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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy. Damp from overnight rain. Currently 20 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 24 expected. Barometer down to 1006 mBar.

Sunrise 05:54; Sunset 20:16 BST

HWMBO and I are at Heathrow T4, in the new Air France lounge. It's very nice. I have a migraine and have been throwing up since the early hours so I'm not partaking in anything other than an orange juice. Off to Paris today.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday?

Damp.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

22.7 deg in here, 24.3 in the kitchen, 21.5 in the leanto, 17 out the back.

1000 mBar, 29.53 in Hg, 750 Torr, 14.5 psi, (down from 1002 last night), 64% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 19:50 and 21:07, eek, MrMarkyMark, LondonManc, LM, NF, and vetran popped in. There was discussion of red lentils.

Entertainment: "Nuked" on Al Jazeera. The Glorious History of Nuclear Testing. E2/3. Didn't "we" hang people for doing human experimentation? Askin' for a friend. .

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Partly cloudy start but with the sun getting through and more sun, less cloud expected later. There was more rain overnight! Slight chance (20%) of a shower or two this afternoon as well. It’s 15°C and aiming for 21°, and the barometers are down a bit more at 993/1001mB

[WTFH]

Morning all

It's RAINING!
Has been since about 4am, some of it quite heavy.
Wet dog walk, but very enjoyable.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading was more of Station Eleven. Still very good

More rain due tonight! I don’t think we’ll get as much as they will further north, but the radar suggests we’ll get a decent sprinkling

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Nothing like a new product to bring to people's attention old errors and workarounds!

Plenty of those in this thing!

The chap who spotted it is leaving for a more exalted department at the end of the week, so I’m hoping to get it sorted out before then as a parting gift. I’ve narrowed it down to one cell that’s getting a weird value which then has knock-on effects, but the ancient code underlying it all along with some strangeness in the way the underlying data is structured is making it difficult to track down

[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken madras with rice and naan

And to go with it, a further episode of the Netflix homicide thing, this time in LA, about the murder of a young mother in 1980 that was picked up and solved as a cold case in 2013

[ladymuck]

Nothing like a new product to bring to people's attention old errors and workarounds!

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a pancetta omelette

Not exceptionally busy today. One of the finance people spotted that some values seemed to be incorrect in one rather specific spot in a huge table, though it wouldn’t affect anything as any analysis involving what those figures ought to be is done elsewhere. It still ought to be displayed correctly though, if only to avoid any confusion! My investigations into the source of the problem have indicated that it could arise in one of three or four different places, all of which are in code that hasn’t been touched in six years or so. So it’s not my fault and, given nobody has noticed it before, not that important

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and cloudy with flecks of grey. Looked damp out earlier but all such evidence has now gone. Currently 23 degrees ('feels like' 25) with a high of 24 expected. Low chance of rain all day. Barometer down to 1011 mBar.

Sunrise 05:51; Sunset 20:18 BST

Quiet day today. No dramas expected. Will be packing later for holiday that starts tomorrow.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday?

Unpleasantly dry.

Grey.

Sunless.

23.5 deg in here, 24.8 in the kitchen, 23 in the leanto, 21 out the back.

1006 mBar, 29.7 in Hg, 754.6 Torr, 14.59 psi, (down from 1009 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 19:22 and 19:48, eek, LondonManc,

MrMarkyMark, WTFH and I popped in.

Entertainment: Dimbleby waffling on about Vietnaaaaam and the oik, Walt Rostow, who thought the Septics could bomb it into submission. Turned out they couldn't.

Never mind, they made Guatemala safe for United Fruit. .

Next time: Paul Wolfowitz. Another genius.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the cool breeze, it warmed up towards the end.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Sky Arts Art in Film. Biopics. Meh.

The thing about placenames Yng Nghymraeg.

Book. More rich bastards. Green being amongst them.

Jack Hargreaves Old Country. ?J C Huskisson & Son Harness Co? of ?Wallsall? making a horse collar for "Blue", his new horse. Two rather fine trout caught & despatched in a drought. Chalk stream rather choked with white buttercup, which he left to retain more water.

Look at Life: (1960) Rallying, the 1959 1960 RAC rally at a guess after some "research". Raymond Baxter commenting. Look at Life entered a Humber Snipe. A Saab won the men's rally, whilst a Ford Anglia (oh the shame) won the ladies. Remembering that in those days Rover used to enter the P5 3 litre in some rallies.

Bab5 S3 E7 "Exogenesis". The alien memory one.

Blazian bollox: Mega disasters. the one about the comet causing the Younger Dryas event. Bollox I've watched previously & won't be watching again.

It's raining. Not much, but a bit. Actual drops rather than drizzle.

History's Most Shocking. Cruise ship MSC Opera crashes into dock because of unattended alarms that indicated loss of power to steering etc. Near misses on railways due to inattentive pedestrians. Kunming, China tower block demolition due to building too many tower blocks & not finishing them. Setting off an avalanche with a snowmobile. Trestle bridge fire in Texas: completely consumed. NJ downed powerline: some half trained lune messing with a live powerline: lucky to live. The Real $6M man: the 1967 lifting body accident: pilot induced oscillation. Wheelstud failure on a truck: wheel falls off & totals the car travelling next to it.

[xoggoth]

Hmm. Supposed to be up to 43% chance of rain this morning. No sign of it yet. Old arty farty thing later.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS and
Force of habit.
Misty/mizzly out - not enough to be of any benefit to the garden, but enough that I had to take my glasses off while walking the dog as they were becoming difficult to see out of.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s been fairly rainy overnight, judging by the general dampness and the puddles on the roof of the garages round the back

And to start, it’s overcast with the sun a mere diffuse blob of light. Not actually chilly though: it’s already 19°C, but won’t get any warmer than 21°. The barometers are down to 999/1006mB

I’m hoping the lawn picks up with the rain - not so much the grass as whatever lives among it. I’ve noticed over the past few days that the magpies are wandering around a lot but not finding much of whatever it is they peck at down there to peck at, and seemed a bit disconsolate as a result. Maybe the bug population will revive with a bit more water and a bit less heat

[NickFitz]

This evening’s viewing was the rest of the Police Interceptors I started watching the other night

And tonight I read more of Station Eleven which continues to be very good

There have been strange noises outside, which I believe to have been caused by water descending from the heavens! What sorcery is this?

Goodnight all