test please delete

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading was more by Seichō Matsumoto, this time A Quiet Place (聞かなかった場所 or A Place I Didn’t Ask About in the original Japanese). Rather than a detective story, this one is about a mid-level, middle-aged civil servant whose wife dies unexpectedly, after which he starts to realise she may have been hiding something in her life, and tries to work out what it was.

Thursday tomorrow! And it’s Tech Debt day too, when it’s usually no problem to pop down to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s at lunchtime. I’m not sure I need anything much, but if I’m in the mood, I might go

Goodnight all

 

[WTFH]

Morning all
Up at 5am for our walk, then took The Wife to hospital for her operation. Grey and damp here.

 

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Overcast.

14.8 deg in here, 14.1 in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto, 10 out the back.

1020.5 mBar, 30.14 in Hg, 765.4 Torr, 14.8 psi, (down from 1023 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Jack Hargreaves Old Country (1982): New Forest pony roundup & branding. Farming goats.

Bab5 S5 E18: the bit I missed yesterday.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey loom whilst it picked with rain in a desultory sort of way, very half hearted.

Took the final couple of 110 films to be developed. Feck me that's gone up a lot since the last time. No idea what's on most of it, I hope it's worth over £1 a print.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: that R4 Dr Bell thing: Kilvey R4 is off so the freesat version was pressed into use.

Dashcam bollox. Tour of Scottish Isles: Lismore, Colonsay, Oronsay. Dozed off for bits of it.

Preparations made for this evening's bonefire: 7 binbags of crap, plus a half full greenhouse of gardening waste. Oh I shall have some fun.

Alaskan Homestead Rescue:

Tea: beans on toast with scrambled egg. Entertainment: PM. Followed by Bonfire!

Bonfire went well: all the crap burned, some of it with rather more enthusiasm than I'd anticipated. Knackered now.

Having extracted much of the crap out of the greenhouse tomorrow the brambles inside need removing, which will give me sommat to burn on the next bonfire.

Possibly Classic Movies if the the Bonfire! cooperates. "The Elephant Man". Bonnie Greer appeared on the panel, she wasn't looking well.

Dream Car Fixers: Porsche 944 S2. Well at least it hasn't got an intermediate bearing. . Fitting that roof lining looked tedious.

Bangers & Cash: Rover SD1 x 2, Morris Marina, Jag 240.

In other news it's raining a little. Well it's been as grey as a 's arse all day, so no surprise there then.

Plus it always rains when I have a bonfire.

 

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

it’s a fairly grey day out there today, but seemed relatively mild when I poked my head out of the bedroom window to inspect the Universe. In fact, it’s 8°C but “feels like” 3° and the high for the day will be a mere 10°; so maybe the perceived mildness is more to do with me gradually adjusting to the season. Or perhaps that side of the building is shielded from the wind causing the feeling. Anyway, the barometers are down a bit but not much at 1016/1024mB

Thursday!

 

[NickFitz]

Morning all
Up at 5am for our walk, then took The Wife to hospital for her operation. Grey and damp here.

Best of luck to her!

 

[WTFH]

We arrived at the clinic at 06:30 as instructed - which is their opening time. As we waited for the door to open another lady walked up, also with an overnight bag, a bag of prescription medication and a nervous look about her.
Since dropping my wife off I've had a few messages back and forth, the last one being at 08:35 when she was about to be wheeled in as the first operation of the day. If all goes well, she should be coming out in the next half hour, then it's a case of waiting.

 

[ladymuck]

^^ Hope wifey is ok



Afternoon all

Dull, overcast. Not damp. Currently 10 degrees with a high of 11 expected. Barometer at 1025 mBar.

Sunrise 07:02; Sunset 16:27 GMT

This morning my newly rebuilt computer was frozen on the windoze lock-screen with the time at 01:19. It rebooted ok and has behaved since but I'm now suspicious that things are on their way out. It's about 5 years old, a custom build. Might need to find some diagnostic tools to test the components and see which one(s) are misbehaving.

Other than that, I looked for jobs, found none.

 

[WTFH]

^^ Hope wifey is ok

10:30 call from the consultant to say it had had gone well and she was in the recovery room
11:30 call from The Wife to say she was back in her room and had just been given a cup of tea and some Oramorph.

 

[sadkingbilly]

Afternoon all
grey out, but not so cold here.
rescued a hedgehog yesterday, so my karma's cool today, and the USA gave me a nice birthday gift with their circus <elections>.
'sgetting miserable on here. the only busy threads are whining devs/pm's and whining tax dodgers.
hardly worth the new look, really.

 

[xoggoth]

rescued a hedgehog yesterday,

Eggcellent

Mahjong today. A lady invited me to her house afterwards. To fix her computer keyboard! Bah!