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[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dreary.

Chilly in here at 14.2 deg, 15 in the kitchen, 14 in the leanto.

1007 mBar, 29.74 in Hg, 755.3 Torr, 14.6 psi, (down from 1009 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 24th of March 2020 BR14, covbob, LM, NF and I popped in, with NF cooking apple pies. Well there's a thing.

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast and mizzly out, but a walk has been had.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It's a grey sort of morning and there seems to have been a shower or two overnight, and today will continue much the same, getting windier towards lunchtime and with a chance of rain towards teatime. Mild enough: currently 12°C (“feels like” 7°) with an expected high of 16°. The barometers are down again at 1001/1009mB

[NickFitz]

Oops! Wrote up a goodnight post last night and forgot to post it! I was tired…

Here it is for posterity:



This evening’s viewing was the first part of a new 24 Hours in Police Custody, about the cold case of an elderly woman murdered in Wisbech. The police who originally responded dismissed it as a natural death and handed the scene back to the family, meaning it was completely contaminated; it turned out she’d been stabbed multiple times and an attempt made to set her on fire. Interestingly, they showed the cold case squad interviewing the sergeant who’d been in charge of the scene trying to explain and justify his catastrophic ballsup to them while they said things like “In all my years of policing, I’ve never seen such an inexplicable decision”

Later in Here, There and Everywhere they’ve recorded Revolver and the Beatles are back in the studio after their final tour, planning to do things differently from now on

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb tagine with rice

This was out of the freezer (except the rice, done in the rice cooker) but there’s been other cooking going on. I’d taken lamb mince out of the freezer yesterday so I could make a shepherd’s pie base today, then leave it in the fridge for the flavours to mingle and develop. And later I’d taken out some belly pork rashers, intending to have a stir-fry or something with those today. But I’d forgotten about them, so I hadn’t put them in a low oven mid-afternoon as I usually do

So I decided to have the tagine and rice, and also pop the pork in the oven to slow-cook; it’s just browning and crisping up now, after which it can go in the fridge. And the shepherd’s pie base is also done and cooling down. So for a couple more days there'll only be minor extra work to be done to get dinner sorted out, which works out quite nicely

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some leftover Thai chicken bits

There was a meeting before that. We have this one every week and often manage to end it fairly quickly, but this one ran the full hour, up to 13:00

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Sunny with occasional fluff. Currently 13 degrees with a high of 14 expected. Barometer up to 1018 mBar.

Sunrise 06:08; Sunset 19:56 BST

Much laundry being done this morning.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday.

Dry with hints of damp about the air.

Grey.

Sunless.

Dreary.

Chilly in here at 14.6 deg, 12.5 in the kitchen, 12 in the leanto.

1008.5 mBar, 29.78 in Hg, 756.44 Torr, 14.63 psi, (down from 1009 last night), 63% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 24th of March 2020: as per yesterday.

Slept quite well. Woke up to find it was half past eight. Which made a pleasant change from 05:55.

Even more chilly out.

Trip to that Swansea done: X7 down, T6 back. Thankfully Fabian Way is open again, even if only single lane both ways. Dunno WTF they're doing to it.

Books donated to that Oxfam & one book bought. Didn't find any reasonably priced jeans in M&S. I really do miss those £9 and £15 jeans.

Returned to Neath in time for that really fine rain to start: the rain that's 13.7 times as wet as any deluge.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: 11:45 story about Iran <click> Noon o'clock news: nothing good. Y&Y waffling on about leasehold <click>.

Looked at the pictures in today's book, published 1972: of the industry illustrated therein, most of it has disappeared without trace, though bits of Trostre, Margam and Llanwern are still there.

Walk (abbreviated, towpath) walked: after this morning's unpleasantly chilly endeavours, the afternoon was more pleasant with the return of discarded layers from some weeks ago, plus the scarf. Still wasn't anywhere close to raising a sweat, but at least it didn't rain.

Now getting outside a mug of mediocre yet consistent coffee. I've turned into my father. .

Tea: soup etc. One I hadn't tried before: nice enough. Entertainment: PM <click> The usual gloom & doom. And how the feck are we going to pay for defence without putting taxes up? Askin' for a friend. . (*Friend can remember income tax at 36% . My father must have paid it at approachiing 50%).

U&Eden: Lucy Worsley waffling on about Agatha Christie and SepticLand History's biggest lies.

Sky Arts: Spymasters: Ian Fleming to James Bond. (Deighton next week).

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Mostly blue skies here, but with some big bits of cirrus floating around high up. It’s 5°C with an expected high of 14°, and the barometers are up a touch to 1004/1012mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
Glorious sunrise earlier at 6:18 (I had to stop and look at my watch) but it has become more overcast since. Mostly high level cloud, doesn't look or feel like rain.

[NickFitz]

Tonight I started reading Here, There and Everywhere by Geoff Emerick, sound engineer to the Beatles. Apparently he’s a somewhat unreliable narrator, and also had a peculiar dislike of George Harrison; but it’s good on technical details, like his idea for putting John Lennon’s vocals on Tomorrow Never Knows through the rotating speakers on the Hammond organ

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Sainsbury’s chunky breaded cod loin with chips and beans

This was accompanied by the final episode (for S1, at least) of The Truth About My Murder, which was yet another demonstration that the level of incompetence some people exhibit in trying to cover up their crimes is beyond belief

[NickFitz]

After work, it was time once again to trog round to the chemist’s for the monthly prescription. They feel positively fortnightly these days

Nice sunny evening though, without being unpleasantly warm

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a cold sausage bap (white)

Bit of a challenge at work today. Something isn’t working and needs to be sorted out pretty quickly, but the other dev is the one who knows all about it and she’s on holiday this week. She’s left me copious notes and I spent some time digging into it with her late last week, but I’m very much groping around in the dark at the moment

It’s one of those times when I wish I could just grab a dump of the whole DB and investigate it locally with a proper debugger to let me see what’s going on in there, but copying production data to a local machine is a hanging offence so I’ll just have to keep scattering log messages everywhere and hope for the best

[NickFitz]

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