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[NickFitz]

There was some more wildlife stuff on the box earlier

Later I watched the rest of the Fukushima thing

And then I read some more of Peace and War. It turns out Forever Peace isn’t part of the same story as the other two, which involved the same characters and so on; according to the author, it was more a way of exploring the same ideas from a different perspective and with the benefit of twenty years of hindsight. It’s good though

Monday again tomorrow. Six weeks until Easter

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

The drive to Sussex was soggy with much rain. Quick journey though. The return trip was in lovely afternoon sunshine, also a quick journey.

Today is margarita day so HWMBO has made delicious margaritas to accompany dinner.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been the beef short ribs braised in Guinness, with chips and peas. It turned out exceptionally well! Absolutely delicious

[xoggoth]

Damn it! Should have done my wet walk later, it's been quite nice and bright for nearly an hour. Dropped in at village club, none of the people I know were there again, not sure I'll bother anymore.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a leftover onion bhaji

I’ve been investigating the import of the forums by the new software. There was a problem with the URLs, because it wasn’t importing things with hyphens like “business-contracts” correctly. There was an explicit check in the code that only allowed “word characters” through (basically, a to z, 0 to 9, and underscore) so I overrode that to let them through. Then another bit explicitly converted them to underscores! Yet the documentation for that field clearly states that hyphens are allowed! I went through absolutely everything this bit of the importer checks for when cleaning up this specific item of data, and none of it is required for the existing data. So now I just skip the lot

Before I got started on that, I had some beef short ribs to deal with. I don’t know why they’re called that, because they were too long for either the slow cooker or the InstantPot™

I ended up browning them, then putting them in a roasting pan covered in foil to braise with Guinness, herbs, stock, and veg in a very low oven. After they’ve had five or six hours of that, I can take the meat off the bones and dice it, thicken the sauce, and give it a little bit longer in a casserole dish

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull, cloudy, damp. Currently 12 degrees ('feels like' 10) with a high of 14 expected. The sun is forecast to make an appearance this afternoon. Barometer down to 1016 mBar.

Sunrise 07:01; Sunset 17:29 GMT

Dinner last night was superb. Such a shame the restaurant is closing next month.

Off to visit Mum today.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Mostly blue sky out there today, with a few high waists and strands and a bit more very high, thin cloud towards the east. There’s a light breeze which is supposedly making the current balmy 11°C “feel like” 4°; the expected high is 13°. The barometers are down a touch at 1001/1009mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Damp but no drizzle.

Wanly sunny.

Greyish.

Chilly in here at 13.4 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto.

1012.5 mBar, 29.899 in Hg, 75.44 Torr, 14.685 psi, (unchanged), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 17th of March 2020: as per yesterday.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the sunshine/grey gloom. Warm enough to not need gloves & to remove the scarf towards the end.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Just a Minute.

Oh the horror! the horror! I'm now Grade E on the ABCDE scale. Oh how are the mighty fallen. All around was sand and ashes. .

Book. Other book.

Another incompetent septic nutter with a gun. Wasn't even in the right state FFS, the Orange Mother****er being in NYNY at the time.

Tea: beans on toast with scrambled egg. Nice enough.

Entertainment: some history thing, poetry prog <click>

Oak Island nutjobbery. S11E23: "Cone E Island" Moved a stone found a hairy rock. Wandered about Europe looking at stuff. More bollox about Templars and Vikings. Even more tedious than usual.

Sergeant Cork. S3E5 "The case of the elegant mistress".

Lucy Worsley: waffling on about The Glorious Revolution of 1688. Dozed through bits of it.

Book. Other book.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast but clearing skies out. Walk about to happen.

[NickFitz]

Various wildlife things enlivened the TV today

Tonight, I continued Peace and War, getting to the end of Forever Free and starting Forever Peace

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

After last week’s disappointing Indian meal from the place in town with the fancy branding, tonight’s tea came all the way from a little Indian/Nepalese place on the Golden Mile, the name given to the main route through the predominantly Hindu part of the city. This was a much better choice, being full of flavour and with generously-sized portions - I’m going to have to freeze half of the rice, there was so much of it

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a sausage and bacon bap, sausages and bacon being from one of the butchers down the market. Very nice

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

Cloudy sort of day out, and windy to boot. Chance of rain later too. It’s 12°C (“feels like” 5°) and that’s as good as it gets; the barometers are up a touch at 1004/1012mB

My calves felt a bit stiff when I got up due to all the walking yesterday, but are OK now. I really need to exercise more often

[ladymuck]

^^



Afternoon all

Dull. Damp from overnight rain. Warmer at 13 degrees and that's the high for the day. Rain forecast later. Barometer up to 1020 mBar.

Sunrise 07:03; Sunset 17:27 GMT

Lazy morning. Didn't go to the farmers' market. Bed has been stripped and left to air while the WM does the first load.

We're off out this evening to Club Gascon with some friends as a belated birthday celebration/general catch up.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Om.