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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

No snow or rain this morning, though there's some low clouds on the horizon in the southern region and rather higher ones in the northern. Currently -1°C and feeling like -6°, with an expected high of 4°. The barometers are back up to 984/992mB

The first of the bin lorries has just arrived and is tending to our bins. Nature is healing

[NickFitz]

No additional telly tonight, but a bit of mucking around with GameplayKit, which is being very annoying (presumably because I'm doing something wrong)

And I read up to Sunday 5 February in February 1933, during which few days various people have been killed with impunity by local Nazis, and Hindenburg has willingly signed a decree handing control of the Press and the power to suppress political meetings in the hands of Hitler and his thugs. Or putting it another way, I read what will be in the news from the USA in a few weeks

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea: ribs and chips

Accompanied by the not-much-motorway police thing. They must be running low on wholly irrelevant dashcam clips for this series, as there were only two or three of them chucked in

[NickFitz]

One day done, three days to go

It wasn't too bad today, as it turned out. Most of the time was spent poking around at something with between two and three other people, working out why it wasn't working. We eventually fixed it with the help of a couple of other people. The general consensus among the team is that nobody can expect much of anybody so soon after Christmas and New Year, so if things take a while to sort out, it isn't really a problem

[ladymuck]

Bed linen put away and smalls laundered then draped about. Jumpers and other wearables are now in the WM. I may get my jeans done today too, or maybe tomorrow, I am undecided.

[ladymuck]

The clouds have indeed parted and allowed some sun to filter through.

Soup for lunch.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Scotch broth with a crust of wholemeal

It's the ideal thing for a wintry day, plus it helped to make enough room in the freezer for the remaining Matsudai ramen kits

It's not looking so wintry out there any more though, as the morning rain has washed away all traces of the snow

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Wet and windy. Currently 4 degrees ('feels like' -1) with a high of 6 expected. The cloud is set to clear up and the sun to make an appearance mid afternoon. Barometer down to 982 mBar.

Sunrise 08:06; Sunset 16:09

Only a week of work and then I'm off on holiday. I definitely think a mid-January break in the sun is the best way to avoid the post-Christmas slump.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Grey.

Sunless.

Not currently precipitating.

Chilly in here at 11 deg, 9 deg in the kitchen, 8 deg in the leanto.

982.5 mBar, 29 in Hg, 736.9 Torr, 14.2499 psi, (up from 974 last night ), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 17th of December 2019 covbob was in cold misty Manchester & looking for another contract, whereas NF was consuming spag bol to make room in the freezer for leftovers, and I was looking at flood maps before getting house insurance quotes.

Sun came out. Then it rained. A lot.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: thing on R4 about how to read newspaper articles.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine & occasional light drizzle.

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc.

Entertainment: PM <click>.

Freecell score (W95): 91%, running average: 85%.

Oak Island bollox: S11 "well of secrets": the metal detecting moron finds a hook, identified as belonging to a block & tackle by that blacksmith chap. Some well or other is "900 years old". Tree ring dated to 1750 or so. And another well. No wood this week. So: this week we ain't found tulip yet again.

Secrets in the Ice: skulls found in Sweden in some sort of mesolythic site. Halifax Nova Scotia: anchor. Presumably from the 2.5kt WWI explosion. Little razorback Island, Antarctica. Anomalous freezing under ice floes: "brine-acles" caused by the salts freezing out of the ice and ending up in the sea. Massively more salty than the sea itself. Well there's a thing. Devon Island, Canada. Some ancient missing link fossil to seals found in a relic impact crater.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Wet & windy overnight, then just a headwind as we went for our morning stroll. As we turned for home the wind dropped.
Blue skies with a bit of sunshine now.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It's snowing! The overnight rain had clearly reverted to snow as there was, if anything, a better covering than on Sunday when I arose, and now more is falling. It's currently 1°C ("feels like" -7°!) and expected to rise to 4°, with the barometers bottoming out at 962/970mB

The start of the working week hasn't been particularly successful so far as, once I'd performed my morning ablutions, I discovered I'd forgotten to set my coffee to brew before doing so

[ladymuck]

The drive home earlier was fine. Light showers the entire way and the major areas of flooding had dissipated.

Took Mum to Specsavers to sort out a new pair of glasses. She picked out some really nice ones and, for £50 including lenses, they were a bargain.

We then went to the big Tesco to do a shop. My brother tries but he gets the wrong milk and no-one should have to suffer skimmed milk. My Mum needs all the calories she can get, considering how little she eats.

This evening I watched S2E1 of Lucy Worsley Investigates. Rehashing Jack the Ripper. Nothing new uncovered.

Sounds windy and rainy outside.

[NickFitz]

This morning saw the usual glut of Monkey Life, but there wasn't anything worth watching after that

This evening, I watched an old episode of 24 Hours in A&E though it wasn't that old

And at odd times through the day I've done a bit of tinkering with the SpriteKit stuff, though I've only just got it working. But I did a lot of tidying up of the code, so it wasn't really wasted time

This evening, I read the chapter on Monday 30 January in February 1933, that being the day when Hitler was appointed as Chancellor, and various smart people realised that life in Germany was likely to become very unpleasant sooner rather than later

It's chucking down with rain here now, which will apparently continue through the night, or at least from time to time. There's even a chance of a bit more snow first thing tomorrow, but even if it happens it'll revert to rain shortly after

Early night now for - woe, woe, and thrice woe! - I have to resume work in the morning

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been roast duck with chips and peas

It was actually a pre-cooked whole crispy duck that had to be reheated, and came with pancakes and plum sauce. But there's loads left, so I can have that as snacks over the next couple of days