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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start, with just a few wisps of cloud here and there. There’s a breeze too, so the current 16°C “feels like” 14°. The expected high is 26° for most of the afternoon, and the barometers are back down a touch at 1012/1020mB

I managed to immediately fall back asleep after the first two alarms, and still feel quite sleepy. I suspect the hay fever isn’t helping me get a good night’s sleep, though it doesn’t seem quite as bad today

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday apparently.

Dry.

Blue sky (now: it wasn't when I woke at 04:30).

Sunny (ditto).

24.1 deg in here, 25.3 in the kitchen, 23 in the leanto, 22 out the back.

1013.5 mBar, 29.93 in Hg, 760.2 Torr, 14.7 psi, (down from 1014 last night), 58% RH (Lidl electric).

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

Woke at 04:30ish. Read book. Sleep did not return. Got up. Listened to that somnolent stuff they put on ITV4. Watched Jack Hargreaves again: the gardening & the eel catching one: he really liked sweet peas, also mentioned chess and his chess playing skool teacher chap. Eventually sleep returned & dozed in the chair until 09:30. Ho hum. .

Walk (abbreviated, up the hill in the coolth of the lane about a mile and a half) walked.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the fertility thing. Classic Movies: "Great Expectations".

Secret Nazi Bases: W2 in France.

Secret Nazi Bases: the Labrador Nazi Automatic Weather Station.

Why is Nazi concrete so much better than ours? Why are their installations so much better designed? How the feck did these guys lose? It's an Enigma wrapped in a Bombe & Colossus (though that was the Lorentz).

The Arado underground tunnels.

Old Country with Jack Hargreaves: the right sort of grease to use: vegetable on vegetable, animal on animal, mineral on mineral (though castor oil used to work on early engines). Horse tack: the ins & outs of coupling a horse to a trailer. Dog training: a well trained terrier, unlike most dogs you meet these days.

Tea: baked beans and baked spud. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. <click>

Scott Quinell getting up early to work in Swansea Amazon, the lucky bastard: I used to see the morning shift on the bus on my way to Ye Newe Sloughe of Desponde. Glad I've never had to work in a place like that. 2nd rhan: night porter at the hotel in Portmeirion. It costs £25 to do a day visit (used to be 2/6d back in the long long long ago IIRC (which I probably don't)).

Bab5 S2 E6 "Spider in the web". The dead man walking one.

Nazi construction in the Netherlands. Buried in the sands.

Scottish Tourist Agency. Part II.

To end all wars: Oppenheimer. Well that doesn't seem to have worked very well, now does it?

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Clear blue sky. Currently 24 degrees with a high of 29 expected. Barometer down to 1021 mBar.

Sunrise 05:03; Sunset 21:11 BST

Gig3 called two separate meetings for 9.30 this morning. The cohort I was in all got terminated with one week notice because the programme is being completely reset. My gig was up in three weeks but now summer holiday is starting sooner than planned. Yesterday, the PM's I work with were reassuring me that they still needed me on the programme. One I believe actually meant that, the other I don't trust so much.

[NickFitz]

Shopping has been done!

And lunch has been a bit of pork pie

[NickFitz]

Gig3 called two separate meetings for 9.30 this morning. The cohort I was in all got terminated with one week notice because the programme is being completely reset. My gig was up in three weeks but now summer holiday is starting sooner than planned. Yesterday, the PM's I work with were reassuring me that they still needed me on the programme. One I believe actually meant that, the other I don't trust so much.

Bummer

[ladymuck]

Gig3 called two separate meetings for 9.30 this morning. The cohort I was in all got terminated with one week notice because the programme is being completely reset. My gig was up in three weeks but now summer holiday is starting sooner than planned. Yesterday, the PM's I work with were reassuring me that they still needed me on the programme. One I believe actually meant that, the other I don't trust so much.

Well! The PM I don't trust was called into the office at 9am, asked to hand in his building pass and told to leave with immediate effect.

The PM I do trust has been retained and he's gutted that I've been canned.

[sadkingbilly]

Well! The PM I don't trust was called into the office at 9am, asked to hand in his building pass and told to leave with immediate effect.

The PM I do trust has been retained and he's gutted that I've been canned.

perhaps you'll get a call when the 'all new' programme gets started.

[ladymuck]

perhaps you'll get a call when the 'all new' programme gets started.

That's not impossible! The good PM and I have worked together before (which is how I got the job) so if he can bring me back, he will.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Sainsbury’s southern not-fried chicken with chips

To accompany this, the rest of the Police Interceptors from last night

And I found time earlier to get the tea towels, aprons, and oven gloves in the wash; they’re just coming to the end of their drying cycle