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[xoggoth]

Quite nice 2day tho. Saw quite a few bumble bees and some wasps in buzzing round flowery bush earlier.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: Heinz tomato soup and white toast

It’s becoming rather Simpsonesque out now, in contradiction of the gloomy prognostications of the weather app

I see, however, that we have an Amber weather warning for rain tomorrow, it being expected to arrive overnight and continue forever

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Earlier it was all blue sky and wispy fluff. Now the lumpier fluff has encroached but there's still plenty of sky to be seen when it moves out the way. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 16 expected. My weather app is displaying a 'moderate rainfall warning'. The clouds will come and go as the day progresses, but looking likely to be fully clouded over by early evening. Barometer up to 1007 mBar.

Sunrise 07:16; Sunset 16:14 GMT

Another day of meetings and such today. Although one is going to be bumped to next week, which is a relief.

Dinner yesterday was toad in the hole! Yum. Made with the sausages I picked up at Saturday's farmers' market. They were very nice. Good flavour and texture. Not sure putting 5 in a pack is forgivable though.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Thursday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

Bet that doesn't last long.

Chilly in here at 17.5 deg, 17 in the kitchen, 15 in the leanto.

1000 mBar, 29.53 in Hg, 750 Torr, 14.5 psi, (up from 995 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 29th of February 2020 Brillo popped in a lot, BR14 popped in, LM watched Timewatch and had garlic prawns, whilst NF went to the pub & didn't go to the Chinese, who were, presumably, devastated by this.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the wan sunshine.

Enlivened by the Calor Gas Emergency Drill Exercise. Didn't know so many people worked there, hundreds.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y scam watch <click>.

Chopped a lump out of my hand dusting. .

More welding practice. Stone me, I'm sure I used to be able to do this stuff. Now: not so much. Box of crappy Lidl(tm) rods used up.

Ground back the welds on the gate. .

Tea: beans on toast (full fat full sugar not that other crap).

Entertainment: PM.

The Nazi programme:

Once Upon a Time in Space. Beam me up FFS I've had enough.

[WTFH]

Morning all
13C out on our walk, no rain but overcast. No chance of seeing the aurora.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

There’s cloud of various kinds very low on the horizon in all directions, but above that the sky is clear and blue. The forecast thinks it’ll get cloudier though, so it’s a race between the sun trying to get high enough to shine down upon us and the cloud trying to conceal it. It’s a mild 12°C, though it “feels like” 7°, and expected to get to 14° which seems to be standard at the moment; the barometers are about the same at 993/1001mB

Most importantly: it’s Thursday!

Even better, a relatively meeting-free day; and I have a reasonably interesting problem to work on, to do with some five-year-old code that many parts of the app depend on but which needs adjusting for our present requirements, without breaking anything else. Always fun finding a way to sneak in and change how things work without the existing code realising you’re there

[NickFitz]

Tonight, I started reading Elvissey, in which the world under Dryco isn't really getting any better

Thursday tomorrow! And it’s Viz publication day too

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been the belly pork braised in cider that I forgot to make yesterday, with chips

Current watching part two of the Jimmy Savile thing

[DoctorStrangelove]

OM.

[NickFitz]

Another day done! Only seventeen to go!

In a gap between meetings, I finally tracked down my parcel - it was in the nearest hallway of the adjacent block, for no good reason

In there was qntm’s rewrite of There is No Antimemetics Division, published yesterday. He got a deal with an imprint of Penguin Random House last year, so he’s been able to rework it with the input of a professional editor. So that’s something to look forward to once I’ve read the last two Jack Womack books

[xoggoth]

Walk with ll3 followed by coffee. Nice & sunny and paths not half as muddy as I had feared.

[ladymuck]

All meetings done. Brain fried.

Now to get some work done

[NickFitz]

Pukka sausage roll for lunch

[NickFitz]

Too many meetings this morning

But there’s more to come this afternoon!

Yesterday’s missing Amazon parcel still hasn’t reappeared. I’ll have to go round the other blocks checking if it’s been left in any of them. It was supposedly delivered around 13:30 so once the mandatory 24 hour wait is up, I can report it vanished and get them to send out a replacement

Meanwhile, the rain that was supposed to continue has stopped instead. I suppose there may be showers but though it’s still cloudy, it doesn’t look too likely to restart at the moment

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday apparently.

Unpleasant dream at 04:30 dispelled by reading more book for 4 pages then returning to nod.

Grey. (The weather not the dream).

Sunless.

Damply miserable but no water in next door's garden.

Chilly in here at 17.2 deg, 16.5 in the kitchen, 15 in the leanto.

995 mBar, 29.38 in Hg, 746.3 Torr, 14.43 psi, (up from 994 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 29th of February 2020 BR14 and Brillo popped in, LM popped out to the storage unit, scruff had tea, NF thought it was a bit cold out for a trip to the pub, and my bol managed to stick to the pan whilst "simmering".

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: dead people on Everest. I'd rather read a book than pay £30k. An expensive way to die.

Feck me it's a miserable day & no mistake.

Book. Approaching the end of this book.

Sky Arts: Cold War Films (E2 of 3) "duck & cover", "Failsafe", "7 Days in May", "Doctor Strangelove", "On the Beach".

Crash Detectives.

Last half of the Nazi programme.

David Jason: Secret Service. E2 WWII: more stuff I couldn't do to save my life. SOE.

David Jason: Great British Inventions: the wheel. Bikes. Steam engines. Cars.

Alba: Nuclear testing in the Arctic: on later this week, so:

U+W: Elementary S1 E2.

Bit of "Once upon a time in Hollywood".