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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey day, and drizzle has just turned to rain, heralded by a prolonged peal of thun her a few minutes ago. It’s also achieved the uncommon feat of getting darker over the last hour or so. The rain is likely to continue through the morning and possibly into the evening. It’s currently 17°C with an expected high of 21° and the barometers are down to 998/1005mB

I haven’t decided yet whether to squeeze the shopping in at lunchtime, as it depends partly on work and also on whether I feel like driving in whatever the conditions turn out to be then

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overnight rain has left the roads a bit damp with puddles in places on the baked fields.
Oil delivery today.

Oh, and Happy Birthday BrilloPad

[ladymuck]

Morning all, local time 0736

Blue sky, no cloud. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 21 expected. Barometer up to 1028 mBar.

Sunrise 06:02; Sunset 20:37 EEST

Heading home today. Boat, plane, plane, train. HEL-TLL-AMS-LHR-home.

[NickFitz]

Read more of To Each This World tonight. Could the aliens helping humanity have ulterior motives? Nah, I’m sure it’s fine

Thursday tomorrow! And it’s Tech Debt Thursday, which is usually relatively restful

Even better: a Bank Holiday Monday, so it’s a long weekend!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been oniony chicken casserole out of the freezer, with chips and peas

This was accompanied by Murder 24/7 on iPlayer, being part one of an investigation into the murder of some poor sod in Hereford

[NickFitz]

Having spent most of the week investigating the weird figures that were appearing in data, I just discovered that there’s already a command to recalculate them! It’s not properly documented anywhere, of course; I found it by searching for places where a particular function was used. I just ran it on our hotfix environment and it fixed everything, so I'm hoping that’s the end of that problem

It’s turned quite Simpsonesque out now

I’m worried that the bird that met its demise on the lawn earlier today (or last night) might have been one of the magpies rather than a pigeon. I got the binoculars out and had a look at the fragment of wing that was lying on the lawn, and the feathers were very dark at the end, changing to white nearer where they would have been attached to the bird. But it did look more dark grey than black, and pigeon wings can look like that too, judging by some that just flew past

One of the magpies, which I think is the male, was just hopping around down on the lawn on its own. But they don’t always show up as a couple. I’ll have to keep an eye out over the next few days

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a pork cutlet with apple sauce in a wholemeal bap

This was one of the freshly baked baps made this morning, and they’ve turned out very well

[xoggoth]

Scrabbly thing with couple of old ladies this morning. Nowt else apart from more fencing and walk.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning. .

Wednesday apparently.

Torrential rain blanked out Freesat some time around 01:00.

Damp.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

21 deg in here, 22 deg in the kitchen, 20 deg in the leanto, 19 deg out the back.

1005 mBar, 29.6776 in Hg, 753.8 Torr, 14.58 psi, (up from 1004 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of April 2020, between 09:11 and 10:35, AndyGarbs, barrydidit, Brillo, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, vetran, and I popped in, with NF giving us the "bring out yer dead" toll for Leicester just to cheer us up a bit.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the unbearable heat & humidity of the morning. The umbrella was not required.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Dashcam bollox. Or Art in Film The News if I've watched that one too many times already.

More gardening. The Great Pile o'tulipe grows ever taller.

Jack Hargreaves Old Country: Kestrel nesting in the hole left by a rotten branch. Chap erects a scaffolding tower to take pictures of same from a hide. Catching a mink in a trap. Mink did not look happy. The difference between a horse trotting and pacing, this last being what a palfrey was trained to do.

Tea: Tesco ?breaded? "White fish". Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. Dan Do: the one with the giant shoe bath in Conwy again.

Jack Hargreaves Out of Town (1986): the mole catcher. The dancing horse Sorrel and Mrs Mac Joan McMillen. A remarkable lady & a remarkable horse. Deaths: at least 2 moles, maybe 3. So that's how a mole trap works.

Bab5 S3 E13 "The Arthur Visitor". Guess who turns up on Bab5. .

Catrefi Cymru: Conversions again.

Blazian bollox: What on earth?:

Blazian bollox: What on earth?

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey and drizzly start; been a little while since we had one of those. It’s mild enough at 17°C with an expected high of 23°C, the barometers are down a bit more at 1002/1009mB, and we have a yellow warning for thunderstorms

Down on the lawn near the flowerbed, it looks as if some poor pigeon has already been struck by a bolt from the blue, there being almost nothing left of it but a wide circular patch of white feathers with a fragment of wing, another such fragment being a bit further across the lawn, where one of the magpies was pecking at it. I’m guessing a fox lying low beneath the rose bushes got it, though it could be a cat, or even a hawk. But whatever it was - or something that came later - has carried off most of the remains, if that’s any clue

Up here, I’ve got the bread maker started on wholemeal dough as I’m making some baps - first time making wholemeal ones

[WTFH]

Morning all
Misty but dry here, a pleasant walk has been had.
about 22:30 yesterday we had 1 minute of very heavy rain.

[ladymuck]

Morning all, local time 0946

Sunny with wispy fluff. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 21 expected. Barometer at 1024 mBar.

Sunrise 06:00; Sunset 20:42 EEST

We've just had breakfast and will be off to see some Moomins today, amongst other cultural delights.

Had a fabulous dinner last night. Our blow out meal of the holiday at a Michelin starred restaurant.

[NickFitz]

I finished watching the Phil Spector thing

And tonight I continued reading To Each This World. Really getting into this now

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Busy day, arty farty thing this morning, folllowed by visit to small local art exhibition with ll2, then a wake party this afternoon. Didn't know bloke very well but seemed a nice guy and I admired his hippy look. I used to dress liike that once, got so boring now.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been homemade pork chow mein. Turned out quite nicely; nothing they’d recognise down the Chinese, but I’m managing to refine whatever recipe I started with into something acceptable to me

For viewing, I started watching the LA homicide thing on Netflix about Phil Spector