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[DoctorStrangelove]

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!

The assembled congregation waits in eager anticipation for The Midnight Knock on the door. .

[NickFitz]

Message from the GP: my urine sample couldn’t be processed due to a technical issue, so they need another one

They seem to think I have nothing better to do with my time than go over there to get a pot to piss in

[xoggoth]

Old farty arty thing this morning as usual. Loony lady 1 is back from US, picked her up from Gatwick airport.

[ladymuck]

Dinner has been leftovers of a Chinese takeaway HWMBO got while I was at the theatre yesterday.

Just noticed a new series of Only Connect has started. I am not aware of any CUK alumni taking part this time.

Now that HWMBO is homeward bound, I have been catching up on Surgeons: At The Edge of Life and will be also watching lots of 24 Hours in A&E. I also noticed something on iPlayer about "Evolution" but it has that Chris Packham presenting it and I'm not sure if he'll get all preachy and annoying. Worth watching one, I suppose.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been pork chow mein

And to go with it, Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea on Netflix, about the Costa Concordia. The captain isn’t coming out of it very well

The soup has been divvied up. Not sure how I’ll squeeze it into the freezer TBH. I suppose I’ll just have to eat more of the stuff that’s already in there

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s another grey start like yesterday and, like yesterday, expected to brighten up soon. I think it’s also less windy but there’s still a bit of a breeze, so the current 16°C “feels like” 13°; the predicted high of 27° is the highest for the next ten days, though it’ll still hover around the mid-20s. The barometers are up a little at 1014/1022mB

I’m not feeling as rough as I did yesterday but I’m still not 100%. Also feel pretty tired and keep yawning, probably as a result of two nights of suboptimal sleep

[WTFH]

Morning all
Clouds on the horizon earlier, but CBS now.
The builders are currently spraying the roof, which means we have to keep the windows closed. It's getting quite warm in the house.

[sadkingbilly]

'spraying the roof'? is this a new AC cooling attempt?

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Warm in here at 24.1 deg, 25.7 deg in the kitchen (damn that mercury thread is fine & hard to read), 24 in the leanto, 24 out the back.

1015.5 mBar, 29.987 in Hg, 761.7 Torr, 14.73 psi, (up from 1014 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of April 2020 Anonimouse, Brillo, covbob, and eek popped in.

Trip down to that Swansea: missed the X7 by 15 seconds so ended up on the 34. Pile of books donated to Oxfam & only brought one back, which was good. X7 back.

I'm tempted to dispose of the PKD collection next time since I'm very unlikely to read any of them again, tastes having changed.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: R4 thing about fertility & suchlike.

Classic Movies: "Escape from New York (1981)". There was a remarkable dearth of ads during that, they seem to have saved them all up for assorted trails & suchlike after it had finished.

Dozed through "DSOTM" on "Pulse" again, having felt the need after the morning's exertions in the heat.

Jack Hargreaves Old Country. Sea fishing contest in Ireland. Something else I've forgotten.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. UFO bollox on Blaze.

Dan Do. Anglesey. Caernarfon (some actor chap). Cardiff.

Out of Town with Jack Hargreaves. Breeding a coney dog. Fishing for eels in a [s]hovercraft[/] millpond.

Bab5 S2 E5 "The long dark": the one about the sleeper ship.

More nuke stuff on PBS.

"Greetings from Scotland": the birth of the Scottish Tourist Board. John Poulson has just made an appearance. No good will come of this. .

Blaze: Britain's X Files: The Comet. Or why one should make windows with round corners rather than square. . Has anyone mentioned this to RyanScare? Askin' for a friend.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny with occasional lumps of fluff. Currently 27 degrees with a high of 28 expected. Barometer up to 1023 mBar.

Sunrise 05:02; Sunset 21:12 BST

Slept very well but still woke with a headache, so I opted to have more sleep rather than get up at silly o'clock to go into the office.

Managed to miss a sprint planning meeting because the meeting invite has no reminder set. I checked the series to make sure I wasn't being an idiot. I had, however, already filled in my part of the slide deck with my focus for the next two weeks.