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[NickFitz]

Lunch: pâté on toast

There’s a quarterly planning meeting going on down in London today, so no standup and the like. As the thing I’ve been working on for a while is basically done, with any further changes consigned to the “maybe if we have time” bucket, I’m having quite a relaxing day

A bedding wash is on, and I’ve sorted out more stuff to go to the recycling bins. Might pop over with it now before they fill up again. And this afternoon, I’ve got some stuff that needs to go in a very, very low oven for five or six hours - it’s too big for the slow cooker or the InstantPot™

[WTFH]

Morning all
Some overnight rain, but a pleasant walk-in the dry earlier. The dark clouds seem to have passed and I'm hearing we're in for a good weekend.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday apparently.

Dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

Verging on chilly in here at 16.1 deg, 15 in the kitchen, 15 in the leanto.

1010 mBar, 29.83 in Hg, 757.6 Torr, 14.65 psi, (up from 1003 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 27th of March 2020 Brillo popped in along with LM, LondonManc, BR14, and NF, whilst on the 28th I, and NF posted before the Brillo deluge.

Woke up to the theme from "Ride the High Country" playing in my head, which led, of course, to some nutjob on youtube pontificating about correct choice of handgun cartridge for use against brown, black, and grizzly bears. Hint: 22LR ain't going to cut it.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom and very wan sunshine. Warm it ain't.

Extra Morrisons shopping trolley spotted in its natural environment of the canal. Too far from the towpath to fish it out.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: This week in history: the start of the 30 years war. Weimar 1935 to 1936.

12 gauge shotgun slugs against bears. Why the 303 lasted so long. Why the Bren was A Good Idea. The last two were infested with adverts which tempted me to reach for a gun. .

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny spells today due to breaks in the cloud here and there, but it’s windy so the current 12° “feels like” 7° and the expected high of 18° presumably won’t feel that much better. The barometers are up to 1001/1009mB though, presumably heralding the arrival of the heatwave that’s due to kick in over the next few days despite it being a Bank Holiday

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was a new Police Interceptors, including a moron who’d been chased all the way from Northampton wiping himself out just before the 200 yard marker for our local junction on the M1

From the way he was driving, I doubt he’d have managed to navigate the roundabout at the bottom of the slip road anyway if he’d made it that far

And in The Middle Kingdoms, things are getting a bit more organised with Diets and things forcing rulers to codify the rules a bit - though they haven’t gone quite as far as compiling volumes of law, given that laws can turn out to be inconvenient at a later date. The Poles insisted on a rule that the monarch couldn’t impose any new laws without the approval of the nobles. This didn’t work out so well as there was no record of what had and hadn’t been a law before, so there was no way of knowing if a royal edict was a new law, or just an old one that everybody else had forgotten about

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Safe travels! Say hello to Reykjavik as you pass through

Thank you! All flights were uneventful, and we are now on the Lizzy Line heading home.

[NickFitz]

It's hot in Sevilla! 28 degrees at the airport. Good job I don't need to go outside. We're just waiting for our flight to Paris, as it's sadly home time.

Safe travels! Say hello to Reykjavik as you pass through

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a pork cutlet with chips and beans

There was a lull mid-afternoon when I had to switch from one thing to something unrelated, so I took the rest of my lunch break then. And, as I live for pleasure alone, I used the time to give the fridge a quick clean

I now have lots of room in there, as I’ve removed all the half-used jars of assorted stuff that have been lurking within. The record holder is some M&S concentrated beef stock which was BBE December 2019. You may remember that I moved here in December 2022

[ladymuck]

It's hot in Sevilla! 28 degrees at the airport. Good job I don't need to go outside. We're just waiting for our flight to Paris, as it's sadly home time.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: leftover corned beef hash. Quite nice actually

But my lunchtime has been infringed upon by some semi-urgent stuff to do with yet another part of the app I have little familiarity with, leading to a meeting immediately after the regular lunchtime meeting; and there’s yet another shortly

I might knock off early to make up the time

[ladymuck]

Morning all, local time 11:05

Blue sky with fluff. Currently 18 degrees with a high of 21 expected. Barometer up to 1022 mBar.

Sunrise 07:15; Sunset 21:29 CEST

Yesterday's cloudy start didn't hang around and it turned into another gloriously warm and sunny day. Felt much hotter than the temperature would have you believe. We did visit a castle, albeit not much of one, and explored a bit of an area that we've not spent much time in.

Today we are heading home. We've checked out and are relaxing in the hotel lounge with a coffee until such time as we need to leave for the train.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Grey.

Wetly damp.

Dreary.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 15.9 deg, 15 in the kitchen, 14.5 in the leanto.

1000 mBar, 29.53 in Hg, 750 Torr, 14.5 psi, (down from 1002 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 27th of March 2020 Brillo popped in along with LM, LondonManc, BR14, and NF, whilst on the 28th I, and NF posted before the Brillo deluge.

In other news I didn't need to doze in the livingroom chair last night, which was good: just get up every now & again & flex the knee until it felt better, then return to what passed for the land of nod.

Trip down to that Neath for a checkup at the dentist: lucky I went out early because the bus was before it's due time.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: R4 thing about spoof films. I've actually watched some of those referred to: "Space Balls", "Young Frankenstein", "Silent Movie", "Blazing Saddles", "Airplane", to name but a few.

Feeling a bit odd at the moment. But there we go. At least I'm not dressing as a woman. So far. .

Book. Other book.

Am Dro: Somewhere on Llyn. Porthmadog. Rhiwsaeson, somewhere near Llantrisant. The blue stones in Preseli.

Book. He's still having endless fun in Florina, Greece in the RAMC attached to the Indian Army for some reason, being the sole solitary BAOR in the place and treated, effectively, as an untouchable by the officers. Happily enough, he was there for 3 months which must have felt like eternity at the time, poor sod. Glad to be demobbed at the end of '45.

Tea: soup etc. Entertainment: PM <click> UFO bollox on Blaze.

Neil Oliver StoneHenge: Ice Age thing again.

Sky Arts: Leonardo da Vinci: The Universal Man. Bit shorter than the 3 hours as shown on BBC Alba some weeks ago. Managed to doze off during some of it.

Decoding Turner. The JMW Turner Code. <click> Images concealed in Turner's paintings. Oh. Alright then.

10 more pages of "the tailor of panama". . Started reading that 360 days ago.

In other news it's hammering down with help of a semigale. Lovely weather.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey, damp, breezy start to the day, and expected to continue in much the same vein. It’s 11°C which “feels like” 4° and expected to reach 16°, so at least it’s not so chilly. The barometers are down again ay 993/1000mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
The flooring for the shed arrived yesterday. 150kg roll of it for the main shed, 20kg of tiles for the mower shed.
Back is a bit sore, sack trolley might be a bit bent.
Drizzling at 5:30, but was dry for most of our walk.

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the rest of an episode of the motorway cops thing, being the one that was rudely interrupted the other week by the 5 app suddenly deciding to stop working completely

And later, I read more of The Middle Kingdoms in which the government of the various parts of Central Europe continued to be extremely chaotic for a few more centuries, even without Mongol hordes confusing the issue

There were some heavy spells of rain today, with more expected overnight and tomorrow

I just remembered that this morning, I found a big wasp buzzing around the kitchen window. I opened the window, which hinges from the bottom and opens a few inches at the top, while I started planning how to trap it and get it out; I assumed it would just keep banging into the window, as such things usually do. But to my surprise, as soon as the window was open, it backed away from it, went round the side of the frame, and flew out! This obviously saved me a lot of hassle, but did get me wondering if it was from a new species of super-intelligent wasps

Goodnight all