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[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading has been more of Station Eleven. I’m really enjoying this one. It was adapted into a TV series by HBO, so I’ll watch that at some point too

Earlier, this evening’s impulse purchases were Threads and The War Game on 4K UHD Blu-ray, newly scanned from the original 16mm films and just released by some outfit in the USA

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been pork steaks with chips and beans. Very nice

This was accompanied by Emergency 24/7 on iPlayer, which is basically the BBC’s version of 24 Hours in A&E

It’s looking quite Simpsonesque out now. There was supposed to have been some drizzle this afternoon, but I think we’ll need more than that. The resident magpies seemed to be having a bit more luck pecking around down on the lawn though

And this morning, there was an invasion by a flock of young magpies! I couldn’t count them all as they kept ditzing around, but there were ten or a dozen of them. They didn’t stay long - just worked their way across the lawns, chasing each other, before heading through the gap between the adjacent and opposite blocks, presumably on their way to the extensive gardens of the big houses in that direction

[NickFitz]

Lunch today was a ham toastie

This morning was the fortnightly meetings. Luckily, there’s so little left to do that we were able once again to roll the retrospective and the planning into one and cancel the afternoon planning session. It looks like I’ll be able to start gradually moving over to other work alongside this before the end of the month

I was feeling like I had a touch of hay fever this afternoon, so I didn’t get as far as I would have liked with the odd bug I’m tracking down. But I got far enough to give myself a good starting point for tomorrow

[xoggoth]

Group walk followed by pub then book club later. Can't really get into books anymore. Rain last night/this morning seemed to be enough to make a difference, puddles on the patio and stream passed during walk had a fair flow.

[DoctorStrangelove]

I have a migraine and have been throwing up since the early hours so I'm not partaking in anything other than an orange juice.

You've witched me: now I have an aura too. .

Oh good, it's gone away again. .

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy. Damp from overnight rain. Currently 20 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 24 expected. Barometer down to 1006 mBar.

Sunrise 05:54; Sunset 20:16 BST

HWMBO and I are at Heathrow T4, in the new Air France lounge. It's very nice. I have a migraine and have been throwing up since the early hours so I'm not partaking in anything other than an orange juice. Off to Paris today.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday?

Damp.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

22.7 deg in here, 24.3 in the kitchen, 21.5 in the leanto, 17 out the back.

1000 mBar, 29.53 in Hg, 750 Torr, 14.5 psi, (down from 1002 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 19:50 and 21:07, eek, MrMarkyMark, LondonManc, LM, NF, and vetran popped in. There was discussion of red lentils.

Entertainment: "Nuked" on Al Jazeera. The Glorious History of Nuclear Testing. E2/3. Didn't "we" hang people for doing human experimentation? Askin' for a friend. .

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the intermittent sunshine. Nice enough when was in.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Sky Arts: Art in Film: Hitchcock. Meh.

Thing about Butch Cassidy not dying in Bolivia. They found a skeleton buried in the desert: no DNA match. They didn't find any of his gold. They did find a 44 Henry rimfire cartridge.

House roughly vacced: I didn't bother moving much.

Jack Hargreaves Old Country: I wonder what he'll kill today.. Dorset button production. Dorset cartwheel button. Dorset Hightop Button. Dorset Knob button. Production was mechanised about 1850, leading to the emigration of about 16000 button makers and the ruination of many empty cottages in Twyford. His "Turnout" cart, harness, and Blue the horse finally united & taken for a drive. Rough cheek setting on the Liverpool bit. Deaths: zero.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM <click> UFO bollox.

Dan Do. Upgraded farmhouse (the singer woman). Georgian vicarage. Ebenezer chapel turned into a house.

Jack Hargreaves Out of Town. 1986. Lambing. Mayflies. Inneresting life cycle.

Bab5 S3 E8 "Messages from Earth". So that's the control system for a Shadow ship. No wonder they scream.

Rained a little.

Digging for Britain. 6/6. <click>

Cartrefi Cymru. The castle lodge, police station, gardner's house again.

Blaze: What on Earth?: Cornish henge. Tin mine. etc. etc. Arizona Luna Landing Site replicates Sea of Tranquility. Brazil: facility in the jungle that was intended to produce a Brazilian Bomb, details of which were communicated to dear old Sadam. Bones in a cave on Gran Canaria, dated to 8th to 10th Century and the original pre Spanish inhabitants. Skulls with evidence of trepanning. China "egg" construction: turns out to be a wind tunnel used to "levitate" people. Kung Fu monks etc.

What on Earth?: Gulf of Gdansk: concrete structure in the sea: torpedo test facility for dear old Adolph. Afghanistan: the ephedra plant provides the precursor for crystal meth, no ephedrine tablets required. . Galapagos Islands, San Cristobel: sugar boom, prison camp, owner offed by the prisoners & the jungle returned. French solar furnace. Odd building on Epstein's island: cube with a golden dome on top, of currently indeterminate function (but you can guess it won't be good). Rio Santiago, Mexico: foam so toxic it strips the paint off cars: no pollution control. What's not to like? Unlimited lead, arsenic, and mercury, not to mention any other tulipe the local industry can pour in.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Partly cloudy start but with the sun getting through and more sun, less cloud expected later. There was more rain overnight! Slight chance (20%) of a shower or two this afternoon as well. It’s 15°C and aiming for 21°, and the barometers are down a bit more at 993/1001mB

[WTFH]

Morning all

It's RAINING!
Has been since about 4am, some of it quite heavy.
Wet dog walk, but very enjoyable.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading was more of Station Eleven. Still very good

More rain due tonight! I don’t think we’ll get as much as they will further north, but the radar suggests we’ll get a decent sprinkling

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Nothing like a new product to bring to people's attention old errors and workarounds!

Plenty of those in this thing!

The chap who spotted it is leaving for a more exalted department at the end of the week, so I’m hoping to get it sorted out before then as a parting gift. I’ve narrowed it down to one cell that’s getting a weird value which then has knock-on effects, but the ancient code underlying it all along with some strangeness in the way the underlying data is structured is making it difficult to track down

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken madras with rice and naan

And to go with it, a further episode of the Netflix homicide thing, this time in LA, about the murder of a young mother in 1980 that was picked up and solved as a cold case in 2013

[ladymuck]

Nothing like a new product to bring to people's attention old errors and workarounds!

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a pancetta omelette

Not exceptionally busy today. One of the finance people spotted that some values seemed to be incorrect in one rather specific spot in a huge table, though it wouldn’t affect anything as any analysis involving what those figures ought to be is done elsewhere. It still ought to be displayed correctly though, if only to avoid any confusion! My investigations into the source of the problem have indicated that it could arise in one of three or four different places, all of which are in code that hasn’t been touched in six years or so. So it’s not my fault and, given nobody has noticed it before, not that important

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and cloudy with flecks of grey. Looked damp out earlier but all such evidence has now gone. Currently 23 degrees ('feels like' 25) with a high of 24 expected. Low chance of rain all day. Barometer down to 1011 mBar.

Sunrise 05:51; Sunset 20:18 BST

Quiet day today. No dramas expected. Will be packing later for holiday that starts tomorrow.