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[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

22.5 deg in here, 24.2 in the kitchen, 22 in the leanto, 19 out the back.

1017 mBar, 30.03 in Hg, 762.8 Torr, 14.75 psi, (unchanged), 57% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the seemingly endless 1st April 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, eek, MrMarkyMark, and vetran popped in and yet another Om ensued. .

Next door's lawn mown, carefully avoiding many of the orchids. Feck me it was hard work.

Many grasshoppers & butterflies & bees upset.

The compost heap is now about 7 feet tall.

I seem to have managed to avoid the horseflies.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Mud. Today Rebecca Stott detailed her family's losses in WWI, that epitome of mud & incompetence.

Some bollox or other about busyness. It's even less inneresting than The Lion in Winter was yesterday. . <click>

Discovering Barbra Stanwyck.

Jack Hargreaves Old Country: home grown pig & its preparation: this explains The Salting House and that iron pipe frame thing that used to stand outside the living room window: it was used for butchering the pigs from the pig sties at the bottom of the garden. Apparently that explains the saying "being led up the garden path". .

The butcher did a fine job of butchering the pig.

My grandfather would probably have admired his work (he was a butcher).

Tea: baked spud & baked beans. Nice enough.

Entertainment: UFO bollox on Blaze: Project 7 Lambs: or how Richard Doty and the septic government made someone go crazy near Kirtland AFB.

Thing about the Belgrano.

Bab5 S2 E10 "All alone in the night". Sheridan gets himself kidnapped by aliens.

Bit of a thing about USS Indianapolis. Which didn't end well.

Titans of the Cold War: Carter and Brezhnev. .

Last half of some UFO bollox on Blaze.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Hazy sunshine and 18 degrees when I left Mum's at 6.20 am. Now there's pretty lumps of fluff as far as the eye can see from gig3's offices. Currently 23 degrees ('feels like' 25) with a high of 27 expected. Barometer at 1023 mBar.

Sunrise 05:12; Sunset 21:01 BST

I was going to take the train but decided I wasn't willing to pay £64 when driving was going to take about the same amount of time. The train only costs £15 from home. Hardly anyone in the office but it was important to come in to collect my world cup sweepstake winnings. Will probably disappear by 3pm when my parking runs out.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: leftover pork cutlet in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce

It’s turned rather sunny and Simpsonesque out now

This morning was mostly spent documenting some stuff and closing a bunch of tickets. This afternoon, there’s the main developer fortnightly meeting, followed by an hour or so of informal chat with the other devs in the portfolio. I might see if I can get one minor ticket done before those, just to tidy up the board a little more

[NickFitz]

Let the holiday commence!

Nice and sunny out now

[NickFitz]

Bit too sunny if anything! As it needed to be done, I betook myself to the GP surgery to get another sample bottle. Then it was back through the park from there and along to the kebab shop; and home. So tea has been kebab and chips, and very nice it was too

But I was very warm by the time I got back

The bed is airing, so I also need to remake that at some point

[NickFitz]

Teatime viewing was a bit of Police Interceptors

And tonight, I read more of Parable of the Sower in which things are getting worse for everybody. Well, not the rich or the big corporations, obviously; just for people

I remembered to make the bed, so tonight I shall sleep in great comfort

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Blue sky with high cloud.

23.1 deg in here, 24.5 in the kitchen, 22 in the leanto, 17 out the back.

1014 mBar, 29.94 in Hg, 760.6 Torr, 760.6 psi, (down from 1014.5 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile as per yesterday: Meanwhile on the seemingly endless 1st April 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, eek, MrMarkyMark, and vetran popped in and yet another Om ensued. .

Awake at 05:30 yet again. This, it must be said, is tending to lose its shine. .

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: unimproved downlands grass sward, improved grass (monoculture, though with 3 different grasses), cattle varieties & why they don't have horns any more. Well it was on.

Walk (abbreviated: 1.5 miles) walked in the pleasant coolth of the morning. Longest walk since the legs started playing up.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Mud by Rebecca Stott. Darwin, worms, and Mud.

Bit of that Ant Anstead motor fixer chap who used to work with the fat git & now has his own programme fixing cars & repairing his house: Austin 7: cost to buy & fix: £9.7k: sold at auction for £10k. Lot of work for £300. . No mention of the seller's premium either. .

Jack Hargreaves again. Ley Grasses: cock's foot, rye, white clover (got a lot of that in my lawns: the bees love it).

UFO bollox on Blaze: Rendlesham again.

Sunken Ships: HMS Exeter: survived sinking the Graf Spey, and succumbed to the Japanese. Surviving crew ended up POWs, of whom 150 died of the usual maltreatment one might have anticipated. The ship itself was located and has been completely removed by Asian metal thieves. Who'd have thunk? It was only a wargrave after all & they were glad to get free of the evil colonialists. .

Bab5 S2 E12 "Acts of sacrifice": things are not going well for the Narn.

Prog Rock at the Proms: well I recognised "Court of the Crimson King". The Genesis & Zappa not so much. And a bit of PF: The great gig in the sky.

Taggart S14 E5,6,7 "Dead Reckoning".

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc
CBS, etc.
05:20 start today, very pleasant walk has been had. No sign of rain.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy, some with flecks of grey. Currently 21 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 23 expected. Barometer at 1020 mBar.

Sunrise 05:17; Sunset 20:59 BST

Last day at gig3. The PM I work with revealed that two architects and a scrum/delivery lead were given 11th hour reprives but not the people who would do the work. He is going to keep pushing for two developers and me to be reinstated, as his argument is that nothing he's supposed to be delivering will happen without us.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny with high, wispy bits here and there. It’s 21°C and aiming for its now-standard 25°, and the barometers are down a bit at 1007/1015mB

I set no alarm, expecting to wake up around eight or half eight as usually happens in that situation, but slept like a log right through to ten! Still need to do the shopping, but it’ll be more of a rush job than I anticipated