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I have no idea what the outside world looked like today. My app says cloudy and possibly wet. Currently 14 degrees ('feels like' 12) and that was the high for the day. Rain expected. Barometer down a bit to 1004 mBar.
Sunrise 07:13; Sunset 16:17 GMT
Very busy day at the coalface today. Non-stop across two and a half clients (the half being the ISPE NED election gubbins I do every year and only took up an hour of my day today).
Quite busy today, though more to do with discussing how to do stuff rather than doing it. Anyway, the other dev has now taken it upon themselves to build a React app
This meant I forgot, and didn’t really have time, to put on the cider-braised belly pork I had planned for dinner. So I’ll have that tomorrow instead
Another Amazon parcel has been delivered yet is nowhere to be found. I shall wait and see if it mysteriously turns up outside my flat at around 9pm, as happened the last couple of times one went astray
Chilly in here at 16.9 deg, 16 in the kitcehn, 13.5 in the leanto.
997 mBar, 29.44 in Hg, 747.8 Torr, 14.46 psi, (down from 1000 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 29th of February 2020 LM was wearing bedsocks and was disturbed by a whining noise from elsewhere, BR14 popped in, WTFH remarked that rather than the blue sky expected whilst fetching the logs it was sleeting, NF had a late lunch, and I went down to town on the bus due to The Bad Leg which was going inneresting colours.
Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked. Drizzle for the last mile or so.
Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y cancer treatment <click>.
Well this is getting old very very quickly. .
For the sake of something to do: washed the leanto floor, then ran the vac over the house without moving much whilst doing so.
The water from the floor washing was an inneresting shade of light black.
I think I'll put the stuff in the leanto back from whence it came before I make tea.
'Tis an odd thing but around this time of year I seem to grind to a halt. All through the summer I was working my bollox off doing various things. Now the clocks have changed: nothing.
Just spent 20 minutes using the slag chipping hammer to chip ice off the top of the chest freezer. I suspect it's time I defrosted it, but at least the lid closes properly now. .
Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM <click>. Jenrick came on.
In other news it's hammering down again.
The Nazi programme.
The Mind of Mr J. G. Reeder. I think this one's in B&W after last week's technicolor extravaganza.
Rather a grey start, though the cloud looks fairly thin and there seem to be gaps appearing towards parts of the horizon. It’s a bit damp after overnight rain, but not even drizzling at the moment, though it may start again for a short spell soon (65%). The temperature of 10°C “feels like” 4°, and peak hotness will be 14°. The barometers are unchanged at 992/1000mB
I was in ours at about 4pm and they were offering the guy having his flu jab a free one because it was end of day and they'd be throwing it away (he declined). So next year go in late in the day and you might be in luck
I had an appointment! I had one last Friday at 1pm and when I went, they apologised because they’d run out and rescheduled it for 11am today, and when I went for that, they told me they wouldn’t give me one!
The chemist knocked me back for a Covid jab; apparently I don’t meet the criteria any more, so the nurse who gave me my flu jab had got it wrong
I told them I’d pay for one, but they don’t do private ones! Don’t want to have to go to Boots, but they may be the only option
It did occur to me that they might have told me at the original appointment on Friday and saved me a walk in the drizzle today
Lunch has been a steak slice - Ginster's, as they were out of Pukka ones when I did the shopping
It wasn’t as nice as a proper one; I won’t bother with them again
I was in ours at about 4pm and they were offering the guy having his flu jab a free one because it was end of day and they'd be throwing it away (he declined). So next year go in late in the day and you might be in luck
It's been a dull and damp day. Currently 10 degrees and the high was 13. Barometer down to 1005 mBar.
Sunrise 07:11; Subset 16:19 GMT
Busy day at the coal face. I was in the office today and then picked up HWMBO on the way home. I made him get the staff bus to the office to save me the pick up fee.
Dinner was dim sum eaten while watching mudskipper 's team on Only Connect get a very reputable score and move onto the next round.
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