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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

I forgot to record that there was some quite heavy rain in the early evening yesterday as a belt of rather stormy weather passed over us, fading into drizzle later. Today seems likely to continue being a bit gloomy and getting windy later, but no further rain is predicted… though neither was yesterday’s. It’s 7°C but “feels like” 1° and the forecast high is 14°. The barometers remain optimistic though, being up to 1015/1023mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast, with the chance of drizzle at 9am.
Early dog walk due to 8am meeting.

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the fourth episode of the thing about the ferry Estonia, in which they got heavily into the conspiracy theory about the Russians sinking it because Sweden and MI6 were using it to smuggle secret Russian military equipment to the west after the fall of the USSR

And tonight, more of SS-GB in which the plot is thickening in interesting and unexpected ways

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken casserole, being the one I made the other week, with chips

Very tasty casserole, that. Luckily, I remember roughly what I added in terms of seasoning and the like, so I ought to be able to replicate it in the future

[NickFitz]

First day back was much as one might expect

I hadn’t looked at the stuff I’m working on in nearly three weeks, because of being off last week and dealing with the urgent year-end stuff the week before. Once I got it deployed to the hotfix environment, I immediately spotted a minor UI bug resulting from the transition to the new financial year, so that was handy

I’d also forgotten that I’d added quite a few tests just before I set it aside to deal with other stuff, which are proving useful in reminding me what I thought I was up to at that point

[NickFitz]

Have you read "Goodbye Mickey Mouse"?

I haven’t! I’ve added it to the list

I think the only other thing I’ve read by him is Bomber. Most remiss of me

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Sunny, occasional wisps, breezy. Currently 20 degrees ('feels like' 23) with a high of 21 expected. Barometer down to 2014 mBar.

Sunrise 05:41; Sunset 20:18 BST

Woken up in the wee hours by windy noises. I refused to look at the clock to see what time it was.

Busy morning of meetings. This afternoon is looking much more reasonable.

Off to the theatre to see The Authenticator this evening.

[xoggoth]

Eggcellent! Just got a cheque in the post for nearly £1300 from an investment company I used to use following a review of their advice service. Hadn't noticed any major problems with it.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[DoctorStrangelove]

Tonight, I’ve read quite a chunk of SS-GB. He has a way of drawing you in, this Deighton chap

Have you read "Goodbye Mickey Mouse"?

Morning.

Monday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

16.6 deg in here, 17.5 in the kitchen, 15 in the leanto, 12 in the saltinghouse.

1019 mBar, 30.09 in Hg, 764.3 Torr, 14.78 psi, (up from 1018.5 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 26th of March 2020 Brillo, BR14, LM, NF, scruff, and I popped in.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some thing about 1850s sailing ships <click> Noon o'clock news. Y&Y waffling on about covenants re permitting later development in 1960s housing estates. <click>.

Everything requiring the attentions of the iRon have come in off the line and are now airing upstairs.

Entertainment: Archive hour about "Rover" by which they meant British Leyland, Austin Rover, and finally "Rover", which had about as much relevance to The Rover Car Company as one might imagine: the only reference being to its acquisition in the 1960s by Leyland: the kiss of death was Tony Benn forcing the merger of Leyland and British Motor Holdings to make the abortion known as British Leyland.

production problems at British Leyland. This was highlighted in August 1975 when Drive, the magazine of the British Automobile Association awarded a trophy to a Rover 3500 as the worst new car in England.

It reported that a Rover 3500 purchased in 1974 had covered 6,000 miles (9,700 kilometres) during its first six months, during which period it had consumed three engines, two gearboxes, two clutch housings and needed a complete new set of electrical cables.

The car had spent 114 of its first 165 days in a workshop.

The runner-up prize in this rogue's gallery was awarded to an Austin Allegro with forty faults reported over ten months, and a Triumph Stag came in third.

And they wonder why we don't have a car industry of note any more. .

About to get outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee.

Now quietly debating mowing the lawns.

Stone me, that was hard work: 3 lawns mown. I failed to note where the orchids were growing so goodness knows if they'll appear this year.

Tea: Brains faggots etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: the kitchen cabinet. PM.

Skinwalker Ranch. "Swarm weather". More bollox.

NCIS S22 E15. "Moonlit". That was actually alright. The one about the frogs.

Whatever other dross I manage to find.

Thing on Alba about the island of Canna. Only 15 people live on Canna. It was donated to the NT for Scotland by the previous owners. Made in 2021 which explained all the masks.

[WTFH]

Monring all
CBS etc.
Phil Collins walk today, although I wish I'd taken a pair of gloves as the old Reynauds flared up.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start, albeit with mare’s tails hither and yon in the sky. Already at 10°C, it’s expected to climb to 18° by lunchtime and stay there all afternoon, maybe getting a little cloudier too. The barometers are much the same at 1013/1021mB

As usual, having a week off has left me feeling refreshed and invigorated, with the energy I need to get started on those various tasks I wanted to get through during my week off. But it’s back to work instead

[NickFitz]

There was some wildlife stuff on around teatime, to keep the apes happy

Tonight, I’ve read quite a chunk of SS-GB. He has a way of drawing you in, this Deighton chap

Monday tomorrow, and back to work. I switched over to the work laptop for a quick look at Teams late last week, and the tricky end-of-year stuff that was causing so many problems was sorted out by the other dev, so I’ll be able to get back to the thing I’ve been working on. And next week is a Bank Holiday, so there’s that to look forward to

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

There was some accident on the M25 this evening that brought it to a standstill. Both sides by the looks of it but I think all the real activity was on the other side.
EDIT: according to websites that seem to track such things, there was only congestion today anti-clockwise, nothing clockwise, and nothing to support the 'slow down incident ahead' signs on the gantry.

On setting off again, my clutch started playing up with the pedal not feeling right and then developing a nasty clunk noise. I pulled over at the first lay-by on the A30 after getting off the M25 and called my brother who posited a few theories but ultimately reassured me that I'd be safe to drive home. It got better as I drove but will take it for a spin in the week and see if it persists. Yea olde jalopy tripped over to 99k miles when passing through Dorking on the way home; maybe it's in shock.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been shepherd’s pie out of the freezer

Accompanying this, What Happened at Chernobyl? on iPlayer, which featured much of the same contemporary footage as the programme last night, but less of it because it’s thirty minutes rather than two hours. There’s also interviews with various people involved in different aspects of the matter and a look around the place now, including inside the New Safe Confinement and the control room for Reactor 4, where it all started

My TV went mad earlier, with the things in the so-called “Smart Hub” (the foolish name given to the main menu) becoming disassociated from the things they claimed to be: selecting TV started iPlayer, the iPlayer button started the Blu-ray player, something else would start the Apple TV, and so on. I had to dig through the settings menus until I eventually found a way to reset the menu without resetting everything else, then set it back up again