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[NickFitz]

Another week done!

As soon as I finished, I was in the kitchen, where I blended lamb mince with finely-chopped green and red chillies and a load of spices and rolled them into sausage shapes. These are back in the fridge now to give the flavours a chance to mingle, and will be skewered and grilled later for tea

[xoggoth]

Old fart Mahjongy thing this morning. I won again! My mappy thing is just about perfect now, placing pins or lines with specified lat/lon etc exactly as Bing maps.

[ladymuck]

Finally received the contract for Gig#3. Now negotiating when to start. I'm aiming for Wednesday next week.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a ham toastie

The rain is becoming intermittent, but isn’t ready to give up just yet

I remembered to stick the mattress topper and pillow protectors in the wash. I split the load for drying, so the latter are now done and the former will be done in forty minutes or so

[Pondlife]

Good morning all,

Is it lunchtime yet?

Wind 13 kt from the East
Temperature 7°C
Humidity 100%
Pressure 978 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more
Broken clouds at a height of 300 ft
Overcast at a height of 1000 ft

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull, overcast, damp. Much rain overnight but none at the moment despite what the weather app says. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 3) with a high of 9 expected. Drizzle forecast for most of the day. Barometer down to 983 mBar.

Sunrise 07:33; Sunset 16:58 GMT

Tired this morning. Unsettled sleep. HWMBO getting up at 3.30 am for a widdle and then walking into the bed didn't help but wasn't the primary cause.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday judging by the Recycling and Waste Disposal Engineers making their merry way along the road.

Grey.

Blue sky in very very small parts.

Wanly sunless.

Damp.

Dreary.

Chilly in here at 12.8 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 10.5 in the leanto.

976.5 mBar, 28.84 in Hg, 732.4 Torr, 14.163 psi, (down from 980 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 15th of March 2020 Brillo popped in, LM wasn't in the mood for bloody marys but did the essay for her OU course anyway, whilst there was much discussion of Apocalyptic and Post Apocalyptic epics, including the almost forgotten "When the Wind Blows" (don't drink the black rain), and "Whoops! Apocalypse", whereas, even more alarmingly, there was no toilet paper in Morrisons or Tesco. .

Drizzling with the drizzle blowing down the valley rather than the more usual up the valley.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: thing about Constable. More of the thing about "Taxi Driver".

Foyle's War S7 E1 "The Eternity Ring" (assuming it's not supplanted by something out of S1 of course).

Book. Other book. Other other book.

Tea: beans on toast with scrambled egg. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM.

If there's anything else on this evening it's not immediately obvious from the EPG.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Stormy last night, but it wasn't raining at the start of our walk. The overcast skies meant the dawn chorus didn't start as early as yesterday.
The rain started again just after 7am. Good job I was wearing appropriate clothing.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a cold, grey, rainy morning - not drizzle, but proper rain that I can hear falling outside. That’s expected to continue, though perhaps not continuously, until teatime, and then it will resume later in the evening. There’s a breeze too, which means the theoretically acceptable 4°C “feels like” -5°; the high for the day will only be 6°. The barometers seem pessimistic too, being down to 973/981mB

On the other hand: it’s Thursday, so I’ll be done for the week by teatime! The sun goes down at 16:57 here today, so this should be the last day I have to work until after sunset until towards the end of the year!

[NickFitz]

In Berlin, the Germans finally surrendered. And then Stalin set to work to make everybody in Eastern Europe, especially the citizens of the USSR, suffer the consequences for decades to come

I also spent some time helping my sister set up WordPress for the website of an organisation she’s involved with

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

This evening’s entertainment has been Seven Psychopaths. A good watch.

[NickFitz]

Tea: oniony chicken casserole with chips and peas

This was accompanied by The Truth About My Murder on iPlayer, a series presented by a forensic pathologist, reviewing old cases that were solved by forensic science

[xoggoth]

Old farty coffee morning with history group. An old farty talk afternoon looming, that ghastly ll2 badgered me into. Nice bright day, went for a wander near local town earlier.

Gawd, this darn Epstein thing in the news all the time, was there anyone who didn't know him? Bet some of you lot did.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: leftover pork cutlet in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce

It’s been a meeting-heavy morning. I presented my work-in-progress at the portfolio Show & Tell so as to convince them we’re getting somewhere

Sprint planning meeting this afternoon, then the weekly departmental thing. At some point, I may manage to squeeze in a few minutes of software development

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with occasional wisps. There was much rain late last night. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 4) with a high of 9 expected. The sunshine is set to remain all day. Barometer still at 993 mBar.

Sunrise 07:35; Sunset 16:56 GMT

I was going to go into clientCo's office but decided before going to bed last night that I couldn't be bothered. This lead me to discover that my Win 10 laptop has that 'feature' recently pushed by Microshaft whereby you think you've turned it off but something keeps running in the background to prevent that from happening.