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[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. .

[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]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Started off promising but then the cloud came back. Rain expected. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 4) with a high of 8 to come. Barometer down to 997 mBar.

Sunrise 07:13; Sunset 17:18 GMT

No drama so far today. I was supposed to go to gig3 clientCo office today but when the alarm went off at 6 am, I decided to make my excuses. I'll turn up on Wednesday instead.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Happy Unbirthday LM.

Morning.

Monday.

Damp.

Grey.

Hints of blue sky.

Wanly sunny.

Chilly in here at 12.8 deg, 11 in the kitchen, 9 in the leanto.

995.5 mBar, 29.4 in Hg, 746.7 Torr, 14.44 psi, (up from 994 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 16th of March 2020, Brillo, BR14, scruff, LM, NF, WTFH and I popped in, whilst I watched a programme comparing the Orange Mother****er to Henry VIII and managed not to shoot the tv everytime the Orange Mother****er appeared.

Trip to that Swansea to pay the Barclaycard and donate the foot or so of books: brought another David Kynaston history epic back: 1962 - 1965. There'll be beat combos in this one. .

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about student loans: odd that it should be at RPI+3% instead of CPI+3%.

Timed that well: it was sunny in that Swansea, grey when I returned to Neath & now it's rainiing. Sadly there's no Foyle's War to keep entertained this afternoon. .

Sunny again now with a semigale howling around the chimney.

I'm almost tempted to go for a walk. .

And with that very thought the deluge returns: nice rainbow though. .

Book. Other book.

Tea: Mr Brains faggots with peas & suchlike. Nice enough though not as nice as the last time I made it. Entertainment: PM. Jenrick <click> Just say no to Farage's ilk.

NCIS S22 E5

Secrets in the Ice: Swiss lake with iron age weapons. Coffins in caves in Mustang, Nepal. 17 bodies of sailors on Spitzbergen: lead poisoning from the tin cans. Plumes on Enceladus: well it's an ice world.

Forbidden History: the Crucifixion.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS but windy earlier. Too windy to hear much of the dawn chorus, but it was bright enough that I could turn off my head torch at 7am.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy out but with some gaps of sorts towards the horizon, letting elements of sunrise through; there’s even some clear areas low down towards the south and west. The worst of the cold spell isn’t here yet but the breeze isn’t helping, making 3°C “feel like” -5°; the expected high is 7° this afternoon, though only briefly and accompanied by a chance (40%) of rain. The barometers are down some more at 982/990mB