Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCLII

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Lunch was chicken breast with stuffing in a wholemeal bap

[NickFitz]

The new desk has arrived!

The delivery notifications had dire warnings about “kerbside-only drop-off”, not taking away pallets, and so on. Based on past experience of delivery people, I suspected I was going to end up out on the road with 70Kg of flatpack, and had roughed out...

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Morning denizens

It’s another sunny start, and once again destined to get a bit breezier again soon. It’s already at 10°C (“feels like” 7°) and will hit 20° for much of the afternoon! The barometers are down a touch at 1013/1021mB, presumably a portent of the cooler and...

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As expected, I finished SS-GB tonight. Five more Deightons arrived during the day, so I think I’ll move on to one of them next

Thursday tomorrow! And a Bank Holiday weekend!

The downside is that I discovered today that the other dev finishes next week, so I’ll...

[NickFitz]

Lunch was the last of the weekend leftovers. And tea has been chicken madras with rice and naan

This was accompanied by a thing on iPlayer about the Belfast police. It’s much like the rest of these programmes, except that the people of Northern Ireland are far more inclined to...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Clear blue sky this morning with just the odd vapour trail, though they're already dissipating. It’s 9°C (“feels like” 5°) and aiming for 17° later, though the wind is expected to get a bit stronger too so maybe it’ll “feel like” a bit less. The barometers...

[NickFitz]

Not far off finishing SS-GB now. But more Deighton is arriving tomorrow

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

For tea: pork cutlet with chips and beans

This was accompanied by a bit of Traffic Cops

Confusion still reigns on the 5 app concerning that. This was an episode from a previous series that’s suddenly appeared, and is numbered several later than the episode...

[NickFitz]

Lunch was a bit of leftover chicken chasseur from Friday

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I forgot to record that there was some quite heavy rain in the early evening yesterday as a belt of rather stormy weather passed over us, fading into drizzle later. Today seems likely to continue being a bit gloomy and getting windy later, but no further rain is...

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the fourth episode of the thing about the ferry Estonia, in which they got heavily into the conspiracy theory about the Russians sinking it because Sweden and MI6 were using it to smuggle secret Russian military equipment to the west after the fall of the USSR
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[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken casserole, being the one I made the other week, with chips

Very tasty casserole, that. Luckily, I remember roughly what I added in terms of seasoning and the like, so I ought to be able to replicate it in the future

[NickFitz]

First day back was much as one might expect

I hadn’t looked at the stuff I’m working on in nearly three weeks, because of being off last week and dealing with the urgent year-end stuff the week before. Once I got it deployed to the hotfix environment, I immediately spotted a...

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I haven’t! I’ve added it to the list

I think the only other thing I’ve read by him is Bomber. Most remiss of me ...

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Links are up

[NickFitz]

Back to work this week! Oh well, at least next Monday’s a Bank Holiday

• Good Ghosts and Bad Fathers: The Story of a Haunting, a Kidnapping, and an International Incident - Helen Vogelsong-Donahue on the spirits that kept her company as her family hid from her abusive father: ”Most families

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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start, albeit with mare’s tails hither and yon in the sky. Already at 10°C, it’s expected to climb to 18° by lunchtime and stay there all afternoon, maybe getting a little cloudier too. The barometers are much the same at 1013/1021mB ...

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There was some wildlife stuff on around teatime, to keep the apes happy

Tonight, I’ve read quite a chunk of SS-GB. He has a way of drawing you in, this Deighton chap

Monday tomorrow, and back to work. I switched over to the work laptop for a quick look at Teams late...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been shepherd’s pie out of the freezer

Accompanying this, What Happened at Chernobyl? on iPlayer, which featured much of the same contemporary footage as the programme last night, but less of it because it’s thirty minutes rather than two hours. There’s also interviews...

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Delicious aroma in the kitchen

Unfortunately, it’s coming in through the window. I’m considering going round knocking on doors until I find out which neighbour it’s from and asking for the recipe