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[NickFitz]

For tea tonight, the shepherd’s pie I started preparing yesterday. I experimented a bit with the herbs and spices when making this, and it turned out very well

Rain has started and will supposedly continue until around sunrise tomorrow. Not very heavy though, or not yet

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a ham bap (white). This involved some TTD cranberry & orange glazed ham that I’d forgotten buying last week, and it’s very nice

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry (currently).

Grey.

Wanly sunny if you use imagination.

Windy.

Chilly in here at 12 deg, 10 in the kitchen, 8 in the leanto.

997.5 mBar, 29.456 in Hg, 748.2 Torr, 14.467 psi, (down from 1005 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 17th of March 2020 Brillo, covbob, LM, NF, WTFH and I popped in, though WTFH despatched his mrs to buy all the wine in Dorking, and I found that the road outside was remarkably quiet.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked in the easterly gale. Strewth it was chilly out there.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: my tinnitus

Book. Other book. Other other book. Other other other book that was referred to in other other book and which, by sheer coincidence, was readily available on the bookshelf and will return there but is added to the queue.

Tea: battered cod: dunno if it's battered or breadcrumbed but it's not haddock. Entertainment: PM with more examples to illustrate the incompetence of the governing class. I'd shoot the lot to encourage the others.

At least there's sommat to watch this evening.

Scotland Yard "Inside Information (1957)": the stiff on the November 5th bonfire one.

Abandoned Engineering (probably not since I think the last one was last week).

WWI: the people's story. 3/3. The fight to the end. <click>

Bad Skin Clinic: pustulent goodness. I've now watched enough of these to have achieved 100% in a medical quiz a couple of days ago. . Woman with PCOS and rosacea. Woman with a lipoma. Woman with a keloid on her ear. Chap with astounding psoriasis.

Just realised it's more than 3 years since I stopped cooking stuff. Which is why there are spiders' webs in the oven.

Elementary S1 E14 "The deductionist".

Part II of the tsunami thing.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Breezy, cold and constant drizzle here. Not a pleasant walk, but it achieved what it needed to.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s cloudy but not in a grey way - more dappled, high, thin cloud. Not warm though; 2°C that “feels like” -6° due to the wind, and a brief spell of 5° this afternoon as the high spot, though it’ll be even windier - the weather app talks of “wintry conditions from 10:00”. The snow that was predicted for tonight is now expected to be rain instead, which I suppose is something. The barometers are down again at 995/1003mB

[ladymuck]

^^ Thanks for the reminder, I need to book mine in for a service.



Morning all

The sun is not yet ris. Cloudy. Chilly in the breeze. Currently 3 degrees ('feels like' -1) with a high of 5 expected. It might snow around 6pm. Barometer down to 1009 mBar

Sunrise 07:09; Sunset 17:22 GMT

On my way to gig3 clientCo offices. Knackered, rubbish sleep. It's going to be a very long day today.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s viewing was a NEW! episode of Police Interceptors, still in Northants

And later I continued with Peace and War, in which the veterans of the Forever War are starting to find life with the hive mind clones that pass for Mankind nowadays - well, thenadays - a little wearing. Relativity to the rescue!

Earlier today, I booked the car in for its MOT and a service on Friday. I’m not sure whether to get the shopping done on Thursday, or do it after the car’s ready. Anyway, it’s only Wednesday tomorrow so there’s still time to decide

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been belly pork braised in cider, with chips

And having started that in the oven on a very low temperature this afternoon, I was also busy in the kitchen at teatime, frying up the mince, onion and so on for a shepherds pie. That’s in the dish it’ll be baked in, cooling down, and can spend the night in the fridge; I’ll chuck the mash on top and cook it tomorrow evening

No pancakes this year as I didn’t realise it was Shrove Tuesday until too late

[ladymuck]

Lunch was beans on toast, using the last of yesterday's 'pimped' beans.

[NickFitz]

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

It was sunny but it’s clouded over more now. Just a thin, high, white layer of cloud though

The weather app was talking about possible snow tomorrow night, but it’s calmed down a bit and is now more inclined towards rain or maybe sleet

[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. .

Shopping trip to Aldi and Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away: much slower than usual due to pain in my left hip which wasn't evident in the earlier trip to Morrisons.

Now outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee.

Entertainment: Thinking Allowed: thing on R4 about Seven Dials and Detroit re abandonment & gentrification. The suburb of Detroit is a 20 minute car journey from downtown. .

Tea: soup etc. Entertainment: PM <click> Blaze: UFO bollox.

PBS: besieged fortresses: this one with Richard Coer de Lyon. Went <click> before the leadin had finished. .

Thing about Fukushima and the consequences of the tsunami.

[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