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[NickFitz]

Pukka steak slice for lunch

In technology news, I finally managed to get my AirPods Max paired with the telly. I’d done this before a few years ago, but I’d had to do a reset on the telly since then and I couldn’t get it to even see them, never mind pair with them. I finally discovered that an older Samsung TV (this one’s 4K UHD but about ten years old) can’t pair with, or even detect, Bluetooth devices if it's already connected (not merely paired) to one. And since the last time, I’ve gone from connecting the soundbar via HDMI to using Bluetooth, due to a shortage of HDMI ports. So when I tried, it was connected to the soundbar, and of course it doesn’t give you any indication that it won’t work - it just goes through the pantomime of acting like it’s searching for a minute, then shrugs and says “No, nowt there!”

Once I knew that, I disconnected from the soundbar - but it kept automatically connecting again, so I had to turn that off. And then I was finally able to get it to connect to the headphones, then reconnect the soundbar and have them both paired

The main reason for this is to avoid disturbing the neighbours when watching stuff at night on TV or Blu-ray/DVD that deserves to be loud. I do most of my viewing via the Apple TV, which the AirPods naturally just connect to without any effort

[sadkingbilly]

afternoon all

CBS to start, then persisting it down for 30mins, then CBS etc etc.
PAYDAY!! - yay.
Invoice duly sent.
now for a well deserved two weeks off.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny with lumps of fluff wafting past. Currently 22 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 23 expected. Barometer at 1006 mBar.

Sunrise 06:07; Sunset 19:57 BST

I went to bed about 9pm yesterday and slept very well. Long lie in this morning. Now doing a couple of hours' billing time for gig1 (I had an email to respond to!) before submitting my invoice for the month.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Mostly cloudy today, but there’s the occasional burst of sunshine when it finds a gap. It’s 17°C (“feels like” 13°) and aiming for 21°, with the barometers down to 992/1000mB. More rain is expected, but not until this afternoon

The green patches on the lawn are getting bigger; a bit more rain and they should all join up again

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Friday.

Wet. Very wet. Torrentially wet on occasion overnight: currently sufficiently wet that the satellite signal has dropped out completely.

Grey.

Dark.

Sunless.

And have I mentioned that it's wet?

22.1 deg in here, 22.9 in the kitchen, 21 in the leanto, 18 out the back.

999 mBar, 29.5 in Hg, 749.3 Torr, 14.49 psi, (down from 1001 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of April 2020, between 11:13 and 11:26, barrydidit, Brillo, LondonManc, NF, vetran, and I popped.

Due to the lack of Freesat signal, Jack Hargreaves Old Country came through on Freeview: rabbiting using nets & ferrets: two dead rabbits, how rabbits keep brambles down by eating the soft ends of the briars and thusly myxomatosis increased the amount of ground covered by brambles, what to look for in the country: old disused village breweries. Also: how to make a rabbiting net. Goodness me, that's a skill & no mistake.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the wan sunshine then pouring rain, during which I sheltered under a tree until it stopped.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: The food programme.

Dashcam bollox: gunfire in this one: car jacker. Took the plod a fair amount of time to bring him to a halt despite many rounds of ?9x19? proving the effectiveness of same.

Another deluge: more rivers running down the gutters in the road. I cleared some of the detritus off the drain grid up the road on my walk.

Now waiting for the water level to rise at the bottom of next door's garden.

[WTFH]

Morning all
TFIF, etc.

The Wife got me up at 5am to see the lunar eclipse - a lot safer to stare at than the solar one.
Walk has been had.
Grass is dewy, but otherwise CBS, etc.

[NickFitz]

Read some more of To Each This World

The storm almost got going again over to the east, but then settled down. It’s been a very rainy evening though, and there’s more expected tomorrow

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Quite an intense storm, that! The nearest strike was about five hundred yards away, on the corner of the park

It’s moved away towards Syston now. Hope it spares the Pukka Pie factory

[NickFitz]

Thunder and lightning are getting closer, and it's suddenly started raining very heavily

[NickFitz]

Home sweet home.

In amongst the post was a Notice of Intended Prosecution from the Police. I was snapped crossing the lights 1.1s after they had changed to red.

Dammit. My first offence in 30 years of driving.

A common criminal!

They’ll probably let you go on an awareness course

[NickFitz]

Are they a cake or a biscuit?

That’s the big question! Sadly, Sainsbury’s didn’t provide a receipt that indicated whether I’d been charged VAT for them

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb chops with chips and beans

The chops were from July, when I froze them, so that frees up a little more space in the freezer

[ladymuck]

But I did treat myself to something strange and new with my afternoon coffee: Jaffa Cake Digestives!

They’re a limited edition, apparently. It’s basically a Jaffa cake with a digestive instead of sponge, which is fine by me

Are they a cake or a biscuit?

[ladymuck]

Home sweet home.

In amongst the post was a Notice of Intended Prosecution from the Police. I was snapped crossing the lights 1.1s after they had changed to red.

Dammit. My first offence in 30 years of driving.

[NickFitz]

Lunch wasn’t, because I went to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s and did the shopping

But I did treat myself to something strange and new with my afternoon coffee: Jaffa Cake Digestives!

They’re a limited edition, apparently. It’s basically a Jaffa cake with a digestive instead of sponge, which is fine by me

It was raining heavily all morning and until I got back, when it started to ease off. As of now, there are some bits of blue sky, but also warnings of more showers

One of the magpies was just down on the lawn; the male from our resident couple, I think. I realised when watching it fly up to rootle around in the top of one of the downpipes of the block opposite that I’d got their wing feathers the wrong way round - theirs are black at the bird end and white at the other end. Pigeons are the other way round, so it seems likely that the unfortunate bird whose remains, such as they were, were scattered across the lawn yesterday was indeed a pigeon

I’ll still be happier once I see the two magpies down there together though