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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a cold, grey, rainy morning - not drizzle, but proper rain that I can hear falling outside. That’s expected to continue, though perhaps not continuously, until teatime, and then it will resume later in the evening. There’s a breeze too, which means the theoretically acceptable 4°C “feels like” -5°; the high for the day will only be 6°. The barometers seem pessimistic too, being down to 973/981mB

On the other hand: it’s Thursday, so I’ll be done for the week by teatime! The sun goes down at 16:57 here today, so this should be the last day I have to work until after sunset until towards the end of the year!

[NickFitz]

In Berlin, the Germans finally surrendered. And then Stalin set to work to make everybody in Eastern Europe, especially the citizens of the USSR, suffer the consequences for decades to come

I also spent some time helping my sister set up WordPress for the website of an organisation she’s involved with

Thursday tomorrow!

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

This evening’s entertainment has been Seven Psychopaths. A good watch.

[NickFitz]

Tea: oniony chicken casserole with chips and peas

This was accompanied by The Truth About My Murder on iPlayer, a series presented by a forensic pathologist, reviewing old cases that were solved by forensic science

[xoggoth]

Old farty coffee morning with history group. An old farty talk afternoon looming, that ghastly ll2 badgered me into. Nice bright day, went for a wander near local town earlier.

Gawd, this darn Epstein thing in the news all the time, was there anyone who didn't know him? Bet some of you lot did.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: leftover pork cutlet in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce

It’s been a meeting-heavy morning. I presented my work-in-progress at the portfolio Show & Tell so as to convince them we’re getting somewhere

Sprint planning meeting this afternoon, then the weekly departmental thing. At some point, I may manage to squeeze in a few minutes of software development

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with occasional wisps. There was much rain late last night. Currently 7 degrees ('feels like' 4) with a high of 9 expected. The sunshine is set to remain all day. Barometer still at 993 mBar.

Sunrise 07:35; Sunset 16:56 GMT

I was going to go into clientCo's office but decided before going to bed last night that I couldn't be bothered. This lead me to discover that my Win 10 laptop has that 'feature' recently pushed by Microshaft whereby you think you've turned it off but something keeps running in the background to prevent that from happening.

[Pondlife]

Good Morning,

Wind 11 kt from the East
Temperature 6°C
Humidity 100%
Pressure 989 hPa
Visibility: 8000 m
Overcast at a height of 400 ft

Improving slightly and I can see blue patches from my window.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Drily damp.

Blue sky in parts.

Wanly hints of sunny.

Chilly in here at 12.7 deg, 11 in the kitcehn, 9 in the leanto, 7.6 deg in the salting house.

986.5 mBar, 29.1313 in Hg, 739.93 Torr, 14.3 psi, (down from 987.5 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric)

Meanwhile on the 15th of March 2020 scruff, AndyGarbs, BR14 and DaveB popped in, LM had a nasty headache, NF was watching the BluRay version of "Threads" whilst I watched other stuff, some of which I'd watched before, though none of it involved Global Thermonuclear War as such.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Oh, and it's High Tide, so the marsh is underwater. Just as well the river isn't in flood. . Coz that's when it get really exciting, as on one occasion on the towpath walk there was river one side, the canal the other and 5 feet of path with not much between the two, though not as exciting as the time the river overflowed into the canal at Tonna lock.

Walk (towpath, unabbreviated) walked in the sunshine. It was nearly warm in one place.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y. Welsh Water. Electrick cars.

Well in a definite second, a hawk just took a pigeon as I was bringing in the shirts. .

The first time this happened a hawk took a jackdaw which led to much angst in the local population. They were a bit upset at the pigeon too, but not to nearly the same extent.

All the washing in off the line, iRoned where needed & airing upstairs. It all dried pretty well & the TD wasn't needed.

Entertainment: Archive hour: Steelmakers, followed by a bit of one about "Taxi Driver (1976)". That Travis Bickle, what's he like?

Tea: Tesco battered ?haddock? etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM.

Book.

Scotland Yard: the dating agency one.

Yesterday: Abandoned Engineering: I'd be surprised if there's any engineering involved: Fort Monmouth, NJ: US Signal Corps labs: Julius Rosenberg of Frying Tonight fame worked there during WWII along with two of his Soviet handlers. Blainau Ffestiniog slate mines: best slate in the world, sadly the most expensive. Leros, Greece: Churchill's Folly: the idiocy of retrying the Dardanelles all over again in 1943. Castillo Unanue, Peru: Peruvian slavery, indentured Chinese labour once the slavery was banned.

TLC (I'm sure this used to called something else): Bad Skin Clinic. Hope it's not more keloids. Woman with rosacea brought on by fillers. She's spent £13k on previous "cures" that haven't worked. Chap with skin tags on his thighs and under his arms. Chap with vitiligo.

Elementary S1 E12 "M". The one with Vinnie Jones.

The final ep of "Smiley's People" 6/6. Isn't 1982 a looooong time ago and far far away, they did things differently then: such as smoking like chimneys for one thing.

[WTFH]

Won £50 on the Premium Bonds!

Thanks for reminding me. £225 in interest for me That's my biggest "win" since (checking) May 2023 when I got £350.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Woke up and looked out the window to see the moon reflecting off our pond in a way that reminded me of the Casino sign at the start of Goldfinger. Even though the skies were clear, it was 7C, so I'm not complaining there. The dawn chorus started around 6.30
...and that is the day so far.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day! What a surprise

It’s also quite misty and feels damp out there, based on poking my head out of the bedroom window. Normal-for-now temperatures: currently 3°C with an expected high of 7°, and a chance of some clearer skies towards sunset. The barometers are down a touch at 980/988mB

[NickFitz]

The washing was brought to a successful conclusion

In Berlin, it’s all gone to pot. Hitler’s dead, the Goebbels children have been murdered by their mother, the city is in ruins, and what remains of the Wehrmacht is desperately trying to head west to surrender to the Americans instead

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Just back from me karaoke thing. Rather foggy drive.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb tagine with homemade pilau rice

Nice enough overall, though I think I need to practice both recipes a bit more and maybe adjust various quantities

This was accompanied by the start of a new series on 4, 999: What Happened Next. It does that mildly annoying thing of switching back and forth between two entirely unrelated cases, presumably so we don’t get bored, but it’s quite interesting. A respectable middle-aged bloke claims the car thief he stabbed “ran onto” the knife he was carrying, and a young woman says she's being stalked by her ex who set fire to her car - but maybe she's stalking him and ripping him off, depending on who you believe. I suspect the ex is doing himself no favours by repeatedly telling the police how useless they are in his interview

And there’s a bedding wash on. The washer-dryer has just sent me a message to say it’s finished washing, so I need to decide whether to split the load for drying. Don’t think I’ll bother; it’s only a fitted sheet and four pillowcases