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[NickFitz]

Today is desk switchover day, so I’ve been sorting out the study. There’s far too many boxes of junk in there, including one that’s thirty years old, though it’s possible some or all of the contents are only twenty-odd years old. An old box from an Epson printer I got rid of years ago is full...

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Morning denizens

Grey day here, and still a bit damp from the overnight showers. It’s 13°C; the weather app says this “feels like” 9° because of the wind, but it doesn’t seem that windy. Anyway, the expected high is 17°, and the barometers are down to 997/1004mB

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The telly people did that weird thing of not having Monkey Life because of the Bank Holiday, instead giving us a few hours of David Attenborough

And tonight I continued reading Goodbye Mickey Mouse

The promised rain arrived, but not very much of it really. And I also...

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Tea tonight came from Nando’s, mainly to use up the free half-chicken reward that would have expired at the end of this month

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£50 on the Premium Bonds this month, in the form of two £25 prizes!

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Afternoon denizens

Sunny and Simpsonesque out today, though rain is expected overnight from the weather that can presently be seen on the radar swirling around over the West Country. It’s 18°C and will be briefly hitting 19° later. The barometers are also under the incoming weather's...

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Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Apex (2026) on Netflix, in which an adventurous Charlize Theron heads into the bushland of Australia, only for some weirdo to try to hunt her like prey. He clearly hadn’t watched any of the many films that would have told him what a bad idea that is. It’s...

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Tea has been beef & Guinness casserole with chips and peas. Turned out very well that casserole

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Lunch was a chicken bap (wholemeal)

Been mucking about with forum stuff for much of the day

But I remembered to start a beef and Guinness casserole in the slow cooker this morning, so a wonderful aroma is filling the place

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Just noticed from the bedroom window that the oh-so-helpful delivery guy yesterday didn’t actually take away the small blue pallet the desk came on - he dumped it in our car park out the back, where it’s taking up one of the small number of spaces!

One star knocked off, because...

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Morning denizens

Sunny start yet again, though with a Bank Holiday on Monday it’s bound not to last; there’s a 10% chance of rain around teatime, though the cloud that will gather for that purpose is expected to clear again before sunset. It’s currently 12°C and this afternoon...

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This evening’s viewing was more of Traffic Cops, though with that watched, they appear to have run out of episodes again

And later, I started reading Len Deighton’s Goodbye Mickey Mouse, which is about US fighter pilots in East Anglia during the war

There was...

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Tea tonight was kebab and chips. I even went round to the shop for it myself!

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The week is done!

Still nice and sunny out

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Lunch was chicken breast with stuffing in a wholemeal bap

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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...

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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...

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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...