test please delete

[eek]

I see from the CUK newsletter that some new outfit has taken over!

I also find, having just tried, that I no longer have admin access

Somebody could have told me! Oh well, if it breaks (more than usual), maybe they'll track me down

Wouldn't really call it a new outfit - it's Simon Dolan's son....

[NickFitz]

Tea, by the way, was pork cutlet with chips and beans

This was accompanied by a Police Interceptors from the series before last which showed as unwatched and did, indeed, appear to be one I hadn't seen before

[NickFitz]

Wouldn't really call it a new outfit - it's Simon Dolan's son....

I spotted the surname when checking them out on Companies House and figured there must be some such connection

[NickFitz]

I decided that 1177 B.C. is a little dry and academic and I felt like reading something with a bit more zip this evening. So I started on Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work by Sarah Wynn-Williams, an account of her time in a pretty senior role at Facebook with the subtitle "Power. Greed. Madness." It certainly charges along, starting with her being attacked by a shark when she was a kid in New Zealand! After the first few chapters I've already concluded that Facebook is owned and run by people whose attitudes and ambitions I find thoroughly despicable so if they come knocking, I shall have to decline their kind offer

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Cool in here at 20.4 deg, 21 deg in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto.

1014 mBar, 29.9434 in Hg, 760.6 Torr, 14.7 psi, (unchanged but a millitad), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of February 2020 BR14 popped in, LM informed us of the order in which "Unbreakable", "Glass", and "Split" were arranged, NF popped in and remarked that it was getting cold, and I watched part of "Glass", followed by a documentary about the 1980s, then "The small back room (1949)" whilst railing against The Milk Snatcher & all her works.

Oh. That CUK newsletter. Well there's a thing.

This morning's dream before waking was the usual working somewhere & pretending to work, though this one was unusual in featuring a woman I haven't seen in over 35 years. And a box of 360k 5.25" floppy diskettes from under a desk.

Freecell score: 100% (of 23), running average: 83%.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: The night thing: Svarlbard: the midnight sun. No mention of being eaten by polar bears.

Antisocial: racism. . Went <click> remarkably quickly, I'd sooner listen to my tinnitus than that twaddle.

TWATO.

HS2: the final conflict. . Will it ever be built & do we give a flying feck? Only time will tell.

More gentle potching in the garage: lots of ancient car spare parts boxed up tidy like. I wonder if there's demand for Vauxhall Chevette plugs & points. . Weber 40DFAV carb and V thing for Ford Essex. There's a Swaymar Holley 390cfm carb kit there too which cost a small fortune & never worked properly.

Several ancient bits of my teenage electronics tidied up a bit and stored so some other mofo can throw it away.

After which, due to the increasing temperature in the garage, some blackberries were picked.

Naturally enough, got some blackberry juice on a shirt. Even more naturally, it was a good shirt not some worn out piece of crap. Ho hum.

Tea: chilli con carne with rice.

Entertainment: PM. It went <click> a lot when the Moronic Orange Pudendum With a Tiny Penis started spouting his bollox.

Drizzling.

Dalgliesh S3 E5, E6. "Devices and Desires".

Foyle's War S4 E2. The anthrax one. Even the military aren't dumb enough to do that on the south coast.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc
TFIF, etc.
A pleasant 8km walk has been had. Went out through our new back door. Came back from the walk around the east side of the house, forgetting that there was scaffolding up at the back on that side. Max was a fine getting past it, I had to push through a a large bush.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start out, though there are some very thin patches of cloud up there and a kind of high haze as well. It's 18°C out and today's going to be a hotter one than the rest of the week, reaching 25° by mid-afternoon and staying there until the middle of the evening. The barometers are up a little more at 1008/1016mB

[NickFitz]

This morning's breadmaking journey of discovery has been the Sainsbury's TTD white sourdough mix. It's just finished, and it looks really good! As always though, one can't be certain until it's time for slicing

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a Pukka sausage roll

I see the BBC are really spoiling us next Wednesday: BBC Four will be showing both The War Game and Threads, with accompanying documentaries!

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny start, clouded over a bit since. Currently 24 degrees with a high of 26 still to come. Barometer up a bit to 1018 mBar.

Sunrise 05:15; Sunset 21:00 BST

Another day spent languishing with a nasty headache. Awake again in the wee hours for no apparent reason. I hope I don't have this tonight too as I'm meant to be driving down to Mum tomorrow ahead of a trip to Madrid on Sunday.

There's a new programme called Human on iPlayer which I tried out yesterday. A bit gushing about the origins of the human species. Will see what the second episode is like.