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[xoggoth]

Little "book reading", aka nattering group this afternoon. As usual I had not got round to reading anything. Nice walk after, just after a deluge of hail.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been a couple of leftover roast spuds with beef and gravy from Sunday

There was a bit more rain this morning but it’s brightened up a bit now. Still very blustery though

Yesterday, I did the mundane laundry in the morning and some bedding in the afternoon and evening, and for both wash cycles I happened to be in the kitchen when the machine drained, where I saw foam and a bit of water bubbling up into the sink. It wasn’t a lot, but I’m pretty certain it didn’t used to do that, though it’s not as if I stand in there watching the sink while the machine does its thing. Anyway, it seems likely that the trap is a bit gunked up

I remembered that a while ago, when the bath had similar woes, I’d bought some Mr Muscle drain unblocker - there was some kind of discount on Amazon at the time so I bought a few bottles. The only question was, where had I put them?

Having hunted around the flat, I eventually discovered them at the bottom of a box of stuff, so I’ll try chucking some of that down there and see if it frees things up. IIRC the instructions say to leave it for ten or fifteen minutes, but the online masses talk of leaving it overnight. As I’ve got a lot of it, I might just give it an hour or two this afternoon and see if that works; if not, I can try it for longer tonight

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Wednesday.

Sunny.

Grey.

Wet.

Not wet.

Windy. More windy. Howling gales overnight with torrential rain.

Chilly in here at 13.5 deg, 12 in the kitchen, 9 in the leanto.

1010 mBar, 29.83 in Hg, 757.6 Torr, 14.649 psi, (up from 1002 last night), 62% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 22nd of March 2020 AndyGarbs popped in a lot, whilst I was quietly lusting after that lady on the Mediaeval Maps thing.

Sun's out. I think I'll venture out on a walk with all the previously discarded layers undiscarded.

Two layers were discarded which might have kept me a bit warmer.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: someone waffling on R4. Noon o'clock news. Y&Y waffling on about inflation & scams.

Hail. Quite a lot of hail. Sun's out again now.

Book.

Tea: breaded "fish" of some sort: nicer than last week's example thereof. Had some unsweetened gooseberries out of the freezer: tart with the emphasis on tart. Entertainment: PM.

Scotland Yard.

Alice Roberts Hospital through history thing.

History of Welsh thing:

[WTFH]

Morning all
Wet & windy overnight, and now just windy. 4C at 6am when we went out, good job my coat is windproof.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Quite a bit of rain overnight and it’s still very breezy out. It’s mostly cloudy but with gaps towards parts of the horizon and in some other spots, leading to occasional sunny moments, though with a chance of more showers soon. Currently 4°C which “feels like” -6°, so the expected high of 8° probably won’t feel much warmer. The barometers are down to 994/1002mB

I have, for no obvious reason, just been afflicted with migraine aura, zigzagging across my field of view from the upper right to the centre and then down the middle. Hope it just wears off like it usually does, as it’s making reading and typing rather difficult

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy with some gaps. Damp. Currently 6 degrees ('feels like' 2) with a high of 8 expected. Barometer down to 1006 mBar.

Sunrise 05:53; Sunset 18:23 GMT

On my way to ClientCo this morning.

HWMBO arrived after an uneventful journey. Chinese takeaway for dinner because I wanted more 'tupperwares' but they delivered the food in those compostable boxes

[NickFitz]

Tonight I started reading Death’s End, the final part of the Three-Body Trilogy

Still very windy here, but we got off fairly lightly on the rain side of things

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Much wind and rain came and went.

[NickFitz]

Surely it needs to follow Gov.uk standards?

You’d certainly recognise things like the radio buttons and checkboxes as being GDS-compliant, but as it’s a purely internal tool, there’s more leeway

The GovUK Design System only takes you so far - this required UI components that simply don’t exist in there. In fact, several central government departments have created additions to GDS which get used even in public-facing services. MoJ have done some great work in that area, and although HMRC are notoriously tech-phobic in certain respects, the UX team there have also created some useful extensions to the basic set of components and styles

[NickFitz]

Tea: pork cutlet with chips and beans

This was accompanied by a bit of NEW! Police Interceptors

[eek]

Lunch has been the small amount of leftover lamb tagine from the other night. Nice and zingy

The designer was pleased with the various bits of tidying I’d done to the layout of the thing yesterday, bringing it into line with his vision

Still windy and grey and getting gloomier out. No rain expected before around eight this evening, though

Surely it needs to follow Gov.uk standards?

[xoggoth]

Arty farty thing ths morning. Venue was bit crowded as nearly everyone turned up for a change. Karaoke this evening if I can be bovvered.

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been the small amount of leftover lamb tagine from the other night. Nice and zingy

The designer was pleased with the various bits of tidying I’d done to the layout of the thing yesterday, bringing it into line with his vision

Still windy and grey and getting gloomier out. No rain expected before around eight this evening, though

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Overcast but quite bright. Dry. Currently 13 degrees ('feels like' 9) and that's the high for the day. There may be some rain later. Barometer down to 1015 mBar.

Sunrise 05:55; Sunset 18:21 GMT

Busy morning of meetings. HWMBO is heading down for a visit.

Cocoa Shreddies for a mid-morning snack.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Tuesday. <checks clock>

Wet.

Windy.

Horizontal drizzle.

NotSoChilly in here at 14.5 deg, 13 in the kitchen, 13 in the leanto.

1011 mBar, 29.855 in Hg, 758.3 Torr, 14.663 psi, (down from 1014 last night), 67% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 22nd of March 2020 Brillo popped in a lot (zenchury), AndyGarbs made an appearance, and I bought 18 bogrolls from Morrisons to tide me over, like, whilst quietly lusting after the lady on "In Search of Mediaeval Britain" as one does.

Can't see the other side of the valley boyo. There's tidy then.

Ongoing horizontal drizzle.

Lunch: brunch: early since there's nowt else to do since I'm not going for a walk in this.

Entertainment: R4 thing about linking up music. Unexpectedly began with AC/DC. Had look through a dozen or so of the previous editions and found "We don't need no education" and "Overkill", plus "Only look on the bright side of life" and "Sweet child o'mine".

Book.

Filled in the statistics thing for gov.uk, though I'm not sure the limited amount of info they wanted is particularly relevant to anything much. Included my last job title & what it was.

Tea: soup etc. Nice enough. Entertainment: bit of the doctors thing followed by PM.

The last 25 minutes of "The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947)".

Sky Arts: thing about the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo, and the Branch Davidians.

PBS: Thing about the American Bison: what a waste. However, unlike the Passenger Pigeon, there are still Bison in the world. <click>.