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[NickFitz]

Lunch: Heinz oxtail soup and white toast

Been an OK morning, mostly pairing with the other dev as we add a new feature which requires some meddling around with areas of the app I haven't had much to do with yet. So she's driving, and I'm following along

Sunny spells now, though there's still a lot of cloud in big clumps

I'm trying to decide whether to do the shopping at teatime, or leave it till the morning

[ladymuck]

Morning Afternoon all

Dull and overcast. Currently 20 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 22 expected. Unlikely to rain despite it looking very grey out. Barometer up to 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 06:41; Sunset 19:08 BST

This morning the builder who sorted the garden wall stopped by to bring the person charged with painting it. They have prepped the surface and applied a base coat, returning tomorrow (weather allowing) to finish it off. The collection of rubbish that had been left in the front garden was taken away.

Also this morning I have made some progress on that document I've been avoiding for some time. You can tell the delivery deadline is looming when I actually start doing something.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Wet. Wet. Wet. Standing water at the bottom of next door's garden (fortunately it's a foot lower than my garden). Can't say that it has rained that much but there you go.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dreary.

Drizzly.

Cool in here at 19.1 deg, 19 deg in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto.

1010.5 mBar, 29.84 in Hg, 757.9 Torr, 14.656 psi, (up from 1009 last night).

Meanwhile on the 17th of February 2020 Brillo, BR14, and Churchill popped in, Diver and his hand were mentioned, NF commented, WTFH did too, and LM eventually appeared.

It appears that the garden next door was flooded more deeply on 16th of February 2020 as recalled in my post of the 14th of September. Well there's a thing. Looks, from a distance since the drizzle remains extant, that it's getting a little deeper down there. No whales yet.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: my tinnitus, which is growing much stonger since one ear blocked.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey start and there's been a bit more rain overnight, with an 80% chance of showers very soon; but there are hints of thinness to some areas of cloud suggesting the possibility of brighter spells. Still windy. The mild spell continues: it's already 17°C and expected to reach 21° for a few hours this afternoon. The barometers are up a little at 1003/1011mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
Dry, mild but very humid out.
Walk has been walked. Almost Friday.

[NickFitz]

The final Rumpole story (of this collection) has been read. It was rather a good one, I thought

Thursday tomorrow!

Although I'm quite enjoying the work I'm on now and it's a good team, I'm still glad the week is almost over

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Long group walk this morning, I was the only bloke again. Local history talk this evening, about prehistoric flints found in the area, bit boring but nice chats afterwards.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been the last of the belly pork braised in cider out of the freezer, with chips. I'll definitely make that again

This was accompanied by S1E1 of Critical: Between Life and Death on Netflix, which is a bit like 24 Hours in A&E combined with the call centre bits of Ambulance judging by this episode, being a documentary about London's health services dealing with serious incidents; this episode was about a bunch of people being injured when a fairground ride decided to fall to bits as it was whizzing them around at high speed

Given how many such documentary series I've watched, part of the fun in this was spotting medical staff that have appeared in the other programmes. In particular, one of the doctors with HEMS was, IIRC, previously at either St George's or Kings and has appeared on 24 Hours in A&E quite a few times

[NickFitz]

Smoked pancetta omelette for lunch

Rain's stopped. Sky's still grey. Wind's still windy

After a morning of mostly meetings, the afternoon will be mostly meetings

[ladymuck]

Is it nearly time to start thinking about a CUK Christmas do?

That sounds like you're volunteering...

[covbob]

Is it nearly time to start thinking about a CUK Christmas do?

[covbob]

Morning.

Greyer, wetter, more depressing than yesterday.

Meeting at school first thing to try sorting primary to secondary transition for eldest. What fun. Now in the office - more fun.

[NickFitz]

Another day done! Despite meetings, I managed to get stuff done to the extent that I'll be demoing it in the fortnightly Show & Tell tomorrow

As I managed to keep my commit history fairly well structured and with meaningful comments, I've just checked and I'll be able to checkout a specific commit and demo how the UI for this bit of the app used to work (clunky), then checkout the latest version and show how it now works (elegant)

Demo went OK!

Last time, our team went last, so I assumed I'd have about an hour to think it through while other teams chuntered on about what they'd been doing. First thing I saw when I woke the work laptop was "We're going first!" Oh well, probably best to get it out of the way

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and overcast. Damp from overnight rain. Currently 15 degrees with a high of 18 expected. Rain may occur this morning and again mid afternoon onwards. Barometer down to 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 06:40; Sunset 19:11

Today I will be taking yea olde jalopy to an air conditioning specialist to get the definitive verdict on what's needed to get the air conditioning working again. It's not worked for two years and it's this time of year when it's needed most. In the summer, I just drive with the windows open and cover the leather seats. In the winter, the car mists up and clearing the windscreen is a challenge. I know the clutch that operates the compressor has failed but I don't know if that one part is replaceable or if it's a "whole unit" job. An estimate I got over the phone in March suggests that it's going to cost north of a grand to sort out.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Wet. Horizontally wetly drizzly.

Misty: can't see the other side of the valley, boyo.

Grey.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 18.1 deg, 18 in the kitchen, 17 in the leanto.

1007 mBar, 29.74 in Hg, 755.3 Torr, 14.6 psi, (down from 1013 last night), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 17th of February 2020 AndyGarbs, opm, Brillo, and Churchill popped in, the latter with concerns about flooding down by 'ere, and his little lad had been away with the cubs, the water had drained from the bottoms of the gardens which was good, WTFH saw a patch of blue sky, as did I though it didn't last long, NF was reading a neurosurgeon's book, and I was wondering WTF "Homeland" had been about for S4, 5, & 6.

Freecell score in the endless drizzle: 85%, running average: 84%. Better than last night's 74%.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: the drone of the dehumidifier.

For the sake of something to do: house roughly vacced. :.

Freecell score: 95%, running average: 84%.

Tea: Tesco battered cod (or haddock). Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM. Went <click> when the Orange Micropenised Moron was mentioned, so more off than on.

Grand tours of Scotland's Rivers: the Irvine. Oh look: more closed factories: this one an explosives factory.

Digging for Britain. More stuff dug up. <click> Too tedious.

Maigret and the lady's companion (2004). The one with the posh git who's nearly bankrupt but has a rich auntie.

Watched 30 seconds of the Trump thing on 4+1 then <click>.

Book.