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[NickFitz]

For tea, I continued this week’s theme of “things that are wholly inappropriate for the weather but that’s what’s in the fridge” by having a roast chicken dinner

I made a bit of an effort with the chicken, shoving half an onion, several cloves of garlic, and a whole lemon cut in half in there. It came out tasting very nice indeed

To go with this, Fear City: New York vs The Mafia on Netflix, about the FBI’s efforts to overthrow the Mob in the 1970s and 1980s

[ladymuck]

I didn't need the cardigan I took to the office today.

[xoggoth]

Morning all

Time for a walk before it warms up.

I'm bit of a late getter upper, so tend to do my walkies in evening close to sunset at moment. Been doing more shed repairs this morning while the shed was still in shade of the trees. How exciting!

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a cold chicken leg

This morning was show & tell, in which I showed the stuff they didn’t have time for a fortnight ago as I haven’t done much that’s visible since then

And then it was the loooong quarterly retrospective

Planning meeting this afternoon, but there isn’t much to plan so that should be quite quick

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

22.2 deg in here, 23.2 in the kitchen, 21 in the leanto.

1013.5 mBar, 29.93 in Hg, 760.2 Torr, 14.6995 psi, (up from 1012 last night), 68% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of April 2020 Brillo, covbob, LM, MarkyMark, scruff, vetran and me popped in.

Walk (abbreviated, about 2 miles) walked in the unbearable heat of the mid morning.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Classic Movies: The 39 steps (1935).

Book.

Further Out of Town with Jack Hargreaves: hunting rabbits with a terrier and a ferret. Not a good day to be a rabbit. Gardening.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM. Dan Do. Out of Town with Jack Hargreaves: making Partridge fish hooks in Redditch. A really old fashioned firm making hooks from steel wire using basic machines. Showed grinding the point, making the hook, hardening the hook, tempering the hook, hot blueing or browning the hook, cleaning the hook, packaging. Amazingly enough they are still going. Gardening: took up concrete hardstanding to extend garden, then discovered that dead soil doesn't grow anything: added humus, then added earth worms.

Bab5 S1 E22 Chrysalis. Oh dear(tm). Here come the Shadows and this time they're not playing guitars.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s another warm one today, already at 22°C and expected to reach 30° for much of the afternoon and early evening, and only getting down to 17° tonight. The barometers are up to 1008/1016mB

I’ve had a busy start as I had to take my sample to the GPs before noon, and this morning is a bunch of meetings so I had no choice but to take it just now. I went by the route I discovered yesterday through the nature bit of the park, which meant almost all the way was in the shade. The round trip took fourteen minutes, including a couple of minutes telling the receptionist my date of birth and so on, so it wasn’t bad going

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Some wisps. Currently 20 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 32 expected. Barometer at 1020 mBar.

Sunrise 04:54; Sunset 21:18 BST

Tired.

On my way to the office. Was very tempted to stay in bed but there's air conditioning where I'm headed.

[WTFH]

Morning all

Time for a walk before it warms up.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s reading was a bit of Ra by qntm, and more of Eve’s Hollywood, in which it’s becoming increasingly clear that being a teenager in 1950s Hollywood was quite dissimilar to anything I’ve experienced, at that or any other age

Bit too hot again, isn’t it?

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb chops with chips and beans. Very nice, it was

Very similar to last night’s tea, due to sloppy management of Use By dates when shopping

This was accompanied by a thing on Netflix called Terrorism Close Calls. This episode is about a plan to bomb the NY subway in similar style to 7/7 in London. But it’s edited in that annoying fast-paced yet repetitious style; I swear they said “anniversary of 9-11” every sixty to ninety seconds in the first five minutes. And then there was some footage that was shown as the narrator was talking about the FBI keeping these guys under surveillance in New York, and it’s clearly in the UK! British houses, British bollards with a left-pointing arrow on the pedestrian island in the middle of the road, and parked vehicles with British number plates. Very sloppy

Then again, the intro was ranting about “the most dangerous terrorist plots in the world” and it’s pretty clear they mean “in the USA”, so this is probably as close as we’ll get to anything to do with the rest of the world

[NickFitz]

In other exciting news, I’m taking the last week of July off!

[NickFitz]

The chemist’s has been gone to, and also the surgery, as they want a bottle of piss for some reason and I wasn’t going to waste any of my empties on them

The promised cloud never arrived; if anything, there’s even less of it than there was before. It’s also 26°C out there. So it was a warm business

I went to the chemist’s first as I knew the prescription would only have come through yesterday or today, and they can be quite slow, so I figured I could go on to the surgery and come back if it wasn’t ready yet; better than sitting around in there for ten minutes. But they happened to be on top of things this time

I walked along the side of the road past the park going to the surgery, but coming back, I followed a track worn in the grass towards bushes and such. Way back when I was a student, that corner of the park was just open grass that got waterlogged in winter, but in the intervening years they’ve planted lots of trees and areas of plants that attract wildlife such as butterflies. Turns out it’s much nicer to walk through the winding grass paths in there than up the pavement next to the traffic, and I emerged just by where I needed to cross the road. I’ll have to explore that area further, as there were bits branching off in various directions along the way

[ladymuck]

It was unreasonably hot when I popped out to post Mum's birthday card. Glad my little office is generally on the cooler side.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a bit of leftover curry and naan, cold

I need to go to the chemist’s for the usual monthly bag of pills, which were delayed this month because of the annual medication review stuff meaning I haven’t got any of most of them left and can’t postpone it. Quite annoying, as it’s getting very warm. But apparently it’ll cloud over later in the afternoon so I’m putting it off until then; I may as well avoid getting sunburnt as well as overheated

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with a few wisps. Currently 27 degrees with a high of 31 expected. Barometer down to 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 04:53; Sunset 21:19 BST

Meetings this morning. Got asked to do something that I'd already done last week, so my anticipatory skills scored me brownie points

HWMBO is putting on a BBQ this afternoon for a few members of his family (his favourite niece and her kids) while I slave away working. That said, I'd rather not be hanging around a BBQ in this weather.