Monday Links from the Gap Between Teams Meetings vol. DCCCL

[NickFitz]

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 :...

[NickFitz]

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...

[NickFitz]

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...

[NickFitz]

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....

[NickFitz]

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...

[NickFitz]

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

[NickFitz]

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...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Sainsbury’s chunky breaded cod loin with chips and beans

This was accompanied by the final episode (for S1, at least) of The Truth About My Murder, which was yet another demonstration that the level of incompetence some people exhibit in trying to cover up their crimes...

[NickFitz]

After work, it was time once again to trog round to the chemist’s for the monthly prescription. They feel positively fortnightly these days

Nice sunny evening though, without being unpleasantly warm

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a cold sausage bap (white)

Bit of a challenge at work today. Something isn’t working and needs to be sorted out pretty quickly, but the other dev is the one who knows all about it and she’s on holiday this week. She’s left me copious notes and I spent some time digging...

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[NickFitz]

Slightly more manageable Roman numerals this week

• The Death of a Superman - in the USA, clothing donation bins are killing homeless people: ”Dennis started pulling himself headfirst into the chute; he got his head all the way in, and his left arm too. Then something slipped… The metal door

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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a bright sunny start with some wisps of cloud here and there. Unusually, the current 4°C “feels like” 7° - the first time I’ve seen it that way round, but the specific panel for that further down the page confirms it, saying “It feels warmer than...

[NickFitz]

I finished Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs, which didn’t really work out well for anyone. Still hasn’t, in fact

At least Putin will be unhappy about this evening's news from Hungary

Monday again tomorrow, but I’m off for a week after this one’s done...

[NickFitz]

This one was still flashing its red LED every minute even though it was supposedly off, and still occasionally chirping - the manual says it should do it every forty seconds, but it was more like every forty minutes. I tried pressing the central button, which supposedly silences the low battery alarm,...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken casserole with chips and peas

To go with it, the latest episode of Ambulance

However, just after I started eating and watching, iPlayer started spinning its spinny thing and further investigation revealed that the Internet had disappeared...

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some leftover Thai bits



I took it down - it just twists off the baseplate - and found that it should have been replaced by late 2023! I assume the smoke detector in the hall is of similar vintage. Replacements that fit the same baseplate have been ordered...