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[NickFitz]

Lunch was a bit of leftover chicken chasseur from Friday

[NickFitz]

For tea: pork cutlet with chips and beans

This was accompanied by a bit of Traffic Cops

Confusion still reigns on the 5 app concerning that. This was an episode from a previous series that’s suddenly appeared, and is numbered several later than the episode that was previously the last. And all but one episode of the subsequent, most recent, series have vanished without a trace just a few weeks after first being on

[xoggoth]

Funny coincidence. As I said earlier, loony lady 3 was looking for a parasol and then one popped up on Freecycle this morning, don't recall ever seeing one there before. Anyway, I collected it and delivered to her earlier. Seemed brand new and usused. Got her off me back for a bit.

[NickFitz]

Not far off finishing SS-GB now. But more Deighton is arriving tomorrow

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Clear blue sky this morning with just the odd vapour trail, though they're already dissipating. It’s 9°C (“feels like” 5°) and aiming for 17° later, though the wind is expected to get a bit stronger too so maybe it’ll “feel like” a bit less. The barometers are steady at 1015/1023mB

Wednesday! This is the fortnightly day of meetings for sprint planning and the like. I think the other dev finishes at the end of this sprint, so that’s the thing most needing to be planned for. Once she’s gone, it’ll just be me left on the dev side - and we’re working through putting the project into maintenance mode, after which I’ll move onto something else as well. Tempora mutantur…

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS but very windy overnight and still windy now. It's a cold wind from the north.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Not far off finishing SS-GB now. But more Deighton is arriving tomorrow

There's about a foot of Bernie Samson books to read without counting the Palmer books. .

You may find the Anthony Price novels of equal innerest. (The Labyrinth Makers, Colonel Butler's Wolf, etc.).

Morning.

Wednesday apparently.

The dream before waking involved the dying Win98 box. .

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Windy, rather.

16.1 deg in here, 17 in the kitchen, 14.5 in the leanto.

1018 mBar, 30.06 in Hg, 763.6 Torr, 14.765 psi, (down from 1019 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of March 2020: as per yesterday.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine & semigale.

First indications of hayfever with continuous sneezing & itchy mouth. So I'm not going to get away without it this year, unlike last year.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about Section 21 evictions etc.

More cleaning of the (very heavy) springs in the front bedroom.

Feck me, those old Philips VCRs were heavy. And awkward. Not to mention how awkward the N1500 was if it lacked the 3M modification and jig. It never struck me until I bought one from a junk shop & then tried to repair it on an ordinary bench. All the test points are on the underside.

So knackered moving those VCRs about that I had coffee early.

Moving the cardboard box with 100lbs of service data in it is the next challenge.

I may be some time.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: the meja prog. PM.

"Nunc Dimittis" from Tinker Tailor on youtube.

<taps screen> Is this thing borked or what?

"The lost neanderthals" BBC4. Secrets of the Mandrin Cave in that France. Managed to doze through bits of that.

Blaze: Thw unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd. Inventions. Baby cages for hanging kids out of 15th floor windows so they get some fresh air. WWII UK baby gas masks. They didn't point out that dear old Adolph had nerve gas (tabun) that would have walked straight past the filters. That Avro UFO "Mach 3" disc shaped plane thing that appears so often. An even nuttier inverted helicopter thing for ground troups with the fan blades underneath. What could possibly go wrong. .

That Scottish nutter climbing mountains on BBC Alba. Climbing in winter compared with climbing in summer. I wouldn't do either. Particularly not when it's gusting to 100 mph on the tops. Not a great deal more snow in the winter than there wasn't in the summer. 'Tis global warming, see.

Bit of "Enemy of the State (1998)" with an undemented Gene Hackman and Will Smith.

Bits of the news as if I wasn't depressed enough as it was. Why is Heggsy such an obnoxious ****? It's a mystery.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with no cloud from my vantage point. Very windy. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Barometer down to 1024 mBar.

Sunrise 05:37; Sunset 20:21 BST

I was supposed to be in the office today, for Gig3, as there's a social on later. I decided not to go in.

I think I need to rescue some things that are being blown about my little garden.

[NickFitz]

Lunch was the last of the weekend leftovers. And tea has been chicken madras with rice and naan

This was accompanied by a thing on iPlayer about the Belfast police. It’s much like the rest of these programmes, except that the people of Northern Ireland are far more inclined to form large crowds and hurl abuse at the police, whatever they might happen to be doing, than people tend to be in other parts of the UK

[xoggoth]

Just back from a talk about the psychology of serial killers with not loony lady 3. Pixked up a DVLC licence application form for ll2 at the post office. She opened the front door wearing nothing below the waist.