test please delete

[ladymuck]

About to go into battle with the comms person.

I have my PM and PrgM on the call as back up The PrgM was glowing about the comms deck I put together so that's a start.

[NickFitz]

Walk briskly walked, green ring closed

Well, it was brisk at the start, but then my right knee started complaining a bit so I eased up for the rest of the way. I think it might be a coldness and/or dampness thing with that knee, as it's been pretty much OK through the summer

Still, at least I made it back before the streets became densely populated with schoolchildren from the big school nearby. Nothing against them as such, but they do get in the way rather

[ladymuck]

Comms meeting went well. I think they might have even cracked a smile.

Got useful feedback, no blockers.

[vetran]

best place for them, on a wall.
just use 6 inch nails.

BR14 has obviously heard you play! verdict "not even good enough to get a night with Mary Poppins!"

[NickFitz]

Getting dark earlier now

[DoctorStrangelove]

I just described someone as "he looks like he probably knows Prince Andrew"

It appears that is considered inappropriate.

I wonder if my ex boss still has a photo of him & Prince Andrew on his company website.

It must be said that they both looked bored tulipless.

Well that didn't take much finding.

It's still there.

[ladymuck]

Finished S6 of Elementary then took the car out to the nearby garage in the hope it had some petrol. It didn't.

Now home where I decided to make a fish finger sandwich for dinner. Discovered that I picked up battered not breaded fish fingers. I'll live.

[NickFitz]

Lovely tea: steak & kidney Pukka pie, chips, peas and gravy

[ladymuck]

The battered version was actually quite nice. I may get them more often.

[NickFitz]

Ok, alert! NF going to bed before 05:00!

Not this time

Telly (after the inevitable Traffic Cops whilst dining) started with the final episode of Time. A very good bit of telly IMHO

At one point, a street name sign was visible, resulting in the inevitable trip to Google Maps. The prison officer's home is a mile or so up the road from where I lived in my early years, and much closer to where my mum lived in hers. And (minor spoiler alert) the funeral bit confused me briefly until I realised it was in Speke, between the Ford factory (now Jaguar Land Rover) and the river.

The water tower at the Ford factory was, to me as a young child, as iconic a piece of architecture as either of the cathedrals or any of the buildings at the Pier Head; and it still is. Also, that's where the Super Monkey Car was built

And then I watched Ridley Road which, despite what the website says, has nothing to do with the Swinging Sixties because it's set in 1962 and the Sixties weren't yet swinging then. It's a pretty good account of a bit of fascist and anti-fascist history I wasn't aware of, but I wish the BBC would stop allowing - or, as I strongly suspect, insisting on - anachronisms in their scripts. No East End woman in her seventies would have referred to "your ex" back then. No young woman of a respectable Northern upbringing, and probably of any upbringing whatsoever, would have referred to engaging in subterfuge as "blagging it". And there are many other examples, in what is otherwise a pretty good show

Goodnight all