Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCLXIV

[NickFitz]

Lunch was a bit of pork pie

I’ve been feeling extremely under the weather today, again. I thought it might be hay fever, but apparently the pollen count is very low at the moment. And that made me realise: two weeks ago, I started feeling really tired all the time, getting headaches,...

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

Dawn of a new era is it? That’s nice but meanwhile, the Internet won’t read itself!

• The Service - ”We called it, simply, The Service. The first time I entered its stash house—a $14,000-a-month penthouse near the Williamsburg waterfront—I was met by a wall of rankness. Not the burn of weed,

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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s another slightly cloudy start that’ll rapidly clear up, with sunny skies expected all morning and the cloud building back up again this afternoon. It’s 14°C and aiming for 24°, with the barometers up a little more to 1016/1024mB

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[NickFitz]

There was yet more watery wildlife earlier

And this evening, a further episode of 24 Hours in A&E

Tonight, I read more of One Two Three Four. No mention of George Harrison going to visit my Auntie Josie and family in the middle of the night in Auckland during...

[NickFitz]

Lunch earlier was a sliced chicken and stuffing bap (white), and tea has been takeaway leftovers

I seem to be getting attacked by pollen again. I’ve gone round and shut all the windows, in a vague and probably fruitless attempt to stop it getting in

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy with gaps again, and there’s a light breeze to get the air circulating a bit. It’s 17°C now but the cloud will clear more this afternoon, letting it get to 22°. The barometers are up to 1014/1021mB

[NickFitz]

More watery wildlife on the box today

Tonight, I read more of One Two Three Four in which an ever-perceptive Ringo, after meeting a young Jeffrey Archer, said “He’s the kind of bloke who’d bottle your piss and sell it”

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the East African place

Very nice, but their chilli sauce is really hot!

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Lots of cumuli around, making it cloudy with sunny spells. Mild enough at 22°C, which is the high for today; the barometers are up a bit at 1009/1017mB

A bedding wash is underway

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s motion picture premiere was No Hard Feelings (2023) in which wealthy helicopter parents pay a penurious Jennifer Lawrence to “date” their son before he goes to Princeton. This rapidly turns complicated, because if it didn’t there’d be nothing to make a film about. It’s very funny,...

[NickFitz]

Steak with fried onion and chips for tea

This afternoon has largely been spent on new forum stuff. Specifically, the widget to let you jump to a specific date in a thread

And is it’s not much extra effort to do, it might as well work for forums too

[NickFitz]

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small ...

[NickFitz]

Lunch: ham toastie

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey start again, though the wind has dropped. It’s expected to clear soon and remain sunny for the rest of the day. Currently 18°C (but “feels like” 19°!) and it’s expected to soar to 26°, though that’s the hottest it’ll be for the foreseeable...

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading has been One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown. It’s entertaining stuff, but could have done with being edited with a bit more care. For example, he says that Paul McCartney’s 21st birthday party was in the garden of his Auntie Jin’s house, “across the Mersey...

[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...

[NickFitz]

Bummer ...

[NickFitz]

Shopping has been done!

And lunch has been a bit of pork pie

[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
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