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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Lovely sunny day with high level wispiness about. Weather app thinks it's foggy. Currently 1 degree with a high of 5 expected. Barometer is at 1017 mBar.

There were people scraping ice off their cars this morning.

Uneventful journey home yesterday evening. Despite planning to leave in plenty of time, a major car accident that closed a main road around the corner from HWMBO's place meant that I had about a 30 min delay to my journey to the airport. I got sat with 5 mins to go before it started. The meeting went well enough, although the wifi in the BA lounge is certainly not up to the task of running Teams so I had to piggyback off my phone's 4G.

[WTFH]

Morning all
A lovely walk was had before sunrise. It was a bit slippy in places. What few clouds were hanging around earlier have now disappeared and there's juts some patches of mist in the valley below.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Frosty and misty start but above the mist, the sky is clearly blue with a red dawn in the east. Currently -1°C rising to 3° by around lunchtime, and doing the thing of getting even warmer tonight but with an added chance of rain. The barometers are back up to 1006/1014mB for now

[NickFitz]

No more telly tonight, but I've read a big chunk more of The Battle of the Beams

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

Just back from Karaoke. Loony lady 1 yesterday. Old farty arty thing this morning which I can't miss as am group leader. Loony lady 2 wake tomorrow and son wants to meet up some time. Prob. ll1 again on Friday and wood volunteer thing Saturday. Not enough me time these days. Think I'll lock meself in garage and pretend to be dead.

[NickFitz]

Tea was a pork cutlet with chips, peas and gravy

And it was accompanied by 24 Hours in Police Custody: The Siege

I was interested in this one as it was about two blokes holed up in a high rise flat in Bedford. There aren't many 1960s blocks of flats in Bedford so I figured I'd know where it is, and it turned out to be a place I remember well, being just down the road from where we lived when we first moved there.

It was a pretty sad story really: both the guys had serious mental health problems and had basically received no support at all.

It was also noteworthy for the fact that one of them fired an air rifle at a police car, and the copper inside the car described the one that did it, but the investigation team decided it must have been the other one. So the misidentification was blithely dismissed: "Only human, easy to make a mistake in a stressful situation" and so on. I bet when the shoe is on the other foot and a suspect says something contradicted by other evidence, they're immediately saying "Obvious liar, can't believe a word they say"

They also ignored the copper's assertion that he'd seen a muzzle flash; not something you get from an air rifle

[NickFitz]

is anyone having issues reading this message....... D'OH!

Just don't try to read it when the server's down!

[Dactylion]

FYI, the forum might be up and down a bit while some server reconfiguration goes in to try and get rid of those annoying errors. When it was me and admin, we'd wait until late at night to do this stuff, but plus ça change and all that

is anyone having issues reading this message....... D'OH!

[NickFitz]

FYI, the forum might be up and down a bit while some server reconfiguration goes in to try and get rid of those annoying errors. When it was me and admin, we'd wait until late at night to do this stuff, but plus ça change and all that

[Dactylion]

Morning all, Glasgow calling

.........................................BA lounge at Glasgow airport from which to attend the meeting.

Oh No! You have brought back BAAAD memories and trauma!!

Many a time I was sat, sitting at Glasgow airport, sobbing into my Costa coffee, waiting to be crammed onto a smelly EasyJet plane to the tulip hole that is Luton (airport).

I suspect it's slightly "better" in a BA lounge but Luton was much nearer home for me than any BA airport (or EasyJet was much cheaper - I don't really remember)

Anyway just the thought of Glasgow reduces me to tears.
Not JUST Glasgow airport, not even ONLY Glasgow it's self, but the contract was for C&W for Tesco Bank... which was worse than the Airport, Glasgow and all the Sweaties combined!

I do remember finding it very difficult to communicate with many of my oppo's thick Glasgee accents made them uninteligable!

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Scotch broth with a crust of wholemeal. Just the thing on a rainy grey day

That said, the rain has now stopped. There may be another shower or two, but other than that we should be OK until later in the week, when it'll start again because I want to go outside

[NickFitz]

Morning all, Glasgow calling

Bright and sunny. Clouds here and there. Currently 2 degrees with a high of 4 expected.

HWMBO went off to Amsterdam for work first thing and I'm at his place working until I leave for the airport around 3pm. Annoyingly, I booked a 7pm flight so I could work until about 4.30pm uninterrupted. Then a meeting was put in that would start shortly before I need to leave and would risk me arriving late through rush hour traffic. So now I have to leave early to avoid the post school rush and find a quiet spot in the BA lounge at Glasgow airport from which to attend the meeting.

Don't forget to ping your heating so it's warm when you get home

[NickFitz]

I think I shall have a
New project plan has been agreed (but not released, it just happens to have been saved to a server folder I happen to have access to), which would extend the time of my involvement in the project through for at least a further 5 months.
Time to warm up my negotiating skills.

[WTFH]

find a quiet spot in the BA lounge at Glasgow airport from which to attend the meeting.

Good luck with that - although do they still have the fake fireplace bit past reception, turn right, past the newspapers and on the right?

[ladymuck]

Morning all, Glasgow calling

Bright and sunny. Clouds here and there. Currently 2 degrees with a high of 4 expected.

HWMBO went off to Amsterdam for work first thing and I'm at his place working until I leave for the airport around 3pm. Annoyingly, I booked a 7pm flight so I could work until about 4.30pm uninterrupted. Then a meeting was put in that would start shortly before I need to leave and would risk me arriving late through rush hour traffic. So now I have to leave early to avoid the post school rush and find a quiet spot in the BA lounge at Glasgow airport from which to attend the meeting.