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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Thursday!

It’s a bit misty this morning, presaging a cloudy day. The relatively mild 4°C “feels like” -1°, even though there isn’t much breeze; the day’s high will be 5° but only for a brief spell this afternoon. The barometers are up at 986/994mB

[WTFH]

Morning all a slow start here, just about to go out for a walk

[NickFitz]

Tonight I started reading Berlin: The Downfall 1945 in which The Red Army has launched its attack across the Vistula and, within days, has taken back much of Poland and also cut East Prussia off from the Reich. There’ll be no stopping them now!

Tomorrow’s the day we’re supposed to address tech debt. I’m hoping there isn’t much of it and I can get away with adopting one ticket that mainly involves asking another team to do something and giving them the info they need, so I can then switch back to the thing I’m working on

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was some leftover thing that’s been in the freezer for a while. I couldn’t remember what it was! I’ve occasionally thought about having it, then found something else instead with a known identity

But I decided to defrost it and see what turned up, and it revealed itself to be a recipe out of one of the Turkish cookbooks that I don’t even remember making: spicy mince with a sauce based on tomatoes and red pepper paste. Nice enough with chips, but I found it a bit rich; if I make it again, I might tone the recipe down a little

This was accompanied by the new episode of Forensics: Crash Scene Investigators on 5

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

It was a sunny day with wispy fluff. Currently 7 degrees and the high was 9. Barometer up to 996 mBar.

Sunrise 07:46; Sunset 16:44 GMT

Another busy day. Disgraceful. Cleaning the cooker hob proved useful in getting a presentation done.

All the compliance is mostly sorted for gig 3 except the insistence that references are required from previous employers. I mentioned that the companies they are referring to were never my employer and getting HR to say I was there will be nigh on impossible. I offered up my accountant, and will see how that goes. This is an agency requirement, not the client's.

[NickFitz]

A reasonably productive afternoon was had

There was also an unexpected surprise in the form of nearly five grand arriving in my bank account. This comes down an inheritance chain: it was from a sum that was left by my great uncle to my Mum and Dad, then devolved solely to my Dad when Mum died, then came to us. The great uncle died in 2021, but for various reasons the handling of his estate has taken ages. But they finally got around to sending it to the bank account that my brother and I have as executors of our parents’ estate this afternoon, and my brother immediately sent us each our third

I think one of the reasons for the delay has been that my great uncle was 99 when he died, so loads of people he left bequests to have died or can’t be traced, because he hadn’t updated his will since the 1980s

[Pondlife]

Good Afternoon All,

Wind 5 kt from the East
Temperature 7°C
Humidity 93%
Pressure 993 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more


There was a sliver of sunshine earlier and it was noticeably lighter this morning.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: sausage and bacon bap (white) again, thereby finishing off the outstanding sausages and bacon

Just had somebody ring the bell who explained that they’re doing a drone survey of the roof of the building. Not sure why they can’t just walk up there - there’s a little spiral staircase on the top floor that leads up there. But I suppose a drone is more fun

I wonder if any of the various inexplicable keys I got when I bought the place open the door to the roof? Might give it a try some time

[DoctorStrangelove]

Anyone read the new FB options and decided whether to pay £3.99 to see no fewer ads or not?

Currently contemplating deleting the account completely. It's so full of ragebait these days & I waste far too much time on there.

Still pissed off at the messenger password I need to access messenger despite never having set up a password in the first place.

I fail to see why I should make some scumbag billionaire richer by any amount.

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 12.8 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 9.5 in the leanto, 6 in the saltinghouse.

989 mBar, 29.2 in Hg, 741.8 Torr, 14.34 psi, (up from 984 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 13th of March 2020 quackhandle, scruff, BR14 popped in, along with a frazzled LM, NF was disappointed with the actions of the Recycling & Waste Disposal Engineers, and I was watching Terminator again.

Washing frenzy in progress for those things that don't get washed very often and are rather, er, gamey.

Shopping trip to Aldi & Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Rain started as I checked on the washing: all in off the line still wet.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about houses falling in the sea & incompetent house insulation schemes. <click>.

Stuff back out on the line whilst the rest meets the TD. When all was done a whole cup of water out of the TD.

Entertainment: Foyle's War S5E1 "Plan of attack": the map making one.

Tea: batter haddock etc.

Entertainment: PM.

Look at Life: helicopters etc. 1964. Basil de Ferranti's personal helicopter and automatic garage for same. First UK female helicopter pilot. Flying to work in your own plane. Them were the days. Just as many Jesus bolts then as now.

Scotland Yard. The Polish spy one. <click> Must have watched this one about 5 times.

Yesterday: Abandoned Engineering. El Fronton Prison Island, Peru, for those lovely Shining Path maoist guerrillas. They killed all the mother****ers when they rioted and took over the island. It's the only way to be sure. Prosper Goumond Divorce Ranch, LV, Nevada. France: Godin ironworks village. Sicily: Borgo Schiro: Musso's farm village.

TLC: Bad Skin Clinic. Damn. That's a really impressive bunch of keloids. Poor woman has had them "removed" 5 years ago without any postoperative radiotherapy or steroid injections. So they've come back with a vengeance. Stone me. That's a biiiig op. 7 hours.

Elementary S1 E11 "Dirty Laundry". The spies one.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Raining earlier as we went out on the walk, and the ground is saturated. Watching the main BBC news yesterday evening with the various images from Devon. In a couple of them our house wasn't visible in the shot, but the neighbour's trees could be seen.
Blue skies now and the sun is shining, so I've put a load of washing on.

Anyone read the new FB options and decided whether to pay £3.99 to see no fewer ads or not?

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy with gaps out, and tending towards patchy cloud with sunny spells or even sunny with cloudy spells during the morning. Cloudier this afternoon though. It’s 2°C and it seems it doesn’t “feel like” anything else, and it’s expected to reach 7° by lunchtime. The barometers are back up to 981/989mB

I had a much better night’s sleep last night. Still don’t feel right though

[NickFitz]

In Stalingrad, Germans continued to die in huge numbers after the surrender, whether from starvation, disease, or at the hands of the Russians. Some were shot after “scooping handfuls of lice off their bodies to throw at their captors”

The senior officers were looked after a bit better due to their propaganda value. Eventually, many of them ended up back in Germany as bitter old men - some in the East, others in the West

And that’s the end of that book! I’ve got Beevor’s Berlin: The Downfall 1945 to read next

The general sense of malaise hasn’t really got any better, but it hasn’t got any worse either. Bit of a cough, and the occasional blocked nose. I hope it isn’t one of those that drags on for ages

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been ribs and chips

This was accompanied by the rest of yesterday’s Police Interceptors

I see 5 have got a new series following RTC scene investigators, which is handy because I’ve watched all the BBC Wales ones

[xoggoth]

Google says Korea. Ah! What nice little Mudskippers!

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Overcast and dull all day after much rain overnight. Currently 9 degrees and the high was 10. Barometer down to 985 mBar.

Sunrise 07:47; Sunset 16:42 GMT

Very busy day. Finally starting onboarding for gig 3. Crikey the amount of compliance needed from these recruitment agencies! That and many demands from gigs 1 and 2 has made for a non-stop cavalcade of activity.

Question of the day:
Where is mudskipper 's bridge?

Yes! Enquiring minds need to know.