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[NickFitz]

Shopping done!

I’m still not sure what I want for tea tonight, but now I have multiple options

There was a lane closure on the dual carriageway going there due to the ongoing works on something at the edges of the roads, but it didn’t cause too much of a delay

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc.
It was clear, and then half way round the walk it looked like it was going to rain heavily, but that didn't happen. It's now clearing again and the first of my new sheds is about to arrive.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with fluff. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 19 expected. Early afternoon may see an increase in cloud and a chance of rain before reverting back to a sunnier evening. Barometer steady at 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 05:21; Sunset 20:36 BST

I need to leave the house to collect some online orders that have been delivered to Boots and Holland and Barratt. Plus I need to pick up Fever Tree tonic from Sainsbury's while it's on offer.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Dry.

Grey.

Cooler in here at 16.8 deg, 17.5 in the kitchen, 15 in the leanto.

1010 mBar, 29.83 in Hg, 757.6 Torr, 14.65 psi, (unchanged), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 27th of March 2020 Churchill got a post in edgeways on page of Brillo.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine. Spotted with rain towards the end.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some bollox about the curious film life of Michael Jackson: the film stopping before the very curious bits in the 90s & naughties. <- See wot I did there? .

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

There’s mackerel sky and mares’ tails high up but it’s mostly sunny, though expected to turn cloudier towards lunchtime. It’s mild at 11°C with 16° expected later, and the barometers are up one more notch at 1005/1013mB

I need to go and do the shopping in a bit. I could do with taking bags full of cut-up cardboard over to the recycling bins as well; there’s more of it left over from desk assembly than seems fair to put out for the young ladies of the management company who come round binning our rubbish every couple of days. However, I don’t know what the current status of the bins is. When there’s been a Bank Holiday, it all depends on whether they remembered to trundle forth the bins on Friday, or indeed if somebody came and trundled them on Monday. If neither of those things happened, they won’t have been emptied on Tuesday, and it will be impossible to squeeze any more into them. So I need to pop over there and see if there’s any room first

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the second episode of the thing about the French rogue trader, though it’s increasingly clear that the bank were delighted with what he was doing and happy to turn a blind eye until it all went pear-shaped and they needed someone to blame

Then I continued reading XPD in which the various subterfuges of the various spies are playing out nicely

I need to do the shopping tomorrow, but only have to go to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

The day got progressively cloudier and greyer but no rain even though I thought it might.

Currently enjoying the latest series of Extraordinary Portraits.

[NickFitz]

Ribs and chips for tea

That’s the last of the homemade ribs out of the freezer. Time to make some more!

[NickFitz]

That’s the week done!

We didn’t have any security updates or team-wide tech debt stuff to work on, so the other dev suggested having a look at some continuous integration improvements she’d started on when I was off the other week, though she admitted she found it really boring! I managed to get some things working that had been broken and left some useful diagnostic info about other things, and she’ll carry on tomorrow with the help of one of the other devs who knows a lot more about it than either of us but had too many meetings today to be able to help

[NickFitz]

Fish finger bap (wholemeal, red sauce) for lunch

Still sunny but the cumuli are increasing in both number and volume

I was going to dash down to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s to do the shopping over lunchtime, but then remembered I’ve got a parcel from the Folio Society due any time now. Might go this evening instead, or might just leave it till tomorrow

[ladymuck]

Car Tax is due on 1 June. It seems to be going up £15 a year. Now up to £445 for the pleasure of all those pot holes.*



*yes, I know car tax isn't spent on the roads and it just goes into the general pot so it can be spent on consultants

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with many lumps of fluff cluttering up the sky. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Warming is expected over the next two days. Barometer up to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 05:22; Sunset 20:34 BST

A quiet day, meetings wise. Might have to do some work.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Vaguely sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

17.2 deg in here, 17.5 in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto.

1009.5 mBar, 29.81 in Hg, 757.2 Torr, 14.64 psi, (up from1009 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of March 2020 NF, LM, quackhandle and I popped in, NF had cracked hands due to all the hand washing mandated by Bunter & co.

Woke at 05:00 yet again, read book, read other book, returned to the land of nod. Curiously the dream before waking included a smell. I can't remember dreaming a smell before. It was a smell of, er, sweat. From, er, a lady. .

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine.

Lunch: brunch. Light in the meekrowavey worked ok this time. .

Entertainment: Scamwatch. Sliced Bread: one related to we keyboard warriors: ergonomic keyboards and mice.

Judging by the ergonomic kb I bought from Maplin 15 years ago, they ain't much good.

Developed a ganglion on my right wrist 20 years ago and used the experience to learn to use a mouse left handed.

Fixed the turntable motor on the old microwave, so its turntable duly spins.

Got the old old microwave up from the garage & fixed its turntable motor so that now duly spins.

Just need a new bulb for said oven & it's all done & dusted, washed, dried sanitised & put away.

Tea: beans on toast etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. <click>

Sky Arts: Classic Movies: Great Expectation (1946).

Blazian Bollox: Ancient Aliens: J. Allen Hynek.

True Crime: Britain's almost perfect murders: Jeremy Bamber.

Alba: "Here I am: 100 years of crofting (1982)". The history of the post clearances crofts 100 years after 1882. I suspect (without any evidence) that those cleared did better in Canada & Australia than they would have done had they remained in this benighted land.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start with just a few wisps and strands of cloud here and there and a distant clump of cumuli, low on the southern horizon. It’s 7°C with an expected high of 15°, and the barometers are nominally up (but hovering around the same sort of level) at 1004/1012mB

Thursday!

It’s tech debt day, so the morning will start with a chat about this and that across the wider team, followed by any important security updates to our app’s dependencies. After that, I’ll let the other dev decide as it’s her last one of these. There’s almost certainly some aspects of the app that she’s wanted to get tidied up but never had time for, so it would be good to deal with them as they’d be a useful way of picking her brains about various aspects I’m not as familiar with

Though all that is assuming the wider team doesn’t suddenly decide we should all focus on some big issue thing that affects the lot of us, like standardising our Continuous Integration configurations or something

[WTFH]

Morning all

Light cloud, but a pleasant temperature for the walk.