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[NickFitz]

The young magpies are back!

The parents had continued their anxious patrolling of the area this morning, with no sign of the young ones. But the three of them are down on the lawn now, fussing around the mother! The wind’s dropped a bit, so maybe they’d done the sensible thing of taking cover and waiting until they were able to get back against it

It’s tech debt day today, meaning no meetings. I’ve done all my dependency updates, so now I’m going to pop down to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s and do the shopping

[covbob]

Morning denizens.

Rather grey and overcast here in Sheffield - not that I can see the sky with a car park on one side of the window and an office block the other. There's the tiniest bit visible down the other end of the office.

[xoggoth]

Mahjongy thing this morning. Have to hang around this afternoon for blokes coming to fix (I hope) my leaky conservatory roof.

Darned annoying, Outlook not updating on my new PC, don't fancy reset as took me ages yesterday to set it up, kept going round in circles, having to enter details over and over.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy but bright and dry (at the moment). Breezy. Currently 15 degrees with a high of 18 expected. Looks like a day of sunshine and showers. Barometer down to 996 mbar.

Sunrise 04:48; Sunset 21:12 BST

HWMBO's weather app was forecasting thunderstorms today, at the times when my weather app was saying it would sunny/cloudy. Whose will prove to be right?!

[sadkingbilly]

Morning

lots of migrating teddy bears with balloons this morning, but no extraneous garden furniture.
so far, so good.
Trying to remember my operator commands
This is where an Algorithm might help.
Anyone know of a free AI agent you can feed docs to, locally. not SES??
Mr google only goes so far.
wonder if the mallards'll visit our pond again this year?

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday apparently though I wasn't awakened by the recycling engineers.

Wet. Very Wet. Not rivers of water in the gutters wet, but wet enough.

Grey.

Sunless.

18.9 deg in here, 19.5 deg in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto.

990.5 mBar (and rising slightly), 29.25 in Hg, 742.9 Torr, 14.366 psi, (down from 991 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 29th of March 2020 AndyGarbs popped in a lot, with LM & NF each managing to squeeze in a post.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom. Saw a patch of blue sky very briefly. Drizzle intermittent.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some artsy prog on R4 that eventually waffled about Blade Runner (1982) and PKD, even mentioned the truly dire 2049 at one point.

[WTFH]

Morning all Overcast a little drizzle on our walk earlier.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a blustery day, with sunny spells as the clouds shift hither and yon, though rain is expected during much of the morning. It’s 13°C and “feels like” 6°, with an expected high of 17°, while the barometers have dropped sharply to 980/988mB

More importantly, the southwesterly winds gusting up to 30mph+ will continue throughout the day. I’m still very concerned about the young magpies, and if they have been blown away and can’t make their way back against such strong winds, this will continue to prevent them getting home. The two parents were perching at the top of the highest conifer along the front for several minutes keeping a lookout first thing, before flying off towards the garages near the bins. After I’d showered, I saw them head to the top of the cedar tree next door and perch there for a bit, then move along to the next garden down. So it seems they’re still searching, but I think they’d be best advised to head to the northeast, and maybe quite a distance away at that. But perhaps that’s too far off their territory for safety? Anyway, the situation still seems to be very worrying

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was a bit of Police Interceptors

In The Middle Kingdoms, they’ve made a terrible mess of Central Europe after the Great War, shoehorning places together that don’t want to be together and creating new countries like Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia; a situation that wasn’t fully resolved until the 1990s (if it even was then)

It’s still extremely windy here

But… Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was initially an enigma, as it was some thing I’d put in the freezer without labelling it. It turned out to be the spicy chicken thighs with shallots and cherry tomatoes that I made the other week, so I made some chips to go with it. Pretty nice actually

The rain’s been back, but there’s a nice double rainbow too

I’m concerned about the young magpies in this wind though. I was thinking earlier that it might be a lot for them to cope with, and I just spent several minutes watching the parents looking as if they were searching for them; they weren’t pecking at the grass at all, and were going around looking under the hedges and so on. They may have been calling too, but I can’t hear that up here through double glazing. Anyway, now I’m worried that the young ones have let themselves get carried away by the wind and can’t find their way back

[xoggoth]

Took ghastly old ll2 to a talk this afternoon, didn't stay myself - sounded boring. Finally got round to putting my Windows 11 PC into the office and using the 10 as a spare.

[NickFitz]

Quite Simpsonesque out now

Just £50 won on the Premium Bonds this month. Come on Ernie, you can do better than that!

[sadkingbilly]

My sister-in-law found an investment document relating to my MIL about 3 years ago. Since then there has been a lot of communication - death cert, probate, solicitors letters, etc, all required as evidence before the funds were released. The good thing is that they remained invested over that time and have gone up by a reasonable amount. Finally got the money through today, more than a decade after my MIL died.

these shares are in MY name, but i can't remember whether they got flogged off, somewhen.
Hence the query.
* It was thirty years ago, in my defence.

[WTFH]

[SIZE=14px]Afternoon all
Greetings from the depths of Z_Land

found an old share cert when clearing my wife's effects.
Attempted to contact the authors for validity check, and I spent hours trying to negotiate their website, which insists on an 11 digit account number, when the number i have is only 8 digits...

My sister-in-law found an investment document relating to my MIL about 3 years ago. Since then there has been a lot of communication - death cert, probate, solicitors letters, etc, all required as evidence before the funds were released. The good thing is that they remained invested over that time and have gone up by a reasonable amount. Finally got the money through today, more than a decade after my MIL died.

[WTFH]

Afternoon all
Up at 04:40 to walk the dog, pending a 07:00 delivery of the next shed. At 06:00 as we were about to go into an area of poor phone reception, I thought I should check to see if there was any update on the delivery. There was. New ETA 06:40.
The walk was cut short and what normally takes 45 minutes was done in 35.
They arrived spot off 06:40, offloaded the shed in about 15 minutes and were on their way to the next delivery. They'd set off at 03:00 to get to me.

This shed is for the lawnmowers, but is from a company who normally make stables. I needed something with a wide enough door to drive the big mower in, and a stable is just about perfect size. While the other shed is good, and has a 3x2 frame, this one has a 4x2 frame. The other shed was made up of panels that were 1.7x1.2. This one is 2.1x3. That rules out me moving any of the panels myself. A slight drawback is that the guy who makes them does not supply instructions for building them, and while many bits are obvious, there's at least 2 pieces of timber that I have no idea of their purpose.
If we weren't away this weekend, I know what I'd be doing.