Good morning all, TFIF!
Wind 14 kt from the Northwest
Temperature 4°C
Humidity 87%
Pressure 999 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more
Weather warnings seemed a bit over dramatic here as I didn't even have to chase the recycling bags down the road.
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Morning.
Friday apparently.
Wet as in raining a little.
Dead calm.
Chilly in here at 11.2 deg, 8.5 deg in the kitchen, 6 in the leanto, 6 in the saltinghouse.
997 mBar, 29.44 in Hg, 747.8 Torr, 14.46 psi, (up from 986 last night), 56% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 10th of March 2020 Scruff and BR14 popped in, LM cleared up where the theatre was (not Woking), NF was Feeding His Cold, whilst WTFH was variously egg collecting, with 35 in the fridge, and shooting at rats but contemplating a night sight, and I listened to some drama or other on Di Ti Di Hello Tom Me Old Pal Me Old Beauty.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 09:47.
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Morning denizens
It’s a snowy start, though it seems the overnight snow must have turned to sleet or rain as some of the snow that fell in the evening has been washed away and the drive is slushy rather than icy. It’s 2°C (“feels like” -8°) and won’t get above 3° and, though no more precipitation is expected, it’ll remain windy. The barometers are, as could be expected, well down at 982/990mB
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Morning all
TFIF, etc.
The storm blew through, a lot of rain/sleet fell. Worst damage I have found so far is that one of our (empty) wheelie bins blew over.
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Tonight’s viewing was The Perfect Neighbor (2025), a documentary film on Netflix about an obnoxious woman hassling all her neighbours, ultimately shooting one of them because she was annoyed about her kids playing near her house. It’s largely made up of body cam footage from the local police, because she called them so often to make spurious complaints and unfounded allegations about the neighbours. Horrible woman
And speaking of horrible people, Sam Pepys really isn’t doing himself any favours by keeping that diary of the things he gets up to
I also managed to get the mundane laundry done during the evening
Meanwhile outside: snow! And plenty of it. But the last time I checked, it had gone back to sleet. Looks like a heavy band of whatever it may be is circling back around to us now though, so it’ll probably still be very white out there tomorrow
Goodnight all
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Twice recently I've noticed expensive items that I haven't looked at, or even considered looking at, added to my Amazon basket! This evening it was a HP printer. The first time occurred while I was at HWMBO's; it was some games console. It's all very peculiar.
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Tea has been lamb steaks with chips and beans
Casseroles and stews and so on are all very nice, but sometimes you need a chunk of fried, grilled, or roasted meat
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Heavy rain here too. If I’m interpreting the symbols correctly, this will turn to sleet in a couple of hours, and then snow
But: it’s Thursday, and I’m done with work for the week!
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Much rain, which I was unaware of until I left the office. Many large puddles on the drive home.
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Meeting ended an hour early and the rain had eased, so I decided to take Max out for a walk. About half way round, the rain got heavier and then turned to sleet. Now drying off. Max has his smoking jacket on.
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I got an email from him late last night so I checked on Chrome and Firefox, where it worked. Then I tried on Safari in a Private Browsing window, and that worked too. I then cleared the cache, but a normal Safari window still didn't work. So I advanced the hypothesis that there's something in the data held in local storage (or a cookie, but that's unlikely) that's incompatible with some recent change he madeOriginally posted by WTFH View Post
I found it sometimes got stuck when playing on Safari, I just went for the standard IT solution: close down web page, close Safari, reboot machine. That worked most of the time for me.
Editing to add: I just went and checked my MBA while waiting for a container image to build, and it's working again in Safari! He said he might roll back to a build from a few days ago, so maybe that's why. Or maybe he found and fixed it, or maybe it was just Safari being weird
Last edited by NickFitz; Yesterday, 14:53.
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lunch was TTD lamb samosa's with a tamarind dip.
very nice too
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The forecast is now for heavy rain from around 16:00 turning to heavy snow between 18:00 and 19:00, so I decided to pop down to Not-as-Big Sainsbury's in my lunch break
Lunch has therefore not been completed yet as it was time to get back to work once I'd returned and put everything away - I'm snacking on some cold cocktail sausages while investigating yet another bug reported this morning
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Morning.
Thursday.
Damp.
Grey.
Sunless.
Flat calm.
Chilly in here at 11.8 deg, 8.5 in the kitchen, 6 in the leanto.
1000 mBar, 29.53 in Hg, 750 Torr, 14.5 psi, (down from 1003 last night), 58% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 10th of March 2020 WTFH, LM, covbob, and DaveB popped in, with covbob missing a call from a pimp due to a comfort break, whilst I watched the commentary on "Their Finest Hour" after reading yet more of "Bright Shining Lie", whereas NF still had a lurgy and LM was going out to the theatre later
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Raining.
Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: something on R4 waffling on about kinema.
Raining. A lot.
Er, it's now 985 mBar, 29.1 in Hg, 738.8 Torr, 14.286 psi.
. 15:47.
Er, it's now 979 mBar, 28.9 in Hg, 734.3 Torr, 14.199 psi
at 17:48
Tea: cheesy beans on toast etc. Nice enough.
Entertainment: PM <click> Enough of Orange murdering scumbags. That's Orange scumbags that commit murder, rather than the preferred option of scumbags who murder the Orange Mother****er & his motley crew. Well one can but hope.
978 mBar, 28.88 in Hg, 733.56 Torr, 14.185 psi.
at 18:35.
978.5 mBar at 20:37. Looks like the thing is passing.
984 mBar at 22:57.
Book. Other book. 3rd book with cartoons (Dilbert: the joy of work).
Bits of "First Blood (1982)" with the sound muted.
Lucy Worsley: Victorian Murder Club.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Yesterday, 23:00.
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