Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCLXI

[NickFitz]

In A Game of Birds and Wolves, they’ve finally found the chap who can, it’s thought, use war games to understand U-boat tactics and work out how to counter them. Before they packed him off to Euston to get the Liverpool train, they took him into an office in the Admiralty where Churchill gave him...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken madras with rice and naan

To go with it, the final episode of the Boston marathon bombing thing on Netflix

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a leftover bit of chicken and a couple of spicy lamb chops

Meanwhile across the lawn: scaffolding is going up! Not sure what for; there are some large painted areas on the facade of that block that are looking rather dingy and flaking in places, so maybe that’s...

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

It may be a little cooler, but that’s no reason to bother venturing outside rather than settling in a comfy chair to read this stuff

• Tunnel 13 - ”A botched train robbery in Oregon’s Siskiyou Mountains left four men dead, led to an international manhunt, and helped usher forensic science into

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[NickFitz]

I’ve been meaning to go there for ages. I’m thinking go going up in the autumn to visit the parents’ grave, so I’ll try to fit it in then

I’ve probably mentioned before that my Dad worked in Derby House for a number of years in the 1950s, and nobody there had a clue that all...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start with only the merest of wisps in the sky. Much more tolerable though: currently 15°C after an overnight low of 13°, and not getting any worse than 22° - and that only for a while in late afternoon. The barometers are sharply up at 1013/1021mB...

[NickFitz]

The watery wildlife returned to the telly today

This evening, I watched 24 Hours in A&E

And tonight’s reading was more of A Game of Birds and Wolves, in which there was a brief history of the founding of the Wrens in WWI, their disbanding afterwards, and their...

[NickFitz]

Yes, Babbage was renowned, or perhaps notorious, for having marvellous ideas but never finishing anything ...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been the last of the beef short ribs in Guinness thing, with chips

That’s been sat in the freezer for ages, but it’s about time it moved out and made space for something else

It was quite cold when I was finally able to eat it, as the router seems...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny spells with lots of cumuli clumping around the place looking scenic. It’s 21°C with an expected high of just 23°, and there’s a strong breeze making it “feel like” 18°. The barometers are steady at 1003/1011mB

The bedroom got...

[NickFitz]

To keep the apes happy, we watched the first episode of Chimp Kingdom on Netflix, about a very large group living in a rainforest in Uganda

Tonight’s reading was A Game of Birds and Wolves which is about the war games developed by a team of Wrens at the Western Approaches in WWII to...

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the East African place

Still looking pleasant enough out, but there might be some rain soon

[NickFitz]

The mystery is solved! It occurred to me to go to Companies House and have a look at the list of shareholders in the confirmation statement for the limited company through which we all own the property, and the chap it’s addressed to is on there

The list doesn’t have any addresses...

[NickFitz]

The ground floor centre right flat opposite is being emptied of its furniture, which is being deposited in a van parked on the lawn. Just checked and it’s still for sale on RightMove. Maybe I should buy it to keep my books in

And the mundane laundry is on, using the quick cycle...

[NickFitz]

Too small for that. It’s an A5-sized envelope with something of moderate thickness in the middle - possibly a few grammes of coke wrapped up ...

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Lots of cumuli en masse outside with blue gaps here and there, and the wind is getting back up. It’s too hot but nowhere near as bad as the last few days: 28°C, which is the worst it’ll be and marks the end of the present heatwave, as it’ll fall back to...

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was The Running Man (2025) being, as the year would suggest, the new one, not the original. I assumed this would land somewhere between acceptable and garbage, so I was pleasantly surprised when it turned out to be really good! Well worth a watch, I reckon ...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been steak and chips

To go with it, part two (of three) of the Boston marathon thing

As quick and simple a meal as possible as I’ve been in the living room all day and the rest of the flat is about 30°C, so I didn’t want to be out there any longer...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Guess what? Sunny, hot, unbearable!

To get into the details: having failed to dip any lower than 20°C overnight, it’s already 29° and will hover around 33° for most of the afternoon. But it’ll get down to 17° tonight, and tomorrow will “only”...