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[WTFH]

Yesterday I learned that I can ask my car for gardening tips, and that when I say "thank you" a minute or so later, it wishes me good luck in growing the plants in question.

[NickFitz]

Lunch continues to be leftovers from the generous portions of Saturday's Indian takeaway: a couple of pieces of chicken tikka, and another onion bhaji

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[sadkingbilly]

Morning all

Dull and overcast. Currently 10 degrees ('feels like' 8) with a high of 12 expected. Rain forecast. Barometer remains at 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 06:59; Sunset 17:31 GMT

Feeling grumpy today.

morning all
still slaving away here wiv my spels and incantations.
oh dear, the other dwarves'll be jealous.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and overcast. Currently 10 degrees ('feels like' 8) with a high of 12 expected. Rain forecast. Barometer remains at 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 06:59; Sunset 17:31 GMT

Feeling grumpy today.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Dry but picking with rain.

Grey.

Misty.

Sunless.

NotSoChilly in here at 14 deg, 12.5 deg in the kitchen, 12 deg in the leanto.

1011.5 mBar, 29.87 in Hg, 758.7 Torr, 14.67 psi, (down from 1012 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 17th/18th of March 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, WTFH, NF and I popped in, whilst Churchill's mum was taken into hospital with cold sepsis.

Shopping trip to Morrisons, since the sun was out, duly washed dried sanitised & put away. It started picking to rain on the way back.

Apparently my dear nephew has started wearing a dress. . WTAF?

[WTFH]

Morning all
A very pleasant 9C out with no wind, no rain and just some high level cloud.
Head torch not needed from 6:40 on our walk

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Another day of very thin, high cloud. Less scattered than yesterday, though fairly patchy, and the sun is managing to appear pretty bright through it. It’s windy again too, so the current 8°C “feels like” 0° and presumably the expected high of 11° will also be attenuated. Chance of rain this evening and, though the temperature will dip for a couple of hours after sunset, it will then rise again, so it’ll still be 11° at midnight. The barometers are down some more at 999/1007mB

[NotAllThere]

Morning all.

Heading out to Morgestraich of the Basel Fasnacht.

Temperature 9.3 °C
Sunshine 0 of 10 min
Precipitation 0 mm/h
Wind speed 5 km/h from SW
Wind gusts 11 km/h
Humidity 82%
Pressure 986 hPa

Sunrise in 4 hours 20 minutes

[NickFitz]

There was some more wildlife stuff on the box earlier

Later I watched the rest of the Fukushima thing

And then I read some more of Peace and War. It turns out Forever Peace isn’t part of the same story as the other two, which involved the same characters and so on; according to the author, it was more a way of exploring the same ideas from a different perspective and with the benefit of twenty years of hindsight. It’s good though

Monday again tomorrow. Six weeks until Easter

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

The drive to Sussex was soggy with much rain. Quick journey though. The return trip was in lovely afternoon sunshine, also a quick journey.

Today is margarita day so HWMBO has made delicious margaritas to accompany dinner.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been the beef short ribs braised in Guinness, with chips and peas. It turned out exceptionally well! Absolutely delicious

[xoggoth]

Damn it! Should have done my wet walk later, it's been quite nice and bright for nearly an hour. Dropped in at village club, none of the people I know were there again, not sure I'll bother anymore.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a leftover onion bhaji

I’ve been investigating the import of the forums by the new software. There was a problem with the URLs, because it wasn’t importing things with hyphens like “business-contracts” correctly. There was an explicit check in the code that only allowed “word characters” through (basically, a to z, 0 to 9, and underscore) so I overrode that to let them through. Then another bit explicitly converted them to underscores! Yet the documentation for that field clearly states that hyphens are allowed! I went through absolutely everything this bit of the importer checks for when cleaning up this specific item of data, and none of it is required for the existing data. So now I just skip the lot

Before I got started on that, I had some beef short ribs to deal with. I don’t know why they’re called that, because they were too long for either the slow cooker or the InstantPot™

I ended up browning them, then putting them in a roasting pan covered in foil to braise with Guinness, herbs, stock, and veg in a very low oven. After they’ve had five or six hours of that, I can take the meat off the bones and dice it, thicken the sauce, and give it a little bit longer in a casserole dish

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull, cloudy, damp. Currently 12 degrees ('feels like' 10) with a high of 14 expected. The sun is forecast to make an appearance this afternoon. Barometer down to 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 07:01; Sunset 17:29 GMT

Dinner last night was superb. Such a shame the restaurant is closing next month.

Off to visit Mum today.