Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCLXI

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Tea has been spag bol

Lunch was just some crisps because I was quite busy

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Morning denizens

It’s a fairly sunny start but the strands of high cloud seem to be starting to clump together; we had some brief spells of rain last night, but none are expected today (though that’s what they said yesterday). It’s 16°C with an expected high of 24°, and the...

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In A Game of Birds and Wolves, the war game is up and running in Tate & Lyle’s former offices on the top floor of Derby House, and is a huge success! Within the first few days they’d uncovered the U-boat tactic of casually catching up with a convoy on the surface at night, getting in amongst...

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Tea has been a spicy lamb burger out of the freezer with chips and beans, largely because the beans needed to be used up

There’s also the fact that I didn’t go shopping last week, so I’m using up stuff that’s been lurking in the freezer for too long such as the burger ...

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Woohoo! ...

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Lunch has been a bit of initially cold chicken that I heated up in the air fryer, just for a change

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Morning denizens

Up early here too, because I raised the blind in the bedroom too high and the morning light came in and refused to leave. It first woke me some time after five and I managed to get back to sleep a few times, but was woken again each time due to the light carrying...

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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...

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Tea has been chicken madras with rice and naan

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

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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...

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Links are up

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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Tea was brought to me from the East African place

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