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[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. How are the mighty fallen.

[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.

[DoctorStrangelove]

This was accompanied by the start of Fukushima: Days That Shook the World on All4. It’s still on the initial arrival of the tsunami at the moment, but I assume the conclusion at the end of E2 will be “Don’t operate your nuclear power plant in such a way that its name becomes part of the War Boys’ chant in Mad Max: Fury Road"

I took it to mean "don't build BWR powerstations designed for Kansas on the shores of Japan with the emergency cooling diesel generators in the basement". But that's just me.

Morning.

Saturday.

Drizzly, very.

Grey, very.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 13 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 11 in the leanto.

1015 mBar, 29.97 in Hg, 761.3 Torr, 14.72 psi, (up from 1013 last night), 66% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 17th of March 2020 scruff, LM, NF, BR14 and I popped in, and the Tory bastards had found the Magic Money Tree all of a sudden.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: FOOC. <click> Too depressing. Book.

Even more drizzly. .

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough.

Entertainment: PM. <click>. Book. Other book.

Maigret S3 E9 "The crooked castle (1962)": the one about the jewel thieves at the crossroads and the sister that isn't. Unlike the Cremer version the "brother" doesn't get shot. . Hadn't seen this version before.

[WTFH]

Morning all
There was a ceilidh last night at the wedding do. Good fun, but I’m a bit old for all that.
Murky out, so delaying the walk a tad.

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Predator: Badlands (2025) which I thought was very good, though only once I realised that it wasn’t trying to be a sequel to Prey. It’s more about the Predator folk and also involves Alien stuff, so it’s a completely different kettle of fish really, and also quite humorous. So watch it on its own terms is my advice

(I still prefer Prey, but only in terms of the kind of story I prefer.)

And then a rewatch of RoboCop (1987), mainly because I recently saw a comment online about the sequel which made me think I should watch that again, so I need to watch the first one first. But it’s worth watching anyway, because it’s excellent

And as Apple have nearly got to the end of Hijack S2, I thought it was safe to start watching that and viewed the first two episodes. It’s set on the Berlin underground this time, and I have to fault it for requiring obvious impossibilities to set the story up in S2E1. Firstly, a train held at red at a station would not be able to leave that station without being automatically stopped within a few yards (or metres, as they’re called on the Continent). Secondly, if we let that slide, the train then passes another signal at red, and all that happens is that the lady in the control room calls them on the radio to ask why when, again, the train would be stopped automatically. And no, there’s nothing to suggest that the safety systems have been tampered with. But they do send in GSG-9, who I’d never heard of until I read that book about them recently, so at least I was able to say “Ooh, I know about them! I read a book!”

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Tea: ribeye steak, fried onions, and chips

This was accompanied by the start of Fukushima: Days That Shook the World on All4. It’s still on the initial arrival of the tsunami at the moment, but I assume the conclusion at the end of E2 will be “Don’t operate your nuclear power plant in such a way that its name becomes part of the War Boys’ chant in Mad Max: Fury Road"