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[NickFitz]

Lunch: a chipolata and bacon bap (white, no sauce)

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Yesterday's weather: Dull, overcast, lots of very cold rain. High of 9 degrees. Barometer down to 1001 mBar.

There were issues with the Lizzy and Piccadilly Lines to get to clientCo near Heathrow yesterday and the buses were all rammed as a result. I wasn't late but it also wasn't a nice journey. The trains were still on the wonk at home time.

Today's weather: Blue sky, high level wispy stuff, dry (damp from dew or rain, not sure which). Currently 4 degrees with a high of 7 expected. No rain forecast. Barometer up to 1011 mBar.

Off to Glasgow this evening with HWMBO. Tomorrow we go to Sofia for a few days (where it has been snowing ).

[WTFH]

Depressingly, the network issues are mostly resolved.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

Cold in here at 12.5 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 10 deg in the leanto, 5.5 deg in the salting house.

1009 mBar, 29.796 in Hg, 756.8 Torr, 14.634 psi, (up from 1006 last night), 73% RH (GDR hair), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Shirts in the WM.

Meanwhile on the 1st of August 2019 there was much discussion of the 50k saga of yore, where the 50k post isn't at 50k any more. .

Shopping trip to Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. 34 out, 153 back which last took a roundabout route I've never previously experienced but got me across the river about 35 seconds faster than waiting for the 34.

Lunch: baked spud etc.

Entertainment: Y&Y with wailing & gnashing of teeth over the housing market.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Murky but dry out on our perambulation.
Nearly month end

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

After a rainy night, at least when I went to sleep, it's a reasonably clear morning which will probably become quite bright shortly, when the sun gets a bit higher. Only 3°C so far though, and no higher than 6° expected, followed by a frosty night. The barometers are back up a bit at 999/1007mB

This day a year ago, I spent the morning waiting to hear from the solicitor that I had succeeded in buying this flat!

[NickFitz]

Tea: fish fingers, chips and beans

The opal hunters were into the machinery failure stage of their respective endeavours this evening

And earlier, an episode of the thing about the Highways Agency, who were chasing sheep on the motorway

In the midst of this veritable world of entertainment, I finally managed to sort out the GKStateMachine/SwiftUI/@Observable thing, such that I now have a working representation of a traffic light

I'm not sure how useful that will turn out to be but as far as I can tell, nobody else has stitched those technologies together in that particular way, so it's an achievement of sorts

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Been informed that an extension is "being processed". Current contract doesn't even run out until February

Didn't ask how long it'll be for though. Could be an extra fortnight for all I know

[NickFitz]

Dragged it out as long as I could, but final CT bill payed before Fridays deadline.

Now to close down the company

End of an era

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a pork cutlet (deboned) in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[SimonMac]

Dragged it out as long as I could, but final CT bill payed before Fridays deadline.

Now to close down the company

[WTFH]

Morning all
Charity dinner/auction was a very enjoyable affair, although it became a bit expensive.
There were about 10 things listed on the programme as being up for auction, but some extra lots had been brought along by the charity’s CEO. A couple of coffee table books and a couple of pictures.
The first auction items were mostly local things, so not appropriate for us. I refrained from bidding.
One of the books was about a lion we had seen in the Mara. I pulled out at about £120.
The second to last lot was a picture of a lioness and her cubs. Absolutely stunning unmounted print. I stopped at £160.
The last lot was a framed picture of a famous elephant called Tim who died in 2020 aged 51. He was one of the big tuskers.
Well, long story short, once the bidding got above £300, there were only two of us in it, me and the bloke behind a certain online media site that tends to Fail on a Daily basis.
Anyway, it just fitted into the back of our car and is now hanging in the lounge.

Good job that I had a discussion on Friday. They are going to come back with plans for the project they need me for and the approx timeline, and then I will advise them of my new rate. Should be sorted in the next 3 weeks.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Grey.

Blue sky in parts.

Golden sun.

Damp.

Cold in here at 12.6 deg, 12 deg in the kitchen, 11 deg in the leanto.

999.5 mBar, 29.515 in Hg, 749.686 Torr, 14.496 psi, (down from 1003 last night), 73% RH (GDR hair), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of August 2019, long long ago, and far far away, before the plague, WTFH was preparing to delete some posts since a millennium was approaching, NF was feeling tired, LM was feeling sleepy, and there was flooding near that Manchester though oPM was unaffected thereby.

Survived the dentistry. Two fillings, one replacing a failed root canal.

I didn't faint, which was good.

Lunch: mug of coffee (Tesco instant, pretty close to Nescafe Blend 37/Dark Gold that you can't get any more).

Walk (abbreviated) walked during which a glorious double rainbow was observed. Raining now. Quelle suprise.

Bolloxy bollox about the Ancient Aliens and the number 12, MJ12, the universe being a dodecahedron. The 12 stones of Callanish. Except, of course, that there are 13 stones in Callanish, with another at the centre. But don't let mere facts get in the way of bolloxy bollox.

Tea: soup etc.

Entertainment: more bolloxy bollox about Ancient Aliens on Blaze. <click>

Joy of Painting S6 E2.

Wheeler Dealers S8 E6 Dodge Charger: is this the first of his expeditions to SepticLand? Can't remember.

Just to celebrate the tub o'lard going to Texas:

Yeah.

The colourfully attired one takes a train to Loch Ness.*

Alistair Campbell walking the Dales in Winter.*

*Well it was on, I actually read a book for most of it.

Abandoned Engineering. Brazil: Hell Island Ancietta Correctional Colony: prison riot, much death. Mineral Wells Tx: Barker Hotel, closed 1971, some nutters attempting to reopen it. Ireland: Castle Island much admired by W. D. Yeats apparently, burned down in 1947, owned by another nutter. South Korea: some sort of neo Confucian college thing.

History's Greatest Myths. Leaders & Leadership: JFK: various myths, the magic bullet, the lone gunman etc. King Arthur. Dear old Adolph: apparently Adoph's Caff & Bar is just a myth. Who killed Olaf Palmer, the Swedish PM. The Illuminati.

The Disappearance (1978) with Donald Sutherland and his 3rd Mrs. who spent a lot of time without clothes on. Lots of flashbacks. Not sure it amounted to much in the end. I watched it because John Hurt was in it.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Gloomy, grey, rainy morning. Slightly milder though, being already at 6°C. Unusually, that's also the high for today, as it'll drop down to 4° by lunchtime, then crawl back up to 5° when it gets dark

The barometers have plummeted overnight to 987/995mB, though I'm not sure that entirely justifies such odd behaviour