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[NickFitz]

Telly tonight was a very old episode of Police Interceptors - circa 2012

And there has been further tinkering with Swift and SpriteKit

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Someone will hack the app and use your mower to carve crop circles in the local farmers' fields

Sounds like a good reason to use the app to me

[ladymuck]

Someone will hack the app and use your mower to carve crop circles in the local farmers' fields

[NickFitz]

Tea: sweet and sour pork and fried rice

My homemade version may not be as good as from the Chinese, but it's nice enough and it makes a change

[WTFH]

Oh, and pile of instruction manuals that total 7cm high when stacked on top of each other.

The pile of manuals has been whittled down from 28 different languages to 4, English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.
Page 17 of the English version, and we're not allowed to start the mower yet, but have to download the app.

If I register an account, does this mean Big Lawnmower will monitor my every move? Are they linked to Big Pharma? Will my mower only work in future if I've had all my Covid jabs? Anyone got a 7 3/8ths tinfoil hat?

[ladymuck]

A towel wash was done, draped over airers and put outside.

Moments later, the wind got up and it came over all dark so the airer was brought inside.

It didn't rain but I've left it indoors anyway.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a Pukka steak slice

Cloudy and windy out now, as it was foretold

[WTFH]

New mower has arrived.
It's bigger, faster, more manoeuvrable, better colour scheme (Orange/Grey rather than Red/Black), and they even delivered it with half a tank of petrol.
Oh, and pile of instruction manuals that total 7cm high when stacked on top of each other.

There's a little bit of drizzle in the air, so I've parked it up in the mower garage.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with lumps of fluff. A gentle breeze. Currently 21 degrees with a high of 22 forecast. Barometer up to 1011 mBar.

Just had a very delicious bacon sandwich with the bread fried in the bacon fat, as is right and proper.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday apparently.

Was dry: now raining.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Black side of grey.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 20.7 deg, 22 deg in the kitchen, 20 deg in the leanto.

1005.5 mBar, 29.692 in Hg, 754.18 Torr, 14.583 psi, (up from 1004.5 last night), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile onthe 30th of October 2019 WTFH had a phone call from a pimp, NF found it sunny but chilly, and recalled the days when the phone used to ring off the hook with keen & enthusiastic pimps ringing me up. .

Odd dream this morning: something to do with being a POW in the jungle in 1945 and bulldozers falling into sinkholes or something. Quite peculiar. Haven't even been watching World at War to inspire it.

Raining.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked very slowly due to being knackered.

Raining again so I timed that right.

Lunch: scrambled egg etc.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about booking.com whatever the feck that is.

TWATO.

The asbestos talc thing at 13:45.

More cleaning of the junk room. Found some old paper to throw away.

Entertainment: The Mentalist S5 E7, E8.

Tea: the rest of the tinned chilli: still meh but less so due to added chilli powder.

Entertainment: PM <click>

The Mentalist S5 E9, E10, E11. There's someone in this lot that resembles the Chief Autist in many ways. .

Enough of that for today: read book instead.

[WTFH]

Morning all
The dark clouds from a couple of hours ago that were threatening to move this way have chosen a more northerly route, and so we are back to CBS.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Bright start but it seems it's already starting to cloud over, as it did yesterday. It's expected to get quite windy later too. Currently at 14°C and only reaching 21° for a little while in late afternoon. The barometers are up a little at 998/1006mB

[WTFH]

TFBSZ

[NickFitz]

No further telly, or indeed ornithology, this evening. But I managed to make some good progress on the SpriteKit stuff I've been playing around with. Now at the point where I need to start drawing boxes on a bit of paper and turning things into binary so I can implement a level map efficiently

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea: sausages (pork and apple) with chips and beans

Accompanied by the latest episode of Secrets of the London Underground with bits about the Ruislip Engineering Depot and Warren Street station, and some other stuff

Just saw six magpies down on the lawn. With a little observation, it became clear that four of them were juveniles and two were adults, so probably a family training session. They were all fairly near to each other, but seemed to have divvied it up as one adult to two juveniles.

One of the young ones grabbed a rose from the flowerbed (not sure if it plucked it from the plant) and took it on to the lawn at the edge of the flowerbed where it started pulling it to bits and pecking at the centre as its sibling circled round it trying to get a bit. Then the adult with those two chivvied them both and they all flew off together through the trees along the road. One of the remaining juveniles then found the rose by the flowerbed, picked it up, and went hopping around among the rose bushes with it in its mouth for a bit. Eventually, the remaining adult chivvied it and its sibling until they both flew into a tree by the gate, where the adult followed them a few moments later.

Not sure what the lesson being imparted to the young ones was, but it seemed to be along the lines of "Don't pick the flowers, and don't go hopping around with a rose in your mouth"