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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s generally sunny with white fluffy clouds of various sizes, but tending towards the large size, making the lighting levels dip and rise at random. No sign of rain, and expected to become clearer this evening. It’s 11°C (“feels like” 8°) and the expected...

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Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Quarantine (2008) in which a TV journalist and a cameraman accompany an LA fire crew on a shout. It turns out to be a medical emergency requiring doors to be broken down, but shortly after entering the building, it’s sealed shut from outside and they and...

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Oh, and no shopping today! Tomorrow’s when I’m heading south for our delayed Easter family get-together, so I might pop into the Sainsbury’s down there on the way back. They sell Old Hooky, which for some reason isn’t stocked by the ones here. I’m planning a proper trip to the shops on Monday...

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Tea has been chicken in red wine sauce with chips and peas. And lunch earlier was a ham bap

On the telly, the third episode of the documentary about the sinking of the ferry Estonia, which is starting to get into the conspiracy theories

The dog’s servants...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Quite a sunny day with some clouds here and there. It seems it’ll probably get cloudier though, and the wind will get up; there’s also a chance of showers around teatime. It’s 12°C (“feels like” 6°) and the expected high is 15°. The barometers are up...

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I finished watching the Artemis programme, then continued reading Here, There and Everywhere in which everybody has a terrible time during the recording of the White Album, leading to our narrator walking out on them one evening because he’s had enough of their tulip, and not working with them again...

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Tea has been the shepherd’s pie that I started making the other day. Turned out very well

To go with this, I started watching Artemis: To the Moon and Back on iPlayer

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That’s work done - now I have ten days off!

Though I don’t quite yet, as I promised to leave a decent writeup for the other dev (who’s off this week) of the stuff I’ve discovered about the obscure data issue we’ve been battling, and the various tools I’ve created to...

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Lunch was a ham bap, being the Sainsbury’s TTD cranberry and orange glazed ham I tried a few weeks ago. Very nice

The weather has brightened up as promised, though there’s still a fair amount of cloud hither and yon

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Half an hour ago, I would have said the sun was starting to break through the clouds. But having showered, I find that it was actually stopping, for it’s now very gloomy out there with continuous light drizzle. This is expected to stop soon though, and it should...

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In Here, There and Everywhere they’ve been doing some very odd things in the studio, and are halfway through recording Sergeant Pepper

Thursday tomorrow, and not just any Thursday: once I finish, I’m off until a week next Monday!

Goodnight all :...

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The storm passed, and it brightened up again - the sky’s mostly clear now

Tea was homemade sweet & sour pork with fried rice. Turned out well; I won’t be opening a takeaway any time soon on the strength of it, but I enjoyed it

To go with this, the final 20...

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Thunder!

Haven’t seen any lightning yet, but it’s raining pretty heavily

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been the last of the turkey soup from Christmas (actually frozen 2/1/2026) with a crust of wholemeal

Various meetings this morning, which was a bit annoying as I wanted to carry on digging into the problem we’ve been having

I think I made some useful...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It's a grey sort of morning and there seems to have been a shower or two overnight, and today will continue much the same, getting windier towards lunchtime and with a chance of rain towards teatime. Mild enough: currently 12°C (“feels like” 7°) with an expected...

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Oops! Wrote up a goodnight post last night and forgot to post it! I was tired…

Here it is for posterity:



This evening’s viewing was the first part of a new 24 Hours in Police Custody, about the cold case of an elderly woman murdered in Wisbech....

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Tea has been lamb tagine with rice

This was out of the freezer (except the rice, done in the rice cooker) but there’s been other cooking going on. I’d taken lamb mince out of the freezer yesterday so I could make a shepherd’s pie base today, then leave it in the fridge for...

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Lunch has been some leftover Thai chicken bits

There was a meeting before that. We have this one every week and often manage to end it fairly quickly, but this one ran the full hour, up to 13:00

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Mostly blue skies here, but with some big bits of cirrus floating around high up. It’s 5°C with an expected high of 14°, and the barometers are up a touch to 1004/1012mB

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Tonight I started reading Here, There and Everywhere by Geoff Emerick, sound engineer to the Beatles. Apparently he’s a somewhat unreliable narrator, and also had a peculiar dislike of George Harrison; but it’s good on technical details, like his idea for putting John Lennon’s vocals on Tomorrow Never...