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[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from Nando’s in the end

I didn’t have anything in that I fancied so I thought of going round to the chemist’s for the monthly prescription, which needs collecting, and then on to the kebab shop. But that would have involved going out in the rain so I didn’t

Viewing so far has been the first half of the first episode of Twisted Sisters: Madness & Manslaughter on Five. This is all about that incredible business on Motorway Cops back in 2008 (when it was still on the BBC) with those two Swedish women who were running around the M6 and got hit by cars, plural - only for them to somehow manage to get back up and run around the motorway some more. One of them then got hit by a lorry, with the other punching to the ground a copper who was trying to stop her jumping over the central reservation. And when they finally caught her after much chasing back in forth in the live lanes of the other carriageway, she exhibited superhuman strength that made it almost impossible to restrain her. At the time, the Beeb ran it as a special episode in primetime within a few days of it happening, and the footage remains just as astonishing today

They’ve tracked down a load of the people who ended up involved - the cameraman, coppers, medics, ordinary drivers who helped restrain them, and so on. Interesting stuff

It all ends tragically, as the title suggests, but that’s a few days to a couple of weeks down the line

[xoggoth]

I went shopping, driving through badly flooded bits constantly, it's been pouring down all day.

[NickFitz]

The week is done!

I was thinking of going shopping but it’s raining and dark and generally seems a bit miserable out, whereas it’s expected to be dry and possibly even sunny in the morning, so I’ll put it off until then

Now I need to decide what to have for tea

[NickFitz]

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

I managed to dodge the more tedious bits of tech debt so the morning’s not been too bad

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull, overcast, raining. Currently 10 degrees ('feels like' 8) and that's the high for the day. Rain set to continue for the much of the day. Barometer down to 1003 mBar.

Sunrise 08:00; Sunset 16:22 GMT

One meeting done (at 9am!) which was very informative actually. My next isn't until 3pm (different client). For some reason, Thursdays are always very quiet.

HMWBO will be arriving early this evening to stay for a couple of weeks.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Damp.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 12.3 deg, 10.5 in the kitchen, 9 in the leanto.

997.5 mBar, 29.456 in Hg, 748.2 Torr, 14.47 psi, (down from 1000 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 12th of March 2020 LM, Brillo, AndyGarbs, NF, me, and WTFH popped in. There was a Storm Coming.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom. Took the umbrella to make sure no elephants appeared. I use the elephant trap to make sure it doesn't rain.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: That Evans chap's Bottom Line all about the dot com bubble and the impending AI bubble.

Sliced bread: chocolate. Lead and cadmium in same.

Ooooo, this is fun:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11321977/

Just as well I don't eat much chocolate then, innit? .

Book. Other book. I wonder if I'll ever feel like finishing "Robots and Empire" because it's doesn't seem altogether likely at the moment and there's a pile of Other Asimov books awaiting a reread, which doesn't exactly bode well. .

Tea: beans on toast with a big frankfurter to replicate the tin of beans with little sausages. Nice enough.

Entertainment: someone waffling about something. PM waffling about the latest Nazi turncoat plus Amol Rajan fecking off from Today, so it wasn't all bad news. .

"William Tell The Emperor's Hat (1958)". xogg referenced this some time ago. Goodness me, Willoughby Goddard was Gessler. Another production from the early days of Lord Russian Emigre.

Book.

Sky Arts: Discovering Alan Rickman.

Lucy Worsley's Victorian Murder thing on BBC not Wales at 23:00.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast with heavy showers and 8C. I was dressed appropriately for the showers in my new (Devon made) stockmans coat, but then it didn't rain on us at all.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

There’s some clear sky at the moment but it’s expected to cloud over in short order, and rain is likely (65% -> 85%) to start around ten and continue into tonight. Milder again though, being 5°C already with an expected high of 7°. The barometers are down again, to 990/998mB

Thursday! It’s the fortnightly tech debt one, when we concentrate on boring things like ensuring security updates have been applied to servers and so on. I hope there isn’t much of that to do as I’d rather crack on with the thing I’m working on

[NickFitz]

In Endurance, they moved from their first landing place on Elephant Island to another spot where they were very slightly less likely to be washed away, though it’s only marginally better in that respect. And as this clearly isn’t good enough for the long term, Shackleton and five other men have set off in one of the boats to try to make the 800 mile voyage to South Georgia to get help. The men left behind are having a pretty miserable few months, though there is occasional entertainment such as the medic having to cut off somebody’s frostbitten and gangrenous toes, and also lance an abscess on another chap’s buttock, from which he drained over two pints of “foul-smelling liquid”

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea was some sausage casserole thing that’s been in the freezer for ages, with chips

I can’t remember making the casserole so I'm not sure what was in it! It was rather nice though

This was accompanied by some Police Interceptors

And I also found time to muck around a bit with RealityKit and SwiftUI, making an interactive thing to help me get a better feel for how quaternions relate to Euler angles

[ladymuck]

All meetings done. Some write up to do but I think I'll clock off and do that tomorrow.

[xoggoth]

My planned walk today, possibly followed by drop in on ll2, ruined by damn road closures.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Heinz oxtail soup and white toast

Thankfully, we’re pretty meeting-free today: there's one with an external supplier this afternoon about importing some data that will probably only take a few minutes, my one-to-one with the DM after that has been cancelled because neither of us could think of anything to discuss, and there’s the weekly departmental senior management one that I just use as an excuse to have coffee and biscuits whilst listening to them tell us all about stuff that mostly isn’t relevant to me

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Clear sky but a little damp on the ground. Much cooler at 3 degrees with a high of 7 expected. Cloud cover set to increase as the day progresses. Barometer up 1013 mBar.

Sunrise 08:01; Sunset 16:20 GMT

Another day mostly comprising meetings.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Frosty.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Chilly in here at 11.9 deg, 10 deg in the kitchen, 6 deg in the leanto, 2.7 deg in the saltinghouse.

1009.5 mBar, 29.8 in Hg, 757.2 Torr, 14.642 psi, (up from 1007 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 12th of March 2020 things were getting inneresting: WTFH's Mrs was off to A Secret Meeting whilst Cummings et al were hiding, LM was explaining stuff about Excell spreadsheets to someone who didn't seem to get it, NF was recovering slightly, WTFH was off to see a consultant, and I got an Om .

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine with a cold cold wind blowing down the valley boyo.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away: they had stock of skimmed milk today & some other stuff I forgot on Monday.


After yesterday's inneresting observation of the fisherman with a nice bong by his side, this morning we have the plod out in force across the road removing a front door with a sabre saw and doing the needful doings to get in.

Scene of crime truck there now, plus several cars and possibly the electricity company.

No facemasks and no guns.

So far no arrests and they haven't shot anyone walking past on the pavement, which must be a plus these days.

Oh. Sorry. That's in Septicland not here.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y: thing about Amazon delivering 200+ returned/overstocked parcels to some poor woman: appears to be the usual Chinese select an address trick: the "company" concerned has been removed from Co House.

The Mystery of Alwyn's Rock in the River Neath at Tonna:
"Alwyn Jones 03/1945 to 23/02/2024: a fisherman and gentleman."

It's been puzzling me for years because there's a metal sign fixed to Alwyn's Rock and no one I asked seemed to know owt about it.

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

Entertainment: PM. MAGA lune woman <click> FFS. How can anyone with more than two brain cells imagine the Orange Mother****er is doing a good job? Beyond belief.

PBS: Neil Oliver: The World of Stonehenge E1 500k to 5000 BC. The breadth of time: footprints in the sands of time Severn Estuary mud. Paviland Cave again.

Scotland Yard "The case of the river morgue (1956)". More of the lugubrious one.

Abandoned Engineering. Naval Air Station Tillamook: largest wooden building 1000 feet long. Airship commander L Ron (yes that one before he went clear) spent 69 hours depth charging a Japanese sub that wasn't there. Asylum on Greek island Leros. Fort Sill: US skool for Native American children. Land of the free & all that, so long as you're white. Nuclear bunker near Edinburgh Scotland: initially a tracking station for early 50s ROTOR radar (operational for all of 3 years), changed to Regional Seat of Government when missiles replaced bombers. Barnton Quarry.

Strange Evidence: more bollox on Blaze (as if there was ever anything else though at least this one doesn't have Derek von Heiniken, which is a definite plus).

Elementary S1 E9 "You do it to yourself". Well I wish I hadn't looked up uveal melanoma.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy E6 (part), E7. The proper one not the one where Peter Guillam is gay FFS. I wonder why I remember Haydon as being shot when, in this, he isn't.