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[ladymuck]

I did end up doing the jeans and trousers wash this afternoon. They are very nearly dry.

I have achieved washing basket nirvana. Until bed time.

[NickFitz]

Tea: chicken madras with rice and naan

To go along with this, I watched S2E1 of Murder 24/7 about a savage attack on a DPD delivery guy in Shrewsbury

I found out earlier that Halt and Catch Fire is now on ITVX. I watched the first series when it was on Prime but hadn't got around to watching the others before it left, so I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of it

[ladymuck]

Channel4.com seems to be borked. Doesn't allow logins and without logging in, one can't watch anything.

So, instead of Location, Location, Location I'll just have to watch The Curse of Oak Island instead.

[NickFitz]

In Blood, Sweat & Chrome there's interesting background stuff on the development of the characters Furiosa, Immortan Joe, and Nux; and also the work that went into the stunts: "If two cars are going to crash, why simulate it digitally when you can do it for real?"

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start, with wisps of high cloud here and there. It's already 17°C and will once again soar to 25° this afternoon. The barometers are steady at 1013/1021mB

The young magpies were out and mucking about early on the lawn, accompanied by what I think is the female adult. Her supervision was casual at best, but she probably wanted to let them blow off some steam first thing in the hope of an easier pace for the rest of the day

[WTFH]

Morning all

CBS, etc. Slept in a little, so only just managed a 7.8km walk. Looks like it's going to be another hot one.

[sadkingbilly]

Channel4.com seems to be borked. Doesn't allow logins and without logging in, one can't watch anything.

So, instead of Location, Location, Location I'll just have to watch The Curse of Oak Island instead.

morning

have you thought of freeview via an old school terrestrial arial?
100+ channels of rubbish for FREE!

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Grey. With more grey in case the first grey wasn't grey enough.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 20.1 deg, 21 in the kitchen, 20 in the leanto.

1020 mBar, 30.12 in Hg, 765.1 Torr, 14.794 psi, (up from 1019.5 last night), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 25th of January 2020 BR14's partner was waiting for the ambulance for the afflicted one for the 2nd time in 8 days , DaveB suggested a carehome for the addled one, OPM had chopped up the xmas tree, NF popped in, LM was tidying the office by turning it into a bomb site and contemplating getting a storage unit (this way madness lies), and I continued the rubbish collection up the hill: that day's selection was mostly bottles.

Entertainment: More or Less, followed by the chap whose Grandad was a German chemist. . Reached the Zyklon B & gasmask stage. .

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about dick pick blackmail etc. <click>.

Four lawns duly mown. Nearly dead now. Hot out there. There was a magpie on the lawn panting away just now. No sign of the jackdaw who "helped" last time I got the mower out.

Had to peel the clothes off when I came back in. One of the sockets in the garage no longer works so I plainly screwed something up yesterday.

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc.

Entertainment: PM.

Minor potching in the garage trying to figure out WTF is wrong with the wiring.

Thing about bones on BBC4, followed by War Walks: Battle of Hastings or how the Norman bastards supplanted the Angles, Jutes, and Saxon bastards.

Wonderland part II: J.M. Barrie, Beatrice Potter.

Maigret: the madman of Saint Clothilde (2002).

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with fluff lumps. Currently 21 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 27 expected. Barometer down a smidge to 1025 mBar.

Sunrise 04:44; Sunset 21:22 BST

Up early to battle the traffic and take my car to Acton for its MOT. Was ten minutes late for a meeting as a result of part of the Uxbridge Road being dug up and causing chaos.

This evening I am off to Sadlers Wells to see The Midnight Bell.

LM was tidying the office by turning it into a bomb site and contemplating getting a storage unit (this way madness lies)

You are quite right. The storage unit contains far too much junk and is costing a small fortune every month.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a Sainsbury's steak slice

This morning's main endeavour was working backwards through a stack trace on Sentry while flipping over to the source code of the offending app, which I don't know. Diligence was rewarded when I discovered that the cause of the problem seems to be that a timeout value which defaults to five minutes was accidentally being set to 229 billion years