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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post

    Says the man Who Went For A Country Walk, where, as we all know, he might have been abducted by aliens, crushed to death by rampaging cows, or fallen down some unmapped mine shaft.

    You can't be too careful Out There. .
    True! Though at least there weren't any other people out there and that's worth taking a few risks for. That footpath doesn't seem to be used much, possibly because of the treacherous bridge

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  • NickFitz
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    Morning denizens

    It's been raining all night and into the morning, but seems as if it's petered out now. It's been quite windy too, enough that the current 9°C "feels like" 1° though; the expected high is 11°. Unsurprisingly, the barometers are down at 975/983mB

    The mundane laundry is on. When that's done, I shall pop some jeans in - the ones I wore yesterday are a bit muddy in places

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  • ladymuck
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    Morning all

    Overcast. Wet. Windy. Currently 9 degrees ('feels like' 6) with a high of 12 expected. Rain will come and go for much of the day. Barometer down to 982 mBar.

    Sunrise 07:39; Sunset 17:51 BST

    Busy day expected as I need to do things that I've been avoiding. One requires me figuring out how to graphically represent some data, and another is figuring out an approach for measuring a project's benefits.

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    This is why I don't go anywhere or do anything
    Says the man Who Went For A Country Walk, where, as we all know, he might have been abducted by aliens, crushed to death by rampaging cows, or fallen down some unmapped mine shaft.

    You can't be too careful Out There. .

    We won't mention Banjo Players. .

    Morning.

    Thursday.

    Dry.

    Sunny.

    Blue sky.

    Calm.

    Where's this storm then? Just askin' like.

    16.6 deg in here, 15.5 in the kitchen, 13.5 in the leanto.

    987 mBar, 29.15 in Hg, 740.3 Torr, 14.32 psi, (up from 982 last night), 61% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 25th of February I watched "Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)" plus the little doumentary about Pitcairn Island made by ?MGM? in 1935 which showed the use of a spark transmitter for comms (now illegal), the house stank of the kippers I had for tea despite the extractor fan having been on full blast (never had this problem when my gran cooked them over the fire), and NF had either cod or haddock for tea, and LM thought the dampness on the ground probably wasn't due to snow.

    It must be said that this sore throat thing is hanging on in there & getting a bit old now.

    It's odd how each and every bat plague infection causes the injection site to be a bit sore/tingly a few days before the full blown symptoms appear. Odd.

    The blue sky and sunshine went away to be replaced by grey skies and rain.

    No walk today.

    Lunch: brunch. "Entertainment": that thing about the remarkably rapid demise of an old chap who had oesophageal cancer which had spread. (Killed one of my grandfathers: saved the country thousands: he was 64).
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Today, 10:41.

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  • WTFH
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    Morning all
    8C when we went out earlier and the forecast was for heavy rain, so I was dressed for that. In the end it was just a few light showers. Sky appears to be clearing a bit now, but I'm not expecting it to be weather for hanging out washing.

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  • NickFitz
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    Tonight's major motion picture premiere was Open Water (2003) in which a couple of SCUBA divers are left behind by their tour boat and discover that the ocean isn't much to their liking after all. A lot of blame is placed on the tour operators who got the head count wrong. I would simply point out that these people had a perfectly good house that they could have stayed in, but chose instead to go On Holiday and Do Stuff. Their home had neither sea water nor sharks in it, yet they willingly went somewhere that had both, and faced the consequences. This is why I don't go anywhere or do anything

    And then a rewatch of Companion (2025). It's still very good and very funny, at least by the standards of most of the robot-gone-off-on-one films we see so much of nowadays

    Goodnight all

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
    Evening with sister at pub. She paid!
    I've paid for two of the last three times we've had a family outing, which we only manage once or twice a year. I reckon I should be safe for at least a couple of years now

    Then again, my sister and her husband do such a cracking job of Christmas that it must count for a couple of outings in its own right, so they're off the hook. We're going to have to start expecting the nieces to pay for stuff at this rate, but that doesn't seem right somehow

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  • xoggoth
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    Evening with sister at pub. She paid!

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  • NickFitz
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    For tea tonight, I popped round to the kebab shop

    And to go with this, some new Police Interceptors

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  • NickFitz
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    I made it out to the countryside! Parked by the churchyard in a not-too-distant village, and headed down a footpath that passes between the graves and runs out into assorted fields

    I didn't really go that far - maybe about a mile before turning back because there's a small river, though often more like a brook in a very deep and broad ditch at that point, and getting down to the footbridge across it can be tricky when the ground's at all muddy, the ditch having very steep sides. In fact, I didn't get that far because that field is now laid to some kind of crop, the surrounding ones being pasture. I didn't want to trample what were still pretty much seedlings, and couldn't be bothered to walk all the way round the edge only to find that the footbridge was either under the river because of recent rain, or quite dangerous to get down to, those being the only two states I've ever found it in

    So I retraced my steps. The whole amble lasted a bit over an hour because of frequent pauses to observe things by the wayside: some sheep in a neighbouring field, ridges from mediaeval times, various fungi, trees, and the like. It was very relaxing

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  • sadkingbilly
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    two days spent attempting to reach a proper computer.
    balked by an 'upgrade' to Windoze systems in the interminable chain of jumps to get to a 3270 terminal.
    FFS
    I HATE WINDOZE!!!!!!!
    still,
    kerCHING!!
    I can do real work tomorrow.

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  • ladymuck
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    Assorted clothings were draped over the airer in a gap between meetings.

    2 hours done. 4 to go.

    Lunch prepped ready to finish off in my next gap.

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  • NickFitz
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    Lunch: Heinz tomato soup and white toast

    Spent a chunk of the morning mucking around with RealityKit shaders. Might get around to going for that country walk soon, after which I shall start digging into some blog posts and articles about barycentric coordinates, whatever they are

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  • ladymuck
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    Morning all

    Cloudy with occasional gaps. Some dampness about. Currently 10 degrees with a high of 14 expected. There could be some sunshine, there could be some rain. There's also a 'moderate wind warning' but that's for tomorrow. Barometer up to 998 mBar.

    Sunrise 07:38; Sunset 17:53 BST

    Rubbish sleep due to irritable legs and being too hot or too cold.

    Assorted clothings are in the WM.

    Six hours of meetings today.

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Morning.

    Wednesday.

    Dry.

    Grey.

    Sunless.

    Dreary.

    Chilly in here at 17.4 deg, 16 in the kitchen, 14 in the leanto, 10.5 in the saltinghouse.

    Slight condensation on the bedroom window. 2nd time this autumn.

    993.5 mBar, 29.34 in Hg, 745.2 Torr, 14.4 psi, (up from 990 last night assuming I tapped it), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 25th of February 2020 BR14 popped in with discussion of Hill Street Blues, NF mentioned it was on Amazon Prime, I didn't mention I had the dvds, LM couldn't be bothered to make pancakes.

    Washing frenzy in progress: the chances of anything drying on the line seem remote, but we'll wait & see.

    Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: "The death of an ordinary man" at 11:45. .

    Can't say there's much in the way of drying going on with the washing. I'll bung the shirts in the TD at 15:00 if they're still damp.

    Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine. Rather pleasant though the inevitable grey began its return halfway through.

    Shirts in off the line & duly iRoned, airing upstairs now along with the smalls.

    Currently getting outside a mug of mediocre but consistent coffee and typing this nonsense.

    Tea: Tesco battered cod/haddock. Nice enough.

    Entertainment: PM. <click>

    No Maigret this evening. .

    The crash detective thing: some lune, pissed up, riding an electric scooter in the middle of lane 1 in the dark at 0100 in the morning. Not survivable when some poor sod runs into the back of you at 70mph. Think of it as evolution in action. Darwin wins again*. *Only if he didn't have 13 illegitimate kids of course. .

    Scotland Yard: pools winner of £30k (1938) offed by a commercial traveller. Equivalent to £1.755M today.

    The repair shoppe. Nothing of any innerest in this other than the automaton.
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; Yesterday, 19:04.

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