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[NickFitz]

I recently bought a smoothie maker with the vague notion that it might help me get more fruit into my diet. I’ve just used it for the first time: a banana, mango, and blueberry smoothie. Pretty nice, as I’d frozen the mango and bananas, though I’d forgotten the blueberries which I only got on...

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey day out, with masses of what I think are stratocumulus. It’s also quite breezy, so the current 18°C “feels like” 15°; the expected high is 25°, which isn’t quite as bad as was being predicted last week IIRC. The barometers are steady at 1013/1020mB...

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The watery wildlife stuff was back on the telly today

Tonight in A Game of Birds and Wolves, the new tactics developed by playing games at the Western Approaches have paid off, with Doenitz finally giving up and telling his U-boat packs to back off before they’re all sunk. And the...

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Tea was brought to me from the obscure Indian restaurant across town. Very nice

It’s tucked away down a side street that goes nowhere, in a small, windowless, one-storey former industrial building that looks like it should be a place that sells car parts, trade only. But the food...

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Afternoon denizens

There’s a fair amount of blue sky but also a lot of clouds jostling each other, so it’s sunny spells today. Quite windy too, so the 23°C which is as hot as it’ll get “feels like” 20°. The barometers are down a little at 1013/1020mB

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Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019) which is not only of no interest to people who aren’t Dylan fans, but probably highly annoying to them. I really enjoyed it

One thing I found intriguing in the concert footage...

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Lunch was the rest of the cold cocktail sausages, and tea has been a rack of ribs and chips, this time from a new range at Sainsbury’s. Pretty nice overall, and at least it’s a change from the standard BBQ sauce that they seem to use on everything

This was accompanied by Police...

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Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start again, and starting to get warmer: 17°C now, and aiming for 25° this afternoon. It’s supposed to be cloudy too, but maybe that will come later. The barometers have shot up to 1017/1025mB

Somebody’s moving out of this...

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Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Brick (2025) on Netflix, a German film in which the residents of some Hamburg apartments awake to find their building completely sealed up inside a wall made of some unknown material, impervious to attack and also apparently capable of generating a force field...

[NickFitz]

I couldn’t be bothered with cooking tonight so tea was from Popeyes

Very Simpsonesque out and apparently it’ll get fairly hot over the weekend. Not as bad as it has been, but I reckon the air conditioner will be getting a workout

[NickFitz]

Another week done!

Sometimes we end Tech Debt Thursday with an hour-long chat on Slack about anything interesting that’s come up, but various people are off and others had gone to the Cardiff office for something, so it didn’t happen this week. So I went through a few tickets...

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Having dealt with a minor security update this morning, I was able to pop along to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s and get the shopping done at lunchtime

After I was back, I was due for a meeting with a user researcher to gather my opinion of some documentation of a new process I want...

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Morning denizens

It’s a clear blue sky above while a ring of cumuli lurk low on the horizon It’s also pretty windy (19mph, gusts to 32mph), which started last night and will continue all day. As a result, the present 16°C “feels like” 11°; the expected high is 22°, and...

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This evening’s viewing was the second episode of the Philadelphia mob thing, in which the FBI are realising that as soon as you put one boss away, a rival boss takes over

And in A Game of Birds and Wolves, the great success of the anti-U-boat game has led to a number of Wrens, often...

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Tea has been spag bol

Lunch was just some crisps because I was quite busy

[NickFitz]

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! ...

[NickFitz]

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