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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny day, the gardener is out there trimming hedges and shrubs, and the balloon festival starts this evening. Not sure how “gusts up to 20mph” will affect them but the wind seems to be about the right direction to blow them somewhere I can see them as they go past. Currently 21°C with an expected high of 25°, and it’s already nearly 24° in the living room with the curtains still closed. The barometers seem pessimistic though, being down to 999/1007mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

20 deg in here, 21 in the kitchen, 19.5 in the leanto.

1005.5 mBar, 29.69 in Hg, 754.2 Torr, 14.583 psi, (down from 1007.5 last night), 72% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 30th of March 2020 BR14, LM, NF, WTFH, and I popped in, BR14 after lots of brown sauce on his dinner, LM posted a vid that doesn't play any more, and WTFH's wife had returned home with news of a colleague having a stroke during a meeting.

[WTFH]

Morning all

TFIF, etc
CBS, etc now, but misty earlier.

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was a bit of Traffic Cops

I was thinking of watching the final episode of Legends but I decided to leave that for tomorrow

Tonight’s new book was A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. in which assorted religious orders try to preserve what’s left of mankind’s knowledge for future generations after the world has been devastated by nuclear war, though everybody else feels that given what it led to last time, maybe they’re better off without it

There’s a big funfair on the park at the end of the road. Investigating the reason for its presence, I discovered that the first Leicester Balloon Festival will be happening there this weekend, starting tomorrow evening. This news had somehow managed to pass me by but I assume that if the wind’s in the right direction, this will result in large numbers of hot air balloons drifting overhead at a very low altitude, given that they’ll be launching from only a few hundred yards away

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

The other exciting news of the evening was that when I got home and was getting the bags out of the car, who should appear on the other side of the lawn but all five members of the magpie family, including the youngster I hadn’t seen in a few days!

And I also got to see one of the young ones learning that sometimes when you go to chivvy a squirrel, the squirrel will just rush right at you and chivvy back. The startled magpie had to take off almost vertically to find refuge in an overhanging bush, and the squirrel continued to hang around on the lawn beneath it, showing that it wasn’t going to be intimidated

[NickFitz]

After the epic win at lunchtime (going for a haircut) I continued the run of success this evening by getting the shopping done!

I decided it would be nice to get it out of the way and on checking Google Maps, I found the traffic was not at all rush-hour-like all the way there at quarter to six, so I headed off. I went past the old flat, where the chestnut tree was looking very well, as was the Polish café

Onwards to M&S for some bits, before heading over to Big Sainsbury’s. The refurbishment work is continuing, meaning the fresh food was crammed into a rather tight area down one end with the meat in tall fridges with glass doors, just thrown in anyhow by the look of things; this was very annoying as it made it a pain to do things like check dates or assess marbling. But signs assured us it’s a temporary measure so hopefully things are better once they’re finished

Anyway, I got the latest Viz which was the main reason for being there, and the other parts of the store were still largely in the configuration I’ve got used to over the past twenty-five years

With that done, I remembered to fill the car up as well. And then home via the VAT fraud chip shop, so tea has been haddock and chips

So I’ve basically managed all the errands and things ahead of the heatwave and, more importantly, the weekend!

[NickFitz]

Di ti di, PALI is mine.

Where's eek?

Nice pali!

[DoctorStrangelove]

Di ti di, PALI is mine.

Where's eek?

[DoctorStrangelove]

Tiddley tum ti tum

[ladymuck]

all this talk of doing time takes me back to my yoof

Contrary to popular opinion, I do actually prefer it when I deliver something useful rather than have endless meetings about meetings

[sadkingbilly]

Afternoon all

Cloudy but dry and bright. Feels a bit humid and stuffy. Currently 25 degrees with a high of 26 expected. Barometer steady at 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 04:43; Sunset 21:22 BST

Too many meetings today. Not much in the way of doing time available. Handover for gig2 has started, and lots of interesting things are coming out of the woodwork. Eight billings days left. Smile and invoice...

all this talk of doing time takes me back to my yoof

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been nothing

I had multiple dependency updates to deal with this morning, which isn't arduous but is time-consuming. They took me through to about 13:15, so I decided to pop across town and get a haircut, being in dire need of one anyway but particularly wanting to get it done before the heatwave gets any worse

She was there, as her husband hasn't died yet, but there was one chap sitting in the chairs. I looked enquiringly at her and him, assuming he was first, but she laughed and waved me into the chair, saying "I can't take any more off him!" at which point I realised that the guy had a completely shaved head and was therefore unlikely to be waiting after all; turned out he was just having a chat after being shorn

So I didn't have to hang around and ended up back home exactly an hour after knocking off. It would have taken less than that but I checked the car's tyre pressures and topped two of them up before I left. And I decided that rather than bothering with lunch, I'll just grab a coffee and some biscuits and wait for teatime

[NickFitz]

Well you read that quickly. All 800 pages of it. . Did he manage to meet with Joe Turkel in this one?

He did, in May 2017 when the chap was about ninety years old but still very much compos mentis - he quotes him quite a bit

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy but dry and bright. Feels a bit humid and stuffy. Currently 25 degrees with a high of 26 expected. Barometer steady at 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 04:43; Sunset 21:22 BST

Awoke at some unearthly hour, pre-6am. I only succumbed to looking at the clock at 6am but I'd been awake and trying to ignore that state for some time prior. Needless to say, I'm feeling a bit tired.

Too many meetings today. Not much in the way of doing time available. Handover for gig2 has started, and lots of interesting things are coming out of the woodwork. Eight billings days left. Smile and invoice...

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

And tonight, I finished Future Noir in which the Blade Runner 2049 chapter turned out to have been written before the film was actually finished, so it’s basically just a bunch of quotes from the people working one it saying what a good job they’ve done (spoiler: they hadn’t). And then interviews, which didn’t contain much of any great interest

Well you read that quickly. All 800 pages of it. . Did he manage to meet with Joe Turkel in this one?

Damp.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Misty.

20 deg in here, 20.9 in the kitchen, 19.5 in the leanto.

1010 mBar, 29.83 in Hg, 757.6 Torr, 14.649 psi, (down from 1011 last night), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 30th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, BR14, Churchill, LM, NF, Vetran, WTFH, and I popped in, with me exercising The Leg by walking up & down the stairs 10 times, going out being verboten by Bunter & co at the time.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom. Quite humid out there. The wax jacket might have been a bit over the top.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Toast: Izal Medicated Lavatory Paper.

Book.

The remainder of the privet carted off to the greenhouse to dry.

Raspberries and gooseberries picked. The gooseberry harvest is dreadful. Can't remember a year when there's been so few.

Mix: Oz customs S8 E2.

PBS: Titans of the cold war. Never previously been aware of Anthony Eden being defined as a Titan, but there you go, against Gamal Abdul Nasser. Suez. Our finest hour. .

And the septics got their earnest wish: the final destruction of the British Empire.

After which, of course, they start whining about the lack of support in Vietnam, the lack of a British fleet in the Pacific. Etc. Etc.

Be careful what you wish for.

Tea: beans on toast. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. Cooked the raspberries and the gooseberries before they go in the fridge.

Dunno if there be owt on the idiot lantern this evening.