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[WTFH]

Morning all
It was mostly clear skies at 05:30, but there's now a mist that has come up the valley and looks like we are going to be in it shortly.
Also a really odd turnipy smell up the road.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s book has been Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler, based on a recommendation from somebody on Bluesky. It’s set in a small community near LA starting around 2024, where society is crumbling from the effects of climate change and the greed of the super wealthy, so quite far fetched… oh, wait

Thursday tomorrow! Even better, I’m off next week!

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been a burger, in a sesame seed bun with ketchup, and chips

This was accompanied by the next episode of Murder 24/7 in which the bloke who stabbed his wife eventually found that changing your story repeatedly is not the best way to handle questioning, though it took a retrial because of a hung jury before it was all sorted out

They rather glossed over the fact that the police, acting on information received, discovered crucial new evidence in the family home, which was the scene of the crime, halfway through the second trial. Why hadn’t they found it before then, despite at least two supposedly thorough searches of the property? Who can say

[xoggoth]

U3A, AKA old fart group, coach trip to Weald & Downland museum in Sussex. Spent day with 3 ladies from my art group. Quite fancied the largish lady I sat next to on the coach but she's married darn it.

[NickFitz]

The surgery finally contacted me about my request to discuss the side effects of this stuff with a pharmacist, made through the form on their website. They explained that I shouldn’t have used the form on their website as they don’t monitor it; I ought to have phoned, in case it was urgent. I would have asked the obvious question, but I was trying to get some work finished off and also very tired because of the side effects, so I didn’t bother getting into it

Anyway, a pharmacist will phone me on Friday afternoon. Hope it isn’t urgent

[NickFitz]

Pork pie for lunch

This morning was all meetings: show & tell, followed by our sprint retrospective. But this project is now winding down as the data work I just finished was really the last big bit. So we were able to combine the retro with planning for the next sprint, and indeed for the transition to maintenance mode. As I’m off next week, there’ll be one more sprint after this, assuming nothing comes up from the data analysts or the stakeholders. So until mid-August, I’ll just be pottering around dealing with any odd bits of tech debt that it would be nice to have sorted out before the end, if all goes well

After that, it sounds like I’ll be moving on to work on features for some other services that fall into the category of “nice to have” but don’t fit into the main flow of work for the relevant team. This means there should be a bit of variety and also less of the boring maintenance stuff

TIL: the new Prime Minister actively dislikes “roadmaps” and the like, preferring a narrative approach along the lines of “Here’s a problem these people had, and this is what we did/are doing to fix it.” I don’t suppose this will affect me in any way, but I gather the civil servants who communicate things upwards are all now preparing to start reframing things to suit

[DoctorStrangelove]

is this all the same 1st of april??

Yes. More than 200 posts FFS. Never fecking ending. Everyone locked in by Bunter & Co.

Currently at 17:34: there's about 8 or 9 more pages of this..

Of course, back in the day 200 posts a day was quite normal with the likes of Diver et al.

Al used to post a lot, but not as much as Diver did before he sawed his hand in half.

[sadkingbilly]

Morning.

Meanwhile on the 1st of April 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, and vetran popped in.

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is this all the same 1st of april??

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky with lumps of fluff. Currently 22 degrees ('feels like' 24) with a high of 26 expected. Barometer down to 1026 mBar.

Sunrise 05:11; Sunset 21:04 BST

Packing this morning. Off to stay with Mum for a week. Undecided what time to leave but I'd like to get there quite early so I might go around 11 am. If I don't leave by 11.30 am, then I'll have to go after 3 pm and the traffic will be worse then.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday apparently (checks clock).

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Blueish sky with high haze.

22.7 deg in here, 24.3 in the kitchen, 22 in the leanto, 18.5 out the back, 20 in the saltinghouse.

1020 mBar, 30.12 in Hg, 765 Torr, 14.79 psi, (up from 1018 last night), 57% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 1st of April 2020 AndyGarbs, Brillo, and vetran popped in.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Shopping trip to Aldi done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away. Shanks' pony to see if the legs would tolerate it, which they did. .

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Rebecca Stott waffling on about antedeluvian mud (i.e. 500 million year old mud).

Classic Movies: The Lion in Winter which led me to look up Henry I, Matilda, Stephen, and Henry II. Them were the days, Norman bastard immigrants. Even worse than the fecking Saes.

Next door was busy strimming the bottom of their garden. Wonders will never cease. Must have done about an 10 foot square patch, so there's a fair amount more to go. . Naturally enough it wasn't the idle bastard doing it.

Minor potching in the garden until the horse flies found me & I came back in. .

Entertainment: Jack Hargreaves Old Country: deer hide. taking rabbits with ferrets.

Tea: Tesco battered haddock etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM. <click> Blazian UFO bollox. Some nutter who reckons he went on a spaceship to the Pleiades, a neat trick if you can avoid the anal probing.

Jack Hargreaves Out of Town: working dog show.

Bab5 S2 E10 "GROPOS": the marines one.

Titans of the Cold War: Tricky Dicky and Mao. .

Britain's X files: the angel of Mons, last witch trial (1944), the Lynmouth flood etc. etc.

Oh look: Nobody is on again. . More dead Russians. Best kind.

[WTFH]

Morning all
CBS, etc. Was 15C at 05:30, but warming up now.
Builders finished about 19:00 yesterday, the house is looking a lot smarter.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Some mackerel sky out, along with some slightly thicker cloud, meaning it’s not quite sunny and probably won’t be. It’s 16°C and intends to get to 25°, with the barometers down to 1015/1023mB. It was getting quite breezy last night, but this has dropped off a bit

Apparently the haze yesterday morning was smoke from the fires in North America

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s viewing was Murder 24/7 on iPlayer, about a bloke who stabbed his wife. Well, he insists he didn’t, and it’s a two-parter so that’s as far as they’d got; but he blew it right at the start of his interview by giving an account that was completely different in every respect to what he’d said when he dialled 999, and had then said again to the first police officers to arrive on the scene, recorded by their bodycams. I mean, it wasn’t just a few details, it was every single thing!

And later, I finished One Two Three Four

I wonder if the department will have the same name in the morning? Last time, we had to wait a few days for the Cabinet Office to decide what the acronym should be, so there’s still a chance they might change it to something snappier

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea has been Barnsley chops with chips and beans

I got those chops off the market back when the car was having its MOT, so they’ve been in the freezer since then. Very nice, they were

[ladymuck]

Pesto has been made.

It didn't make quite as much as I thought, by the time I'd pounded all the ingredients together. But there's definitely enough for several portions of pasta.