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[NickFitz]

As expected, I finished SS-GB tonight. Five more Deightons arrived during the day, so I think I’ll move on to one of them next

Thursday tomorrow! And a Bank Holiday weekend!

The downside is that I discovered today that the other dev finishes next week, so I’ll only have a few more days to pick her brains before I become the only developer for this thing of which I understand about a fifth. A fifth of the app’s code, that is - I understand virtually nothing of what the users actually do with it. Oh well, I’m sure it’ll be fine

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s another sunny start, and once again destined to get a bit breezier again soon. It’s already at 10°C (“feels like” 7°) and will hit 20° for much of the afternoon! The barometers are down a touch at 1013/1021mB, presumably a portent of the cooler and more changeable weather that will arrive over the weekend

The other day, I ordered a new and bigger desk for the study, and today’s the day it’s supposed to arrive. Haven’t heard anything from the couriers yet though. The big question is whether the flatpack will fit in the lift

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc with no breeze this morning, which made for a very pleasant walk earlier.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Windy.

Blue sky.

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

1014.5 mBar, 29.96 in Hg, 760.9 Torr, 14.71 psi, (down from 1015 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of March 2020 BR14, Brillo, covbob, NF and I popped in.

Managed to get into the other fitted wardrobe in the front bedroom & found a big box full of keyboards. Some AT, some PS2. . I have several ancient systems that use AT. Must have bought them donkey's years ago. There was a brand new AT case in there too. That'll come in handy. . There's a Dragon 32 (new in box) in there too.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the nearly unbearable heat of the morning. Lots of gnats and tree seeds blowing in the wind like snow. Saw a funny little yellow/brown bird on the way home. No idea WTF that was. It completely ignored me whilst pecking at weed seeds.

Nearly scalded my leg whilst cooking brunch. The bag of frozen peas was employed to cool things down.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: R4. Scambusters. FB podcast scam. <click> Sliced Bread: vibration plates. It didn't say if they're more inneresting to sit on than the spin drier. .

More cleaning of the springs, this time in the "living room". Stone me there's a lot of books in here. And dvds. All of which needed moving, then putting back. Knackered now.

Tea: beans on toast etc. Entertainment: PM. More gloom & doom.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky, barely any cloud, still breezy. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 22 expected. Barometer down to 1023 mBar.

Sunrise 05:35; Sunset 20:23 BST

Instead of laying in until I really had to get up, I was summoned from my bed at 8 am by a knock on the door. Amazon delivering a parcel that wasn't for me. I have something arriving today but that wasn't it. That's my good deed done for the flat upstairs today.

[WTFH]

Ordered some stuff from my local garden equipment supplier and was £3 short of free deliver, so I looked at their sale section and saw they had Stihl gloves on offer at £3.50, so I ordered a pair.
They came with 11 pages of documentation/test certification.

[NickFitz]

The new desk has arrived!

The delivery notifications had dire warnings about “kerbside-only drop-off”, not taking away pallets, and so on. Based on past experience of delivery people, I suspected I was going to end up out on the road with 70Kg of flatpack, and had roughed out a plan for dealing with it using the sack truck

But the guy couldn’t have been more helpful! He’d wheeled it in from the road to the door downstairs and rang the bell, so I told him I’d pop straight down. I’d already put the tape measure and Stanley knife in my pocket, just in case. When I got down there, about the first thing he said was “I assume you won’t want the pallet” and started stripping off all the sheet plastic bits holding it on there. There were two separate flatpacks, the big one being the desktop - it’s a corner desk, 160cm wide and 120cm deep.

He helped me get them both into the hall, and when I wondered aloud if the desktop would fit in the lift and started measuring it, he said “Let’s check, otherwise I’ll help you get it upstairs”. So we shifted the small box to the lift, where he took one look with his practised eye and said “Yeah, no problem” and went back for the big one. Got them both in, he said “There you go, all yours now!” and off he went. Excellent service, well above and beyond what I’d expected from the notifications!

[NickFitz]

Lunch was chicken breast with stuffing in a wholemeal bap

[xoggoth]

U3A, AKA old farts, group leaders lunch earlier. Never that keen on those things, sitting for ages surounded by loud nattering. Relaxing for a while back home with me little puppet parrot in the garden.