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[WTFH]

The shed has been successfully removed from the pallets and is now leaning against the utility room. Tomorrow is painting day.

[NickFitz]

Ribeye steak with chips, fried onions, and beans for tea

To go along with it, the remainder of the Police Interceptors I started watching the other evening

[ladymuck]

True to the forecast, the cloud came and so did some very light rain. It's now trying to brighten up a bit.

I popped out to the little Sainsbury's around the corner, picked up half a dozen bottles of tonic and various snacks to bring my total shop to £30.39, thus triggering the bonus points for a £30 spend.

I also picked up my order from Boots. I did not get the bus to Ealing Broadway to pick up my order from Holland and Barrett. It's open until 7pm so I'll have time to do it later, after all my meetings are finished.

[WTFH]

... the first of my new sheds is about to arrive.

Shed has arrived on 2 pallets.
The driver refused to drive onto our driveway ("sorry mate, it's kerbside drop-off only"), so now the pallets are leaning at an angle where our drive slopes onto the road. This makes getting the pieces off a tad difficult because as soon as I remove the straps, the side supports will probably not hold the sections in place, so they will most likely collapse onto the road. Now contemplating how to topple the first pallet onto the drive without damaging the contents.

[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

I’m still not sure what I want for tea tonight, but now I have multiple options

There was a lane closure on the dual carriageway going there due to the ongoing works on something at the edges of the roads, but it didn’t cause too much of a delay

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc.
It was clear, and then half way round the walk it looked like it was going to rain heavily, but that didn't happen. It's now clearing again and the first of my new sheds is about to arrive.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with fluff. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 19 expected. Early afternoon may see an increase in cloud and a chance of rain before reverting back to a sunnier evening. Barometer steady at 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 05:21; Sunset 20:36 BST

I need to leave the house to collect some online orders that have been delivered to Boots and Holland and Barratt. Plus I need to pick up Fever Tree tonic from Sainsbury's while it's on offer.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Dry.

Grey.

Cooler in here at 16.8 deg, 17.5 in the kitchen, 15 in the leanto.

1010 mBar, 29.83 in Hg, 757.6 Torr, 14.65 psi, (unchanged), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 27th of March 2020 Churchill got a post in edgeways on page of Brillo.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine. Spotted with rain towards the end.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some bollox about the curious film life of Michael Jackson: the film stopping before the very curious bits in the 90s & naughties. <- See wot I did there? .

Just been looking at a clock that shows equal and unequal hours. It just blew my tiny mind. Designed by Richard of Wallingford, Abbot of St. Albans. The equal hours bit is easy enough, the unequal hours bit is what blew my mind. Midday and Midnight at 7 of the clock.

Bit of a cleaning frenzy in the kitchen: moved stuff, cleaned top, discovered frass: something was eating an ancient leather wallet: well it's not eating it any more, the maggots having demised.

Having returned the contents of one of the cupboards in a rather cleaner condition than when they came out, now getting outside the mandatory mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee.

The contents of the jar of garlic powder (BBE 07/2025) out of said cupboard have met the compost heap. House is now stinking of garlic.

Looks like the nazis are doing well in the elections.

New bulb in the old meekrowavey: now seems to work ok. Getting the cover back on was a bit of a struggle.

Tea: chilli con carne etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM (from 16:30 today). The excrement seems to have hit the aircon for Labour. .

Oh dear, how sad, never mind. .

Just remember you only have to elect the nazis once. .

Taggart S11 E1 "Hellfire". Not many eps left with Jim Taggart starring.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

There’s mackerel sky and mares’ tails high up but it’s mostly sunny, though expected to turn cloudier towards lunchtime. It’s mild at 11°C with 16° expected later, and the barometers are up one more notch at 1005/1013mB

I need to go and do the shopping in a bit. I could do with taking bags full of cut-up cardboard over to the recycling bins as well; there’s more of it left over from desk assembly than seems fair to put out for the young ladies of the management company who come round binning our rubbish every couple of days. However, I don’t know what the current status of the bins is. When there’s been a Bank Holiday, it all depends on whether they remembered to trundle forth the bins on Friday, or indeed if somebody came and trundled them on Monday. If neither of those things happened, they won’t have been emptied on Tuesday, and it will be impossible to squeeze any more into them. So I need to pop over there and see if there’s any room first

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the second episode of the thing about the French rogue trader, though it’s increasingly clear that the bank were delighted with what he was doing and happy to turn a blind eye until it all went pear-shaped and they needed someone to blame

Then I continued reading XPD in which the various subterfuges of the various spies are playing out nicely

I need to do the shopping tomorrow, but only have to go to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

The day got progressively cloudier and greyer but no rain even though I thought it might.

Currently enjoying the latest series of Extraordinary Portraits.

[NickFitz]

Ribs and chips for tea

That’s the last of the homemade ribs out of the freezer. Time to make some more!

[NickFitz]

That’s the week done!

We didn’t have any security updates or team-wide tech debt stuff to work on, so the other dev suggested having a look at some continuous integration improvements she’d started on when I was off the other week, though she admitted she found it really boring! I managed to get some things working that had been broken and left some useful diagnostic info about other things, and she’ll carry on tomorrow with the help of one of the other devs who knows a lot more about it than either of us but had too many meetings today to be able to help

[NickFitz]

Fish finger bap (wholemeal, red sauce) for lunch

Still sunny but the cumuli are increasing in both number and volume

I was going to dash down to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s to do the shopping over lunchtime, but then remembered I’ve got a parcel from the Folio Society due any time now. Might go this evening instead, or might just leave it till tomorrow

[ladymuck]

Car Tax is due on 1 June. It seems to be going up £15 a year. Now up to £445 for the pleasure of all those pot holes.*



*yes, I know car tax isn't spent on the roads and it just goes into the general pot so it can be spent on consultants