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[NickFitz]

There was no Monkey Life today, for unexplained reasons - but it continues next Saturday

But there was some wildlife stuff on later

Tonight, I started reading Antony Beevor’s new book Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs

The storm is finally here! Extremely windy out, and heavy rain from time to time

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

TFBSZ

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the Chinese place past the park. It was good, but not as good as from the nearby one that takes ages; I should stop being so lazy and go there more often

[ladymuck]

That didn’t last long!

No it didn't! Not impressed. I wanted a shower this morning before travelling.

HWMBO and I are now in Charles de Gaulle airport, having some refreshments in the lounge before our onward flight to Porto in a few hours. It's a lovely sunny day here; 17 degrees.

[NickFitz]

The new boiler has packed up. No pressure. I could have investigated how to top it up but the plumber really ought to work out what he did wrong first.

That didn’t last long!

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

I thought we were supposed be getting lashed by a storm this weekend? There’s a lot of cumulus making it cloudy with occasional sunshine getting through gaps, and it’s breezy, but I wouldn’t consider it “stormy”. The current 14°C “feels like” 7°, so I expect the high of 15° will “feel like” 8°; the barometers are up a bit at 999/1007

Maybe the storm thing was a prank by Carol on her last day

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy with spits of rain and occasional sunshine. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 14 expected. Barometer up to 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 06:30; Sunset 19:40 BST

HWMBO and I are at Heathrow T4 awaiting our flight to Paris and onwards to Porto.

The new boiler has packed up. No pressure. I could have investigated how to top it up but the plumber really ought to work out what he did wrong first.

[xoggoth]

Relaxy day, nowt I've got to do. Usually Friday or Saturday is a loony lady 1 day but she's at some religious thing in Skegness.

Must think of summit to do with much younger loony lady 4 tomorrow.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

?Saturday?

Wet.

Drizzly.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Misty: no view across the valley today boyo. There's tidy then.

Chilly in here at 14.2 deg, 13 in the kitchen, 12.5 in the leanto.

1010 mBar, 29.83 in Hg, 757.6 Torr, 14.65 psi, (down from 1010.5 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 23rd of March 2020, AndyGarbs, BR14, Brillo, LM, Scruff, WTFH, and openstrike popped in, whilst I moved the Spendor BC2 speakers into the "living room" whereas scruff regretted selling bits of hifi back in 2002 when changing continents.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC. Noon o'clock news. Moneybox <click>

Shopping trip to Morrisons because EVERYTHING is SHUT tomorrow: the way Sundays used to be. . Done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Freecell score: 95%, running average: 84%. It must have made an easier selection today.

Blaze: Holy something or other with Dennis Quaid: the usual Blazian bollox: Tower of Babel, Sphinx, something else that was so inneresting I fell asleep, St Peters in Vatican City with added bones.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM.

Look at Life: The Common Market 1962.

Maigret S4 E2 "The Fontenay Murders (1963)". The one where Madam Maigret's milk nearly boils over on the stove leading to some confusion.

The wind is rising. Lots of stuff rattling about in the garden from the sounds of it.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Misty out.

[NickFitz]

Tonight was Sisu night here, starting with a rewatch of Sisu (2022) followed by Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) in which the Finnish gentleman who inflicted such extraordinary mayhem on the Nazis when they tried to steal his gold proceeds to inflict yet more mayhem on officers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics when they try to capture him in retaliation for his activities during the Winter War. They’re both very good, though the sequel is possibly not as quintessentially perfect as the first, because you can’t really improve on perfection. But it’s well worth watching if you like that kind of thing (extremely brutal and bloody violence)

I noticed that both of them have gaping plot holes around the question of how the dog ended up back with him at their respective ends, but I think any and all such questions should be dismissed with the standard “a story not a documentary” get-out clause

And then the last two episodes of Hijack. I still think hijacking a Tube train is a more inherently interesting idea than hijacking a plane because the constraints imposed by the physical structure of an underground rail network make it more interesting when the writers think of an unusual way of breaking those constraints. Or maybe I just liked learning that the Berlin underground has lots of weird aspects such as lost stations, just like the London Underground

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb tagine and rice, being my homemade one out of the freezer. I can’t say it tastes much different to the Taste The Difference one so I must have done something right

This was accompanied by the rest of the aircraft carrier thing, in which they gave a big buildup to how perilous it was going to be heading into the Red Sea past the Houthis. And then the Navy decided it was, in fact, too perilous to have a camera crew getting in the way, and put them ashore in Oman

[DoctorStrangelove]

My tin shed is really wonky.

Then again I put the concrete floor in about 60 years after Ernie built it.

And it wasn't new when he did that, having been moved from his previous house.

It'll be good enough to see me out.

[xoggoth]

Took loony lady 3 to Sainsburies morning. Just about to drive off when a bloke waved and said she's left her stick. Then, when we had set off, she said she must have dropped her gloves at the ATM so had to drive all the way back only to dicover they were in her bag. The umpteenth time I've had to drive back because she's lost something. Maybe find her mind next time.

Just ordered a new shed - the guy building the base says it’s 6x3.

A wise decision to get a base done professionally. I did my own bases and my sheds are going all wonky.

[NickFitz]

I’ve been mucking around fixing the import of post edit history. In order to be sure what was going on, I had to get up a copy of vB5 running in a Docker container and configure it as a virtual host in Apache but using an older version of PHP than the new software, then work out how to get nginx to proxy it correctly, all of which was a bit of a pain but probably a worthwhile learning experience

Well, it’s a good job I did that as it revealed a bug in the post import step which would have resulted in every post since the vB5 migration not being imported!

Some might say that would be no great loss, but I like to be thorough

It was only a minor thing to fix so now Yet Another Import is running. It also means the problem with a field lacking an index that I came across recently ceases to be a problem. And if anything, the import seems to be running a bit faster despite involving an extra join in the query that gets the posts