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[NickFitz]

Tonight’s TV was the rest of E1 and all of E2 of The Black Swan on iPlayer, the Danish documentary about a bent lawyer working with journalists to expose organised crime, and the supposedly respectable professionals that assist it, in Denmark. Only halfway through, and the country's leading law firm has already accepted the resignation of a senior partner and sacked his entire department when presented with hidden camera footage of him explaining to people he knows to be money launderers how he’ll get them out of paying millions of krone in tax! Fascinating stuff, and apparently there’s an astonishing twist to come in the final episode

And then I continued reading Into the Raging Sea, in which the El Faro has been lost with all hands and the investigation into why has begun. Spoiler alert: it was capitalism, as usual

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Little street party was ok but nowhere near as many as usually turned up.

Got my canvas based alternative to the, soon to be discontinued, Bing Maps API mostly working now. Not the same fluidity with scrolling as just 4 tiles on the screen, and only covers local area as my PC can't accomodate maps for the entire world, but can do most things I want.

Sounds like you’re sorted but if you enjoy playing with maps, Open Free Map is worth a look: https://openfreemap.org/

[xoggoth]

Little street party was ok but nowhere near as many as usually turned up.

Got my canvas based alternative to the, soon to be discontinued, Bing Maps API mostly working now. Not the same fluidity with scrolling as just 4 tiles on the screen, and only covers local area as my PC can't accomodate maps for the entire world, but can do most things I want.

[NickFitz]

Tea: KFC leftovers

Not that I have much of an appetite at the moment TBH

The towels are done and dried. I split them into two batches for drying, and each batch was done in 45 minutes or so, which is considerably better than the old one managed

[ladymuck]

I have not left the house today. This means I have to go out tomorrow. However, I've decided Sainsbury's around the corner will be sufficient rather than Waitrose. That doesn't negate the need to go to the storage unit.

[xoggoth]

Jusr remembered to pop up to the village shop in time to get some nibbles for tonight's little street party. Posted few cards to neighbours on the way.

[Pondlife]

Afternoon all,

Feels a bit weird to be not working when so many are. Oh well.

Wind 6 kt from the East
Temperature 9°C
Humidity 93%
Pressure 1007 hPa
Visibility 10 km or more
Overcast at a height of 1700 ft

[NickFitz]

As I’m not going out while feeling like this, I’ve put a towel wash on instead to help pass the time

[NickFitz]

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

Still feeling quite under the weather, but I don’t think it’s getting worse, or not much

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy but bright. Some damp on the ground. Currently 10 degrees with a high of 12 expected. Cloud will increase to give a dull and potentially damp afternoon. Barometer up a bit to 1008 mBar.

Sunrise 08:05; Sunset 15:55 GMT
One whole minute more daylight than yesterday!

Working up to Christmas Eve. Undecided if I'll do a full or half day on CE.

I have to pop up to Waitrose for a few bits to take down to Mum's as I'm cooking Christmas Day lunch/dinner. But I'm not deranged enough to consider doing that on the 24th. And I have to go up to my storage unit to find a nice cake tin which is very close to Waitrose so I feel some form of coordinated effort might be helpful.

[NickFitz]

Morning all

The new toy has arrived.

Woohoo!

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day with a hint of mist in the air again. It’s 8°C and expected to be 9° for much of the day, with no rain anticipated. The barometers are again down but only barely so, at 996/1004mB

If I have the lurgy, it’s being fairly circumspect; I feel rather under the weather again, but nothing extreme. I remembered last night that I’d bought a new and, supposedly, better thermometer earlier in the year, so gave that a poke down my ear, and it reckoned my temperature was fine at 37.1°. This morning, just after I’d got up, it said 36.4°! And just now it was 36.9°. But I do feel as if I’ve got a bit of a chill going on. Touch of runny nose this morning too. Still, as long as it doesn’t get any worse, I daresay it’ll be all right

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Damp.

Wanly sunny.

Blue sky in parts.

Chilly in here at 13.6 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 11.5 in the leanto.

1001 mBar, 29.56 in Hg, 750.8 Torr, 14.52 psi, (up from 999 last night), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 7th of March 2020 SimonMac and Brillo popped in, LM baked a cake and had "a cold", NF was thinking of baking a cake, and I was quoting "The Second Sleep" as prophesy whilst watching "1941" that rather completely unfunny filmic offering.

An ex colleague visited this morning, thusly disturbing the even tenor of my day. .

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some dross or other on R4.

Shopping trips to Morrisons and Tesco done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away: memo to self: the freezer is now full of bread: don't fecking buy any more.

[WTFH]

Morning all

The new toy has arrived.