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[NickFitz]

Lunch: Heinz chicken soup and white toast

And amidst work and meetings, I found time to put a bedding wash on - duvet cover, sheet, and pillowcases. This is one of the rather heavy duvet covers so I’ve now got that drying separately, while the rest waits damply in the laundry basket. I don’t know if the theory that it’s quicker to dry such a load in two halves is true, but I do it anyway

[Pondlife]

Afternoon,

Wind 4 kt from the East, varying between East/Northeast and East/Southeast
Temperature 14°C
Humidity 94%
Pressure 1004 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more
Broken clouds at a height of 1200 ft
Broken clouds at a height of 2000 ft
Overcast at a height of 2700 ft


Lazy permies are doing my box in today. Oh well.

[sadkingbilly]

Morning all

Dull. Overcast. Damp. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 16 expected. Potential for rain all day. The sun might make an appearance shortly before setting. Barometer down to 1006 mBar.

Sunrise 07:04; Sunset 16:25 GMT

Tired this morning.

The accountants finally sent through my accounts yesterday. Now to check it all as they've found some 'rounding error' which simply doesn't happen. I reconcile to the penny as there's really nothing complicated going on that means 27p should go adrift. It being divisible by 9 makes me think two numbers have been transposed somewhere. I spent 9 years doing accounts and was taught by someone who believed in getting it right irrespective of how big the company is.

Once I've cross referenced their CT calculations against FreeAgent and understood the reason for any differences, I am likely to bin them off as the service since they merged with another firm has not been great.

This is why i'm happy with my new gig.
self employed freelance consultant. I do my own accounts (excel) but have freeagent available if HMRC insist.
I think i'll knock it on the head at the 20% tax threshold though .
watch this space................

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull. Overcast. Damp. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 16 expected. Potential for rain all day. The sun might make an appearance shortly before setting. Barometer down to 1006 mBar.

Sunrise 07:04; Sunset 16:25 GMT

Tired this morning.

The accountants finally sent through my accounts yesterday. Now to check it all as they've found some 'rounding error' which simply doesn't happen. I reconcile to the penny as there's really nothing complicated going on that means 27p should go adrift. It being divisible by 9 makes me think two numbers have been transposed somewhere. I spent 9 years doing accounts and was taught by someone who believed in getting it right irrespective of how big the company is.

Once I've cross referenced their CT calculations against FreeAgent and understood the reason for any differences, I am likely to bin them off as the service since they merged with another firm has not been great.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday apparently.

Grey.

Damp.

Water receding in next door's garden.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 17.8 deg, 17 deg in the kitchen, 16 in the leanto.

998.5 mBar, 29.486 in Hg, 748.9 Torr, 14.48 psi, (up from 998 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile onthe 28th of February 2020 AndyGarbs, BR14, Brillo, and DaveB popped in, as did NF. Apparently there was a millennium looming.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom. Canal a lot lower today.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: stuff on R4 including bottom line, sliced bread, TWATO.

Raining. I was going to address the quantity of live brambles in the greenhouse. I may do so still if I can be arsed.

It stopped. Brambles in greenhouse duly dealt with ready for the next bonfire. Ashes from yesterday's added to the "compost heap" which will probably upset some worms.

Pane of glass in roof of greenhouse noted to be cracked with a piece missing. Dunno when that happened.

Worked up quite a sweat on my brow. Now that doesn't happen often. .

Last time was in the summer when I was repairing the two drawer unit thingie that fits under the work bench.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast and 13C earlier, no breeze and not quite as humid as yesterday. Walking in a T shirt and light jacket in November.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Gloomy grey morning after a drizzly night, it appears. The drizzle should stop soon though. It’s still quite mild at 13°C with an expected high of 16°, and the barometers are much the same at 993/1001mB

Thursday!

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s viewing was the rest of the Traffic Cops I started watching last night

Same bug with the ads. I think it comes from stopping it just as the ad break starts, so it can probably be avoided by stopping just before the title card disappears

Made some good progress with the CoreGraphics stuff. I think I must have being doing it in a “Swifty” way as lots of things are coming together nicely, such that stuff that one would think would be complicated turns out to be very simple

And I finished Ambient, which was very good. Next up is Terraplane: second to be written, fourth in the timeline

Thursday tomorrow! It seems to come around quicker every week, possibly because I’m enjoying work so the days aren’t dragging

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Ents has been the Great British Bake Off final, and now Surgeons: Life in Their Hands.

My Next Episode app informs me that the 13th series of TCoOI has just started

[NickFitz]

Tea has been the lamb tagine I made a while ago, with experimental spicy rice

The tagine was a bit too rich, I thought when I first made it; I was probably using a recipe for more lamb than I had, so it ended up too concentrated. But it went well with the rice, which cut the flavour a bit while adding some of its own

[NickFitz]

You can tell that I’m enjoying the work on this project a lot more than the previous ones because it’s the second day in a row that I’ve worked an extra twenty minutes or so because I wanted to get something just right

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

I seem to have neglected to post this morning!

I was a bit distracted by having to load the dishwasher, which I emptied last night - I kept forgetting to run it over the last few days so a fair few dirty pots and pans had built up in the kitchen, to the point where I had to get them out of the way to be able to make breakfast

Anyway, it’s a grey day yet again. Not quite as windy as it was though, and no rain expected. We’ve reached the day’s high of 17°C and the barometers are down a touch at 994/1001mB

Lunch has been a roast pork bap (wholemeal) with apple sauce

And shortly before lunchtime, I developed a migraine. It’s a rare thing for me, and nowhere near as bad as some people get it, but not at all enjoyable

[xoggoth]

Old farty history group meet at cafe this morning. Off to do some more toothpaste inspections soon.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy but plenty of blue poking through. Currently 17 degrees and that's the high for the day. Might rain overnight. Barometer down to 1007 mBar.

Sunrise 07:02; Sunset 16:27 GMT

Busy morning. Meetings, nagging people, etc.

Time for some lunch methinks.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Well there's a lot of water at the bottom of next door's garden. Again. Didn't realise it had rained that much.

Damp.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 17.5 deg, 16 in the kitchen, 15.5 in the leanto.

998.5 mBar, 29.486 in Hg, 748.9 Torr, 14.48 psi, (down from 999 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 28th of February 2020 Churchill, LM, xogg, and Brillo popped in, whilst AndyGarbs got an OM & crowed about it. .

Walk (towpath, slightly abbreviated) walked in the grey gloom. Signs that the canal had overtopped the bank in places.

Transpires that the water is about 8" deep in next door's and is a couple of inches deep in my pigsty, but insufficient to drown any pigs that might be there which definitely wasn't the case 32 years ago.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about electrik cars. Cue bacon sandwich man telling us how wonderful it will be when the entire country is covered in windmills and solar farms. Oh, and loss of mobile signal in Hebden Bridge.

Bonfire: no guy. Managed to get rid of all the stuff in the greenhouse: the bags of moss: not so much.

Tea: Tesco battered cod/haddock. Nice enough.

Entertainment: Crash Detectives: head on between two 44 ton trucks on an industrial estate. We drive on the left in this country. .

The Nazi programme: Battle of Britain.

Yesterday: David Jason's Secret Service: WWI, Mansfield Cumming. Belgian spies.

Alba: Nuclear testing in the Arctic E3/6.

U+something: Elementary S1 E1. I rather enjoyed that. Much more than any of S7. (or was it 6?).