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[WTFH]

A busy day of putting up a mirror, planting leeks, potting on lots of stuff, starting another ginger off, strimming around the veg beds, trimming one of the patio bushes, trimming the front hedge to make it easier driving out onto the lane, selling the old ride-on mower (and I’m wondering if the purchaser is a member here), and some other stuff.

Now it’s TFBSZ, and I’m hoping tomorrow the new mower arrives.

[NickFitz]

Bake, not roast: Chicken & Potato Tray Bake (Tavuk Kebabı) (I got the recipe from her book where the title explicitly mentions the tomatoes, but it's the same one)

After a morning of Monkey Life, there wasn't anything of note on the telly until some Antipodean borders and roads policing later in the afternoon, so I mucked around with SpriteKit for a bit

Monday again tomorrow. Certain senior people are on holiday and no decision about the fate of the project will be promulgated until they return next week, though that doesn't mean the decision won't have been made. While we wait, we're slowing down any steps towards go live that might be a nuisance to revert, so this week could be a fairly quiet one

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

I put a load of flattened boxes out the front with the label "free boxes!" attached several hours ago, and no-one has taken them away yet. I might have to advertise them at this rate.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been… hang on, let me look it up… Tavuklu Patates Kebabi, or Chicken, Potato and Tomato Roast to you and I, with rice. This was from a Turkish-Cypriot recipe by Meliz Berg, and it was absolutely delicious

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy but bright enough and dry. Currently 22 degrees with a high of 23 expected. No rain forecast. Barometer up to 1014 mBar.

Had a lovely dinner and cocktails out with friends yesterday. Lazy start to the day today with no plans to do / achieve anything.

[NickFitz]

Pod person alert! ^^^ NF up & about at 08:48 on a Sunday?

Monkey Life starts at 9am, and the apes can't turn the telly on by themselves

I also managed to organise a bacon bap for breakfast, again

[xoggoth]

Bah! Got to drive to London for a damn family do.

Stuck a fake number plate on me nice lttel diesel van to avoid ULEZ. UP99YOURS

[DoctorStrangelove]

Pod person alert! ^^^ NF up & about at 08:48 on a Sunday?

Morning.

Dry.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

Cool in here at 20.7 deg, 22.5 in the kitchen, 20 in the leanto.

1010 mBar, 29.825 in Hg, 757.56 Torr, 14.6488 psi, (up from 1009.5 last night), 81% RH (GDR hair), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 29th of October 2019 BTVS EOS3 and EOS4 were watched, while NF decided to go to bed earlier & get up earlier , the day was grey but not unpleasant, I was in with the hoi polloi, and WTFH was watering plants on the windowsill and speaking with agents.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the grey gloom and picking with rain.

Lunch: beans on toast etc.

The Mentalist S4 E14, E15, E16.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: The Mentalist S4 E17, E18, E19.

Digging up Britain with that Alice Roberts.

Disasters that changed Britain: Piper Alpha.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey start out with the weather app putting its faith in drizzle, though I don't think that's actually happening yet. Currently 14°C and not expected to get any higher than 20°, so the air conditioner may have to be put away for now. The barometers are back up a little though, at 1004/1011mB

Down on the lawn, a juvenile squirrel - I'm basing my assessment of its age on size, lack of fluffiness of tail, and youthful vigour to the point of extreme scattiness - was causing mild irritation to three pigeons by running towards them as the were having a peck around, but I think they realised that it was just being exuberant in their general direction as they walked out of its way quite quickly but didn't fly off. It continued running around randomly for a bit, eventually scooting off to the hedge. The two crows that were pecking about earlier had gone by then, though no doubt they'll impose discipline should it start disturbing them, as happened last year

[WTFH]

Morning all

[WTFH]

Two foxes, one hedgehog so far this evening, and no new mower.

TFBSZ

[NickFitz]

Lots of early Monkey Life on earlier, taking us into S2

And then the assortment of wildlife stuff with the peculiar focus on sharks

Also read a bit more of Pepys' 1667 diary later on

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was from Nando's

Nearly got enough loyalty card stamps from there to get a free chicken, which is the ultimate goal

[NickFitz]

The air conditioner seems to do a good job of cooling the place down, though it's not really needed today. I believe it'll be warmer again tomorrow, so it'll have the chance to prove its mettle then

[NickFitz]

Are you doing a video of you unpacking the aircon?

Or not bothering since it's not an iAircon?

Just askin' like. .

My portable aircon is currently down in the garage because I'm too mean to run it for the 3 or 4 days a year it's useful.

Plus, having sold the house next door to the idle pair, I no longer have a bedroom that regularly reaches 95 deg in the summer.

No unboxing video - I see no reason to exhibit my struggles to extract 21.52kg of machine from its wrappings

It's now set up and at work. It was a bit of a struggle to get it set up, due to having to get it in a position where it could poke its hose out of the window and also be plugged in. Might see if they do a longer hose

To be fair, that process would probably have been a bit easier if the relevant corner didn't still contain assorted bits of crap, many of which were put there when I first moved in and have been awaiting "sorting out" ever since