 500 million year old mud).

Classic Movies: The Lion in Winter which led me to look up Henry I, Matilda, Stephen, and Henry II. Them were the days, Norman bastard immigrants. Even worse than the fecking Saes.

Next door was busy strimming the bottom of their garden. Wonders will never cease. Must have done about an 10 foot square patch, so there's a fair amount more to go. . Naturally enough it wasn't the idle bastard doing it.

Minor potching in the garden until the horse flies found me & I came back in. .

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: deer hide. taking rabbits with ferrets.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM. <click> Blazian UFO bollox. Some nutter who reckons he went on a spaceship to the Pleiades, a neat trick if you can avoid the anal probing.

Jack Hargreaves Out of Town: working dog show.

Bab5 S2 E10 "GROPOS": the marines one.

Titans of the Cold War: Tricky Dicky and Mao. .

Britain's X files: the angel of Mons, last witch trial (1944), the Lynmouth flood etc. etc.

Oh look: Nobody is on again. . More dead Russians. Best kind.