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[NickFitz]

Tonight’s viewing was a NEW! episode of Police Interceptors, still in Northants

And later I continued with Peace and War, in which the veterans of the Forever War are starting to find life with the hive mind clones that pass for Mankind nowadays - well, thenadays - a little wearing. Relativity to the rescue!

Earlier today, I booked the car in for its MOT and a service on Friday. I’m not sure whether to get the shopping done on Thursday, or do it after the car’s ready. Anyway, it’s only Wednesday tomorrow so there’s still time to decide

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been belly pork braised in cider, with chips

And having started that in the oven on a very low temperature this afternoon, I was also busy in the kitchen at teatime, frying up the mince, onion and so on for a shepherds pie. That’s in the dish it’ll be baked in, cooling down, and can spend the night in the fridge; I’ll chuck the mash on top and cook it tomorrow evening

No pancakes this year as I didn’t realise it was Shrove Tuesday until too late

[ladymuck]

Lunch was beans on toast, using the last of yesterday's 'pimped' beans.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: leftover pork cutlet in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce

It was sunny but it’s clouded over more now. Just a thin, high, white layer of cloud though

The weather app was talking about possible snow tomorrow night, but it’s calmed down a bit and is now more inclined towards rain or maybe sleet

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with some hints of wispy bits. Currently 3 degrees ('feels like' 0) with a high of 7 expected. Cloud cover set to increase as the day progresses. Barometer up to 1015 mBar.

Sunrise 07:11; Sunset 17:20 GMT

Last night HMWBO made a cooked breakfast for dinner! I'd been hankering after one for a while but I am never going to eat that at breakfast time. No bacon but excellent sausages, blood 'cake' (rather than your usual black pudding), pimped up baked beans, a fried egg, tomatoes, toast. Very delicious.

On looking out the living room window this morning, I saw the local parking enforcement officer checking out the cars the garage next door clutters the road with. A bit odd doing his thing at 9 am. The first restricted parking period doesn't start until 10 am (the hours are 10-11 am and 2-3 pm). Maybe he was letting them know that he'd be back at 10 am and was checking which cars to make sure had been moved, or parking paid for. If the garage do have a bit of a sort out, it would be tempting to move my car from three streets away to my own road.

Talking of shenanigans at the garage, someone had parked on the forecourt on Sunday and got blocked in by a BMW parking over the dropped curb entrance. It's all go.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Blue sky.

Sunny.

Chilly in here at 12.2 deg, 11 in the kitchen, 8 in the leanto.

1012 mBar, 29.88 in Hg, 759 Torr, 14.6778 psi, (untapped), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 17th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, churchill, LM, NF, Brillo, BR14, and scruff popped in, whilst NF was still a bit .

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. Wore the "new" shoes I bought in 2023 for the first time , having bought another pair of shoes yesterday. M&S shoes of course.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about faceache and their generous ad free offering. .

Shopping trip to Aldi and Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away: much slower than usual due to pain in my left hip which wasn't evident in the earlier trip to Morrisons.

Now outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee.

Entertainment: Thinking Allowed: thing on R4 about Seven Dials and Detroit re abandonment & gentrification. The suburb of Detroit is a 20 minute car journey from downtown. .

Tea: soup etc. Entertainment: PM <click> Blaze: UFO bollox.

PBS: besieged fortresses: this one with Richard Coer de Lyon. Went <click> before the leadin had finished. .

Thing about Fukushima and the consequences of the tsunami.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS and chilly out.
Dawn chorus started around 6:30, head torch off at 6:45. Frost on the cars, and there were a few patches of ice on our walk.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a clear blue sky out there but like a bed without a duvet, it’s let all the heat out! Currently 0°C but “feels like” -3°, which suggests the wind has dropped; the predicted high of 5° this afternoon isn’t expected to last long. The barometers are heading back up though, at 1002/1010mB

Tuesday. Never much to say about Tuesday, is there? At least our backlog refinement meeting today has been cancelled, or rather merged with the sprint planning one tomorrow. There’s never enough between them to justify two meetings anyway, so it’s nice that wiser counsels have prevailed

[NickFitz]

Tonight, I continued with Peace and War: having finished The Forever War, I’m now on to Forever Free

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb chops with chips and beans

This was accompanied by 999: What Happened Next on 4. Weirdly, this covered a hit and run case that was also covered in depth on some other programme I watched recently - I think it was Traffic Cops as it included a couple of the regular coppers off that

[ladymuck]

It's turned out to be a sunshine and showers type day. Chilly.

Got some more access sorted out at gig3, and my building pass has been issued.

[xoggoth]

Planned walky today ruined due to yet another road closure. Gonna be a long route round to get to my arty farty thing tomorrow. Roads are just awful here, potholes, great deep ruts along the edges in narrow places, huge ponds.

[NickFitz]

Another day done, in which once again unforeseen complications arose from something that seemed straightforward on the face of it. Ah well, as Maciej Cegłowski said, “We choose to do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy.”

And I just popped round to the chemist’s for the usual monthly stuff. I hope tomorrow me is suitably grateful because I really couldn’t be bothered, but then I decided I should do it for them

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some leftover bits of Indian starters from Saturday night. The starters were OK - better than the rather bland mains

[NickFitz]

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