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[xoggoth]

Just back from a talk about the psychology of serial killers with not loony lady 3. Pixked up a DVLC licence application form for ll2 at the post office. She opened the front door wearing nothing below the waist.

[NickFitz]

Lunch was the last of the weekend leftovers. And tea has been chicken madras with rice and naan

This was accompanied by a thing on iPlayer about the Belfast police. It’s much like the rest of these programmes, except that the people of Northern Ireland are far more inclined to form large crowds and hurl abuse at the police, whatever they might happen to be doing, than people tend to be in other parts of the UK

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with no cloud from my vantage point. Very windy. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Barometer down to 1024 mBar.

Sunrise 05:37; Sunset 20:21 BST

I was supposed to be in the office today, for Gig3, as there's a social on later. I decided not to go in.

I think I need to rescue some things that are being blown about my little garden.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Not far off finishing SS-GB now. But more Deighton is arriving tomorrow

There's about a foot of Bernie Samson books to read without counting the Palmer books. .

You may find the Anthony Price novels of equal innerest. (The Labyrinth Makers, Colonel Butler's Wolf, etc.).

Morning.

Wednesday apparently.

The dream before waking involved the dying Win98 box. .

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Windy, rather.

16.1 deg in here, 17 in the kitchen, 14.5 in the leanto.

1018 mBar, 30.06 in Hg, 763.6 Torr, 14.765 psi, (down from 1019 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of March 2020: as per yesterday.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine & semigale.

First indications of hayfever with continuous sneezing & itchy mouth. So I'm not going to get away without it this year, unlike last year.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about Section 21 evictions etc.

More cleaning of the (very heavy) springs in the front bedroom.

Feck me, those old Philips VCRs were heavy. And awkward. Not to mention how awkward the N1500 was if it lacked the 3M modification and jig. It never struck me until I bought one from a junk shop & then tried to repair it on an ordinary bench. All the test points are on the underside.

So knackered moving those VCRs about that I had coffee early.

Moving the cardboard box with 100lbs of service data in it is the next challenge.

I may be some time.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: the meja prog. PM.

"Nunc Dimittis" from Tinker Tailor on youtube.

<taps screen> Is this thing borked or what?

"The lost neanderthals" BBC4. Secrets of the Mandrin Cave in that France.

Blaze: Thw unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd. Inventions. Baby cages for hanging kids out of 15th floor windows so they get some fresh air. WWII UK baby gas masks. They didn't point out that dear old Adolph had nerve gas (tabun) that would have walked straight past the filters. That Avro UFO "Mach 3" disc shaped plane thing that appears so often. An even nuttier inverted helicopter thing for ground troups with the fan blades underneath. What could possibly go wrong. .

That Scottish nutter climbing mountains on BBC Alba. Climbing in winter compared with climbing in summer. I wouldn't do either. Particularly not when it's gusting to 100 mph on the tops. Not a great deal more snow in the winter than there wasn't in the summer. 'Tis global warming, see.

Bit of "Enemy of the State (1998)" with an undemented Gene Hackman and Will Smith.

Bits of the news as if I wasn't depressed enough as it was. Why is Heggsy such an obnoxious ****? It's a mystery.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS but very windy overnight and still windy now. It's a cold wind from the north.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Clear blue sky this morning with just the odd vapour trail, though they're already dissipating. It’s 9°C (“feels like” 5°) and aiming for 17° later, though the wind is expected to get a bit stronger too so maybe it’ll “feel like” a bit less. The barometers are steady at 1015/1023mB

Wednesday! This is the fortnightly day of meetings for sprint planning and the like. I think the other dev finishes at the end of this sprint, so that’s the thing most needing to be planned for. Once she’s gone, it’ll just be me left on the dev side - and we’re working through putting the project into maintenance mode, after which I’ll move onto something else as well. Tempora mutantur…

[NickFitz]

Not far off finishing SS-GB now. But more Deighton is arriving tomorrow

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Funny coincidence. As I said earlier, loony lady 3 was looking for a parasol and then one popped up on Freecycle this morning, don't recall ever seeing one there before. Anyway, I collected it and delivered to her earlier. Seemed brand new and usused. Got her off me back for a bit.

[NickFitz]

For tea: pork cutlet with chips and beans

This was accompanied by a bit of Traffic Cops

Confusion still reigns on the 5 app concerning that. This was an episode from a previous series that’s suddenly appeared, and is numbered several later than the episode that was previously the last. And all but one episode of the subsequent, most recent, series have vanished without a trace just a few weeks after first being on

[NickFitz]

Lunch was a bit of leftover chicken chasseur from Friday

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and overcast. Currently 11 degrees ('feels like' 9) with a high of 16 expected. Cloud cover expected to dissipate this afternoon. Barometer up to 1026 mBar.

Sunrise 05:39; Sunset 20:20 BST

The Authenticator was good but not the best play I've seen of late. The stage layout was strange and there's a number of seats that would have a very poor view indeed.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Dry.

Windy.

Blue sky in parts.

Sunny.

17 deg in here, 17.5 in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto, 13.6 in the saltinghouse.

1020 mBar, 30.12 in Hg, 765 Torr, 14.794 psi, (up from 1019 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of March 2020 covbob, LM, NF, and I popped in, with me knackered from mowning the lawns the previous day (much like today, really), and covbob receiving calls from a pimp about an opportunity as a gasfitter , with the Leicester plague victim count reaching 32, up from the 24 of the day before, with the passing double decker being completely empty (apart from, one suspects, the driver).

Washing out on the line.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the cold wind and no sunshine. Duw it was cold. Could have done with an extra layer. Saw my shadow towards the end.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about park run. <click>

Cleaning springs in the front bedroom. Moved the unit for the first time in 6 years. Surprising lack of spideriness behind it, though something has been making a meal of woodlice.

Now getting outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee, though this new jar seems a little different from the previous one. I have become my father.

Sheets in off the line since there's a definite hint of rain in the air: now airing over the banisters. Yesterday they'd have been bone dry by now: today, not so much.

Moved some books that haven't been moved for years & irritated a spider that was living there.

Tea: soup etc. Entertainment: PM.

Nothing of note on the idiot lantern this evening.

Book. Other book.

Freecell score: 83%, running average: 84%. Looks like I've worn out that box by playing Freecell. I'm running out of boxes to play it on.

Book. Other book.

Turned tv on. Turned tv off.

Inside Trump's Head: Mellania. .

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I forgot to record that there was some quite heavy rain in the early evening yesterday as a belt of rather stormy weather passed over us, fading into drizzle later. Today seems likely to continue being a bit gloomy and getting windy later, but no further rain is predicted… though neither was yesterday’s. It’s 7°C but “feels like” 1° and the forecast high is 14°. The barometers remain optimistic though, being up to 1015/1023mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast, with the chance of drizzle at 9am.
Early dog walk due to 8am meeting.

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the fourth episode of the thing about the ferry Estonia, in which they got heavily into the conspiracy theory about the Russians sinking it because Sweden and MI6 were using it to smuggle secret Russian military equipment to the west after the fall of the USSR

And tonight, more of SS-GB in which the plot is thickening in interesting and unexpected ways

Goodnight all