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[NickFitz]

There was some wildlife stuff on around teatime, albeit not as much as usual

And later I watched the latest episode of Ambulance, a cheery episode primarily about end-of-life care

Tonight, I read more of the Rasputin book. He’s getting in the good books of the...

[NickFitz]

I’ve been working on getting some browser-based tests set up using Playwright for checking the new forum out, though it’s something I was meaning to learn about anyway as the current project at ClientGov will be ending soon and it’s used by the thing I’ll be moving on to

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I assume said plan involves flying home again via Helsinki, Genoa, and Cairo ...

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Morning denizens

Sunny after the storm, though with big piles of cumuli. Still breezy so the current 9°C “feels like” 1°; the expected high is only 10°. The barometers have crept up to 1002/1010mB

[NickFitz]

There was no Monkey Life today, for unexplained reasons - but it continues next Saturday

But there was some wildlife stuff on later

Tonight, I started reading Antony Beevor’s new book Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs

The storm is finally...

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Tea was brought to me from the Chinese place past the park. It was good, but not as good as from the nearby one that takes ages; I should stop being so lazy and go there more often

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That didn’t last long! ...

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Afternoon denizens

I thought we were supposed be getting lashed by a storm this weekend? There’s a lot of cumulus making it cloudy with occasional sunshine getting through gaps, and it’s breezy, but I wouldn’t consider it “stormy”. The current 14°C “feels like” 7°,...

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Tonight was Sisu night here, starting with a rewatch of Sisu (2022) followed by Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) in which the Finnish gentleman who inflicted such extraordinary mayhem on the Nazis when they tried to steal his gold proceeds to inflict yet more mayhem on officers of the Union of Soviet Socialist...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb tagine and rice, being my homemade one out of the freezer. I can’t say it tastes much different to the Taste The Difference one so I must have done something right

This was accompanied by the rest of the aircraft carrier thing, in which they gave a big buildup...

[NickFitz]

Well, it’s a good job I did that as it revealed a bug in the post import step which would have resulted in every post since the vB5 migration not being imported!

Some might say that would be no great loss, but I like to be thorough

It was only a minor thing to fix...

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a few Popeyes hot wings with ketchup

I’ve been mucking around fixing the import of post edit history. In order to be sure what was going on, I had to get up a copy of vB5 running in a Docker container and configure it as a virtual host in Apache but using an older...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey morning, though there were some gaps letting more sun in when I arose. It seems to be quite breezy, hence the current 11°C “feels like” 4°, and we’ll presumably also be shortchanged on the expected high of 15°. The barometers are down to 995/1003,...

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This evening’s viewing was the first half of Warship: Life on the Frontline on 5, in which a bloke spends some time on HMS Prince of Wales. It’s from last year, so slightly out of date as the big thing they’re doing is a show of force off the coast of Iran and, as you may have noticed, we’ve politely...

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from Popeyes. Made a nice change

Only took fourteen minutes from ordering to arrival! Not bad going, considering it’s down in the city centre

[NickFitz]

Let the long weekend commence!

I had quite a productive day, but didn’t get around to having lunch because I popped down to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s and got the shopping out of the way

And I also stripped the bed and left the mattress to air, so I must remember...

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Same - I was just about to stow the laptop for the night when I saw a post on Bluesky about them being “Go for launch” ...

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Morning denizens

It’s “mostly cloudy” out, meaning the occasional sliver of blue between many clouds, which are shifting along a bit as there’s a light breeze too. Just 5°C at the moment with an expected high of 10°. The barometers are down a little more at 1010/1018mB...

[NickFitz]

I see they’re off to the Moon again

Meanwhile in Death’s End, the Solar System is having a pretty bad time of it

Thursday tomorrow! And a long weekend!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been sausages and bacon with chips and beans

To go along with this, The Truth About My Murder E4, in which a bloke in Pembroke Dock smashed his mother’s head in during lockdown, and then carried on living in the flat with her body for two months before anybody found out...