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[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

[ladymuck]

Nice view along the Thames as we join the queue for landing.

[ladymuck]

I'm just coming in over the Norfolk coast by the looks of it. Seems quite bright down there.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday apparently.

Dark.

Grey.

Sunless.

Wet! And not taking prisoners when it puts its mind to it.

22 deg in here, 23.1 in the kitchen, 21 in the leanto, 18 out the back.

1000 mBar, 29.53 in Hg, 750 Torr, 14.5 psi, (down from 1002 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

As per yesterday: Meanwhile on the 3rd of April 2020, between 09:11 and 10:35, AndyGarbs, barrydidit, Brillo, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, vetran, and I popped in, with NF giving us the "bring out yer dead" toll for Leicester just to cheer us up a bit.

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: I thought it was a repeat from yesterday but it wasn't: fly fishing: 6 dead trout. Larmer Tree thing in Wiltshire: no Morris Dancers were harmed in the making of this programme.

The bit of Bab5 I missed yesterday.

Well it's wet out.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the grey gloom, wan sunshine, and high humidity. Like a gorilla's armpit out there this morning.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Dashcam bollox. Hadn't seen that one before. Loved the concrete road without expansion joints. So that's why they put expansion joints in concrete roads. .

Hammering down now: rivers flowing down the gutters in the road. Thankfully the drains seem to be coping at the moment. Unlike those in Birmingham.

Thunderbolt & lightning, very very frightening!

Am Dro. Llangranog. Llanboidy. Bala. Conwy. It was the one where a contestant wearing inappropriate shoes fell over in a field & knackered his shoulder.

Jack Hargreaves Old Country. See above.

Tea: beans on wholemeal toast (the only way to make the bread halfway digestible). Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. <click> book. PM.

Bab5 S3 E14 "Ship of Tears".

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey day, and drizzle has just turned to rain, heralded by a prolonged peal of thun her a few minutes ago. It’s also achieved the uncommon feat of getting darker over the last hour or so. The rain is likely to continue through the morning and possibly into the evening. It’s currently 17°C with an expected high of 21° and the barometers are down to 998/1005mB

I haven’t decided yet whether to squeeze the shopping in at lunchtime, as it depends partly on work and also on whether I feel like driving in whatever the conditions turn out to be then

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overnight rain has left the roads a bit damp with puddles in places on the baked fields.
Oil delivery today.

Oh, and Happy Birthday BrilloPad

[ladymuck]

Morning all, local time 0736

Blue sky, no cloud. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 21 expected. Barometer up to 1028 mBar.

Sunrise 06:02; Sunset 20:37 EEST

Heading home today. Boat, plane, plane, train. HEL-TLL-AMS-LHR-home.

[NickFitz]

Read more of To Each This World tonight. Could the aliens helping humanity have ulterior motives? Nah, I’m sure it’s fine

Thursday tomorrow! And it’s Tech Debt Thursday, which is usually relatively restful

Even better: a Bank Holiday Monday, so it’s a long weekend!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been oniony chicken casserole out of the freezer, with chips and peas

This was accompanied by Murder 24/7 on iPlayer, being part one of an investigation into the murder of some poor sod in Hereford

[NickFitz]

Having spent most of the week investigating the weird figures that were appearing in data, I just discovered that there’s already a command to recalculate them! It’s not properly documented anywhere, of course; I found it by searching for places where a particular function was used. I just ran it on our hotfix environment and it fixed everything, so I'm hoping that’s the end of that problem

It’s turned quite Simpsonesque out now

I’m worried that the bird that met its demise on the lawn earlier today (or last night) might have been one of the magpies rather than a pigeon. I got the binoculars out and had a look at the fragment of wing that was lying on the lawn, and the feathers were very dark at the end, changing to white nearer where they would have been attached to the bird. But it did look more dark grey than black, and pigeon wings can look like that too, judging by some that just flew past

One of the magpies, which I think is the male, was just hopping around down on the lawn on its own. But they don’t always show up as a couple. I’ll have to keep an eye out over the next few days

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a pork cutlet with apple sauce in a wholemeal bap

This was one of the freshly baked baps made this morning, and they’ve turned out very well

[xoggoth]

Scrabbly thing with couple of old ladies this morning. Nowt else apart from more fencing and walk.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning. .

Wednesday apparently.

Torrential rain blanked out Freesat some time around 01:00.

Damp.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

21 deg in here, 22 deg in the kitchen, 20 deg in the leanto, 19 deg out the back.

1005 mBar, 29.6776 in Hg, 753.8 Torr, 14.58 psi, (up from 1004 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of April 2020, between 09:11 and 10:35, AndyGarbs, barrydidit, Brillo, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, vetran, and I popped in, with NF giving us the "bring out yer dead" toll for Leicester just to cheer us up a bit.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the unbearable heat & humidity of the morning. The umbrella was not required.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Dashcam bollox. Or Art in Film The News if I've watched that one too many times already.

More gardening. The Great Pile o'tulipe grows ever taller.

Jack Hargreaves Old Country: Kestrel nesting in the hole left by a rotten branch. Chap erects a scaffolding tower to take pictures of same from a hide. Catching a mink in a trap. Mink did not look happy. The difference between a horse trotting and pacing, this last being what a palfrey was trained to do.

Tea: Tesco ?breaded? "White fish". Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. Dan Do: the one with the giant shoe bath in Conwy again.

Jack Hargreaves Out of Town (1986): the mole catcher. The dancing horse Sorrel and Mrs Mac Joan McMillen. A remarkable lady & a remarkable horse. Deaths: at least 2 moles, maybe 3. So that's how a mole trap works.

Bab5 S3 E13 "The Arthur Visitor". Guess who turns up on Bab5. .

Catrefi Cymru: Conversions again.

Blazian bollox: What on earth?: Pict hill fort near Aberdeen, cave and standing stone with Pictish symbols. Sahara Pacman dunes, air mail symbol. GPS spoofing and AIS fakery off California. Mexico volcanic crater with white deposit. Kansas Atlas E missile site used to produce LSD. Shades of the West Wales lot in the 70s. .

Blazian bollox: What on earth?: Norway: lidar showing what turned out to be a Viking graveyard. Netherlands: "boats" located about 50 miles from the sea: dear old Adolph's bombing practice range in prep for Operation Sealion. Mojave runway: Stratolaunch plane. Hanford Washington: Trench 94: collection of defunct submarine reactor cores. Strange blob on weather doppler radar: Monarch butterfly migration, now threatened by illegal logging in Mexico.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey and drizzly start; been a little while since we had one of those. It’s mild enough at 17°C with an expected high of 23°C, the barometers are down a bit more at 1002/1009mB, and we have a yellow warning for thunderstorms

Down on the lawn near the flowerbed, it looks as if some poor pigeon has already been struck by a bolt from the blue, there being almost nothing left of it but a wide circular patch of white feathers with a fragment of wing, another such fragment being a bit further across the lawn, where one of the magpies was pecking at it. I’m guessing a fox lying low beneath the rose bushes got it, though it could be a cat, or even a hawk. But whatever it was - or something that came later - has carried off most of the remains, if that’s any clue

Up here, I’ve got the bread maker started on wholemeal dough as I’m making some baps - first time making wholemeal ones

[WTFH]

Morning all
Misty but dry here, a pleasant walk has been had.
about 22:30 yesterday we had 1 minute of very heavy rain.