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[NickFitz]

I finished Sisters By a River tonight. I think I’ll be going straight on to another Barbara Comyns book; they’re very enjoyable

Earlier today I did some stuff with RealityKit, leading to a cube drifting around randomly in 3D space. This may not sound like much, but it means I’ve worked out how to integrate RK with GameplayKit, which provides all kinds of weird and wonderful functionality such as path following and flocking

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been some Turkish leftovers

To go with this, The Crash Detectives (though iPlayer seems a little uncertain about whether “The” should be included in the title), with no fatalities for a change!

[xoggoth]

wotsisname? - Boris?

No, he says his name is Cyril.

[ladymuck]

Popped out to the post office to send some tree baubles and a jar of home-made mincemeat up to HWMBO. This morning's sunny outlook has definitely disappeared in favour of a dull grey. The forecast rain was trying to get going with some spits here and there. Chilly breeze too.

The bed linen is nearly all laundered. I will leave the mattress topper for another day; once the rest has dried and I have more room to put it out.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: some cold cocktail sausages and a bag of crisps

[sadkingbilly]

Free day 2day, most exciting thing is trip to town to look for a new mattress. Tiny spider still on me monitor, he's going to be my best mate he is.

wotsisname? - Boris?

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[xoggoth]

Free day 2day, most exciting thing is trip to town to look for a new mattress. Tiny spider still on me monitor, he's going to be my best mate he is.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey day here, and still breezy after what sounded like a very windy night. It’s 10°C (“feels like” 3°) and just about getting to 11° later, and the barometers are down some more at 992/1000mB

I had what seemed to be a decent night’s sleep in aggregate, though I did have some rather weird and fairly vivid dreams - nothing particularly unpleasant, though. Then I was awoken at 7 by the alarm I’d forgotten to turn off, after which I went back to sleep until half nine in protest

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with very pretty fluff lumps gently wafting by. Currently 11 degrees ('feels like' 9) with a high of 12 expected. Cloud cover set increase with a risk of rain late afternoon. Barometer down to 1006 mBar.

Sunrise 08:01; Sunset 15:52 GMT

Today is decision day for two job offers and whether I want to do them both part time or just do one of them. As they're very different, I like the idea of doing both. Whilst one will be less flexible about part time, it will still be possible.

[Pondlife]

Good Morning all,

Final Monday alarm clock of the year!

Wind 9 kt from the South
Temperature 9°C
Humidity 93%
Pressure 1003 hPa
Visibility: 6000 m
light rain

[DoctorStrangelove]

Started? I'm not sure it's stopped here since yesterday. . The Puddle(tm) is back: bigger and deeper than before. .

Morning.

Monday.

Wet. Very wet. Wetly wet with more wet in case the first wet wasn't wet enough.

Dark. Extremely dark.

Black side of grey.

Chilly in here at 14.5 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 12.5 in the leanto.

998 mBar, 29.47 in Hg, 748.6 Torr, 14.4747 psi, (down from 1003 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 6th of March 2020 Brillo and AndyGarbs popped in, Churchill was busy selling stuff to the Russians, NF had his first new £20 note which was used to pay the butcher, LM made madeleines in some Proustian endeavour, and I was in with the proles in the library.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some nonsense or other about houses and house prices.

Rain eventually stopped.

Next door's back garden is underwater rather more than recently. My pigsties are about an inch and a half deep. Just as well the last pigs departed 60 years ago.

Seems even deeper further along the back lane. Don the miner would be very upset if he was still with us.

Fortunately high tide has passed without the marsh being flooded.

Tea: chicken in white sauce etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM. <click>

"The Small Backroom (1949): Powell & Pressburger bomb disposal epic. Too exciting for me at the moment <click>.

The Oak Island nutjobbery: S11 E16 "Dark and Stormy". More wood. 2 buttons. Hurricane Lee.

History's greatest mysteries: Stonehenge: naturally enough Merlin brung the stones from Ireland. As if that wasn't bad enough Derek von Heiniken is duly mentioned in the final 10 minutes, along with s. .

Operation Sealbay 1983: the nutter who drove around in Porches and Rolls Royce motor cars in rural Pembroke in the 1970s. WTF?

How dumb do you have to be to do that? And buying drinks on the house in pubs. That'll get you noticed by the Cardies. .

At least the LSD manufacturing bunch in Tregaron (Operation Julie 1976) had more sense than that..

[WTFH]

Morning all

Everyone running late today.

Darkest start to a walk this morning - overcast and very blustery. The good news was that we got back in before the rain started.

[NickFitz]

I wasn’t in the mood for learning more about Sam Pepys’ terrible behaviour just yet, so tonight’s reading has been Barbara Comyns’ Sisters By a River. She’s a very idiosyncratic writer, and very entertaining

Monday again tomorrow! But not that kind of Monday

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

The bed has been made.