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[NickFitz]

The war isn’t going well for Russia, not helped by the constant and chaotic changes to the government. But while his influence certainly isn’t helping matters, it isn’t all Rasputin’s fault - the Romanovs are proving that they’re perfectly capable of completely screwing things up without any...

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Tea has been lamb steaks with chips and beans

And to go with this, the rest of the motorway cops thing from yesterday

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Another week done!

Not the most productive of weeks, given that it’s only been two days of work. But I got some useful stuff done on Tuesday, and the other dev and I collaborated on a worthwhile debugging session this afternoon trying to track down an anomaly somewhere ...

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I should have explored more! But I was only standing around because I was there for a lot longer than originally planned, due to the incoming train being held up ...

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Lunch: a pancetta omelette

Very grey out now, as was foretold

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Morning denizens

It’s a mix of blue sky and mares’ tails out there this morning, and getting cloudier. Still mild at 11°C climbing to 15°, but it’ll cool down towards the weekend. The barometers are down to 1005/1013mB

Today is Tech Debt Day, when we work...

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Rasputin continues to scandalise polite society, though he isn’t much better when he’s away from them: while travelling to his family home in Siberia, he got so drunk on a river ferry that the secret police who were there to surreptitiously observe his movements had to carry him to his cabin, where...

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Tea has been sausages, chips, and beans, because it was quick and easy to make and the sausages Needed to be Eaten™ anyway

This was accompanied by part of an episode of the motorway cops thing

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Same! Though this time, I never even got as far as the City Centre ...

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Home again!

It was a bit hot for travelling

The journey up was mostly uneventful, except that the train from Sheffield to Stockport ended up missing my connection by one minute. This was only to Levenshulme though, two stops up the line, and the next train was...

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Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start again, with just a few wisps and strands of high, thin cloud here and there. It’s 8°C but expected to soar to a summery 22°, with the barometers steady at 1011/1019mB

Not that it’ll last - the rest of the week will...

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In the Rasputin book, Russia is now embroiled in the Great War, which he opposed. But as everybody else was going along with it, he joined in, writing to the Commander in Chief to say he wanted to review the troops. The Commander in Chief wrote back encouraging him to come, adding “and I shall hang...

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Chicken casserole for tea then, with some of the surplus mini roast potatoes from the other week out of the freezer, reheated and crisped up in the air fryer. The casserole turned out very nicely

This was accompanied by S1E5 of The Truth About My Murder, concerning a bloke from...

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I had some chicken legs that needed to be used by tomorrow, and of course I’m off to Manchester then. I’ll probably be home by teatime, but to save having to faff around with them then, I chucked them in the slow cooker with some veg and seasoning this afternoon. So a delicious aroma is now spreading...

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Lunch has been turkey soup with a thick crust of wholemeal

Still sunny out - and warm, according to the machine that tells me what it’s like out there!

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Morning denizens

Sunny start with a clear blue sky. It’s 7°C now but soaring to 18° later, though the barometers are down a touch at 1011/1019mB

Tomorrow’s forecast to be 22°!

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In the Rasputin saga, he’s firmly in the Imperial Family’s good books by supposedly saving the heir’s life, though he wasn’t even there at the time (he sent a telegram) and it was probably the doctors wot did it. But some of the nobility are getting fed up with him and starting to plot… ...

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For tea, pork cutlet with chips and beans

This was accompanied by the rest of a motorway cops thing I must have started watching last week

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Lunch has been some cold cocktail sausages

Before that, I worked on importing polls. That seems to be OK now; the official importer did it all in one big function but I extracted the bits that I needed to change as helper functions so I could test them properly, and they seem OK....

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