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[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb tagine with rice

This was out of the freezer (except the rice, done in the rice cooker) but there’s been other cooking going on. I’d taken lamb mince out of the freezer yesterday so I could make a shepherd’s pie base today, then leave it in the fridge for the flavours to mingle and develop. And later I’d taken out some belly pork rashers, intending to have a stir-fry or something with those today. But I’d forgotten about them, so I hadn’t put them in a low oven mid-afternoon as I usually do

So I decided to have the tagine and rice, and also pop the pork in the oven to slow-cook; it’s just browning and crisping up now, after which it can go in the fridge. And the shepherd’s pie base is also done and cooling down. So for a couple more days there'll only be minor extra work to be done to get dinner sorted out, which works out quite nicely

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some leftover Thai chicken bits

There was a meeting before that. We have this one every week and often manage to end it fairly quickly, but this one ran the full hour, up to 13:00

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with occasional fluff. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 14 expected. Barometer up to 1018 mBar.

Sunrise 06:08; Sunset 19:56 BST

Much laundry being done this morning.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Dry with hints of damp about the air.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dreary.

Chilly in here at 14.6 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto.

1008.5 mBar, 29.78 in Hg, 756.44 Torr, 14.63 psi, (down from 1009 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 24th of March 2020: as per yesterday.

Slept quite well. Woke up to find it was half past eight. Which made a pleasant change from 05:55.

Even more chilly out.

Trip to that Swansea done: X7 down, T6 back. Thankfully Fabian Way is open again, even if only single lane both ways. Dunno WTF they're doing to it.

Books donated to that Oxfam & one book bought. Didn't find any reasonably priced jeans in M&S. I really do miss those £9 and £15 jeans.

Returned to Neath in time for that really fine rain to start: the rain that's 13.7 times as wet as any deluge.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: 11:45 story about Iran <click> Noon o'clock news: nothing good. Y&Y waffling on about leasehold <click>.

Looked at the pictures in today's book, published 1972: of the industry illustrated therein, most of it has disappeared without trace, though bits of Trostre, Margam and Llanwern are still there.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked: after this morning's unpleasantly chilly endeavours, the afternoon was more pleasant with the return of discarded layers from some weeks ago, plus the scarf. Still wasn't anywhere close to raising a sweat, but at least it didn't rain.

Now getting outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee. I've turned into my father. .

Tea: soup etc. One I hadn't tried before: nice enough. Entertainment: PM <click> The usual gloom & doom. And how the feck are we going to pay for defence without putting taxes up? Askin' for a friend. . (*Friend can remember income tax at 36% . My father must have paid it at approachiing 50%).

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Mostly blue skies here, but with some big bits of cirrus floating around high up. It’s 5°C with an expected high of 14°, and the barometers are up a touch to 1004/1012mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
Glorious sunrise earlier at 6:18 (I had to stop and look at my watch) but it has become more overcast since. Mostly high level cloud, doesn't look or feel like rain.

[NickFitz]

Tonight I started reading Here, There and Everywhere by Geoff Emerick, sound engineer to the Beatles. Apparently he’s a somewhat unreliable narrator, and also had a peculiar dislike of George Harrison; but it’s good on technical details, like his idea for putting John Lennon’s vocals on Tomorrow Never Knows through the rotating speakers on the Hammond organ

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Sainsbury’s chunky breaded cod loin with chips and beans

This was accompanied by the final episode (for S1, at least) of The Truth About My Murder, which was yet another demonstration that the level of incompetence some people exhibit in trying to cover up their crimes is beyond belief

[NickFitz]

After work, it was time once again to trog round to the chemist’s for the monthly prescription. They feel positively fortnightly these days

Nice sunny evening though, without being unpleasantly warm

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a cold sausage bap (white)

Bit of a challenge at work today. Something isn’t working and needs to be sorted out pretty quickly, but the other dev is the one who knows all about it and she’s on holiday this week. She’s left me copious notes and I spent some time digging into it with her late last week, but I’m very much groping around in the dark at the moment

It’s one of those times when I wish I could just grab a dump of the whole DB and investigate it locally with a proper debugger to let me see what’s going on in there, but copying production data to a local machine is a hanging offence so I’ll just have to keep scattering log messages everywhere and hope for the best

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with lumps of fluff. Currently 11 degrees with a high of 13 expected. Rain forecast this afternoon. Barometer up to 1014 mBar.

Sunrise 06:10; Sunset 19:55 BST

Gentle start to the week but I do have things on my to-do list that I need to both start and finish by Wednesday.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Dry.

Blue sky.

Sunny.

Very threatening looking cloud. I shouted at it.

Chilly in here at 14.1 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 11.5 in the leanto, 7.5 in the saltinghouse.

1008 mBar, 29.766 in Hg, 756.1 Torr, 14.62 psi, (up from 1007 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 24th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, covbob, NF, and WTFH popped in, whereas I reimplemented the hifi in the living room using the Spendor BCIIs and the Mission 700s driven by an ancient Linsley Hood 75W amplifier, all connected up with the B&Q cable purchased the previous week.

Awake again at 05:15: read book, finished book, read more of other book, went back to sleep.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about "customer dis-service" from NTL Hell/Virgin.

Ah, now the Orange **** posts pictures of himself as Jesus Christ and writes abusive posts referring to the Pope.

You really couldn't make this tulip up.

Should be burned at the stake to encourage others.

If the sky fairies were real he'd be struck by lightning. Oh, if only, if only.

Everything requiring the iRon has received its attention & is airing upstairs. Dried well today.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked during which I two conversations.

Now getting outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee.

Tea: chilli con carne etc. Entertainment: PM.

Skinwalker Ranch bollox:

NCIS S22 E13 "Bad Blood".

The bog thing on BBC Alba.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc, but with a frost on the ground and all the local ICE vehicles had ice on their windscreens.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a bright sunny start with some wisps of cloud here and there. Unusually, the current 4°C “feels like” 7° - the first time I’ve seen it that way round, but the specific panel for that further down the page confirms it, saying “It feels warmer than the actual temperature” which is nice. The expected high is 13° and the barometers are up to 1001/1009mB

FedEx are due this morning with a parcel from the USA; any time from right now onwards, in fact. I’ve been tracking this since it left somewhere I’d never heard of in Michigan last week, and haven’t got the faintest idea what it is. It could be a book I ordered in advance months ago and forgot about; it could be two keys of uncut cocaine sent to the wrong address. No way to know until it gets here!