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[xoggoth]

Old fart Majongy thing this morning. I came last for the seciod week running. GRUMP! Emailed a neighbour with a copy of a photo I took at village art exhibition because it looked so like her. Turned out it was, she posed for the artist but never received a copy. Printed one out and took it to her this morning. Portrait, not nude unfortunately.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been Heinz tomato soup with toast

Quite sunny out, but there’s a lot of cloud and the trees are shimmying a lot

[ladymuck]

Morning all, Sevilla calling, local time 10:26

Sunny with fluff. Currently 19 degrees ('feels like' 21) with a high of 26 expected . Barometer at 1014 mBar

Sunrise 07:16; Sunset 21:25 CEST

Our journey yesterday was uneventful despite some delays leaving CDG. Our hotel is in a good location and the breakfast is proving helpful at soaking up the wine, sherry and gin consumed last night. HWMBO was served the hugest measure of brandy after dinner because the bottle was close to being finished. Dinner was absolutely superb with such good service, I left a tip.

This afternoon we take the train to Cádiz.

[WTFH]

Morning all 5:30 dog walk dodged the showers, then when we got back in I moved the 14 shed roof panels down the garden in preparation for them to go on tonight, if I get the last two trusses built.

Ready for a rest.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s cloudy but with some blue patches towards the west, and there seems to have been more rain overnight. It’s expected to stay cloudy all day, and the breeze must persist as the current 6°C “feels like” 3°; the day’s high will be 12°. The barometers are steady at 990/998mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday apparently.

Damp.

Grey.

Hints of blue sky.

Sunless.

Cooler still in here at 16 deg, 15 in the kitchen, 13 in the leanto.

1001 mBar, 29.56 in Hg, 750.8 Torr, 14.52 psi, (unchanged), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 27th of March 2020 openstrike, LM, and NF popped in, as did I, whereas eek popped in a lot on a bug hunt and my purchasing mistake of gluten free wheat free spag was unpleasantly unpleasant and totally free of any taste whatsoever.

Sleep, such as it was, proved to be intermittent, but a weird dream managed to slip in there just before waking.

The Knee is proving impervious to drugs, which is irritating.

Raining.

Sun's out.

Doze taken whilst "listening" to something on R4 about The Sahara. Followed by something about something else.

Mug of coffee.

Raining.

Entertainment: WWI in numbers. Gosh. Closer run thing than I'd realised. . Septics getting their arses kicked initially due to disregarding advice from those who'd been fighting for 3.5 years.

"Hitler's Silver Arrows": the evolution of the Mercedes and Autounion Grand Prix cars.

Sunny.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Scamwatch. Sliced Bread: kitty litter. <click>.

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was a bit of a new Police Interceptors

And later I read more of XPD but didn’t quite get to the end. British, American, and Russian intelligence are all treading on each other’s toes, and I daresay it’ll end up being a fiasco for all of them

Thursday tomorrow!

But it’s also my last day working with the other dev

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea: pork cutlet with chips and beans

The weather’s been very changeable today, including a thunderstorm this afternoon! It seems to be turning reasonably pleasant out there now though

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a corned beef butty

This made use of the white load baked last night, which turned out really well

Heavy rain for a bit this morning, and it remains changeable out there. It brightened up for a couple of minutes just now, then immediately went back to very gloomy

[WTFH]

Morning all
Light ran at 5:30, then it dried up until just after we got in from our walk.
Shed walls were put up last night, and the plan is to get the roof trusses on this evening, then the roof on tomorrow night.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey start with traces of overnight rain, though there’s a patch of blue to the WNW that might move our way as the wind is from that direction. But it’s expected to get windier and cloudier, with the likelihood of rain varying between 30% and 50% for every hour from 11am to nightfall. Though it's 8°C, it “feels like” 1°, and the expected high is only 11°; the barometers are retreating downwards at 990/998mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with hazy wisps. Breezy. Currently 10 degrees ('feels like' 8) with a high of 13 expected. Rain a possibility. Barometer down to 1005 mBar.

Sunrise 05:13; Sunset 20:44 BST

HWMBO and I are at Heathrow Terminal 4 awaiting our flight to Paris and onwards to Seville. Tucking into scrambled eggs, sausage and hash browns in the Plaza Premium lounge. The Air France lounge hasn't been finished yet.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Heavy showers overnight: blue sky now &amp; sunny with it.

Cooler still in here at 16.3 deg, 15 in the kitchen, 14 in the leanto.

1002 mBar, 29.59 in Hg, 751.6 Torr, 14.53 psi, (down from 1007 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 27th of March 2020 openstrike, LM, and NF popped in, as did I, whereas eek popped in a lot on a bug hunt and my purchasing mistake of gluten free wheat free spag was unpleasantly unpleasant and totally free of any taste whatsoever.

The night passed eventually, with The Knee behaving perfectly until half an hour after retiring to bed, whereupon the pain returned. Sleep, such as it was, happened downstairs in the chair whilst wrapped in the duvet and supplement by paracetamol and ibuprofen, plus ibuprofen gel.

Now I'm up & about it's ok again. A small mercy.

Intermittently hammering down. Blue sky & sun again now.

Book. Other book. Both read standing in the intermittent sunshine in the dish farm cum boxroom.

The drugs were wearing off towards the end. .

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: R4 waffling on about 3D printed guns. A good idea if you don't mind losing the odd hand or eye now & again. . Back in the day they used to be called "zap zip guns". ("The Zap Gun" is a novel (of sorts) by PKD).

Curiously enough I discovered the other day that my eyesight is now so poor that I see at least two backsights, and an inderminate number of foresights on my ancient (it was old when I bought it half a century ago) BSA Airsporter. I don't know if I'm strong enough to cock it any more. The grooves aren't deep enough to take a decent telescopic sight.

Going grey again now.

Book. Other book.

Raining. Sunny. Raining. Sunny. April showers in May.

The orchids in next door's lawn are sending up flower spikes. There seems to be even more this year than last. It's inneresting (to me) that they're about 10 days later than the orchids across the canal. Might be due to the frost pocket effect in the garden.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM.

STOS S1 E28: "The city on the edge of forever (1967)". Foxy Joan Collins again. Only she & Shatner still above ground. .

Thing on S4C about Field Names in north Wales. Bet I was the primary audience for that. .

"Out of Town": 1981: shooting wood pigeons. Fishing for next to nothing. More killing things. He's dressed in the top half of a Brit para's camo, with the trousers from the German camo, both from the 1940s. Apparently they just wouldn't wear out. .

Possibly the thing about temperature on BBC4.

The unbelievable thing on Blaze. More bollox. "Unusual rituals". Drinking cobra blood. Stinging ant gloves (Amazonia). Mummifying yersen when yer still alive. Vanuatu bungy jumping using vines. etc.

"A Foreign Field (1993)" with Leo McKern, Alec Guinness, Lauren Bacall. And a jam pot.

[NickFitz]

Tea was beef & Guinness casserole with chips

This was accompanied by the third part of the HBO documentary about the French trader. Definitely stitched up by the bank, but it doesn’t seem as if he’s going to dodge some prison time

And finally some more of XPD, which I’ve nearly finished. I suspect nobody is going to come out of it well, assuming anybody comes out of it at all. At least one of the characters has managed to die of natural causes rather than with the assistance of one or other of the intelligence services involved

It’s sprint planning tomorrow, which will consist largely of me being given responsibility for various things the other dev has been working on but will be leaving unfinished when she leaves at the end of the week. Not her fault, mind; it’s stuff where nothing can be done because it depends on somebody in another team who’s on leave, or somebody has to decide how they want something to work and hasn’t. At least she’s done an excellent job of documenting everything she can think of. Having read it all, I now know a lot more about what we’re supposed to be doing than I have done up till now

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

HWMBO cooked up some duck and made a very delicious plum sauce.

Watching this week's MasterChef.