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[NickFitz]

Lunch has been leftover crispy duck with pancakes and plum sauce

[NickFitz]

Interesting news this afternoon. There are various groupings at ClientGov and I can never work out whether any given one is a “portfolio” or a “profession”, but either way, I used to be in a particular one but the stuff I’m currently working on comes under a different one. (I’m not certain, but I think I may have been part of a third at some point.)

The Department has only been doing six month extensions lately, and mine is due early in August, so the process of getting that done has been kicked off. My contract manager is still the one from the grouping I used to be in, and she informed the current lot that actually, I’m only “on loan” to them and they may well want to take me back soon, as they have some project in the pipeline for which they think I’d be suitable!

This came as a surprise to the current lot, as whoever was managing such things at the time I was “loaned” to them is no longer there, and nobody else (including me) was aware of it

Nice to be in demand, I suppose

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a roast chicken leg and chips with ketchup. Sometimes, the simple ways are the best

To go with it, the rest of the final episode of the New York Mob thing on Netflix. They lost

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading was more of Ra because I’ve got quite into that now

Tomorrow is Tuesday, the most nondescript day of the week. But I’ve already improved it slightly for as I sleep, the slow cooker will be working on chicken soup

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all
Windy overnight, and while I could see clouds in the distance earlier, they aren’t heading this way.
A pleasant walk has been had.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy and windy again, but with some blue patches here and there. It’s 16°C but “feels like” 13°, and it’s aiming a bit higher today with an expected 27° mid-afternoon. The barometers are down a touch at 1012/1020mB

The soup has been progressed to phase two, though I realised how long it’s been since I made any when I noticed the pearl barley was about eighteen months past its BBE

And I seem to have some kind of lurgy. I was feeling quite out of sorts yesterday, but this morning it’s progressed to sore throat and runny nose. Once I’d replaced its batteries, the thermometer decided I was only at 36.8°; my pulse oximeter says 98-99%, and a Covid test was negative. So I now suspect hay fever

[DoctorStrangelove]

Nice to be in demand, I suppose

I'm not sure I've ever been "in demand". .

Morning.

Tuesday apparently.

Fecking bedroom door slammed at some time during the night. Just as well I don't have heart problems (that I know about). .

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

23.6 deg in here, 25.4 in the kitchen, 22 in the leanto, 20 out the back, 21.1 in the saltinghouse.

1013.5 mBar, 29.93 in Hg, 760.2 Torr, 14.6995 psi, (up from 1012 last night), 58% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of April 2020 NF, MrMarkyMark, covbob, and Brillo popped in.

Washing frenzy in progress. Stuff is drying remarkably quickly on the line.

Walk (abbreviated: 2 miles) walked in the unbearable heat and nice breeze.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: selling human breast milk. <click>. Apparently lactating porn Is A Thing. Who'd have thunk?

Classic Movies: The Railway Children. Mmmmm. Jenny Aggutter. Mmmmm.

Shirts in off the line & duly met the iRon along with whatever else needed it. All now airing upstairs. It reached 31 deg in the saltinghouse.

Entertainment: The Archive Hour: The sound of America: The story of NPR. Apparently the Orange Mother****ing War Criminal doesn't like it. Probably because it doesn't give him any money. He likes money.

There's a Fire Engine parked on the pavement in front of my house. Am I on fire & didn't know it? Askin' for a friend. .

Everything in off the line, bone dry, airing upstairs.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM <click> UFO bollox on Blaze: Falcon Lake incident 1967. Credits on this one were "The estate of Nick Pope" (not that he appeared in the programme).

S4C: Roy Noble visiting Caerffilly, Senghenydd.

Bab5 S2 E4 "A distant star".

Digging for Britain: the one with the cobalt mine and Arthur's something dolmen in Hereford.

Thing about Lockerbie. Secrets of the Transport Museum: Napier Railton, Vickers Wellington. Lot of fuss about getting the Napier wet: if they'd left it in the transporter until the fecking rain had stopped it wouldn't have got wet. And it had been hammering around a track at 120 a bit earlier.

Either PBS about the lies concerning Hiroshima & Nagasaki

or

A thing about a Fraser Nash motor carriage.

History's most shocking: the exploding whale, alligator attack, Dallas Airshow, Ski lift.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy with a few gaps. Breezy. Currently 21 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 29 expected. Barometer down to 1021 mBar.

Sunrise 05:00; Sunset 21:13 BST

HWMBO goes home today. We've booked a holiday to Tallinn at the end of August, with a side trip to Helsinki as it's only a 2h ferry ride away. Very excited. Now trying to work out the best place to stay.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a bowl of the chicken and pearl barley soup, which has turned out very well

It’s turned more Simpsonesque out now. I’m still feeling under the weather though

[NickFitz]

Meanwhile in local (well, the other side of the city) news, a bloke’s been murdered and photos show the forensics tent they’ve put up over the scene is at the back gate of a house I lived in thirty-five years ago!