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[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb steaks with chips and beans

And to go with this, the rest of the motorway cops thing from yesterday

[NickFitz]

Another week done!

Not the most productive of weeks, given that it’s only been two days of work. But I got some useful stuff done on Tuesday, and the other dev and I collaborated on a worthwhile debugging session this afternoon trying to track down an anomaly somewhere

She’s off next week and I’m off the week after, in both cases because of our respective birthdays!

[ladymuck]

In catching up on nerdy news earlier this week, I forgot to mention this from our old pal Diamond Geezer:

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2...-line.html?m=1

I thought it quite informative and almost made me consider being more accurate in my sunrise and sunset times, rather than use what value my weather app provides.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy but dry. Currently 18 degrees and the high was 19. Barometer down to 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 06:19; Sunset 19:48 BST

The migraine wiped out this morning and I have not been out of bed for long. Still very fuzzy headed. None of my usual drugs had any effect on the pain. Radio 4 was quite numbing though.

[NickFitz]

There is a very good station pub to waste away 30 minutes (Sheffield Tap) and there is a model railway shop by the entrance of the station as well - little need to stand around doing nothing in Sheffield station. The town itself though is very meh

I should have explored more! But I was only standing around because I was there for a lot longer than originally planned, due to the incoming train being held up

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a pancetta omelette

Very grey out now, as was foretold

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday apparently.

Dry.

Grey.

Wanly sunny.

NotSoChilly in here at 16.4 deg, allegedly 17 deg in the kitchen (it's a bit close to the kettle), 15.5 in the leanto.

1014 mBar, 29.94 in Hg, 760.6 Torr, 14.7 psi, (down from 1016 last night), 70% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 24th of March 2020 Brillo popped in A Lot, whilst AndyGarbs, BR14, and WTFH managed to pop in a little. .

Woke at 05:55 again: read book. Finished book. Discovered I'd turned over two pages at the same time & reread last chapter which then made more sense. Dozed a bit listening to Today which went <click> a lot.

Just discovered that the washing line requires replacement due to failure of one of the cords. Glad I noticed that. Must have been the strain imposed by the semigale and 3 bedsheets the day before yesterday. . More expense. . I think this one has lasted a couple of years.

'Tis now so misty the other side of the valley has disappeared and it's drizzling like a good 'un. .

Just as I was preparing to go for a walk.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: something or other about an opera singer on R4.

Book: read the end of "Black Mischief" again in case this morning's reading had missed even more than I'd thought.

It hadn't though some deft googling did reveal some more about Azania and the Azanian Railway. Apparently there's a map in Waugh's book (but not in the Penguin) of said isle and railway, which, it appears, is the Addis to Djibouti narrow gauge line shown back to front.

There's another short story about Basil Seal: "Basil Seal rides again" which wasn't in the Waugh collection "Work Suspended (1948, Boots Lending Library copy)" due entirely to it not being written in 1948.

Might pop out this afternoon to buy another clothes line seeing as the current one has exceeded its useful life from the appearance of things.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine & brief shower of rain, during which a visit to The Range provided me with a replacement washing line, the fitting of which will occur in the near future once I've found the round tuit.

Touch of the itchy eye syndrome, which is irritating in more than one way. Got away without it last year for some reason: this year: not so much.

Tea: beans on toast with a baked spud. Entertainment: PM <click>.

PBS: Alice Roberts waffling on about King Arthur (again) <click>.

5: Secrets of the River Clyde: och ye'll have built 3 of the Queens but now others build them instead. Managed decline at its finest.

Sky Arts: Discovering Robert Donat.

The Story of Terminator II. He's back.

Face to Face: Evelyn Waugh. Alternatively

True Crime: Britain's almost perfect murders.

[eek]

Rasputin continues to scandalise polite society, though he isn’t much better when he’s away from them: while travelling to his family home in Siberia, he got so drunk on a river ferry that the secret police who were there to surreptitiously observe his movements had to carry him to his cabin, where he fell asleep on the table

I’m quite knackered after today’s adventures! Takes it out of you, standing around on Sheffield railway station

But… Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

There is a very good station pub to waste away 30 minutes (Sheffield Tap) and there is a model railway shop by the entrance of the station as well - little need to stand around doing nothing in Sheffield station. The town itself though is very meh

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a mix of blue sky and mares’ tails out there this morning, and getting cloudier. Still mild at 11°C climbing to 15°, but it’ll cool down towards the weekend. The barometers are down to 1005/1013mB

Today is Tech Debt Day, when we work on the boring details that otherwise keep getting left for somebody else to do, there being nobody else to do them. This is, as usual, rather annoying. The thing I’ve been working on has been in the hands of the users for UAT and there are some bits of feedback I’d like to dig in to, some being minor cosmetic things, but at least one being fundamental to the entire structure of the app

This last demonstrates a disconnect between how the senior users who gave us the specs think the data should ideally be represented, and what the ordinary users would find convenient for the way they actually work day-to-day. I figured out a good part of how to make it work in my head while I was travelling yesterday, and reckon I could have it sorted in a couple of hours, and even give users a toggle to switch between the two ways of viewing it. But instead, I’ll be mucking about with something to do with how cookies are sent

[WTFH]

Morning all
What was CBS, etc at 6:00 became misty by 6:30. The sun is now attempting to burn it off. Cooler on the walk, but not unpleasant.
Last night's bonfire to clear the shed base area has been successful.

[NickFitz]

Rasputin continues to scandalise polite society, though he isn’t much better when he’s away from them: while travelling to his family home in Siberia, he got so drunk on a river ferry that the secret police who were there to surreptitiously observe his movements had to carry him to his cabin, where he fell asleep on the table

I’m quite knackered after today’s adventures! Takes it out of you, standing around on Sheffield railway station

But… Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

HWMBO made three curries for dinner to accompany a fourth that he made before the weekend.

A migraine wiped out my afternoon and I spent most of it in bed. Still fuzzy headed but at least I can now see straight and remember words again.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been sausages, chips, and beans, because it was quick and easy to make and the sausages Needed to be Eaten™ anyway

This was accompanied by part of an episode of the motorway cops thing

[NickFitz]

The last time I went to Manchester was for a CUK Christmas do!

Same! Though this time, I never even got as far as the City Centre

[NickFitz]

Home again!

It was a bit hot for travelling

The journey up was mostly uneventful, except that the train from Sheffield to Stockport ended up missing my connection by one minute. This was only to Levenshulme though, two stops up the line, and the next train was in twenty minutes. So the only adverse effect was me and my sister (who was coming via a different route but also connecting there, and whose train was also a few minutes late) got to the place about five minutes late, though they’d been able to get started as our brother was there on time

Anyway, once we were there, all the paperwork was got through very efficiently, so it’s all stamped and witnessed and so on. Nothing further will happen for about eleven months unless there’s a problem with one of the documents, in which case we’ll hear from the relevant department of the Irish government in about nine months

My sister had to leave while some loose ends were still being sorted out as she’d booked specific trains, whereas I’d got an open return so I stayed on with my brother. Then I noticed she’d left one of her bags down the side of the desk! She walks fast, like me, and by the time I’d got my head out of the door and shouted after her, she was too far away to hear. So I had to go running after her, finally catching her up a couple of hundred yards up the road. Running being something I very seldom do, I was absolutely knackered by the time I’d walked back to the place

Coming back, things went smoothly until Sheffield, where the incoming train was delayed by twenty minutes - nearer twenty-five in the end, as they had to switch it to a lesser-used platform and send it past the station to reverse back in. The platform was very full by the time it arrived and I was thinking it would be a struggle to find a seat. But these turned out to be people who couldn’t or didn’t read the overhead display saying “1st Class at the rear” and as they all shambled off up the platform to the cattle trucks, I was able to get a double table seat in First. I would have had it to myself, except a bloke turned up just before we left who’d been intending to get the next train. But he was harmless enough

Then they decided to put the people going to the three stops between Derby and here off at Derby, as the next train was just behind so they’d only be delayed a bit longer, so we managed to make up over ten minutes on that leg and arrived only ten minutes or so late

It was still very warm for the walk home though, being uphill most of the way

Right! Time to sort out my tea. I didn’t get around to having any lunch, so I’m ready for it