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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with lumps of fluff. There was less fluff when I got up. Currently 12 degrees ('feels like' 10) with a high of 13 expected. Barometer down a snifter to 1025 mBar.

Sunrise 05:55; Sunset 20:06 BST

I was awoken around 05:45 or thereabouts by a coughing fit but fell back to sleep soon enough.

[NickFitz]

Shopping has been done, at both M&S and Big Sainsbury’s!

I went past the old place on the way over, where the chestnut trees outside are just starting to show their pink candles

I should have gone back that way too, as there were roadworks with temporary lights causing delays on the other route

It’s still nice out, turning rather Simpsonesque as fluffy white clouds develop. It seems it might get properly cloudy soon, though

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

Saturday’s burger came with some free chicken nuggets, so I had them for lunch along with a few fries and ketchup. Rather bland; I’m glad I didn’t pay for them

And the afternoon has been devoted to working out what was going wrong with the new forum import of attachments. Turned out to be something involving server config; I suspect I’ll need to consult with whoever manages the servers nowadays before the real thing. But it seems to be working in my Docker container, so that’s another step sorted out (probably)

[NickFitz]

For tea tonight, Sainsbury’s Korean beef in a spicy honey-based sauce, with rice. Pretty nice, it turned out to be

Accompanying this, the second part of the 24 Hours in Police Custody from last week. It can’t be helpful to your case when the police ask a close relative about you and they say “He’s an evil bastard and I think he’s guilty”

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading was the last bit of Here, There and Everywhere. And then I started on I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, which is very good so far

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all

Overnight frost made for a bit of ice build up on my boots when walking through the fields. It was CBS and chilly earlier, but there’s some cloud coming in now.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 14.8 deg, 15 in the kitchen, 13 in the leanto.

1020 mBar, 30.12 in Hg, 765 Torr, 14.794 psi, (up from 1019 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 25th of March 2020: as per yesterday.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine & cold wind. It's better to have a scarf & not need it than to need a scarf & not have it. Brrrr.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: R4 waffling on about Mediaeval sins & the like: pride, lust, greed, etc.

The springs in the hall were duly cleaned. I suspect some of the detritus was carpet beetle derived.

Freecell score after the stress of cleaning bookshelves & vaccing the carpet underneath with two vacuum cleaners: 100% (of 16), running average: 84%. Must have served up easy ones today.

Need to buy more furniture polish.

Tea: soup etc. Entertainment: PM. Discussing the state of employment in Wales, and in particular the valleys, boyo, there's tidy then. Nice coat that jacket. Over by there. <click>.

Sounds like our current Glorious Leader is showing much the same ability as the previous half dozen or so. Doomed etc.

Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen Agatha Christie. Post war.

Lucy Worsley A very British murder: real life crime from 1800 onwards.

Sky arts: Spymasters: Len Deighton, Ludlum, etc. 4/4. Not overly gripping.

Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen: mid life.

BBC4: Britain's nuclear secrets: Inside Sellafield: or how to dump tons of cobalt thorium G technetium 99 into the Irish Sea. .

There's a helicopter flying around out there. Irritating.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with wispy fluff scurrying past. Currently 11 degrees ('feels like' 8) with a high of 13 expected. Barometer up to 1026 mBar.

Sunrise 05:53; Sunset 20:08 BST

Might get some laundry done today.

I also need to scope out the work for a new starter joining Gig3 tomorrow. I know what it will be but it's not yet written up in a helpful or testable requirements fashion.

[ladymuck]

What is the point of blocking your diary as unavailable only for people to ignore that and book a meeting anyway?

Then when you decline, pointing out that your calendar showed you as unavailable, they just say "thanks for letting me know". I'm apparently essential to the meeting they have set up, so you'd think they'd check I could actually attend.