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[NickFitz]

Tea has been some rather nice herb sausages with chips and beans

Along with that, it’s back to New York in the homicide programmes, in which a wealthy associate of Trump is about to discover (or rather, was about to in 2014) that boasting to the police that they won’t find video evidence of a crime isn’t a good idea, particularly when they already have it

[NickFitz]

It’s brightened up again now - just a few high wisps and a dispersing vapour trail in the sky

Today was reasonably productive. It was a bit of a three-way split: I finished off the thing I wanted to work on, dealt with some new issues around working in the VDE, and also tried to help out another dev who’s having trouble getting PyCharm set up in there

And the 1,600-thread-count duvet cover is drying in the machine. It’s sufficiently thick and heavy that it gets its own wash/dry cycle. Must be all those threads

[ladymuck]

The cloud has dissipated a lot here and is looking more like the description in my weather app.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a Pukka steak slice

It’s getting gloomier by the minute here so I expect the rain to start soon - which will interrupt the magpies, who are foraging down on the big lawn

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Alternating between blue sky with lumps of fluff and cloudy with gaps so far today. Weather app says there's no cloud. Currently 21 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 23 expected. Barometer down to 1024 mBar.

Sunrise 06:49; Sunset 18:57 BST

Got a call at 8.30 am about a gig. Turns out it was a gig wanting one person to do two or more jobs and you had to have ALL the experience. Half of it I could do, the other half not so much. Meh.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Happy Autumnal Equinox!

It seems a bit cloudier today, with more of a breeze, and it’s expected to rain through lunchtime. Still not too cold though: currently 16°C and expected to reach 20° for a bit this afternoon. The barometers are heading downwards at 1011/1019mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Damp.

Grey.

Not misty.

Wan hints of sun.

20.2 deg in here, 20.3 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto, 17 out the back.

1017.5 mBar, 30.05 in Hg, 763.2 Torr, 14.7575 psi, (down from 1018.5 last night), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 4th of April 2020, between 22:07 and 23:48, in popped LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, WTFH, and I, whereas on the 5th of April 2020, between 03:32 and 07:34, NF held the fort until Brillo turned up.

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: making an eel trap (for your hovercraft?) out of a ring of hazel, an old sack, a brick, some straw & some string. A dipper nesting next to a disused mill on a chalk stream in Dorset near zigzag hill. The disused water wheel was made by E. S. Hindley.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the greyish gloom. 3 conversations. One lady is having a smart meter installed, poor thing, as arranged by her son.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: dashcam bollox S3 E8.

Scottish Islands thing: North Ronaldsay, Papa Stronsay, Egilsay, South Ronaldsay, Tomb of Eagles, Stroma.

Scamming phonecall on the landline: it was long enough to go to answerphone. The card transaction scam.

More decimation of brambles: next door again. Feck some of those bastards are too thick for secateurs so I used the Lidl(tm) cropper thing that does the business. Pile o'tulipe now very large indeed. Looking forward to November 5th. .

It was sunny and pleasant. Still is.

Entertainment (non thorny): Alaska Homestead thingy: a micro homestead in Mississippi. Ye haw & all that. Feck me talk about waterlogged. It seemed almost as bad as that swamp cum marsh cum bog in Alaska except the days were shorter and the weather warmer. Complicated by the owners not knowing WTF the actual borders of their plot were.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock (I assume, it was certainly battered something). Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM.

Jack Hargreaves Out of Town.

Bab5 S4 E11 "Lines of communication". Sheridan set up his very own Fox News in competition with the lies from Earth.

70 up.

Blazian bollox: what on earth?

Blazian bollox: what on earth?

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the rest of the fare dodgers thing from yesterday

And tonight I started reading Crooked Heart which is the Lissa Evans novel I ought to have read before V for Victory. I’m quite happy to have got them the wrong way round though, as the hints and gradual revelation of the characters’ past doings added a touch of intrigue. I’m already over a hundred pages into this one

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Art thing this morning. Took some raspberries round to house of one of our regular arty people afterwards, she couldn't drive after eye surgery. She looked like she'd been hit in the eye with a hammer, poor woman.

Rather short walk this afternoon because my foot hurts, damaged summit again. Was in Ashdown Forest and nice lady was doing a survey, how often do I walk there, how long, what was my favourite place etc etc.

Stopped using my little garage gym during summer due to hot weather, just started using it again. Had to set weight lower on a couple of exercises, can't have gone downhill that much in a couple of months surely?

[ladymuck]

Before agreeing to release the prescription for my HRT, my GP asked for updated weight and blood pressure values without offering an appointment at the surgery for such data to be recorded.

I toddled over to Boots where the pharmacist overrode the scales' demands for £1, and told me it doesn't measure height reliably. Got a nice little ticket nagging me for 0.5 kg overweight. Then they took my blood pressure, which I had to take a photo of as there is no printed ticket output for that.

I was pleased that Boots weighed me as being 2kg lighter with clothes on than my scales at home report when I'm in my birthday suit.

Evidence duly submitted, the prescription request was approved and should be available for pick up in a couple of days.

[NickFitz]

Spag bol for tea

The day continued quite sunny with big fluffy cumuli, and was pretty warm too. So not a bad last day of summer - though I spent most of it looking at my monitor instead, as usual

[NickFitz]

His Majesty King Charles the Third has graciously consented to award me a PyCharm licence

I’ve been using my own licence ever since I started this government gig, because most devs there use VS Code (which is free) and it’s taken the powers that be this long to wend their way through the many processes involved in approving it, including determining that it isn’t a security risk and so on. But they’ve finally managed it, and also found the funding - which is good because I’m not supposed to use my own licence in the new virtual dev environment, and I only had ten days left on the free trial I’ve been relying on for the last few weeks

[sadkingbilly]

afternoon happy campers
tried to return an unusable item to amazon, who only offered EVRI dropoff <no good, no transport> or EVRI pickup.
Chose pickup, although i know EVRI can't EVER find my house <everyone else can, not EVRI>.
saturday came and went, no EVRI.
website on sunday says EVRI attempted pickup.
DID THEY FECK!!! as usual, they lied.
got onto Amazon cust serv. very good, explained that i actively avoid any supplier who publicly admits to using EVRI because of exactly this situation.
refunded costs and told me to keep or discard the item in question.
Why do people use this courier??:?
they are useless.
<Rant over>

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a couple of chicken bits

Clumps of cumuli are congregating outside, but it’s still mostly sunny

In the post comes a letter telling me that I was overcharged for key cover on some previous car insurance policy, and am entitled to a refund: £19.02

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

This morning it was all blue sky, sunshine and a few wisps. Now, it's mostly overcast with a few gaps. Currently 24 degrees with a high of 25 expected. Barometer down to 1030 mBar.

Sunrise 06:47; Sunset 19:00 BST

I have spent the morning keeping my green dot on Teams alive while having a good spruce up of my CV and LinkedIn profile. Let's see if that makes much difference.