Morning.
Thursday.
Grey.
Misty.
Drizzly.
Sunless.
NotSoChilly in here at 14.8 deg, 13 in the kitchen, 13 in the leanto.
1010 mBar, 29.83 in Hg, 757.6 Torr, 14.65 psi, (down from 1011 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).
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Morning all
12C feels like 10C out, mizzle earlier that appears to be lifting a little.
Didn't even put the head torch in my pocket this morning, and unless there's foggy days, I might soon be putting it away for a few months.
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Morning denizens
It’s one of those days that starts cloudy but with gaps towards the horizon, and a bit breezy. These can turn sunny after a while, but it’s going to continue to be windy and rain will start towards teatime and carry on through the evening, so it may stay cloudy instead. It’s 10°C but “feels like” 3° and the expected high is 12°, with the barometers unchanged at 1002/1010mB
Thursday!
It isn’t Viz week and although I do need some stuff, it isn’t a lot. So, depending on how the other dev rolls, I’ll see if I can grab enough time at lunchtime to pop along to Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s and get the shopping out of the way
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I read some more of Peace and War
And I did some Swift stuff, following a tutorial from some people who know much more about SwiftUI than I do. Not only did I learn a lot of cool things, I also got a good way to implementing a UI component I’d been trying to work out how to implement for ages! That was just with part one, so I’m going to follow the remaining four parts of that tutorial and also go through their others
Thursday tomorrow!
It’s supposed to be tech debt day, but I’d really like to finish off the thing I just about got working today by going thirty minutes over my usual time. It’s up to the other dev though; I think she’d like us to work together on the thing we got a good way through two weeks ago. Fair enough; we’ve been putting it off since before Christmas
Goodnight all
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Brill sunny warm day. After me solo walk I took infirm old loony lady 3 for short walk. Had a coffee in cafe on balcony overlooking the reservoir, great place.
Been messing with me Excel version of me mappy thing to work and just couldn't figure out for ages why click on position gave wrong lat/lon. Then noticed the Excel image is at a different scale to original, even though zoom is set at 100% and scalewidth, scaleheight are set 100% relative to image size. Hmmm!Last edited by xoggoth; Yesterday, 22:20.
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Tea has been shepherd’s pie
On the box: E1 (of two) of Murder Case: The Hunt for Arlene Fraser’s Killer on iPlayer
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Double booking issue resolved. Fortunately, another theatre outing planned for July has been moved to 2027
so I'm taking that slot up with the one that I booked Cadiz over.
Much laundry has been done. Not sure it's warm enough outside for my jeans to dry.
Windows open in a bid to air the flat but the lack of a breeze means not much is happening.
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Lunch: a sausage and bacon bap (white)
It’s positively Simpsonesque out there now. The gardener has showed up and is mowing, strimming, and trimming; and there’s even some blossom starting to appear on some of the things along the hedge/tree line that keeps us hidden from the road
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feelthy permee <mexican bandit emoji>.
as for fasnacht, if you can hold a tune, - take earplugs.
utter cacophony, out of tune, out of time, - just noise.
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Hah. 18 expected here. Bright blue skies.
Just had my leave request refused for my colleagues funeral. Because it's paid leave.
ladymuck - fly to Basel and get the last hours of Fasnacht.
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Morning all
Sunny! Currently 10 degrees with a high of 17 expected. barometer down to 1016 mBar.
Sunrise 06:55; Sunset 17:34 GMT
Lazy day today as I'd planned the day off. Not sure what to do with the unplanned free afternoon. I did book a holiday to Cádiz yesterday evening and then realised it clashed with a theatre trip. So some of today will be spent working out what's the easiest of the two to move.
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Morning.
Wednesday.
Grey.
Sunless.
Dry.
NotSoChilly in here at 14.3 deg, 13 deg in the kitchen (thermometer display is now faulty), 13 deg in the leanto (classic alcohol thermometer: display not faulty and it doesn't need a battery).
1009 mBar, 29.796 in Hg, 756.8 Torr, 14.63 psi, (up from 1007 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 18th of March 2020 Brillo, quackhandle, WTFH, LM, and I popped in. (i.e. same as yesterday).
Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked inthe grey gloom. Two fewer layers on than yesterday so sweat was avoided by taking off scarf & opening leather jacket towards the end. Hints of the drizzle to come.
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Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about electrick cars with some lying politico saying how wunnerful it's all gonna be when every hill is covered with windmills and solar panels.
Another touch of the itchy eye syndrome: the hazel catkins/alder catkins are getting to me.
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Other other other book.
Tea: Tesco breaded/battered cod. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM.
Scotland Yard. "the case of the smiling widow (1957)". Thedogcat it was that died.
Alice Roberts: Our Hospital through time: being cut for a stone (bladder)
Aaaaaargh! That would make yer eyes water. Mr Pepys was mentioned, he being one of the survivors. Amazingly only a third of patients died back in the day.
Bad Skin Clinic. S8 E7. Lady with severe lymphoedema untreated for knocking on for 20 years despite her working in the NHS. WTF? Apparently she needed to lose weight before they would do anything. WTAF? Apparently the swelling in her legs was "cosmetic". WTAF squared if not fecking cubed. Six weeks in treatment with compression bandages plus the magic weight loss drugs.
Elementary S1 E15. "A giant gun filled with drugs". The drug dealer's kidnapped daughter one.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Yesterday, 23:33.
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Morning all
Another misty one here, currently 10C feels like 9C. Dawn chorus was in full flow at 6:15 and even with the mist neither of us needed torches.
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Morning denizens
Cloudy start, but gaps are starting to open up so it looks like we’ll be getting sunny spells. The mild-but-breezy circumstances persist: it’s 10°C which “feels like” 6°, with an expected high of 14°. The barometers are trivially down at 1002/1010mB
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