Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCLXII

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Clear blue sky here, with that hint of haziness high up and increasing as it comes down to meet the horizon that suggests a warm day to come. And so shall it be: It’s gone from 19°C to 22° in the last forty-five minutes, and won’t stop till 32°. Same again...

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading was more of Eve’s Hollywood

Far too hot here. There’s been no wind to blow cooler air in so despite having had the window wide open, the bedroom is still 26°C

Ah well - at least it’s Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight...

[NickFitz]

For tea, I continued this week’s theme of “things that are wholly inappropriate for the weather but that’s what’s in the fridge” by having a roast chicken dinner

I made a bit of an effort with the chicken, shoving half an onion, several cloves of garlic, and a whole lemon...

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a cold chicken leg

This morning was show & tell, in which I showed the stuff they didn’t have time for a fortnight ago as I haven’t done much that’s visible since then

And then it was the loooong quarterly retrospective

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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s another warm one today, already at 22°C and expected to reach 30° for much of the afternoon and early evening, and only getting down to 17° tonight. The barometers are up to 1008/1016mB

I’ve had a busy start as I had to take my sample...

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading was a bit of Ra by qntm, and more of Eve’s Hollywood, in which it’s becoming increasingly clear that being a teenager in 1950s Hollywood was quite dissimilar to anything I’ve experienced, at that or any other age

Bit too hot again, isn’t it?
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[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb chops with chips and beans. Very nice, it was

Very similar to last night’s tea, due to sloppy management of Use By dates when shopping

This was accompanied by a thing on Netflix called Terrorism Close Calls. This episode is about a plan...

[NickFitz]

In other exciting news, I’m taking the last week of July off!

[NickFitz]

The chemist’s has been gone to, and also the surgery, as they want a bottle of piss for some reason and I wasn’t going to waste any of my empties on them

The promised cloud never arrived; if anything, there’s even less of it than there was before. It’s also 26°C out...

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a bit of leftover curry and naan, cold

I need to go to the chemist’s for the usual monthly bag of pills, which were delayed this month because of the annual medication review stuff meaning I haven’t got any of most of them left and can’t postpone it. Quite...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy start and the weather app thinks we’re getting some light rain right now and for an hour or so, though we aren’t; maybe it’ll show up soon. It’s 18°C (“feels like” 15°) and expected to reach 26° before getting proper hot over the next few days....

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was Police Interceptors

And tonight I read more of Eve’s Hollywood. She’s a very good writer, with a distinctive turn of phrase

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

The bed has been remade, thereby averting any cause for dismay

[NickFitz]

Apparently this guy’s helmet had broken in two when he hit the road so all in all, he was pretty lucky to have got away with a skinning ...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a pork cutlet with chips and beans

[NickFitz]

I forgot to close the bedroom windows and blinds and it got up to 28°C in there by the time I remembered

But that was about three hours ago and it’s dropped back to a slightly more reasonable 24° already

I’d been meaning to change the bed over the weekend but...

[NickFitz]

He’d fallen off the back of the bike when his mate who was driving pulled a wheelie, so the whole of his back was skinned ...

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some leftover hot wings with ketchup

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

Just woken up after the match last night? You’ll not get anything useful done today, so you may as well read this lot instead

• The Extremist in the Family - A tragic story of religious extremism: ”The Kerrs were devoted to one another and to their faith. But when one of their own rejected modern

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