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[NickFitz]

Too many meetings today (i.e. three of them)

Lunch was a pancetta omelette

And a look through the binoculars suggests that the red light is on a crane, while the faraway windmills probably aren't visible from here because of some trees on a rise a mile or two away

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^ an OM.

Morning

Monday apparently.

Was dry: now wet.

Grey.

Sunless.

Cool in here at 19.1 deg, 20.5 deg in the kitchen (near the kettle), 19 deg in the leanto (far away from the kettle).

999 mBar, 29.5 in Hg, 749.3 Torr, 14.489 psi, (down from 1004 last night), 78% RH (GDR hair), 73% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 27th of September 2019 NF looked at the stars, LM came home & found her flat was stuffy because the heating had come on and celebrated by opening the windows & watching "Rise of the Nazis", I had M&S battered haddock for tea and watched a region 1 dvd from some Whoopi Goldberg boxset I've forgotten ever viewing, followed by an out of order viewing of an ep of "Jeremiah" S1: "Thieves Honor" (septic spelling). The only S1 ep of Jeremiah that I remember much was the one about the girl venturing off in a boat across the Pacific S1 E5 "To sail beyond the stars". The elephant ep, not so much.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Our earlier walk started out overcast and breezy, then 4km in it turned to drizzle. Now drying off at my desk.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Cloudy start, in a gloomy low overcast kind of way, heralding a week of cooler weather. The temperature's aren't quite plummeting yet though, being 12°C with 20° expected at least briefly this afternoon. The barometers are down at 995/1003mB

I noticed last night that if I look out of the bedroom window from a slightly off-centre position, I can see a red light glowing in the distance, of the kind that's placed on tall structures; if I stand in the middle of the window, it's obscured by a fir tree in a nearby garden. I was curious about what it was as I couldn't think of anything tall enough to need a light in that general direction, at least not within the city. So I took a bearing and had a look on the map, and I concluded that it must be one of the mighty windmills next to the M1 about two-thirds of the way to Lutterworth. I was just about able to see these when driving back from Nottingham on a clear summer day back in 2015, from a stretch of the Fosse Way that's on a hill, so I'll have to check whether I can spot them in daylight with the binoculars and confirm that it's them - though I may need to wait for a clearer day

[ladymuck]

Cloudy with intermittent patches of sky. Dry, no rain forecast. A bit of a breeze. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 19 expected. Barometer continues downwards to 1011 mBar.

Off to the office today. Don't want to be there but, hey ho.

[NickFitz]

Not much attention was paid to the US border stuff today because their terrible manners are rather off-putting. And the NZ police was all old hat; I've lost count of how many times I've seen that caravan with the broken wheel

I did a bit of experimenting with adding custom project templates to Xcode, but despite following precisely the methods outlined in two separate tutorials on the subject, it didn't work. Mind you, they were for Xcode 13 and I'm on 14, which could do with a bug fix release because it has several problems that really should never have made it past QA; so maybe it's not my fault

And this evening, a few old episode of 24 Hours in A&E though I'll be running out of them soon and will have to find something useful to do instead

Monday again tomorrow and, even worse, not a Bank Holiday

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Scotch broth out of the failing freezer

With this warm weather, it's only managing to get down to about -11°C, so I think the last of its contents need to be used up sooner rather than later

[NickFitz]

Lunch: ham toasties

Still very nice out; no sign of thunderstorms yet

[sadkingbilly]

Trying to find someone to do the hedge for me.

morning everyone
I can hedge your bets?

V pleasant morning here.
got another week or so before i come out of retirement (for the third time)
I suppose that means i'll have to tolerate moronic PM's again.
oh, well

[ladymuck]

The bed has been stripped and left airing. The first load is in the WM and the rotary WL has been deployed in readiness.

No visit to Mum this weekend but she did get visited by one of her sisters and their husband yesterday (a couple she fell out with about 30 years ago and has barely spoken to since).

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Sunny start again, with a bit of a high haze which is expected to clear later. It's already up to 19°C and will be reaching 23° again, so all the windows are open once more. The barometers are dropping though, being down to 1002/1010mB, presaging a cooler week ahead. We're just on the edge of the big yellow area for which the Met Office are warning of possible thunderstorms, which perhaps explains the 35% chance of rain at an unspecified time

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny, blue sky with wispy fluff. Currently 17 degrees with a high of 27 expected. Barometer down to 1015 mBar.

Ache from the meagre bit of gardening I did yesterday but more to do today. I'd like to finish the path clearance and deal with the triffids growing on the driveway.

Trying to find someone to do the hedge for me.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Cool in here at 19.1 deg, 20 deg in the kitchen, 19 deg in the leanto.

1008 mBar, 29.766 in Hg, 756.1 Torr, 14.62 psi, (down from 1011 last night), 78% RH (GDR hair), 74% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 27th of September 2019 NF was replete with tinned soup which was problematic in regards of The Big Chicken post roasting so he decided to make stock with the remains instead of soup, whilst his local bin situation was approaching critical, my previous humidity meter thing bit the dust when its chip died, to much distress, and LM had enough of work at 15:30 so went home, plus discussion of scotch eggs and their origins.

Mood not improved this morning by a smoke alarm going off for no reason at 05:15.

It rapidly lost its battery & was very lucky not to meet the club hammer.

Walk (unabbreviated) walked in the wan sunshine. Quite pleasant today.

Orange tipped white butterflies, white unspecified butterflies, and an ex slow worm who was too slow avoiding being run over. .

Lunch: beans on toast etc. Living the dream.

Entertainment: some R4 piffle about the latest SNP incumbent. What sort of tedious mofo is interested in politics at 15?

"It's a fair cop" S8 E6: domestic abuse: this one wasn't very funny. Odd that.

There was an adapted 87th Precinct epic on this morning: to whit: "Columbo: No Time To Die" based, apparently, on "So Long as you both shall live". Oddly I couldn't be bothered to watch it.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc here.