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[DoctorStrangelove]

hot toddy'll fix it

Oddly enough I tried that with a single malt. It didn't fix it.

Followed by some port.

That didn't fix it either, and found some sore bits of throat that the whisky had missed. .

[sadkingbilly]

afternoon all
about to attend the weekly project status meeting with the 'Project Manager'.
yet another one who shows as much co-ordination as brownian motion.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Blue sky with a mix of fluffy and wispy cloud. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 18 expected. Barometer up to 1021 mBar.

Sunrise 06:57; Sunset 18:46 BST

Setting up the Ubiquiti kit (two cameras and a doorbell) was straightforward enough from a software perspective but a faff from a physical one. My brother had to do the worst job of crawling around the loft (it's not boarded out but is chock full of fluffy insulation) and discovering there were little or no joists above the kitchen ceiling. HWMBO did the initial config and made up all the network cables (we only needed three) and I read the instructions and held ladders. It was a long day but it's all up and running and now I'm just fine-tuning the alerts.

The most fun I had was seeing my brother standing outside the front door having a ciggie later in the evening and me shouting at him to 'feck off' through the doorbell from home.

Today, I attended a meeting for gig1 (billable presenteeism) followed by sorting out some admin for my Mum with HMRC. Shockingly, I got through to a human with minimal wait time.

[sadkingbilly]

Morning. .

Monday. .

Dry. .

Grey. .

Dreadful night's "sleep": I suppose I was asleep for some of it. .

hot toddy'll fix it

[NickFitz]

Morning. .

Monday. .

Dry. .

Grey. .

<- manly

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Blueish sky with mares’ tails and vapour trails to the north and west, gradually shifting to high overcast to the south and west, and the rest of the day is expected to be cloudier. Dry though. It’s a bit cooler at 9°C, and the predicted high is only 17°; the barometers are optimistic though, being up to 1008/1016mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning. .

Monday. .

Dry. .

Grey. .

18.9 deg in here, 18.7 in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto, 10 out the back.

1012.5 mBar, 29.9 in Hg, 759.4 Torr, 14.685 psi, (up from 1010 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of April 2020, between 12:54 and 14:39: as per yesterday.

Dreadful night's "sleep": I suppose I was asleep for some of it. .

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: cider making with Charley: different from the previous cider making ep. Cattle chiropody. Who knew it was A Thing?

Joy of Painting with Bob Ross: well I got as far as snoring a little about halfway through. .

I suppose I'd better pop off to Morrisons & buy some milk & other comestibles: need to stock up the tins ready for the oncoming AI disaster. . It'll be back. .

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away, followed by:

Shopping trip to Aldi and Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

R4 FM is off from Kilvey Hill again. Dunno wot I pay a licence for.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Dashcam bollox S4 E1. Hadn't seen that one 15 times, in fact hadn't seen it before.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading turned out to be more Lissa Evans, and why not: Small Bomb at Dimperley, in which the youngest son of a no-longer-wealthy family finds himself unexpectedly inheriting a Baronetcy, along with the eponymous estate and shambolic country house, just as he’s demobbed at the end of WWII after an undistinguished spell of wartime service. As usual, some excellent characters and humour

Monday again tomorrow. Oh well, only four weeks until I have a week off at the end of October

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Pork cutlet with chips and beans for tea

To go with it, an episode of Emergency 24/7 on iPlayer

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s overcast and grey out today, and likely (60%) to rain shortly. A bit breezier too, so the current 15°C “feels like” 10°, though it’s still quite mild and the high for the day will be 21°. The barometers are heading down again at 1002/1010mB

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy. Currently 16 degrees with a high of 22 expected. Might rain later. Barometer down to 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 06:55; Sunset 18:48 BST

Off to Mum's today, to have a stab at installing stuff.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Damp.

Grey.

Sunless apart from a brief illumination of the marsh just now.

19.1 deg in here, 19.3 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto, 16 out the back.

1005 mBar, 29.6776 in Hg, 753.8 Torr, 14.576 psi, (down from 1013.5 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 5th of April 2020, between 12:54 and 14:39, in popped barrydidit, Brillo, LM, MrMarkyMark, NF, and me, with me having cooking a leg of lamb to a turn, something I've not done in 4 years or so.

In other news, this cold manflu is a real cracker. . And that broken tooth ain't helping a lot.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom 1 conversation.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: BBC News. Sky News. It's all transpiring at the moment.

In other other news: it's raining.

Book. Finished book.

Tea: beans on crustless toast to avoid yet more problems. Entertainment: BBC News. Sky News. Tina Turner live in Barcelona 1990.

Oak Island nutjobbery: 18:05. Well there's a thing. Another "Roman" coin. No wood. Rumbling noise from underground.

History's Mysteries: Montezuma's Gold.

David Duchovny's Secrets declassified: he couldn't have appeared less inneresting if he'd tried: U2/Area51/UFOs 1950s, Malmstom AFB UFO incident, Goldsboro B52 crash, Israeli Mig21 theft, Avrocar debacle, Madam Mig/Marina Popovich UFO revelations. The truth is out there. Apparently.

70up. Part II.

[NickFitz]

Monkey Life and other wildlife stuff was on to brighten the afternoon

And later, I finished reading Crooked Heart. Another excellent book by Lissa Evans. I’ve got a couple more of hers to read, but I may take a break to read something else first. Or I may not

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

The bed was made after dinner so there'll be no last minute shenanigans.