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[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the rest of an episode of the motorway cops thing, being the one that was rudely interrupted the other week by the 5 app suddenly deciding to stop working completely

And later, I read more of The Middle Kingdoms in which the government of the various parts of Central Europe continued to be extremely chaotic for a few more centuries, even without Mongol hordes confusing the issue

There were some heavy spells of rain today, with more expected overnight and tomorrow

I just remembered that this morning, I found a big wasp buzzing around the kitchen window. I opened the window, which hinges from the bottom and opens a few inches at the top, while I started planning how to trap it and get it out; I assumed it would just keep banging into the window, as such things usually do. But to my surprise, as soon as the window was open, it backed away from it, went round the side of the frame, and flew out! This obviously saved me a lot of hassle, but did get me wondering if it was from a new species of super-intelligent wasps

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Lunch today was a leftover pork cutlet in a bap (wholemeal) with apple sauce. And tea has been further leftovers in the form of corned beef hash

Today wasn’t too bad for the most part, being largely devoted to working out some UI tweaks that have been suggested during UAT; they aren’t definitely happening, but now people can have a look at them rather than considering them in the abstract

There’s a pentester prodding and poking at our stuff at the moment, and this afternoon he popped up with some problems doing file uploads. Unfortunately, I have no knowledge of that part of the app, and the sample data he was having trouble with was sent by the other dev - I don’t even have a copy of it! I was able to work out one problem from server logs and a bit of logic, but I don’t know if it helped, as this was late afternoon and he went quiet. I think today was supposed to be the last day, so maybe he just figured it wasn’t important - from what I could see, none of the nasty stuff he'd thrown at us got through, so maybe it isn’t that important from his point of view to show that it succeeds with valid data

[xoggoth]

Day to meself today. Actually got round to cleaning all the moss off the conservatory roof. Bit of a precarious job for an old fart, standing at top of a ladder. Spent over an hour looking at Google search problems on me business website.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Morning all, local time 10:14

Cloudy! Currently 17 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Barometer up to 1020 mBar

Sunrise 07:16; Sunset 21:28 CEST

We might go and see a castle today. We might not. it's our last day here in Cádiz so we will be buying a few gifts and trinkets as we mooch around.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Wet. Very wet. Wet for most of the night wet.

Grey.

Sunless.

Verging on chilly in here at 15.8 deg, 15 in the kitchen, 13 in the leanto.

1005.6 mBar, 29.695 in Hg, 754.3 Torr, 14.585 psi, (unchanged), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 27th of March 2020 Brillo popped in a lot with LondonManc, BR14, LM, and NF managing to squeeze a post in here & there with a mention of Dali and Picasso on some BBC4 prog.

Goodness me: slept for about an hour and a half before I went downstairs, then returned to bed at about 05:50 and slept until 08:30ish.

Considering the layers of clothes I had on I should have been bathed in sweat but for some reason that's not happening at the moment. Even had the electric blanket on for some of it. Very strange.

Lunch (early): brunch. Entertainment: a thing about some loser who threw away a career as a medic due to drugs.

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

Waited until the sun had emerged, if somewhat wanly, before leaving. Dry on the way down, intermittent light drizzle on the way back, though not enough to raise the brolly.

Having opened some pictures sent by my sister, I have now seen a photo of my new niece "Dora". FFS. You couldn't make this tulip up. That's him/her/it* cut out of my will.

*delete where currently inapplicable.

Thank the almighty that all the grandparents are gone, particularly my mother. . She's already spinning in her grave due to the state of the house, this would spin her up to a 1.21 GigaWatts.

Tea: Mr Brains faggots with peas and such like. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM. UFO bollox on Blaze.

Digging for Britain. I wonder what colour her hair will be this time. Coppery. Fell asleep for some of it.

Skinwalker Ranch bollox on Blaze.

NCIS S22 E18 "After the storm".

[WTFH]

Big dog walk done. (Not the Max is a big dog, but that the walk was over 10,000 steps). The rain that was falling at 4:30 had stopped by 5:15, and the sky is clearing now.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s rather cloudy out again, with suggestions of there having been a shower or two overnight. It’s a mere 8°C at the moment and “feels like” 4°, with an expected high for the day of 14°; the barometers are slightly up at 998/1006mB

Just worked out that in five weeks, we’ll be halfway through the solar year, having passed the Summer Solstice. Where does the time go?

[WTFH]

Morning all

[NickFitz]

Tonight I continued reading The Middle Kingdoms. Turns out Europe was totally disorganised during the first millennium. Also, the Cyrillic alphabet was invented by a chap called Cyril as part of a programme of converting Bulgarians to Orthodox Christianity

Monday again tomorrow. Ah well, at least next week is a Bank Holiday

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Lunch earlier was leftovers from last night, and tea has been shepherd’s pie

To go with the latter, I started watching the first episode of the new series of Surgeons: At the Edge of Life on iPlayer. This is usually fine but on this occasion, I did find the sight of a scalpel cutting into a blue-dyed penis to be mildly off-putting

[xoggoth]

Took ghastly ll3 to a car boot this morning. Total waste of time. Advert said they ran until 1pm but they had mostly packed up when we got there just before 11.
PS Checked the Eurovision winner online just now, Gordon Bennet, modern music is such total ****.

[ladymuck]

Morning all, local time 11:40

Sunny with occasional wisps again. Currently 18 degrees with a high of 19 expected. If yesterday is anything to buy that'll be a 'feels like' 25 by this afternoon. Barometer up to 1017 mBar.

Sunrise 07:17; Sunset 21:27 CEST

This morning I had a hankering for churros so we went to a local cafe which has a bit of a reputation for them. sadly they were having a bit of a technical issue so the churros were takeaway only. Still very good but that meant we then had to find somewhere to get a coffee. We ended up in a modern coffee shop and thus had our first 'bad' coffee of the trip (we're not fans of modern roasts).

I see the UK got its usual Eurovision result.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunnier start today, though more rain is expected this afternoon; the helping we got around teatime yesterday was pretty heavy. It’s 11°C (“feels like” 6°) and only getting to 13°, with the barometers up a little at 997/1005mB

One of the crows has been trying to bully one of the squirrels down on the lawn; I assume it’s the same two that it always is. The squirrel didn’t seem to be in much of a mood for it, occasionally feinting a run at the crow to throw it off kilter, but then just moving further away and leaving the crow to it. This sensible policy wasn’t good enough for the crow, which insisted on following it over the drive to one of the small lawns at the front of the adjacent block. It was at this point that one of the magpies seemed to get involved: having been keeping an eye on proceedings from the tree in the central flowerbed, it flew over and casually landed on the lawn, up against the hedge that gives the ground floor flats a bit of privacy. This position was off to the side from where the crow was trying to have a staring contest with the squirrel, and distracted the crow, which then tried a rush at the magpie! The magpie just flew straight up and perched on top of the hedge, while the squirrel casually headed underneath it as if that had been its intention all along. This left the crow in possession of the lawn, but wasn’t really much of a victory; it pecked around for a couple of minutes in a disconsolate sort of way before flying off. And shortly after that, the squirrel was back in the middle of the big lawn

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

Cooler in here at 16 deg, 15 in the kitchen, 13 in the leanto.

1006 mBar, 29.7 in Hg, 754.6 Torr, 14.59 psi, (up from 1003 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 27th of March 2020 Brillo popped in a lot, with BR14, LM, eek, and little old me managing to get a post in edgeways.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine. Only took 3.5 miles to accomplish something verging on warmth. Pointed out the orchids on the canal bank to a lady.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: thing on R4 about some chap who lives in Thailand and gives lots of money to rightwing nutjobs. The unbelievable truth <click>.

Assorted Hawkwind CDs too many to list.

Tea: beans on toast with scrambled egg. Nice enough. Entertainment: thing about an Irish priest who built an airport. Thing about reading: someone mentioned how she found it difficult to read some book she'd loved 30 years or more ago and it took a fortnight to re-educate her brain before she could get as immersed in the story as she had back in the day.

I seem to have found much the same sort of thing with those Asimov books*: the doorstops are definitely more difficult for me to read than they were 40 years ago. That T.H. White thing (which I'd never read before) seemed interminable & not very inneresting. Probably because it was intrinsically fairly tedious to start with.

*Not just the doorstops: "The Alternative Asimovs" ground to a halt & shows little sign of restarting since I look for sommat else before burrowing down through the half read pile.

TPTV: The Directors: Sam Peckinpah. More ultra violence.

History's greatest mysteries: Searching for El Dorado. <spoiler> They still haven't found it </spoiler>

Sergeant Cork S4 E3 "The case of the African murder". Ah, the White Man's burden in Africa, in what became Nigeria. The "Race for Africa". The white man's graveyard (this last being no joke: average time to demise was about 3 months in the early days which is why the slave catchers weren't white).

Hazardous History with the Fonz: Mad Medicine. The dear dead days beyond recall when the "Heroin" brand was sold as "the non adictive morphine substitute". . Cigarette smoking was recommended by doctors. They missed a trick by not relating the brand with blue asbestos in the filter. Soothing babies with syrups full of morphine. etc. etc. Using animal skin for skin transplants (instant rejection). Frog skin was popular.

Book. Other book.