Mundane News

[Reynard]

If you've not scoffed it all, I'll be heading to Nottingham on 29th Feb and 1th March (and back the following days)* - prepare your throwing arm

*If Greater Anglia get their act together and actually start running a full service on the line that is!

I'll make sure I'm well primed.

Doubt I'd manage to square away over 8kg of chocolates between now and then anyways...

 

[EltonFrog]

I have eaten a lot of delicious bad food today, chocolate, pizzas, ice cream (knickerbocker glory) , chocolate fingers, stollen () panettone (😋) crisps, and a cold lamb burger.

 

[Jenkins]

I'll make sure I'm well primed.

Doubt I'd manage to square away over 8kg of chocolates between now and then anyways...

It's easy - 60 days, 8kg = 135g per day. Mind you, you'd probably be wider than you are tall.

 

[Jenkins]

Something like this, perhaps...

Stick it in a musette and I'll put my arm out the wndow like the token exchange system on railways

 

[classic33]

If you've not scoffed it all, I'll be heading to Nottingham on 29th Feb and 11th March (and back the following days)* - prepare your throwing arm

*If Greater Anglia get their act together and actually start running a full service on the line that is!

Edited 'cos I typed the dates wrong - idiot.

Check before you travel
https://www.greateranglia.co.uk/abo...ring-work-complete-modernisation-wherry-lines

 

[Jenkins]

Are you a masochist ? I'm a software engineer, and have used various programming languages, and C is one of my least favourite. It may be very efficient, but messing around with pointers can get pretty ugly. I've used C++ and Java for my current employer, but last year I started on a new role with a change of pace: PHP, HTML and Python (i.e. web-based programming).
I think I still have an old copy of Kernighan & Ritchie's book on C programming somewhere: that used to be THE definitive book on C.

I understood "masochist" but the rest...

 

[Reynard]

It's easy - 60 days, 8kg = 135g per day. Mind you, you'd probably be wider than you are tall.

Seeings I'm only 4ft 11, that would not be a good look...

Stick it in a musette and I'll put my arm out the wndow like the token exchange system on railways

I can do that.

 

[Jenkins]

Check before you travel
https://www.greateranglia.co.uk/abo...ring-work-complete-modernisation-wherry-lines

Wrong line - this is the problem I outlined here and it still hasn't been sorted. In addition to which the new trains aren't certified for the Ipswich - Peterborough line yet, there's not enough drivers trained AND the new trains are too long for the platforms on some stations, but the software to restrict door opening to certain carriages wasn't installed!

I now return you to the normal level of mundanity.

 

[classic33]

Wrong line - this is the problem I outlined here and it still hasn't been sorted. In addition to which the new trains aren't certified for the Ipswich - Peterborough line yet, there's not enough drivers trained AND the new trains are too long for the platforms on some stations, but the software to restrict door opening to certain carriages wasn't installed!

I now return you to the normal level of mundanity.

It's a FLIRT problem you're facing then.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Another searingly hot day today. It was already 30 when I got up at 0800, and now, 2 hours later, it's about 35. Forecast maximum is 43. (except yesterday's forecast was 38 and it reached 40, so who knows what today will bring?).

The good news is that the forecast maximum for tomorrow is 23!
This is because Melbourne is located at the northern edge of a large, half-circle shaped bay (check it on a map), and so all it takes to make the temperature plummet fast and far is for the wind to become a southerly, which always happens after several days at the most. So Melbourne's heatwaves fortunately never last more than a week at most, normally less.

So I just have to survive today's heat...

 

[PeteXXX]

I've worked out my finances...
I only need to work one more day, this year, to survive!!

 

[Accy cyclist]

I went down to my second choice local pub tonight. When i got there,the door was shut with a 'closed due to private function' note on the door.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I went down to my second choice local pub tonight. When i got there,the door was shut with a 'closed due to private function' note on the door.

Someone was having a pee?

 

[classic33]

Another searingly hot day today. It was already 30 when I got up at 0800, and now, 2 hours later, it's about 35. Forecast maximum is 43. (except yesterday's forecast was 38 and it reached 40, so who knows what today will bring?).

The good news is that the forecast maximum for tomorrow is 23!
This is because Melbourne is located at the northern edge of a large, half-circle shaped bay (check it on a map), and so all it takes to make the temperature plummet fast and far is for the wind to become a southerly, which always happens after several days at the most. So Melbourne's heatwaves fortunately never last more than a week at most, normally less.

So I just have to survive today's heat...

Might get as high 8°C here later today, if the forecasters are to be believed.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Might get as high 8°C here later today, if the forecasters are to be believed.

They're predicting it'll be 'hotter here than Corfu' on new years eve,with temperatures reaching 59F here. Nice,but how can 59 Fahrenheit be hot?