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[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Gloomy grey morning after a drizzly night, it appears. The drizzle should stop soon though. It’s still quite mild at 13°C with an expected high of 16°, and the barometers are much the same at 993/1001mB

Thursday!

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s viewing was the rest of the Traffic Cops I started watching last night

Same bug with the ads. I think it comes from stopping it just as the ad break starts, so it can probably be avoided by stopping just before the title card disappears

Made some good progress with the CoreGraphics stuff. I think I must have being doing it in a “Swifty” way as lots of things are coming together nicely, such that stuff that one would think would be complicated turns out to be very simple

And I finished Ambient, which was very good. Next up is Terraplane: second to be written, fourth in the timeline

Thursday tomorrow! It seems to come around quicker every week, possibly because I’m enjoying work so the days aren’t dragging

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Ents has been the Great British Bake Off final, and now Surgeons: Life in Their Hands.

My Next Episode app informs me that the 13th series of TCoOI has just started

[NickFitz]

Tea has been the lamb tagine I made a while ago, with experimental spicy rice

The tagine was a bit too rich, I thought when I first made it; I was probably using a recipe for more lamb than I had, so it ended up too concentrated. But it went well with the rice, which cut the flavour a bit while adding some of its own

[NickFitz]

You can tell that I’m enjoying the work on this project a lot more than the previous ones because it’s the second day in a row that I’ve worked an extra twenty minutes or so because I wanted to get something just right

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

I seem to have neglected to post this morning!

I was a bit distracted by having to load the dishwasher, which I emptied last night - I kept forgetting to run it over the last few days so a fair few dirty pots and pans had built up in the kitchen, to the point where I had to get them out of the way to be able to make breakfast

Anyway, it’s a grey day yet again. Not quite as windy as it was though, and no rain expected. We’ve reached the day’s high of 17°C and the barometers are down a touch at 994/1001mB

Lunch has been a roast pork bap (wholemeal) with apple sauce

And shortly before lunchtime, I developed a migraine. It’s a rare thing for me, and nowhere near as bad as some people get it, but not at all enjoyable

[xoggoth]

Old farty history group meet at cafe this morning. Off to do some more toothpaste inspections soon.

[ladymuck]

Afternoon all

Cloudy but plenty of blue poking through. Currently 17 degrees and that's the high for the day. Might rain overnight. Barometer down to 1007 mBar.

Sunrise 07:02; Sunset 16:27 GMT

Busy morning. Meetings, nagging people, etc.

Time for some lunch methinks.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Well there's a lot of water at the bottom of next door's garden. Again. Didn't realise it had rained that much.

Damp.

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 17.5 deg, 16 in the kitchen, 15.5 in the leanto.

998.5 mBar, 29.486 in Hg, 748.9 Torr, 14.48 psi, (down from 999 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 28th of February 2020 Churchill, LM, xogg, and Brillo popped in, whilst AndyGarbs got an OM & crowed about it. .

Walk (towpath, slightly abbreviated) walked in the grey gloom. Signs that the canal had overtopped the bank in places.

Transpires that the water is about 8" deep in next door's and is a couple of inches deep in my pigsty, but insufficient to drown any pigs that might be there which definitely wasn't the case 32 years ago.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about electrik cars. Cue bacon sandwich man telling us how wonderful it will be when the entire country is covered in windmills and solar farms. Oh, and loss of mobile signal in Hebden Bridge.

Bonfire: no guy. Managed to get rid of all the stuff in the greenhouse: the bags of moss: not so much.

Tea: Tesco battered cod/haddock. Nice enough.

Entertainment: Crash Detectives: head on between two 44 ton trucks on an industrial estate. We drive on the left in this country. .

The Nazi programme: Battle of Britain.

Yesterday: David Jason's Secret Service: WWI, Mansfield Cumming. Belgian spies.

Alba: Nuclear testing in the Arctic E3/6.

U+something: Elementary S1 E1. I rather enjoyed that. Much more than any of S7. (or was it 6?).

[WTFH]

Morning all
Wet and windy overnight, but it stayed dry on our walk earlier. Quite warm (14C at 6am) and humid out there. If it stays like that I'll be back to short sleeves again.

[NickFitz]

Much confusion over the Swift language not doing what I expected, until I remembered that structs aren’t reference types. Changed the relevant thing to a class and now it does what I’ve spent a couple of hours trying to get it to do

The interesting thing is that I have a load of types that conform to one protocol, and I can leave the rest as structs because they don’t need to have their values changed after they’re created. It’s only things that I want to modify later in response to user interaction that need to be classes

In Ambient, the plot continues to thicken, generally with extreme violence

Wednesday tomorrow! That means I’m already halfway through the working week

Goodnight all

[xoggoth]

As expected, took ages setting up Roku stick for loony lady 2 and trying to show her how to use it. I expect I'll be getting lots of text messages asking how to do this and that over the next few weeks.

Really odd, there's a wrecked car in the woods near me and I can't see how it got there, it's right up a steep slope, and the trees between it and the road appear undamaged. Can't see any tracks nearby.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been beef & Guinness stew, mainly because I’d made more of it than I could fit in the freezer

This was accompanied by a bit of new Traffic Cops

[ladymuck]

Our council's introducing food waste bins next year. I'm curious to know how that's going to work for somewhere like this. We have a whole bunch of communal black (general waste) and orange (recycling) bins, and the bin paddock is only just big enough to contain them. I suppose fewer black bins will be needed, but I wonder how getting food waste from around fifty flats into one or more bins is going to be managed?

Then there's the additional complication of the management company collecting from our flat doors three mornings a week. I doubt the overall hygiene of the place will be enhanced by people leaving food waste in the hallways overnight!

If the idea is that each flat has its own food waste bin, then I feel sorry for whoever has to take them all out for bin day then bring them all back again. Or will we be expected to each take and retrieve our own? The pavement isn't really wide enough to have fifty or so bins stacked on it, not even quite small ones. And there'll always be someone who claims that their "better" bin has been taken by a jealous neighbour and an inferior bin left in its place, even if they're all identical

It's a difficult one for large blocks of flats. My place is just a house converted into two flats so it's not onerous to have two small bins. When I lived in RBKC, the council would only collect food waste from houses.

Glasgow used to do food waste collections from all property types but they stopped them because too many people were contaminating the bins with non-food waste. I should ask HWMBO was the collection arrangement was.

[NickFitz]

Lunch: ham toasties

These were made with the loaf that baked as I slept, which seems to have turned out very well