Saturday, March 29, 2008
Mr Sod
Came on to rain about 5-10 out from home on the way back from Cheam today. Does one put one's cape on or not? After having got wet, decided that I would. After which it more or less stopped raining. Couldn't be bothered to take it off again before getting home. But then it started again as I turned into Manor Green Road. Mr Sod did not rule after all.
Despite the rain, today is the first day that the celandines at the bottom of the garden have made any kind of a showing. I had thought the flowers had been eaten - as they are some years - but it must just have been the cold keeping most of the flower buds closed. But today looking really good - making up for the rather poor display of daffodills this year. And we have a second clump coming on, about 10 feet from the first, which last originated in an Exminster hedgerow and which seems to have survived the move from Devon OK. Cookoo pint coming on well. First yellow flowers on the variegated nettle like plant. Chestnut buds starting to open. All we need now is a few dry days so that I can get back on the allotment and plant a few onions.
Having discovered that chicken and fish go quite well together, invented a new sort of E-number soup. Take one packet of chicken noodle soup and add about twice as much water as they say. Add some smoked haddock (which in this case, despite being from the man from Cheam, I suspect of being the dyed sort rather than the smoked sort, so plenty of E-numbers instead of nature's nicotine). Add several thinly sliced carrots and bring to the boil. Remove haddock, skin, flake and return. Add thinly sliced crinkly cabbage and bring back to the boil. If you have any mushrooms (which I didn't) add them. Serve.
Slightly alarmed to read in yesterday's DT that a 22 year old arms dealer is having a £150m contract with US and/or Iraq revoked or reviewed because of poor quality produce. Something about elderly ammunition from China - but thought to be good enough for the infant Iraqi army. What sort of a person does one have to be to wind up doing that sort of thing at the tender age of 22? Decent people are still protesting or making love not war at that age.
Excel continues to crash occasionally. And this morning had a whole new problem in Excel VB. A variable, called 'a', the input parameter of the subroutine in question, got set to null all by itself. The operation that caused this setting was a simple string operation not involving 'a' on a variable called 'b', an output parameter. And it only seemed to happen when on a recursive call to this routine. Might have been caused by editing code in debug code. Restarted Excel and the problem went away. So the mighty Excel continues to wobble down in Epsom.
Despite the rain, today is the first day that the celandines at the bottom of the garden have made any kind of a showing. I had thought the flowers had been eaten - as they are some years - but it must just have been the cold keeping most of the flower buds closed. But today looking really good - making up for the rather poor display of daffodills this year. And we have a second clump coming on, about 10 feet from the first, which last originated in an Exminster hedgerow and which seems to have survived the move from Devon OK. Cookoo pint coming on well. First yellow flowers on the variegated nettle like plant. Chestnut buds starting to open. All we need now is a few dry days so that I can get back on the allotment and plant a few onions.
Having discovered that chicken and fish go quite well together, invented a new sort of E-number soup. Take one packet of chicken noodle soup and add about twice as much water as they say. Add some smoked haddock (which in this case, despite being from the man from Cheam, I suspect of being the dyed sort rather than the smoked sort, so plenty of E-numbers instead of nature's nicotine). Add several thinly sliced carrots and bring to the boil. Remove haddock, skin, flake and return. Add thinly sliced crinkly cabbage and bring back to the boil. If you have any mushrooms (which I didn't) add them. Serve.
Slightly alarmed to read in yesterday's DT that a 22 year old arms dealer is having a £150m contract with US and/or Iraq revoked or reviewed because of poor quality produce. Something about elderly ammunition from China - but thought to be good enough for the infant Iraqi army. What sort of a person does one have to be to wind up doing that sort of thing at the tender age of 22? Decent people are still protesting or making love not war at that age.
Excel continues to crash occasionally. And this morning had a whole new problem in Excel VB. A variable, called 'a', the input parameter of the subroutine in question, got set to null all by itself. The operation that caused this setting was a simple string operation not involving 'a' on a variable called 'b', an output parameter. And it only seemed to happen when on a recursive call to this routine. Might have been caused by editing code in debug code. Restarted Excel and the problem went away. So the mighty Excel continues to wobble down in Epsom.
# posted by Jim @ 3:59 AM 
