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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
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.
Started off cloudy now looking much brighter with some wispy fluff. Damp. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 16 expected. Cloud cover set to return with a risk of rain. Barometer remains at 1004 mBar.
Sunrise 07:14; Sunset 16:16 GMT
Another busy day beckons. Five meetings in the diary. Four of which are back to back between 1030 and 1330. Then a half hour break before a 2 hour meeting to finish me off. Hurray.
Morning all
Wet and wild last night. Very stormy. Chairs blew over on our main deck. a plastic plant pot blew off the top of a wooden water butt and smashed.
But by the time we went out for a walk earlier, it was 14C with gentle rain and barely a breeze.
After a night when it has, I think, rained constantly, it’s a rainy start to the day with no signs of letting up soon. The forecast suggests it’s likely to continue raining until late afternoon! it’s a touch milder, though the current 13°C “feels like” 9°, and the high will only be 14°. The barometers are down very slightly at 990/997mB
I finished part one of the Savile documentary. All this part really does is give a history of his career without going into anything much about what came out later, and already the only conclusion you can draw is that he has to be a wrong 'un. Looking forward to part two where the full scale of the horror is revealed
And then I finished Terraplane; another good one! Next up is Elvissey (fourth written, fifth in timeline)
Tomorrow will be a day of many meetings, for it is the end of the sprint and start of a new one. And I’ve just remembered I’m on the hook to present something at “Show & Tell” at 9:30. There isn’t really much to show, or indeed tell, but I daresay I’ll think of something
I have no idea what the outside world looked like today. My app says cloudy and possibly wet. Currently 14 degrees ('feels like' 12) and that was the high for the day. Rain expected. Barometer down a bit to 1004 mBar.
Sunrise 07:13; Sunset 16:17 GMT
Very busy day at the coalface today. Non-stop across two and a half clients (the half being the ISPE NED election gubbins I do every year and only took up an hour of my day today).
Quite busy today, though more to do with discussing how to do stuff rather than doing it. Anyway, the other dev has now taken it upon themselves to build a React app
This meant I forgot, and didn’t really have time, to put on the cider-braised belly pork I had planned for dinner. So I’ll have that tomorrow instead
Another Amazon parcel has been delivered yet is nowhere to be found. I shall wait and see if it mysteriously turns up outside my flat at around 9pm, as happened the last couple of times one went astray
Chilly in here at 16.9 deg, 16 in the kitcehn, 13.5 in the leanto.
997 mBar, 29.44 in Hg, 747.8 Torr, 14.46 psi, (down from 1000 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).
Meanwhile on the 29th of February 2020 LM was wearing bedsocks and was disturbed by a whining noise from elsewhere, BR14 popped in, WTFH remarked that rather than the blue sky expected whilst fetching the logs it was sleeting, NF had a late lunch, and I went down to town on the bus due to The Bad Leg which was going inneresting colours.
Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked. Drizzle for the last mile or so.
Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y cancer treatment <click>.
Well this is getting old very very quickly. .
For the sake of something to do: washed the leanto floor, then ran the vac over the house without moving much whilst doing so.
The water from the floor washing was an inneresting shade of light black.
I think I'll put the stuff in the leanto back from whence it came before I make tea.
'Tis an odd thing but around this time of year I seem to grind to a halt. All through the summer I was working my bollox off doing various things. Now the clocks have changed: nothing.
Just spent 20 minutes using the slag chipping hammer to chip ice off the top of the chest freezer. I suspect it's time I defrosted it, but at least the lid closes properly now. .
Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: PM <click>. Jenrick came on.
In other news it's hammering down again.
The Nazi programme. The Luftwaffe. Damn, we were really lucky to have Adolph.
The Mind of Mr J. G. Reeder. I think this one's in B&W after last week's technicolor extravaganza. Colin Baker is in this one.
WWII from above: the invasion of Poland in 1939. <click> Enough Nazis for one day.
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