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[NickFitz]

On the box earlier, the first part of another ’orrible murder, back in Manhattan this time; I didn’t watch all of it because tea was later than planned, so I’ll watch the rest tomorrow or whenever

And tonight, I read more of Small Bomb at Dimperley

I realised this evening that last Saturday, the 26th, was the second anniversary of paying the mortgage off; and then I checked, and it was also the fourth anniversary of the Halifax approving the mortgage in the first place. The latter date is significant because it was just after Liz Truss’s preposterous mini-budget, and the 27th was the day that the lenders either stopped approving mortgages completely until they could work out what the hell was going on, or hiked their interest rates massively, just to be on the safe side. So I got in by the skin of my teeth there

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

I think the cameras are all tweaked to a point where false alarms are minimal but now need to see if some of the features actually trigger properly. I need to get my brother to smash some glass to see if it triggers a critical alert

[NickFitz]

Tea has been zaatar & lemon chicken thighs, with spicy potato wedges - all homemade, the chicken being a recipe off the BBC Good Food site. Very nice

[DoctorStrangelove]

you made toddy with a malt?
sacrilege.

Aldi's finest. Not bad for the price. And I left the hot bits out and drank it neat as A Real Man would.

Can't cope with hot stuff at the moment due to the state of mouth & throat. .

I was twitching more than slightly for every spoonful of soup just now. .

[NickFitz]

Lunch, by the way, was a bit of cold chicken

Despite the gloomy prognostications, the cloud was very thin to barely there for most of the day so it was pretty sunny. It’s started getting a tad gloomier now though

[sadkingbilly]

Oddly enough I tried that with a single malt. It didn't fix it.

Followed by some port.

That didn't fix it either, and found some sore bits of throat that the whisky had missed. .

you made toddy with a malt?
sacrilege.

[DoctorStrangelove]

hot toddy'll fix it

Oddly enough I tried that with a single malt. It didn't fix it.

Followed by some port.

That didn't fix it either, and found some sore bits of throat that the whisky had missed. .

[sadkingbilly]

afternoon all
about to attend the weekly project status meeting with the 'Project Manager'.
yet another one who shows as much co-ordination as brownian motion.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Blue sky with a mix of fluffy and wispy cloud. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 18 expected. Barometer up to 1021 mBar.

Sunrise 06:57; Sunset 18:46 BST

Setting up the Ubiquiti kit (two cameras and a doorbell) was straightforward enough from a software perspective but a faff from a physical one. My brother had to do the worst job of crawling around the loft (it's not boarded out but is chock full of fluffy insulation) and discovering there were little or no joists above the kitchen ceiling. HWMBO did the initial config and made up all the network cables (we only needed three) and I read the instructions and held ladders. It was a long day but it's all up and running and now I'm just fine-tuning the alerts.

The most fun I had was seeing my brother standing outside the front door having a ciggie later in the evening and me shouting at him to 'feck off' through the doorbell from home.

Today, I attended a meeting for gig1 (billable presenteeism) followed by sorting out some admin for my Mum with HMRC. Shockingly, I got through to a human with minimal wait time.

[sadkingbilly]

Morning. .

Monday. .

Dry. .

Grey. .

Dreadful night's "sleep": I suppose I was asleep for some of it. .

hot toddy'll fix it

[NickFitz]

Morning. .

Monday. .

Dry. .

Grey. .

<- manly

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Blueish sky with mares’ tails and vapour trails to the north and west, gradually shifting to high overcast to the south and west, and the rest of the day is expected to be cloudier. Dry though. It’s a bit cooler at 9°C, and the predicted high is only 17°; the barometers are optimistic though, being up to 1008/1016mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning. .

Monday. .

Dry. .

Grey. .

18.9 deg in here, 18.7 in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto, 10 out the back.

1012.5 mBar, 29.9 in Hg, 759.4 Torr, 14.685 psi, (up from 1010 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of April 2020, between 12:54 and 14:39: as per yesterday.

Dreadful night's "sleep": I suppose I was asleep for some of it. .

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: cider making with Charley: different from the previous cider making ep. Cattle chiropody. Who knew it was A Thing?

Joy of Painting with Bob Ross: well I got as far as snoring a little about halfway through. .

I suppose I'd better pop off to Morrisons & buy some milk & other comestibles: need to stock up the tins ready for the oncoming AI disaster. . It'll be back. .

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away, followed by:

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

R4 FM is off from Kilvey Hill again. Dunno wot I pay a licence for.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Dashcam bollox S4 E1. Hadn't seen that one 15 times, in fact hadn't seen it before.

R4 FM from Kilvey Hill came back on.

Alaska Homestead Rescue thing: S4 E something (the something & the S seems to depend on where you watch it): Tennessee: Patron State of shootin' stuff. . Mr Raney managed to get a quip in about playing banjos. . Family living in an old bus, a shack, and a car for 2 years: no water, no power, no nothing. They built a yurt (of sorts), a bigger toolshed, and moved another building close to the yurt. The drill casing in a hollow 100 yds from said yurt turned out to have potable water, gallons of it, so a feed pipe & power cable for the pump were installed. It's amazing how this programme gets septics to donate stuff: I suppose it's free advertising.

Bab5 S4 E14 "Moments of Transition". Includes a cameo from the chap who drew Dilbert.

Discovered the other day that I can't see the iron sights on one of my rifles: rather it's that there's a choice of two or three for the foresight & the rear sight. Things get marginally better with a 1.2 dioptre reading glass: I can see the sights, just can't see much of the target. Ain't it great getting old? . On the other hand the telescopic sight on the other rifle is just fine: can see everything clearly (now the rain has gone).

It's quite odd: after the shopping trips I felt fine, after a couple of hours in here the coughing is back.

Maigret (Cremer) "Maigret Afraid".

That Ant Anstead chap again: Morgan 4/4. As in "don't touch with bargepole". A car that can die of woodworm. Well I've never seen anyone fill an oil pump with vaseline to get it to prime. Who'd have thunk? Hundreds of quid for wheel bearings? WTAF?

Well that was impressive: they lost £6k on it at auction (no reserve). Apparently he lost even more (£10k) on a Lotus previously.

It's very popular on pistonheads: they are terminally unimpressed. But then it's just a bulltulip tv programme totally removed from reality.

Nobody.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading turned out to be more Lissa Evans, and why not: Small Bomb at Dimperley, in which the youngest son of a no-longer-wealthy family finds himself unexpectedly inheriting a Baronetcy, along with the eponymous estate and shambolic country house, just as he’s demobbed at the end of WWII after an undistinguished spell of wartime service. As usual, some excellent characters and humour

Monday again tomorrow. Oh well, only four weeks until I have a week off at the end of October

Goodnight all