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[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning. .

Tuesday apparently .

Dry. .

Grey. .

19.6 deg in here, 18.3 in the kitchen, 17.5 in the leanto, 16 out the back.

1006 mBar, 29.71 in Hg, 754.6 Torr, 14.59 psi, (down from 1011 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of April 2020, between 15:57 and 16:47, in popped Brillo a lot, with NF & I getting a post in edgeways.

Must have slept better last night as I arose in a hurry at 07:45 to watch

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: River management, what a water meadow used to be before they stopped doing it in WWII, restocking a river with trout (proper trout not those immigrant trout). Waterlevel control with boards in some sort of dam thing that was used, back in the day, to flood said water meadow and is now used to keep the water level in the river up a bit in a drought. Identifying some variety of cranesbill he'd not seen before & failing to identify a daisylike flower that covered a rock bank with blossoms. I'm innerested because we have some of that around here in brick walls & I like daisies.

Sun's shining across the valley, boyo, there's tidy then. Sounds a bit breezy out there today.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I had a slightly restless night to start with, waking or half-waking several times until about 3am. So I ended up sleeping on after deactivating both alarms, and felt much better for it. It makes starting the day a bit of a rush, but it’s not as if anybody really cares what time I start - or, indeed, finish - work, as long as stuff gets done

It’s a grey day, though not rainy - a 10% chance of showers between 10-11am is the worst we have to fear in that department, supposedly. It’s 15°C (“feels like” 11°) and expected to soar to 23° later, while tonight won’t dip below 18°. Last gasp of summer?

Speaking of which, I was thinking last night that I’d make it to the end of September without using the heating; it’s on, but the thermostat hasn’t activated it in ages. But when I finally arose and walked into the living room, it felt chilly enough that I decided this was a foolish and arbitrary target, and duly prodded it into action. Lovely and warm in here now

The thermostat is located in the hall, at pretty much the deepest point within the flat and surrounding building that it could be, so always reckons it’s comfortably warm when the rooms I actually live in aren’t. There’s a setting to tell it to offset its perceived temperature relative to the ones in its programs, to allow for this kind of situation, but neither the previous owner nor I have ever got around to configuring it. If I had done, it would have kicked in automatically this morning anyway

[NickFitz]

On the box earlier, the first part of another ’orrible murder, back in Manhattan this time; I didn’t watch all of it because tea was later than planned, so I’ll watch the rest tomorrow or whenever

And tonight, I read more of Small Bomb at Dimperley

I realised this evening that last Saturday, the 26th, was the second anniversary of paying the mortgage off; and then I checked, and it was also the fourth anniversary of the Halifax approving the mortgage in the first place. The latter date is significant because it was just after Liz Truss’s preposterous mini-budget, and the 27th was the day that the lenders either stopped approving mortgages completely until they could work out what the hell was going on, or hiked their interest rates massively, just to be on the safe side. So I got in by the skin of my teeth there

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

I think the cameras are all tweaked to a point where false alarms are minimal but now need to see if some of the features actually trigger properly. I need to get my brother to smash some glass to see if it triggers a critical alert

[NickFitz]

Tea has been zaatar & lemon chicken thighs, with spicy potato wedges - all homemade, the chicken being a recipe off the BBC Good Food site. Very nice

[DoctorStrangelove]

you made toddy with a malt?
sacrilege.

Aldi's finest. Not bad for the price. And I left the hot bits out and drank it neat as A Real Man would.

Can't cope with hot stuff at the moment due to the state of mouth & throat. .

I was twitching more than slightly for every spoonful of soup just now. .

[NickFitz]

Lunch, by the way, was a bit of cold chicken

Despite the gloomy prognostications, the cloud was very thin to barely there for most of the day so it was pretty sunny. It’s started getting a tad gloomier now though

[sadkingbilly]

Oddly enough I tried that with a single malt. It didn't fix it.

Followed by some port.

That didn't fix it either, and found some sore bits of throat that the whisky had missed. .

you made toddy with a malt?
sacrilege.

[DoctorStrangelove]

hot toddy'll fix it

Oddly enough I tried that with a single malt. It didn't fix it.

Followed by some port.

That didn't fix it either, and found some sore bits of throat that the whisky had missed. .

[sadkingbilly]

afternoon all
about to attend the weekly project status meeting with the 'Project Manager'.
yet another one who shows as much co-ordination as brownian motion.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Blue sky with a mix of fluffy and wispy cloud. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 18 expected. Barometer up to 1021 mBar.

Sunrise 06:57; Sunset 18:46 BST

Setting up the Ubiquiti kit (two cameras and a doorbell) was straightforward enough from a software perspective but a faff from a physical one. My brother had to do the worst job of crawling around the loft (it's not boarded out but is chock full of fluffy insulation) and discovering there were little or no joists above the kitchen ceiling. HWMBO did the initial config and made up all the network cables (we only needed three) and I read the instructions and held ladders. It was a long day but it's all up and running and now I'm just fine-tuning the alerts.

The most fun I had was seeing my brother standing outside the front door having a ciggie later in the evening and me shouting at him to 'feck off' through the doorbell from home.

Today, I attended a meeting for gig1 (billable presenteeism) followed by sorting out some admin for my Mum with HMRC. Shockingly, I got through to a human with minimal wait time.

[sadkingbilly]

Morning. .

Monday. .

Dry. .

Grey. .

Dreadful night's "sleep": I suppose I was asleep for some of it. .

hot toddy'll fix it

[NickFitz]

Morning. .

Monday. .

Dry. .

Grey. .

<- manly

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Blueish sky with mares’ tails and vapour trails to the north and west, gradually shifting to high overcast to the south and west, and the rest of the day is expected to be cloudier. Dry though. It’s a bit cooler at 9°C, and the predicted high is only 17°; the barometers are optimistic though, being up to 1008/1016mB