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[NickFitz]

Tea has been burger and chips

Not one of the slightly smaller burgers but a proper quite large one, because it turned out I had one left in the freezer so the others will have to wait their turn

[xoggoth]

Bah! Another of those walks that should have been over a nice open area according to OS maps on my phone and was actually along the edge of a big new housing estate.

[NickFitz]

You were quite right. I received a letter today (dated 9 September) inviting me to pay £93 to attend a course, or pay £100 and have 3 points on my license.

Getting off lightly!

[NickFitz]

Lunch, by the way, was a Pukka steak slice

The gradual winding down of activity on this project continues. Today, the main thing I had to do was make some content changes on the home page, replacing a few outdated links and so on. I had to wait a while this morning to be given access to the relevant Word doc on Sharepoint. The changes themselves didn’t take much time, except that a number of things like links and email addresses are defined as constants in the codebase to make them easy to change, and I found a few inconsistencies in the ways these had been used, so I ended up tidying up a few other bits like the error pages and so on

By mid-afternoon, I’d got bored of pondering important questions like whether the bits in the sidebar needed full stops or not. Then I remembered that I was supposed to be documenting the database rollback process from when we had a problem with somebody uploading duff data last month. All the technical aspects are already documented elsewhere so I expected to just turn out a few paragraphs explaining how to alert the relevant team, along with links to their docs. But in the end, I added a bunch of useful tips about how to track stuff down from logs and file timestamps, and various other useful links, and then started putting bits in colourful “Warning” boxes, and so on; and that kept me amused until it was time to knock off

And I also remembered to put the dishwasher on
As predicted, it’s brightened up here now. Seems a bit windier though; it’s a very windy September this year

[ladymuck]

A common criminal!

They’ll probably let you go on an awareness course

You were quite right. I received a letter today (dated 9 September) inviting me to pay £93 to attend a course, or pay £100 and have 3 points on my license.

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[xoggoth]

Hope yer get a jobby soon LM. Nowt social on today, just been doing more fencing, off for walky soon.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and overcast, although it has brightened up over the course of the morning. Currently 22 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 24 expected. There may be a light shower this afternoon. Barometer up to 1023 mBar.

Sunrise 06:34; Sunset 19:18 BST

This morning's act of presenteeism has been performed. Now back to job hunting. I might do that cleaning I've been avoiding too, seeing as I don't have any work to avoid doing.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Once again I drifted back to sleep for a while after the alarm. I really must try this “getting to sleep earlier” thing

It’s a cloudy day and looks like there’s been some rain, or maybe just drizzle, overnight. Patches of blue here and there though, so maybe it’ll clear later. It’s still mild at 18°C with an expected high of 23°, and the wind seems to have eased off a bit; the barometers are steady at 1009/1017mB

[WTFH]

Morning all
Overcast and very humid out, but dry on the walk.
We slept in this morning and didn't get up until after 6am.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday apparently.

Wet.

Dark.

Dank.

Dreary.

Drizzly.

Sunless.

19.7 deg in here, 20.7 in the kitchen, 19 in the leanto, 18 out the back.

1014.8 mBar, 29.97 in Hg, 761.2 Torr, 14.72 psi, (down from 1015 last night), 74% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 4th of April 2020, between 15:56 and 16:02, in popped AndyGarbs, and Brillo, with LM getting a post in edgeways.

Well it must be said that the weather forecast, 7 days hourly, I consulted last night didn't include the current inclemency at all. It's rather put my intended washing frenzy on hold.

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: popping across to Normandy for a sporting dog sale, and fishing for gudgeon in the river Nadder in Wiltshire. Gudgeon tansy. Never heard of that before. And a large gudgeon is about 1lb. Dunno why I feel so sorry for these fish.

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. It rained on me all the way there & all the way back, though not as heavily as it did shortly before I went out through the back door. . For which, much thanks.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Dashcam bollox S3 E1: watched it recently <click>.

Look at Life: "Rendered Safe (1962)": EOD back in the 1960s. Feck me they're brave men. None of the magic suits they wear these days, it's Navy/Army uniforms, collar & tie.

[NickFitz]

Today’s wildlife programming was shorter than usual, because they put women’s football on. I assume it isn’t allowed on the sports channel you’d expect them to use for that kind of thing

Later, an episode of Emergency 24/7 on iPlayer

And tonight’s reading was Their Finest Hour and a Half by Lissa Evans, which is the book on which the film Their Finest with Gemma Arterton and Bill Nighy is based. I enjoyed the film when I watched it a few years ago, and the book is very good

Monday again tomorrow. I think I’m going to book some time off in October, because otherwise it’s an endless sea of Mondays until Christmas

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been lamb chops with chips and beans

Lunch didn’t really happen, unless a bag of BBQ Hula Hoops counts

But I did get the mundane laundry done!

[ladymuck]

Laundry done. Cleaning not done. I might do it tomorrow.

[xoggoth]

Quite nice volunteery morning, son's lunch afterwards was ok except a bit too oniony. A picture of me is online again in a local community magazine. I only volunteered there once.