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[sadkingbilly]

morning
a bit protestant here, too, this morning.
hazy sunshine, so it's warming up gradually.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday?

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 16.1 deg, 15.5 in the kitchen, 13.5 in the leanto, 8 in the saltinghouse.

1024.5 mBar, 30.25 in Hg, 768.4 Torr, 14.86 psi, (up from 1023 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 18th of February 2020 Churchill, BR14, and DaveB popped in, and it was raining on everyone, LM, WTFH, NF, with LM being blessed with horizontal rain, always the worst kind, though I do recall the occasion in Ye Olde Sloughe of Desponde when I observed rain falling upwards from the Wrecked House across the road from my office.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc, but King Billy.
Ground frost in one of the fields we walked around earlier.
Not that I'm counting, but it's almost time to go on holiday.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Mostly cloudy start: a sheet of dappled cloud stretches towards the horizon in all directions, though east-to-north is the only quadrant in which it reaches it; in the other directions it falls short, giving clear blue sky a look in, albeit from a low angle. It'll get sunnier apparently, warming the current 6°C up as high as 16° in mid-afternoon. The barometers are up just a touch at 1017/1025mB

Only me in the virtual office today! I would be looking forward to it but the other dev went through a bunch of stuff I "could be doing" yesterday, and I'm not sure I understand all aspects of this app well enough yet to get it all done. On the other hand, doing is a good way of learning and from pairing with her the last couple of days, I'm starting to think certain aspects of it that seem a bit scary aren't as complicated as they appear. I suppose I'll have to find out by trying!

Closer to home, some more bedding is in the wash as I continue to clear the backlog that built up when I was without a machine to do it for me

[NickFitz]

The bread seems to have turned out well; smells nice, at any rate

And the washing and drying of one of the warmer duvet covers concluded successfully

Meanwhile in A for Andromeda, there have been developments now the supercomputer is running…

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Someone we know is on Only Connect in 1 minute's time ...

[NickFitz]

Tea has been burger and chips, again

I need to make some more lamb burgers. But it depends on me remembering to get both minced lamb and fresh chillis when I go shopping. If I only remember the lamb, I end up making shepherds pie instead

Earlier, having got the bread machine going, I remembered that I needed to wash some bedding so the washer-dryer's on as well

[NickFitz]

Day done and before settling down, I remembered that I meant to make some more bread, so the breadmaker has been activated in the cause of a white loaf

I'm using 400g of flour this time as the loaves I've been making with 500g are too big - the slices won't even fit in the toaster, which I bought specifically because it's designed for bigger bread! I figure making a smaller loaf is probably the easiest way to deal with this

Tomorrow, the rest of the team are at the annual thing that I don't go to, so there's no meetings at all

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Started off with blue skies but now it's clouded over. Currently 14 degrees ('feels like' 12) and that's the high for the day. Barometer at 1028 mBar.

Sunrise 07:03; Sunset 19:16 BST

Busy morning prepping for a meeting that then got delayed an hour. Another meeting has been postponed to this afternoon but clashes with other clientCo so I won't be attending that.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a Pukka steak slice

Some little fluffy white clouds have arrived to adorn the clear blue sky from this morning

[sadkingbilly]

Sunny here in Glasgow. Cool at 13 degrees but it feels nice and warm when in the sunshine.

There'll be a few denizens runnin' aboot in shorts an' string vests then???

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Dry.

Sunny. .

Chilly in here at 17.3 deg, 16 in the kitchen, 14 in the leanto, 8 in the saltinghouse. Condensation on the windows for the first time in ages.

1023 mBar, 30.21 in Hg, 767.3131 Torr, 14.837 psi, (up from 1019 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 18th of February 2020 Brillo popped in, as did LM, WTFH (and his non furry pita bread), NF, and eek (whose daughter had an interview at some uni or other 90 minutes earlier than she'd expected), whilst NF wondered why there were no sardines in brown sauce.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Walk (towpath, unabbreviated) in the sunshine.

Shopping trip from Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about the Deliveroo scam, the Thames Water scam, and the difficulties of flat share finding.

Those cottons which were dry and the shirts met the iRon and are now airing upstairs.

Entertainment: The Infinite Monkey Cage waffling on about Potatoes. They didn't mention that the fruits of potatoes are more than slightly toxic.

Following on from which: the denouement of last evening's "Sergeant Cork" was Datura poisoning: another member of the nightshade family.

A helicopter SRG387 from St. Athan just flew overhead: at the same time about 1000 feet higher was some chap or chapess in a paraglider. Bet he/she/it was happy that the helo wasn't any higher than it was. .

Said helo flew up to Seven Sisters & presumably landed since it disappeared off FR24.

Washing frenzy complete with the last of the cottons duly iRoned and airing upstairs.

Spent some time out in the sun watching the bees and that funny little nest in the compost heap that the ?wasps? are flying in & out of, also the bumble bees on the fuchsia. Seems to be spider city out there at the moment.

Tea: chilli con carne (Morrisons version for a change) with rice etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: the kitchen cabinet waffling on about rabbits and broccoli.

Abandoned Engineering. Well it's sommat to watch. Hacksaw Ridge in one. Lynch coal mine in the next.

Oak Island nutjobbery: shear something or other. The usual woody bollox.

History's Mysteries: JFK. I wonder if the Grassy Gnoll will star. .

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Happy Autumnal Equinox!

It's a clear blue sky but on the chilly side here at 6°C, though the sun will supposedly warm it up to 14° for a few hours this afternoon. The barometers are up to 1016/1024mB, and the weather is expected to continue in much the same dry and mainly sunny vein for the rest of the week

[NickFitz]

In A for Andromeda, I suspect they're in for a bit of a surprise when they switch on the big computer they've built based on instructions from outer space

Monday again tomorrow. A lot of the team are heading to London, as Tuesday is the big annual conference thing that I've managed to avoid every year, either by being in-between projects or by claiming pressure of work. Neither of those apply this year, so I just told them I'm not going and left it at that

Goodnight all