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[xoggoth]

Mahjongy thing this morning followed by visit to son followed by boring shopping.

[ladymuck]

Lumps of fluff with gaps where the sun shines through. Currently 18 degrees with a high of 22 expected. Barometer up to 1026 mBar.

Sunrise 06:50; Sunset 18:55 BST

No idea what today will bring. Not a lot, I suspect!

I have been completing my Microsoft Purview training that I started while at gig 3 (where it would have been used) as I figured it helps keep the brain ticking over.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday apparently.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

19.6 deg in here, 19.8 in the kitchen, 17 in the leanto, 13 out the back.

1018 mBar, 30.06 in Hg, 763.6 Torr, 14.765 psi, (down from 1019 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of April 2020, between 07:35 and 09:27, Brillo popped in a lot, whilst AndyGarbs, MrMarkyMark, and PhilTheGreek lent a hand, like.

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: netting rabbits on a dark night illustrated in daylight. Farm sale showing how farmers never threw anything away, full of now mysterious objects that Jack had used in his youth 60 years before.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Nice lunch with sister. Bought her a book as a late birthday present. Lunch even better than usual since I didn't pay for it.

Shirts in off the line with other iRonables and duly iRoned: now airing upstairs.

Entertainment: Archive hour about vinyl record collecting. Mildly inneresting in its way.

Alaska Homestead thing: Hawaii homestead infested with rat lung round worm carrying slugs. Lovely. Don't look it up it's fecking disgusting. Not convinced that a flying vegetable garden is particularly sensible. But what do I know? Stone me. Lovely.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy day, mainly quite high flat stuff, with some mackerel sky to the northwest and a patch of clear sky there - though no indication if it’s coming, going, or passing by. It’s a colder start at 10°C but will still reach 20° this afternoon for a few hours. The barometers are up a little at 1014/1022mB

Most importantly: it’s Thursday!

And it’s also Tech Debt Thursday, though that’s a bit meaningless this week as just about all the work in hand on this project either has been or could be categorised as tech debt. I just hope the wider team don’t come up with something we should all be involved in and leave me to get on with it; there’s supposed to only be a week left on this thing, and a very important feature that had been stalled waiting on others suddenly got back into gear this week, and is the kind of thing that could easily turn out to take a couple of weeks just for the back-and-forthing

[NickFitz]

Tonight I continued reading Crooked Heart and it continued to be a very enjoyable read

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Just back from local history society talk. Not bad.

[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. David Boag the Kingfisher man again. Collection of curious models of horses & carts by some unknown artist.

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

70 up. How it all started.

Blazian bollox: what on earth? Black blob off Florida: red tide. Wilkesland Antarctica masscon: giant impact crater, possibly dating to 250My. Kalahari spirals: farmer with tractor. Holland "murder scene". Plane crash in Sahara caught on satellite camera.

Blazian bollox: what on earth? Iranian fake Nimitz: used for target practice. Mt Shasta, California: collection of mounds: probly made by gophers over millennia. Rectangle near Petra: "might be" some sort of religious site. Extreme Parking art installation: mini on side of building. Bronze age site in Russia: dunno whence they came or where they went: stayed there 1000 years. Boko Haram murderous scum. Satellites not much good for offing those bastards. Or finding the skool girls.

[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?