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[NickFitz]

The storm passed, and it brightened up again - the sky’s mostly clear now

Tea was homemade sweet & sour pork with fried rice. Turned out well; I won’t be opening a takeaway any time soon on the strength of it, but I enjoyed it

To go with this, the final 20 minutes or so of the 24 Hours in Police Custody I started watching yesterday. Have to wait until next week for the second episode

[NickFitz]

Thunder!

Haven’t seen any lightning yet, but it’s raining pretty heavily

[xoggoth]

^Weather forecasts for the same area seem to differ by source, nearly always pessimistic too, usually nicer than it's supposed to be.

[ladymuck]

Of the weather options that were proffered this morning, the one currently being delivered is sunshine with lumps of fluff.

[xoggoth]

Old fart group walk this morning. Old fart history group AGM this evening. Think this old fart is being old farted to death.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been the last of the turkey soup from Christmas (actually frozen 2/1/2026) with a crust of wholemeal

Various meetings this morning, which was a bit annoying as I wanted to carry on digging into the problem we’ve been having

I think I made some useful discoveries in the last half-hour or so before lunch though

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and overcast. Currently 14 degrees ('feels like' 12) with a high of 17 expected. It might rain, or the sun might make an appearance. Barometer down to 1015 mBar.

Sunrise 06:06; Sunset 19:58 BST

Yesterday evening HWMBO and I walked down to the pub on the corner for dinner for a change. They do good Thai food there.

Today, I was supposed to be in the office for Gig3 but I also have a lot of meetings to attend for Gig1. I thusly came to the conclusion at 0630 that I had that particular flavour of back problem which prevents one from getting out of bed.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dreary.

Chilly in here at 14.2 deg, 15 in the kitchen, 14 in the leanto.

1007 mBar, 29.74 in Hg, 755.3 Torr, 14.6 psi, (down from 1009 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 24th of March 2020 BR14, covbob, LM, NF and I popped in, with NF cooking apple pies. Well there's a thing.

Prepared more green bags of moss for disposal tomorrow, just as it started to rain.

Freecell score in the grey gloom of the morning: 89%, running average: 84%.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: noon o'clock news. Y&Y waffling on about potholes.

Much spraying of black mould killer as the cleaning of the springs begins again for another year. It does look a bit cleaner in the leanto now.

Freecell score in the wanly sunny afternoon: 100% (of 17), running average: 84%.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine & cold wind. Eventually became warm enough to remove scarf & unzip jackets.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock: much nicer that that Tesco "white fish", being twice the price. Entertainment: Media programme. PM. Septic comes on <click>.

"Those British Faces": Will Hay. . Goodness me. . <click>

"Out of Town" with Jack Hargreaves.

Scotland Yard. "The crossroads gallows".

Blaze: the unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd "Astonishing bodies".

Thing on Alba about climbing a sea stack near Ullapool. Feck me. .

Thing on Alba about Leonardo da Vinci 1/n. Ken Burns.

Sudden fit of sneezing earlier. I hope I haven't contracted anything on that bus ride yesterday. I did find it very chilly indeed.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast and mizzly out, but a walk has been had.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It's a grey sort of morning and there seems to have been a shower or two overnight, and today will continue much the same, getting windier towards lunchtime and with a chance of rain towards teatime. Mild enough: currently 12°C (“feels like” 7°) with an expected high of 16°. The barometers are down again at 1001/1009mB

[NickFitz]

Oops! Wrote up a goodnight post last night and forgot to post it! I was tired…

Here it is for posterity:



This evening’s viewing was the first part of a new 24 Hours in Police Custody, about the cold case of an elderly woman murdered in Wisbech. The police who originally responded dismissed it as a natural death and handed the scene back to the family, meaning it was completely contaminated; it turned out she’d been stabbed multiple times and an attempt made to set her on fire. Interestingly, they showed the cold case squad interviewing the sergeant who’d been in charge of the scene trying to explain and justify his catastrophic ballsup to them while they said things like “In all my years of policing, I’ve never seen such an inexplicable decision”

Later in Here, There and Everywhere they’ve recorded Revolver and the Beatles are back in the studio after their final tour, planning to do things differently from now on

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb tagine with rice

This was out of the freezer (except the rice, done in the rice cooker) but there’s been other cooking going on. I’d taken lamb mince out of the freezer yesterday so I could make a shepherd’s pie base today, then leave it in the fridge for the flavours to mingle and develop. And later I’d taken out some belly pork rashers, intending to have a stir-fry or something with those today. But I’d forgotten about them, so I hadn’t put them in a low oven mid-afternoon as I usually do

So I decided to have the tagine and rice, and also pop the pork in the oven to slow-cook; it’s just browning and crisping up now, after which it can go in the fridge. And the shepherd’s pie base is also done and cooling down. So for a couple more days there'll only be minor extra work to be done to get dinner sorted out, which works out quite nicely

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some leftover Thai chicken bits

There was a meeting before that. We have this one every week and often manage to end it fairly quickly, but this one ran the full hour, up to 13:00

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with occasional fluff. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 14 expected. Barometer up to 1018 mBar.

Sunrise 06:08; Sunset 19:56 BST

Much laundry being done this morning.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Dry with hints of damp about the air.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dreary.

Chilly in here at 14.6 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto.

1008.5 mBar, 29.78 in Hg, 756.44 Torr, 14.63 psi, (down from 1009 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 24th of March 2020: as per yesterday.

Slept quite well. Woke up to find it was half past eight. Which made a pleasant change from 05:55.

Even more chilly out.

Trip to that Swansea done: X7 down, T6 back. Thankfully Fabian Way is open again, even if only single lane both ways. Dunno WTF they're doing to it.

Books donated to that Oxfam & one book bought. Didn't find any reasonably priced jeans in M&S. I really do miss those £9 and £15 jeans.

Returned to Neath in time for that really fine rain to start: the rain that's 13.7 times as wet as any deluge.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: 11:45 story about Iran <click> Noon o'clock news: nothing good. Y&Y waffling on about leasehold <click>.

Looked at the pictures in today's book, published 1972: of the industry illustrated therein, most of it has disappeared without trace, though bits of Trostre, Margam and Llanwern are still there.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked: after this morning's unpleasantly chilly endeavours, the afternoon was more pleasant with the return of discarded layers from some weeks ago, plus the scarf. Still wasn't anywhere close to raising a sweat, but at least it didn't rain.

Now getting outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee. I've turned into my father. .

Tea: soup etc. One I hadn't tried before: nice enough. Entertainment: PM <click> The usual gloom & doom. And how the feck are we going to pay for defence without putting taxes up? Askin' for a friend. . (*Friend can remember income tax at 36% . My father must have paid it at approachiing 50%).

U&Eden: Lucy Worsley waffling on about Agatha Christie and SepticLand History's biggest lies.

Sky Arts: Spymasters: Ian Fleming to James Bond. (Deighton next week).