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[NickFitz]

The Lockerbie thing seems quite good, judging by the first episode. Nice to see the Scottish police taking the FBI down a peg or two when they tried to muscle in as if they owned the place

Later, I finished reading The Parable of the Talents, in which things ultimately turned out OK

But that’s the end of that; she had intended to write three more books taking the story far into the future, but had terrible writer’s block for two or three years and had to abandon that plan, writing other books instead in her remaining years

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Yeh, bluddy annoying when they stop selling favourite things, used to like those low sugar apple pies, Weight Watchers ready meals and various other things I can't remember.

They’ve also stopped making the Taste the Difference mango chutney that was the basis of my delicious BBQ sauce

[xoggoth]

Sainsbury’s have stopped doing the casserole mix

Yeh, bluddy annoying when they stop selling favourite things, used to like those low sugar apple pies, Weight Watchers ready meals and various other things I can't remember.

[NickFitz]

Sainsbury’s have stopped doing the casserole mix around which my oniony chicken casserole recipe had been carefully developed over the years, so tea has been the first attempt at concocting something to replace it. It didn’t turn out the same but it was very nice indeed, and along the right lines

To go with this, the first episode of The Bombing of Pan Am 103 on Netflix, a dramatisation of the events surrounding Lockerbie

[NickFitz]

First day back over and done with. A bit more hectic than I would have liked, but I suppose it gives me something to do

The shambolic transition to PSR continues to cause unnecessary hassle. This time, the agency they insisted we all transfer to has completely failed to do anything about my extension. Unless they get it together ASAP, I finish on Friday

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been some Popeyes hot wings, reheated in the air fryer for a few minutes to crisp them back up, with ketchup

[NickFitz]

Links are up

[xoggoth]

I don't like the look of the forecast down south.

Those of us in the SE seem to have the worst of it. 32 today. Not a drop of rain for weeks. Good job I have some permanently shady bits at the bottom of my garden.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy. Looks damp out. It's allegedly drizzling but I can't see any. More intermittent rain expected until early afternoon when the sun is due to make an appearance. Currently 15 degrees, with a high of 18 expected. Barometer down to 1015 mBar.

Sunrise 05:25; Sunset 21:20 BST

I don't like the look of the forecast down south.

Today I have a meeting with gig1. A waste of time but smile and invoice is the name of the game.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Monday.

Dry.

Wanly sunny.

Blue sky with high cloud.

21.1 deg in here, 22.5 in the kitchen, 21 in the leanto, 19 out the back.

1005.5 mBar, 29.69 in Hg, 754.2 Torr, 14.58 psi, (down from 1007 last night), 54% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 09:45 and 09:48, covbob, LM, and WTFH popped in.

This morning's dream before waking seemed to involve some odd sort of tank in WWII and an unsuccessful attempt to cross the lines & surrender: everyone died (or would have if I hadn't woken up, dunno where the woman came from but there you go). I love a happy ending. .

Shopping trip to Morrisons done dusted washed dried sanitised & put away.

Too damn hot out there for a walk today.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: some R4 prog about a drug dealer, obviously a slow learner. <click> Tony Hawkes on Inheritance: repeat, listened to it the last time. <click> "How did we get to here, part II: China". Sky Arts: Wonderlands Part I.

Jack Hargreaves Old Country: early agricultural mechanisation (steam driven ploughs), terriers (proper terriers not the overbred show types).

Tea: chilli con carne etc. Entertainment: PM <click> UFO bollox on Blaze.

Am Dro Eisteddfod. 4 celebs (none of which I'd ever heard of) competing for £1000 charity donation by means of 4 walks.

Bab5 S2 E19 "Confessions & Lamentations": Plague. Probly Covid 59. (2259). It doesn't end well at all. A bit like that altered mouse pox virus, all in all.

Secrets in the Sand. .

Secrets in the Dark. .

[xoggoth]

Got to take me little van to the village garage for service shortly. Old fart meet up at local manor this afternoon, says it's in a shady place thank gawd.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a sunny start with wisps and strands of mares’ tails hither and yon, possibly presaging a turn in the weather. Today will be a hot one though: currently 18°C, it predicted to hit 29° though it’ll cool down later in the week, even dipping below 20° on Thursday. The barometers are down to 1002/1009mB

Monday again, and back to work. I’m hoping there won’t be much to do, though it’s the start of the month and that’s when the finance people tend to trigger obscure bugs that have been in there since 2020 and just never happened to show up before

[WTFH]

Morning all

A busy weekend, back to work to have a calmer week (I hope).

CBS, but a cooler 13C when we went out earlier. Temperature climbing as we speak.

[NickFitz]

Lunch, naturally, was sausages and burgers and other BBQ-related stuff

And I had enough of it that I didn’t bother having any tea in the end. I’m feeling a bit peckish now TBH, but it’s a bit late

In terms of TV viewing, I missed the wildlife stuff but watched 24 Hours in A&E this evening

And in Parable of the Talents, people are trying to piece things back together after all the bad things happened; though that’s not to say bad things have stopped happening

Monday, and back to work tomorrow

Goodnight all

[NickFitz]

Home again!

The BBQ kicked off a bit later than originally planned as our brother was held up due to a crash causing traffic jams in Chesterfield. Also, my younger niece had a migraine and didn’t make it so it was just us old-timers: my siblings and their spouses, and my sister’s mother-in-law, with me as the youngest of the party

Turns out there’s still stuff coming from the estate of our parents! I ended up with a box of USB hard drives, some empty, some containing films and TV shows our Dad had ripped over the years. I also got his old Acer laptop, though he didn’t use it much later in life, preferring to sit at a desktop to do computer things, then return to his armchair to do non-computer things. And I ended up with a couple of first day covers: one for the opening of the Tay Road Bridge in 1966, which I think was sent by D. C. Thompson of Dundee for whom he was writing stories for comics at the time, and one for the Silver Jubilee in 1977 that was addressed to him but sent to his office at the Town Hall by some Press organisation.

But to my delight, in amongst all this lot was my book of Wild Creatures of our Countryside by Gwen Mandley, which was my favourite such book out of several I had in that line, and still holds up as a decent quick reference guide with nice line drawings by the author

I'd been wondering where this was for years; my sister found it in a box of our Mum’s old teaching stuff, so she must have borrowed it to use when preparing lessons or something